Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[chickflick]

RaZ, I think all women scare you!

 

[MIchickens]

 

[mara1]

You guys are a riot. :-D.

x2

 

[gladahmae]

NW Michigan Horticulture Research Center 

6686 S. Center Highway, Traverse City

I'll update as it gets closer and I get more information.

For those that may attend, that location is closer to suttons bay than traverse city, about 15 min north of TC. (And also happens to be about a mile from where I grew up)

 

[mara1]

Sorry, not a vegetarian - but I do have onions (and opinions)

love pork

 

[mara1]

Definitely needed a laugh this am. Thanks everybody

 

[Amy PT]

The east side of the state is much more in tune with science and technology, due to Detroit and the automotive industry, something this side of the state is hardly interested in.

I have to disagree with you on this one. I don't think it's a side of the state issue, but the community you're in. I'm a transplant from Metro Detroit to GR, and see medical technology expanding the city's economy.

All programs take time to grow. I hope that the robotics program draws more interest in the future and you evolve into a team to be reckoned with.

 

[RaZ]

Hi everyone the Interview went well with Shelby TV. ;-) we need support from as many as possible in Shelby twp to get this changed

Please post a link when it becomes public.

For those that may attend, that location is closer to suttons bay than traverse city, about 15 min north of TC. (And also happens to be about a mile from where I grew up)

Thanks, I just copied and pasted from the MDARD site.

 

[ladyrsanti]

I have to disagree with you on this one. I don't think it's a side of the state issue, but the community you're in. I'm a transplant from Metro Detroit to GR, and see medical technology expanding the city's economy.

All programs take time to grow. I hope that the robotics program draws more interest in the future and you evolve into a team to be reckoned with.

That's interesting because the first place I think of regarding medical advancements is Ann Arbor but I am not knowledgeable in such things so I will defer to your expertise there. That's just my observation.

The robotics program is mostly geared towards engineering though and that award clearly goes to the Detroit area. I was raised in Monroe county and there isn't a family in the area that isn't impacted by one of the automobile manufacturers, be it Jeep in Toledo, or Ford, GM, etc. and the schools tailor their curriculum to prepare students to go fuel these companies. They'd be crazy not to. But here in GR, I'm not seeing much of that push in the sciences and technologies at the grade school level. When we were looking at houses and communities to move to a couple of years ago, one of my priorities was to find a school that had A. a strings program and B. a robotics team. Believe it or not, I found ZERO with both and settled on a district that had a strong orchestra program and decided we'd have to start the robotics ourselves. It's very different out here. The first few weeks after moving, in fact, it was a bit of a culture shock that I'm still struggling with. Although the scenery is nice, I do miss the people and the general industrious nature back home. I felt like I could move mountains out there. Here, not so much.

 

[lbrykowski2011]

Sorry, not a vegetarian - but I do have onions (and opinions)

Everything's better w/bacon!!!