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Yahoo
23-02-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Stock show resumes after delay
Fort Gibson 4-Her Aubree Hubbard hustled to control her spot barrow at Friday's Muskogee Regional Junior Livestock Show. Barrows, castrated male pigs, can have quite a temper compared to young female gilts, she said. She showed both. 'He has a lot more of a short temper, she has more patience,' Aubree said. 'He's real aggressive sometimes and she's like, chill.' Regional show exhibitors had a lot of work to do Friday. Sub-freezing temperatures and snow delayed the show three days. What would have been a two-day show separating barrows and gilts, was squeezed into one day. Gore FFA advisor Grant Brown said the past week has been 'hectic with the weather, like a roller coaster.' Students tried to keep their 13 pigs as warm as possible so they wouldn't get sick during the down time, he said. Brown said barrows are bred for meat market and production 'They're going to be stouter, more bigger headset, bigger legs,' he said. Gilts often are judged as breeding stock, he said. FFA and 4-H groups worked together to prepare and show their pigs. Brown and Gore 4-H member Gracie Bruce tended Taydem Perryman's pig while Taydem was showing another pig in a different class. First-year Fort Gibson exhibitor Easton Neves prepared a special mixture for his crossbreed gilt. Galen Connor of Coweta helped his son, Brantley, prepare his pig for the show, just like he helped Brantley at the sheep competition Monday. Connor said people worked together during the postponement. 'Everybody had to work together to make sure their water was still going and keep them full the past couple of days because it being cold burning off a lot of energy,' Connor said. 'With it being cold, we had to coordinate a lot of transportation to get here early this morning. It took an army working together working in these conditions.' He said postponing the show was a good decision. 'It was definitely safer for the kids,' he said. 'Plus the schools that had snow days couldn't drive vehicles, that was a big issue.' Cattle will be shown Sunday.
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- Science
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Area students test their skills at Math and Engineering Competition
Fort Gibson freshman Isaac McDonnell blew up a balloon larger than his head, hoping it would propel his small car to victory. It did. Isaac and his partner, Landon Ireland, won the balloon-powered vehicle competition Thursday at the 2025 Math and Engineering Competition. The Math and Engineering Competition drew 567 students from 25 area schools to Hilldale High School. Of those, 316 competed in math and 251 competed in engineering. Engineering competitions pushed participants to build the tallest paper tower, as well as use a balloon to get a car to go fast and far. Isaac and Landon's vehicle went 40 feet at 124 centimeters per second, then bumped into a wall at the end of the track. Isaac said he expected the team to get third, 'maybe second.' 'It was pretty heavy, and I'll try to make it lighter next time,' he said. Paper tower contestants tried various methods to get their towers up. Grand View sixth graders Pedro Vilchis Leonardo Landaverde built a base with four triangular supports, then stuck their tubes into each other. 'We put the big ones on the inside so it was tight,' Pedro said. 'And we put more paper at the bottom, so it was more heavy at the bottom.' Their 75-inch tower helped them win the junior competition. Porter sophomores Aaliyah Moore and Kenley Ball took second place in the senior division with their 53.25 inch tower. 'She rolled and I taped,' Kenley said. 'And then we just made a pile, and we did it at the last minute.' Aaliyah said they could have gone higher had they started stacking faster. 'We had enough rolls,' Aaliyah said. 'We should have started stacking faster; we could have had another layer.' Part of engineering is to help people think differently, said Wagoner High STEM teacher Damon Boston. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Math. 'It helps them think about what's there,' Boston said. 'And that's part of the engineering process — thinking about how we can make it better, whatever it is.' The competition is presented by Indian Capital Technology Center, Port Muskogee, Oklahoma School of Science and Math, and the Muskogee Area Educational Consortium. Participants visited booths for area utilities and manufacturers. They included OG&E, Vallourec and Georgia-Pacific. ICTC had a booth, as did colleges such as Connors State College and Northeast Oklahoma A&M. Keli Miles, sixth and seventh grade Academy math teacher, said she wanted her students to discover opportunities in math and engineering. 'Muskogee doesn't offer a lot of options for students to see possible career choices,' Miles said. 'Engineering is near and dear to my heart. It's what my daughter does. I want the students to see opportunities they might not otherwise have. If we can spark an interest at this age, there's a future for Muskogee.'
