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Do you know where this is in Ada?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, December 12, 2015

By Monty Siekerman
In the Ada Icon's continuing series of unusual sights in town, we offer this photo. Know what it is and where it is located?

It's a robot outside the front entrance to Taft Memorial where Technological Studies is taught. It is a sculpture, of sorts.

The robot, in place there for the past four years, is "frozen" so the parts no longer move...thus it has not walked away in that length of time.

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Student receives research grant from Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Friday, December 11, 2015

Ohio Northern University student Eric Eisenmann, a fifth-year pharmacy and recent 2015 ONU graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Broadview Heights, Ohio, was selected to receive a 2015-16 fall graduate research grant from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, for $1,500.

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Society for Collegiate Journalists receives Outstanding New Chapter Award

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Friday, December 11, 2015

The Ohio Northern University chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists (SJC) has received the Outstanding New Chapter Award from the National Office of SCJ. In order to be considered for this award, a chapter must be reactivated or chartered for two to six years and be recognized as a new and energetic member of the SCJ family.

“I am very moved that the Society chose us for this honor,” said Shane Tilton, chapter advisor and assistant professor of multimedia journalism.

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Look what Ada HS grad Matt Meyers is working on - virtual reality

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 11, 2015

Virtual reality is a valuable tool for simulating environments as NASA astronauts prepare for space missions. They also train underwater to get a feel for what it’s like to be in space.
Two Embry-Riddle students are looking to merge those worlds.

One of the students is Matt Meyers, a 2011 Ada High School graduate.

Human Factors students Nathan Sonnenfeld and Meyers have used a 3-D printer in the Game-based Education & Advanced Research Simulations (GEARS) Lab to make a plastic headset that uses wireless technology to create virtual environments, similar to Oculus Rift goggles.

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He wants good grades for Christmas

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 11, 2015

Santa heard the wishes of 150 kids...of all ages...at the Ada Public Library on Thursday evening. Here, John Mostowy of Mason, Ohio, wishes for good grades on his upcoming finals. He's a fourth 4th-year ONU pharmacy student. (Monty Siekerman photo)

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Bluffton's Tommy Tire Sales expanding to Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 11, 2015

A new business will open soon in Ada.

Tommy Tires Sales of Bluffton will open a store south of Ada at 3033 State Route 309. The business is located at the intersection of 309 and State Route 235, in the former carpet warehouse.

Tom Dotson, owner of the tire sales, said that his business will stock:
• passenger and light truck tires
• small farm tires
• all-steel carports –used for garages, utility and agriculture buildings
• trailers

Dotson says that once the business is open and in operation he will add a 40- by 80-foot addition to it.

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