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When it comes to robotic football it's ONU all over Notre Dame 29-7

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, April 27, 2014

Students from Ohio Northern University’s T.J. Smull College of Engineering defeated the University of Notre Dame, 29-7, during the annual University of Notre Dame robotic football competition on Saturday, April 19, in South Bend, Ind.

By defeating the Irish, the Polar Bears snared the Brian Hederman Memorial Robotic Competition Award for the second consecutive season. The award is named after Hederman, a Notre Dame student who suffered an untimely death after his freshman year in 1995. A drawing he left behind inspired the trophy and the competition itself.          

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All-Ohio Honors Band and more on Freed Center Stage Sunday

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, April 25, 2014

The Ohio Northern University Symphonic Band, Northern Winds, and the All-Ohio Honors Band will perform as part of the Spring Band Festival XXXIX in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, April 27, at 4 p.m.

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April flowers from April showers

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, April 25, 2014

They slept all winter, never knowing it was 10 below in February. This week they woke from their winter hibernation and Ada is better for it. 

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FABrehab Services, Ada's new outpatient therapy clinic, has April 30 open house

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, April 25, 2014

FABrehab Services has opened a new outpatient therapy clinic serving Ada and Hardin County residents at the Community Health Professionals building, 1200 S. Main St. in Ada.

The public is invited to an open house and grand opening at the clinic on Wednesday,  April 30, from 4 – 6 p.m.

FABrehab and Community Health Professionals (CHP) are also teaming up to provide a full range of in-home therapy services, including physical, occupational and speech therapy.

Based in Tiffin, FABrehab Services, LLC, was created in 2004 as a division of Fabrizio Chiropractic & Physical Rehabilitation Clinic.

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Here's the Ada police call logs - April 14-20

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, April 25, 2014

Michael Harnishfeger, Ada police chief, provided the Icon with the Ada police call logs from April 14 to April 20.

They are provided on the attachments at the bottom of this story.

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ONU's micromouse team second at regional conference

Posted by Paula Scott on Friday, April 25, 2014

The Ohio Northern University College of Engineering micromouse team captured second place at the Region 2 IEEE-Student Activities Conference hosted by Rowan University in New Jersey on April 5. Region 2 covers Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, southern New Jersey, Ohio (except Toledo), Pennsylvania, northern Virginia, and West Virginia.

In a micromouse robotics competition, teams construct an autonomous robotic "mouse" that navigates to the center of a random maze from a specified corner in the shortest amount of time possible.

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