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Friday, July 10, 2009
Tech Citizenship
Local techs lending a hand
By Mass High Tech staff
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Ultra MSI sponsors team in 2009 FTC World Robotics Championship
Ultra Electronics Measurement Systems Inc., a Wallingford, Conn.-based manufacturer of advanced control systems, supported the Wrecker robotics team of Staples High School in Westport, Conn. in its bid to win 2009 FTC World Robotics Championship through a donation of funds, shirts and hats.
Despite facing fierce competition in the Georgia Dome from more than 10,000 kids from 28 countries comprising 533 teams, and from teams sponsored by the likes of NASA, JPL and MIT, the Wreckers achieved a hard fought Silver Medal finish after two days of rigorous events.
The Wreckers made it to the World Championship after winning regional titles in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York City. The Wreckers team members who participated in the Atlanta World Championships are Haris Durrani, Jehangir Hafiz, Todd Lubin, Eric Lubin, and Timothy Yang.
Lantheus Medical tees off for youth summer program
Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. CEO Donald Kiepert and nearly 150 community leaders gathered on June 19 for the 15th annual Invitational Charity Golf Tournament to support Merrimack Valley youth through United Way’s Summer Experiences in Greater Lowell (SEGL) initiative. The golf tournament, which raised $31,000 last year for youth programming, helped kick off summer at Townsend Ridge Country Club in Townsend.
Since 2000, Summer Experiences in Greater Lowell, or SEGL, has provided children in the community with summer learning and recreational experiences when school is closed. Last year, SEGL provided approximately $100,000 to 16 Greater Lowell agencies, including Big Brother Big Sisters of Greater Lowell, Boys and Girls Clubs, Community Teamwork Inc. the YMCA and other local organizations.
Lantheus Medical Imaging has nearly 600 employees worldwide with headquarters in North Billerica, and offices in Puerto Rico, Canada and Australia.
EMD Serono fields largest-ever team for MS ride to Cape Cod
EMD Serono Inc. reports it has assembled the biggest team ever to ride in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society-Central New England Chapter’s Cape Cod Getaway — an event which is in its 25th year that raises money for multiple sclerosis education, support, advocacy and research. The largest MS ride in New England, the Cape Cod Getaway kicked off on Saturday, June 27, when more than 2,000 total riders set off to pedal from Quincy through the coastal towns of Massachusetts’ South Shore to the beginning of Cape Cod. On Sunday, June 28, riders made their way through Cape Cod and finished in Provincetown.
The Rockland-based company says it has put substantial resources behind its participation in this year’s Cape Cod Getaway, including the creation of an intranet site for team members called ‘Reason to Ride,’ weekend team training rides at EMD Serono’s two locations in Rockland and Billerica, and the development of ‘Riding Advocates’ to act as group leaders and mentor new team participants.
Nearly a dozen members of the company’s senior management team participated in the event, including president and CEO Fereydoun Firouz.
Tech Citizenship is a monthly collection of philanthropic activities and partnerships by technology and life sciences organizations in New England. Submit news items and photos to editor@masshightech.com. Photos of check presentations will not be accepted.
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