Last week’s STEM Camp held on the Cowley College Sumner Campus generated a unique cucumber smell as students engineered “cars” from a variety of fresh vegetables. Amidst coding robots, designing game controllers, and flying drones, students faced the final challenge of creating vehicles from vegetables.
Festival goers crowded into the Wellington Senior Center on Thursday evening to take advantage of the Baker’s Bonanza Bake Sale. After the home-cooked, made-from-scratch competition goods were judged, the remaining items were repackaged and offered for sale.
For the second consecutive year, the Kanokla Wheat Run kicked off the Kansas Wheat Festival activities early Saturday morning. This year, more than 60 runners participated in the 5k or 1-mile run, which started from the Kanokla offices downtown.
The State Fair sanctioned Kiddie Tractor Pull had kids testing out their pedal power! Congratulations to all of the winners: AGE 4 Rory Clark Elliette Valentine Maribelle White AGE 5 Cécil Norris Huxski Rausch Octavian Cooper AGE 6 Ellie Clark Oliver Valentine Stella White AGE 7 Evangelene Cooper AGE 8 Ashlynn Norris Sadie Frazier Leighton Rusk AGE 9 Bridger Callaway Jude Erber Brantli Moore AGE 10 Emilia Osborn Xavier Cooper Sarah Frazier AGE 11 Jordyn Dave Easton Smith AGE 12 Quentin Meng Náteel Scobee Photos by Ursula Goff .
The Edible Book Contest and Bookmark Design Contest filled the main floor of the Wellington Library as the public cast their votes for the People’s Choice winners. For the competition, entrants picked a favorite book and used delicious sweets to recreate the book’s cover.
Members of the Kansas Collegiate League Baseball Wellington Heat team hosted a youth mini camp last week, in collaboration with the Wellington Recreation Commission and the Wellington Baseball Association.
Izzy Shimer, a junior at WHS, is in her first year as a lifeguard at the Wellington Family Aquatic Center. Her favorite part of the job is being able to help people and working with friends.
Wellington Baseball Association 10U, 11U and 12U baseball teams were in action at Worden Park last weekend. The teams participated in the Wellington Recreation Commission’s annual Wellington Baseball Classic.
With magical sets, colorful lighting, creative puppetry, and talented young actors, Memorial Auditorium in Kansas was transformed into the mystical world of Oz. Months of preparation went into the Wellington Community Theater show, written and directed by local playwright Will Ledesma.
The Wellington Recreation Commission has continued its more than 20 year tradition of a fun, and inexpensive summer activity for kids, ages 3-4 and their parents - Blast Ball. For just 20 bucks, the “honking” base path is established to inspire future Crusader baseball and softball players.