Practicing for the sack toss

(Full disclosure: the author has a teenager on the MMCS robotics team, The Syntax Errors.)

From their press release: "A group of Albuquerque-area middle school students competed in a statewide competition on March 16th, and based on their performance, qualified for the VEX world championship robotics competition taking place April 17-20 in Anaheim, California. The team received the competition's Excellence Award, the highest award presented. The recipient of this award is a team that exemplifies overall excellence in building a well rounded VEX robotics program.

"The sixteen member Mountain Mahogany Charter School robotics team is the first team from New Mexico ever to have been invited to the world competition and is the only team from New Mexico to be invited this year. "

Since their Kickstarter project was turned down, The Syntax Errors are turning to more traditional methods of raising the funds necessary to purchase train tickets, lodging and licorice. They will be holding a bake sale/fundraiser tomorrow, Saturday March 30th, at Altura Park where supporters will be able to buy baked goods, coffee and Hexbugs from the team while checking out their kick-ass robot. Can't make it to Altura Park in between 9:30 am and 1:00 pm? Visit their nifty blog and make a donation through paypal.

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La Cage Aux Folles

One of the more high profile movements of the past few years has been alt-weekly columnist Dan Savage's “It Gets Better” campaign, the focus of which is preventing teen suicide by encouraging non-heterosexual kids to tough out the rough patches of adolescence and be proud of who they are. Based on the 1978 film and first performed on Broadway in 1983, La Cage Aux Folles is a crowd pleasing musical that centers on the same theme of being who we are even when we're pressured to conform—but in a much funnier vein and with drag queens. The owner of a St. Tropez transvestite nightclub, Georges, comes under familial pressure to get his partner and star of the club's drag show, Albin, to behave less like the flamboyantly gay man that he is. Part Pygmalian, part comedy of errors and with award-winning music throughout, La Cage is a story of love and family that consistently draws audiences queer and straight. Albuquerque Little Theatre • Fri Mar 1 • 8 pm • $12-$24 • ALL-AGES! • View on Alibi calendar

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