PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

April 12, 2012

For the first time last weekend, Dayton High School teacher Steve McLean took four of his students to a regional robotics competition and came home with a trophy. “It’s something like I’ve never seen before in my life,” McLean said. (He) and his students, Alex Eaton, Demitri Tziouvaras, Lincoln Riley and James Costello, traveled to Central Washington University with their robot last weekend to go up against teams from Boise, California, and even Seattle. Local cities Rosalia and Prosser had teams at the competition as well. “We were just four country kids and (had)...