There's good stuff happening in Detroit too. While journalists make political theater about golfing their way through the abandoned parts of the city (Detroit is the home of Great Society economic interference, where they advocated that janitors in car factories were $50 an hour union jobs, the same sort of micromanagement advocates claim will fix it) high school students are still getting cool things done.
Meet Cy-ber Young, named after legendary baseball pitcher Cy Young, the brainchild of 30 young people in the the FIRST Robotics organization. They built it from the ground up this summer and it is constructed from has parts as common a scuba tank and PVC. It's like something from an episode of Jimmy Neutron.
How fast can it pitch? About 85 MPH, they say. The Detroit Tigers mascot, PAWS, had better watch out. They say they won't throw it fast but they are still high school students and they know this will be on MLB Network, so a prank may be in order and some chin music for PAWS would be pretty funny.
Testing Cy-ber Young. Link: Dan Ernst and CBS Detroit
Robot To Throw First Pitch At Detroit Tigers Game - CBS Detroit
