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Mechanics’ US Chess League  members Sam Sevian of Santa Clara and Cameron Wheeler of Cupertino won top honors in the Boys Under 12 year old division of the World Youth Chess Championships  held in Maribor, Slovenia November 7-19^th.  The teammates both scored 9 points from the 11 games, but Sevian edged the gold medal on tiebreak.  They were accompanied at the event  by coach Nick de Firmian, the GM scholastic director for the MI.  The above picture is US Ambassador  Joseph Mussomeli greeting the young American participants in Maribor.

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Update - Tuesday, September 18, 2012: The classrooms on the 3rd floor of the Library will stay as they are through the months of October and early November. Behind the scene all the “parts” are being assembled in preparation for the physical work necessary for the electrical and data upgrades in the rooms, including new ceiling lights. Our anticipated date to close the rooms is sometime in December or possibly as late as January.

In 1831, a ship arrived in the Australian colony of New South Wales bearing a freight of about 50 Scottish “mechanics” – carpenters, bricklayers, blacksmiths, and other skilled tradesmen. These men had come to Sydney with their families and a group of teachers to build and staff a Presbyterian academy they planned to call “The Australian College.” A little over a year later one of the teachers, a London based minister named Henry Carmichael, became the first Vice-President of the newly founded Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts.