
Homeschool Robotics Team Wins World Championship
On April 17-18, 2008, a team of seven homeschooled high schoolers swept the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) World Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, taking home a Winning Alliance Team trophy and the Amaze Award (awarded by the judges to a team whose uniqueness sets it apart from all other award categories). Team Overdrive, from Bridgewater, New Jersey, won four regional tournaments (an FTC record) during the season and racked up the two highest scores ever in the championships.

Course teaches teens a Christian worldview
All too often, Gisele Baribeau hears stories that only reinforce her passion to offer Christian teenagers some solid instruction that will help them stand firm in their faith once they leave high school. “A pastor who used to teach at a secular university told me that his atheist colleagues were delighted when they would come across Christian students, because they were just relishing the opportunity to ‘set these kids straight,’ ” she told Today’s Family News. “It’s just wrong.”

California: Court Filings Complete
On May 19 all the filings of the legal briefs to re-hear the case In re Rachel L. were completed. The Court of Appeal, which made the fateful decision on February 28, 2008 to declare all homeschooling illegal unless the parent is a certified teacher, will now begin the process of considering the arguments. The current schedule anticipates oral arguments to begin this June.
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