Steel City Hobbies
Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

The Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf was on hand today at Steel City Hobbies located in Bridgeville's Great Southern Shopping Center. The school holds a camp for the deaf and hard of hearing children and chooses several events for the children to participate in from rafting to R/C racing. SCH was very happy to host this portion of the kids camp on Thursday, July 13, 2006. Nitro Mike Whittington, Mike Rooney, Conor McCaskey, Ron Grove and Mark Capobres were helping out with the event to help move things along smoothly. You will see a few pictures below that express what a great time everyone had with the R/C racing.

There were about 26 deaf kids running around with R/C cars!

Coordination was important as most R/C racers "listen" for instructions on how and when to
start racing! Note behind Mike there are RED and GREEN lights to aid the racers on when
to hit the gas and when to stop! SCH plans on making this a permanent installation.

The kids were divided into 4 teams of 7 racers each. Everyone got a chance to race!

Erin was working hard communicating to the racers with tips and other important
tasks such as "Track Marshaling" which they called "Police men" the track.

We used Traxxas Rustlers for the event which were de-tuned so they would not go full speed.

Although, that did not help much when the kids discovered they could drive backwards
FASTER because we did not govern that! Oh well... all in good fun.

Erin was making sure everything was going smoothly.

Special Thanks to Allen Stephens for stopping by with his Blade CX for a quick Helicopter demonstration.

Each team won a trophy from Steel City Hobbies.
Each guest from WPSD received a Steelers Helmet Decal as well.
Team number and names coming soon!

Team number and names coming soon!

Team number and names coming soon!

Team 1 - Won the race event overall!
(Names coming soon)

Thank you again for checking out Steel City Hobbies!

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