From left, are Edgewood Middle School Students Hunter Fitterling, Mason Fitterling, Jack Langhorn, and Maya Bodiker. Photo provided by Warsaw Community Schools.

Press Release

WARSAW — Abbi Richcreek’s Edgewood Middle School students Hunter Fitterling, Mason Fitterling, Jack Langhorn, and Maya Bodiker led a special event for kindergartners and first graders at Washington STEM Academy.

Over the years, Richcreek’s focus on innovative projects led her to write numerous grants. In the summer of 2017, she was awarded a Nao humanoid robot, which was named Rowdy.

Rowdy is the first robot to successfully ride a horse programmed by middle school students at a professional performance event. Rowdy and Richcreek’s students have made numerous appearances at nursing homes, community ag events, and elementary schools in previous years.

This year, Hunter, Mason, Jack and Maya surprised kindergartners with an introduction to Rowdy, who demonstrated his abilities through yoga, walking, playing a game, and reciting Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” published in 1823.