NB robotics program

About 800 of Canada’s brightest high school students are given a chance to explore their potential at a month-long program known as Shad, that; according to The Canadian Press.

About 80 of the students are at UNB inFredericton where they’re involved in a competition to build and program a robot.

More than 16-thousand teens have gone through the program since 1980, including 32 who went on to become Rhodes Scholars.

NB beehive worries

The small hive beetle, whose larvae can destroy beehives, has been confirmed for the first time in New Brunswick beehives, according to the Department of Agriculture.

The discovery of the beetle at two different beekeeping operations in Rivere-du-Portage and Aulac comes after the small hive beetle was found earlier this summer in hives imported from Ontario.

After the beetle was found in the imported hives, a quarantine was placed on 12 beekeepers’ colonies close to the infested colonies, which were on the Acadian Peninsula.