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🌱 How a Kennett teacher’s tech startup caught Amazon’s attention
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- How a Kennett teacher's tech startup caught Amazon's attention
Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Hot; breezy in the morning, with a high of 94 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Friday: A shower and t-storm; humid, temps: high: 74, low: 59.
- Saturday: Some sun with a stray t-storm, with a high of 73 and low of 60 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Kennett educator pitches Tap In Systems at AWS AI Competitio... (dddnews.com) — A Kennett educator, Andrew Webster, has turned his Tap In Systems idea into a growing tech platform built right in town, and it just made the finals of an AWS AI pitch competition. While he didn't win the top prize in Sedalia, he returned to Kennett with validation, new connections, and plans for more pilots and products aimed at schools, teams, businesses, and community groups. 
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5:00 pm - KHS VB @ Clarkton
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5:00 pm - KHS CC @ East Carter Inv.
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- HS Volleyball vs Malden (PINK-OUT Game)
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🗞 Nearby News
Dexter
- Stevenson wins in a shoot off (thelakenews.com)
- Mock Convention Kicks Off 2028 Cycle (wlu.edu)
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- Betty Blagg (blogspot.com)
- Wednesday, September 30, 2026 — Today's Talk (kwoc.com)
- 2 southeast Mo. missing women featured on state's Cold Case Playing Cards (kfvs12.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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