Those of you (all three of you) who have been reading these Furman Physics STEM blogs may have noticed that from a newsworthiness point of view they are about as exciting as watching grass grow or watching paint dry. Maybe not quite that exciting. A hah! Today we have some news to report! The Furman Physics Robotics Team is off to the 2012 Atmel Robotics Contest which will be held this weekend at the World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science in New York City. Furman students Andrea Fant, Haris Khan, Evdokiya Kostadinova and Kristina Pardo have constructed an autonomous robot (which they have christened “Aldo”) that will perform a specific set of challenges established by the sponsor, the Atmel Corporation. This project, part of the Furman Physics STEM Initiative, has been a four month long, high intensity activity on the part of the students and is under the direction of Dr John Conrad of the Physics Department.
I really enjoyed browsing through the Robotics team blog. It’s exciting to see what’s happening on campus these days!
Muirae Kenney
Class of ’92
Hi Muirae,
Thank you for your kind words. It’s quite amazing to see that people are still finding this old, very old blog site. It’s also quite quit a coincidence because I’m thinking about re-rejuvenating and reactivating this site to add some depth and breadth to online courses in this era of COVID-19. Sadly, I believe that online courses will be with us for a while yet.