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Volume 130, Number 1 |
July 14, 2009 |
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Posted 04-06-2005 at 8:24PM
FIRST team wins award
Albany High School, in concert with a group of RPI student and faculty volunteers, recently won the 2005 Xerox Creativity Award at the Hartford, Connecticut FIRST Robotics competition. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization founded by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, sponsors regional robotics competitions across the country every year.
High school students, along with engineers, engineering students, and mentors, are given six weeks to build a robot to play a particular game involving several tasks to be performed. The judges at the competition give the Xerox Creativity award based on creative design, use of a component, or a creative or unique strategy of play.
RPI’s involvement in mentoring high school teams in FIRST began at Shenendehowa High School in 1992, and has since expanded to Albany, Colonie, and Hudson High Schools. On March 22, the Albany team came to RPI to celebrate their victory and presented Dean of Engineering Lester Gerhardt with an award in recognition of his support.
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