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RASEM2/IDMARS Team Attends NSBE Conference and Presents Workshop on LOBOT Jr.
04/05/2005
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Lobot Jr. and the IDMARS Lab/RASEM2 Program Team visited Boston for the
31st Annual Convention of the National Society of Black Engineers, March
23-27. The convention included hundreds of sessions and workshops, a
keynote address by internationally known motivational speaker Les Brown,
and a career fair with more than 325 corporations and government
agencies, including MIT, Cornell, NASA, IBM, Dell, Intel, Microsoft,
United Technologies, Georgia Tech., U.C. San Diego and the U.S. Navy.
For information, see NSBE's website at http://www.nsbe.org/convention/
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![Middle school students Nicole and Jessica, participants in the RASEM2 Program, train at the IDMARS Lab in the ECE building on March 17. [click for more]](/images/nsbeconf.jpg)
Middle school students Nicole and Jessica, participants in the RASEM2 Program, train at the IDMARS Lab in the ECE building on March 17.
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Dr. Nader Vadiee, Debra Johns and Mike Majedi presented a workshop
featuring Lobot Jr.
Lobot Jr., created in the Intelligent Distributed Multi-Agent Robotic
Systems (IDMARS) Laboratory, is a tool to teach high school and middle
school students about robotics. The instructor gives students a robot
kit that includes parts and instructions for getting the robot to
perform tasks. Students are taught step by step how to assemble the
robot practically from scratch. The workshop shows how hands-on
experience can make all students successful. Along the way they learn
about each component, what it does, and why it's important to the
functioning of their robot.
In the Lobot Jr. workshops, an overview is given by Dr. Vadiee, Mike
Majedi, and Debra Johns. The workshop is taught by students of the
Saturday Science & Math Academy and by RASEM2 students. RASEM2 is the
Regional Alliance for Science, Engineering & Mathematics--Squared, an
NSF-funded alliance of N.M. schools, colleges and universities aimed at
leveling the playing field for students with disabilities.
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 Contact Info
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Department of Electrical &
Computer Engineering
MSC01 1100
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
USA
Phone: 1-505-277-2436
Fax: 1-505-277-1439
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