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Dec.
2001
- 12-1 The Cerveny Middle School robotics team won 3rd place and programming design awards from FLL tournamants at
U of Detroit Mercy. See picture 1 and
picture 2
- 12-8 Cerveny Middile School robotics team ranked 25th from FLL state final competition
- UAW-DaimlerChrysler National Training Center has a
website about Dr. Chung's robotics program at Cerveny Middle
School. Here are links to the article:
1 and
2
- OCCRA All Women's Robotic Tournament Report by Dr. Chung
LTU hosted the Oakland County Women's Robotics Championship
on Sat. Dec 8. Ten women teams reengineered robots to meet the new challenge
to kick, push, throw, or shoot balls into the goal.
Oakland Press, Detroit News and Birmingham Eccentric mentioned
the first women's robotics event and LTU.
Dr. Maria Vaz gave opening remarks in
the morning and Dr. Chambers gave closing remarks during
the award ceremony.
The following people helped the event:
Alan Mclaughlin (Director of Student Activities),
Matt Miracle, Shirley Kett, and Carey Valentine (Campus Facilities),
Eric Wallety (Custodian Manager),
Aleksandra Myasnikova, David Chamulak,
and Andrey Shvartsman (Student Assistants)
Nov. 2001
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LTU robots were invited to the CIS anual meeting at UAW-GM headquater's
in Detroit on Nov. 28. A new RoboFest 2002 game was shown for the first time
and all other robofest games were demonstrated.
As an example of story telling with robots, Dr. Chung demonstrated a
baby protection system for passenser cars in hot summers.
Please check it out
here .
- Hsien-Hsiang
Chiu, who won second place from RoboFest 2001 HandyBoard division, started
a robotics company in Canada. Congratulations and best wishes! His company's website
is at www.mydison.com
- Check out the ACM programming Contest 2001
results.
Sep. 2001
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On Tuesday, Sep. 25, the
robotics lab participated in CIS (Communities In Schools) fair held
at Samaritan Center in Detroit. There were 40 organizations such as
BoyScouts and GirlScouts, among others. We showed the RoboFest 2001 video
tape, and demonstrated our 18 robots. Some photos of the fair can be found
at http://ltu164.ltu.edu/~robophoto/2001/cisfair/
Andrey Shvartsman, David Schamulak and Aleksandra Myasnikova helped the
event and our booth was the most popular one.
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Robotics
Lab Open House Report by ChanJin Chung
During the dedication week of the UTLC building, the Robotics lab Open House had
more than 200 visitors as listed below.
- Mon. Lessenger Middle School: 35 students and a teacher (I am pleased to
note that this was the first group invited to the new building
officially)
- Tue. Longfellow Middle School: 35 students and a teacher
- Wed. Carleton middle school: 30 students and two teachers
- Fri. 8:00am session: 5, 11:30am session, 10, 4:30pm: 25 6:00pm session:
25 (Earhart middle school with two teachers)
- Saturday from 7:40pm: around 35
Many interesting robots were introduced, such as the first Lego robot that
is counting number of visitors in the room, controlling blinds and cutting
ribbons (Not remote controlled). A real robot lawn mower developed by
Friendlyrobotics.com was
demonstrated on Friday and Saturday.
Without the space, we could not do anything. First of all, I would like to
thank Mr. Steve Ragan and Mr. Walter Bizon who allowed us use of the TV
production studio for the demo. Many thanks for the support Dr. Walker
gave for this event. Special thanks to Dr. Rodgers and Dr. Bindschadler
who sponsored this event. How could I forget the Friday morning 11:30 am
session when
Dr. & Mrs. Chambers attended the whole 1.5-hour presentation! We should
appreciate Dr. Marburger and Dr. Rodgers, who gave
welcome remarks to school students. Campus facilities did an excellent job
as always providing tables and chairs as well as moving heavy things.
Campus Security was busying opening and locking the doors of the new
building day and night.
I should not forget the help from my students: Andrey Shvartsman and David
Schamulak (Physics/Comp. Sci. major), and Aleksandra Myasnikova (Masters
of Computer Science) assisted the event from the beginning till the end
for the demonstration. Freo Chien also helped the setup and developed Lego
camera software. Thank you everyone to be a part to show that robotics is
a wonderful motivator in many areas of education. Please check out photo
gallery. Thank you.
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It is with my deepest
regrets that I inform you that Zaven Margosian has passed away. I am
confident in saying that he and his stewardship will be profoundly missed.
Shaken, David Bindschadler
The funeral service will be
at 11 a.m on Friday Sep. 7 at the Armenian Congregational Church at 26210 W.
12 Mile Road, Southfield 48037. The phone number of the church is (248)
352-0680
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Ghassan Azar has joined
our fulltime staff as a College Professor.
Pam Lowry has accepted a new position as a director of instructional
technology for the University.
Tom Lackey will be an interim Director of the Master of Science in
Computer Science.
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Aleta Mack has joined as a Dept. secretary. Please welcome
her.
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