E-Day a Huge Success

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Photo by Brandon Dill Commercial Appeal

All part of the show at U of M open house, Collierville High School students Chelsea Chambers, 15 (second from left to right); Autumn Woods, 15; Emma Sedlacek, 15; Ashley Holler, 15; Emily Banks, 15; and Caitlin Hamm, 15, get a scare when a remote-controlled rover rushes toward them during a robotics demonstration as part of the University of Memphis Herff College of Engineering open house on Friday. More than 600 students from Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas attended the event, which offered hands-on activities as well as competitive events such as boat building, harnessing wind energy and bridge construction.


Me with my robot minions – Picture by Dan Soskel

Administrator’s Comments:

This is the second year for my “mobile robotics” demonstration during the Herff College of Engineering Open House (aka E-Day). This year’s display included the Bluff City Bots 2011 USFirst Robot, the robots used for my University of Memphis – Engineering Technology Classes, an internet controlled robot built as a senior project by David Kennedy, my personal robot, a Lego NXT robot and a HexBug crab.

More pictures taken by Daniel Soskel and I are available at:

http://tech-uofm.info/fall_2010/E-Day/

Even More Pictures at:

https://umdrive.memphis.edu/g-herff/www/Galleries/Engineering%20Day%202010/index.html

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