Another successful week in my senior project! Yesterday I stayed after school to start building the LEGO Mindstorm NXT Robot with Mrs. Kainz, lower school STEM teacher.
I also put together folders for the first day of class. I gave all four girls two articles. One is from USA Today, "Space Station's Humanoid Robot Wakes Up" (August 8, 2011). I thought this would get the girls excited about our motto, "LEGO to the Future!" I also included a newspaper article from the Post and Courier, "Melding Mind and Machine" (Monday, Oct. 10, 2001). This one is an inspirational story about a quadriplegic research patient who successfully moves a robotic arm through chips implanted in his brain. This story parallels the research I do on rehab robotics at the Medical University of SC (MUSC). I hope discussing this article will stimulate interest and discussion about the medical applications of engineering robotics. Ultimately this is where the girls are going to journey in the spring--over to the Research Center at MUSC to explore the rehabiliation robots.
See you next week!
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