Devonii
Reid and Shanika Johnson, students from the Frederick Douglass Academy
in New York City, demonstrated their robotics project to instructor Julie
Karlson and the College’s Arlene Dende and Howard Erlich during a session
of the TEAM (Technology, Empowerment, and Modeling) Program held in Williams
Hall in July. Using Legos to build robots and then writing computer programs
to control the robots’ movements were part of an intensive two-week program
designed to help minority students bridge the gap between basic and advanced
high school mathematics classes. TEAM’s long-term goal is to lead the
students to careers in mathematics and computer science. The program,
now in its second year, is funded by a three-year Vision grant from the
3M Foundation. In addition to Karlson, a mathematics graduate now teaching
at Trumansburg high school, four College faculty members provided instruction.
Sixteen students participated in the program.
Devonii
Reid and Shanika Johnson, students from the Frederick Douglass Academy
in New York City, demonstrated their robotics project to instructor Julie
Karlson and the College’s Arlene Dende and Howard Erlich during a session
of the TEAM (Technology, Empowerment, and Modeling) Program held in Williams
Hall in July. Using Legos to build robots and then writing computer programs
to control the robots’ movements were part of an intensive two-week program
designed to help minority students bridge the gap between basic and advanced
high school mathematics classes. TEAM’s long-term goal is to lead the
students to careers in mathematics and computer science. The program,
now in its second year, is funded by a three-year Vision grant from the
3M Foundation. In addition to Karlson, a mathematics graduate now teaching
at Trumansburg high school, four College faculty members provided instruction.
Sixteen students participated in the program.