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War Eagle BEST Robotics season begins
War Eagle BEST Robotics, an annual program sponsored by COSAM and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, has kicked off the 2015 season. Each fall, teams of middle and high school students from schools located in East Central Alabama and West Georgia design, build and program a robot from a kit of raw materials through implementation of the engineering design process. The six-week program culminates in a one-day, arena competition. Winners will advance to the regional South’s BEST competition, also hosted by Auburn University.
The official kickoff was held at Opelika High School, where 23 teams received their design equipment, learned details of the competition and viewed the playing field for this year’s competition titled, “Pay Dirt.”
BEST, which stands for “Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology,” is recognized and supported by the Alabama Governor's Office of Workforce Development, as well as hundreds of businesses, industries and other community partnerships across the state of Alabama. For more information on BEST Robotics, go to wareaglebest.org.
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Join COSAM on social media
The College of Sciences and Mathematics has formed a Social Media Ambassador group consisting of 13 students who are working to document the day-to-day activities of college life, including classroom experiences, research and laboratory efforts, study sessions, travel, field work and extracurricular activities. Join COSAM on social media to meet the new ambassadors and receive their updates and more from the college:
Twitter: @cosamau
Instagram: @cosamau
Facebook: cosamau
Youtube: cosamcm
Google+: cosamcm
Periscope: cosamau
For more information, send an email to Candis Birchfield at ceh0012@auburn.edu.
Pictured are 2014-2015 COSAM Social Media Ambassadors Rachel Coleman (left) and Theresa Simermeyer, at the Auburn football game last weekend. Rachel and Theresa are seniors in biochemistry.
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Smith receives Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award
Daniel Smith, graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has received a Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award from the American Chemical Society. Winners of the award receive a $1,150 stipend and a copy of Chemical Computing Group’s Molecular Operating Environment software, and will be honored at a ceremony. The award was created to stimulate graduate student participation at American Chemical Society meetings, and it is given to five graduate students each spring and fall. Smith is currently pursuing a doctorate in chemistry with a concentration in computational chemistry. He is part of Konrad Patkowski’s research group, where he explores the weak intermolecular interactions between various small molecules and carbon nanotubes in order to obtain a better understanding of the physisorption process of carbon based nanostructures.
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