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Alma Hosts NSF MindStorms Workshop

Alma College hosted a wokshop on using Lego MindStorms throughout the undergraduate computer science curriculum this past June. Twenty-three faculty from all over the country attended the three day workshop, which focused on the curriculum materials being developed under a National Science Foundation grant.  The faculty for the workshop were Myles McNally (Alma College) and Pamela Lawhead (University of Mississippi) with  Alma student Josh Borgerding ('06) assisting. Go to the website for the project.


 

Many of Alma’s pre-law graduates go on to attend prestigious law schools, including 2004 graduate Jessica Karbowski, who was accepted at Yale, Stanford and Harvard law schools and is attending Yale. Colin McGlaughlin, a 20004 graduated enrolled at Case Western Reserve Law School, is the first American to intern at the International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands.

 

Graduate Profile

Ted Hutchins
Graduation: 1990
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Religious Studies

Ted Hutchins has been interested in computers since middle school, but he says the liberal arts education at Alma College truly prepared him for life.

“At other institutions computer science students have little incentive or ability to further their education in non-science disciplines,” the 1990 graduate says. “Over the years numerous acquaintances have stated they only took those 'other' course to complete their degree. At Alma most of those 'other' classes were the highlight of the term. A well-rounded education furthered my career in ways that are hard to quantify.”