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Akron-Fairgrove Wins Challenge

In its first ever appearance in the Alma College Robotics Challenge, Akron-Fairgrove High School swept both first and second places! Pictured at right are the members of the first place team.  Check out the photo album for this year's contest..

The Robotics Challenge is an invitational high school robotics tournament using the Lego Mindstorms Robotics Platform. Teams construct robots which compete against each other in an attempt to gather eggs and return them to their nest.  The Fifth Annual Alma College Robotics Challenge will be coming up in the spring of 2008.  Read more on our contest webpage, or contact Dr. Myles McNally for information on how your high school could participate.

 

Thirty-four percent of Alma students participate in intercollegiate athletics. Alma College competes at the NCAA Division III level as a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the oldest existing athletic conference in the nation.

 

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.”