Notes and News

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.

 

Alma’s innovative PRISM project—Positive Routes Into Science and Mathematics—gets more students excited about science. It engages students in research opportunities not only in their first, second, third and fourth years of college but also in the summer prior to taking their first college course. PRISM is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

 

Graduate Profile

Chad Jenkins

Chad Jenkins
Graduation: 1994
Major: Computer Science and Mathematics

Don’t take that URL at the top of the screen for granted! In 1994, alumnus Chad Jenkins had to work from scratch to create Alma College’s first official website.

“Jim Blumm and I worked together to establish it,” he says. “While it was exciting, I’ll admit our website was a bit less aesthetically pleasing than the current one.”