CMSC 110 Students to Demonstrate Robots at Tuesday Ribbon-Cutting Event for IPRE

On Tuesday, April 17, Bryn Mawr computer science students will show off their work with robots at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the College's Microsoft-funded Institute for Personal Robotics in Education, which the Bryn Mawr Computer Science Program co-sponsors with Georgia Tech (see related story).

The event will start at about 2 p.m. Students will demonstrate their robots between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. A wine-and-cheese reception will be followed by a talk by Jane Prey, program manager at Microsoft Research, between 4 and 5 p.m.

IPRE's mission is to encourage interest in computer science, especially among women and underrepresented minorities, by incorporating robotics into the core computer-science curriculum, using a broadly applicable robotics programming language developed at Bryn Mawr by Associate Professor of Computer Science Douglas Blank. Here at Bryn Mawr, the new curriculum is already being tested in CMSC 110, Introduction to Computing, in which students are working with Scribbler robots.

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