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Two groups of Millersville University students attended the conference.
Millersville student awarded an opportunity to be a student researcher for the Institute for Research on Poverty.
“I am drawn toward doing something that benefits the community and people who really need help.”
Dr. Lara Willox, dean of the College of Education and Human Services, wrote a column in LNP on the teacher shortage! #teachershortage
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Millersville University’s Robotics Team scored big at the 2023 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition held June 2-5 in Rochester, Michigan. Their latest autonomous robot, named ALiEN 4.0 (Autonomous LiDAR-based Environment Navigator), won 1st to Qualify, 2nd Place Performance, and 2nd Place Overall in the AutoNav Class. They also won 3rd Place in the Grand Award, which combines the results of both AutoNav and Self-Drive class competitions.<br /> <br /> “This was an outstanding performance for the team,” says Dr. John Wright, professor of Automation & Electronics Technologies. “We are quickly establishing ourselves as a top-ranked IGVC team.”<br /> <br /> With these accomplishments, the team has now won 49 1st-3rd place individual awards and won seven championships since 2001.<br /> <br /> 25 teams from around the world entered the 2023 IGVC AutoNav competition. Only two completed the AutoNav Course, the University of Oklahoma and Millersville University over the 4-day event. This was MU’s third year competing in the international competition with their unique distributed intelligence control approach.<br /> <br /> “Congrats to our hard-working engineering students for this outstanding accomplishment this year at IGVC,” says Wright. “Over 2000 student hours were spent on the 8-month project.”
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