Lake Superior College Students Build Robots for Competition

Friday, November 30, 2007
By Gary Kruchowski

Jake Hustad and Dane Nelson, Integrated Manufacturing StudentsStudents enrolled in Lake Superior College Integrated Manufacturing programs will present a robot demonstration and competition at noon on Tuesday, December 18, in the LSC commons. Six student teams are developing robots for the event. The students are tasked with designing, building and operating a robot intended to lift and move five pounds of beach sand through an obstacle course in a timed competition.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact machine technology instructor Mike Koppy, m.koppy@lsc.edu, (218) 733-7631.

Pictured are Jake Hustad, Computer Aided Design student, and Dane Nelson, Welding student, members of the “Precision Indecision” team.

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4 Responses to “Lake Superior College Students Build Robots for Competition”

  1. Shane
    December 2, 2007 at 10:40 pm

    Cool project. You may consider visiting http://www.hirewelders.com when looking for work after college. Also, let your professor know that they can promote their school free of charge on the site as well.

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  2. Snel Geld Lenen
    December 9, 2007 at 10:15 am

    Very nice project :) will this project be launched again next year? I am really fond of robotwars, building it and so on. As it is my exchange year I would really like to join.

    GL

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  3. Brandon Maki
    December 18, 2007 at 1:06 am

    Mr. Roboto is gonna kick some robot A#$

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  4. geld lenen
    March 10, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    So now I am in the US, finally! Is there a robot war competition US league/website?

    Would be cool to visit some games.

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