[MACEP] PowerPoint and the web

[Mike Ely]

Wow.  This has to be one of the coolest things I've read in quite a  
while.  I had to do some searching to see if this really happened,  
and it did!  These kids beat MIT.  Amazing.  Here are a couple of links.

First, the contest page, with a linked PDF file listing the results:
http://www.mpcfaculty.net/jill_zande/2004_rov_competition_winners.htm

And here's the team's home page.  Lots of broken links here, but  
there's some cool stuff if you look around:
http://www.freewebs.com/falconroboticsrov/

Finally, the scholarship donation page (via PayPal).  I encourage you  
to consider helping these kids out.  I know, there's a lot of need  
out there...
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=Partnership%40phxhs%2ek12%2eaz% 
2eus&item_name=La%20Vida%20Robot%20Scholarship% 
20Fund&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD

Uhh, if your email client line-breaks that last link, try the  
tinyurl.com version:
http://tinyurl.com/6zl6c

Cheers,
Mike


On Apr 14, 2005, at 6:09 PM, Eric Harrison wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Eric Neiwert wrote:
>
>
>> I know most of you have seen this before but it is worth  
>> mentioning again....
>>
>> While you are at it take a look at the Gettysburg address if it  
>> had been done by Abe with Powerpoint.
>>
>> http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/
>> Here is the related essay. http://www.norvig.com/lancet.html
>>
>
> The latest issue of Wired has a great article about four
> ESL high school students beating MIT in an engineering
> contest: http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/robot.html
>
> I laughed out loud when I read this part:
>
>    "Why don't you have a PowerPoint display?" he asked.
>
>    "PowerPoint is a distraction," Cristian replied. "People use it  
> when
>     they don't know what to say."
>
>    "And you know what to say?"
>
>    "Yes, sir."
>
>
> -Eric
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