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Lodovica Illari (right), a lecturer in meteorology, and Rob Korty (left) and Greg Lawson, graduate students in earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, are members of the MIT team that won a national weather forecasting competition.

Forecasting team weathers contest with a victory

September 11, 2002

The six-foot-long ORCA-V has two main thrusters at the side and two vertical thrusters at the bow and stern. There are two main dry compartments in the sub; the top one contains a computer that controls the sub, while the bottom one contains the batteries and the motor drivers.

Student sub cruises to victory in AUV contest

September 3, 2002

As the moment of competition approaches, last-minute tweaking can be critical at the International Design Competition held at MIT on Aug. 16.

Team One is No. 1 in robot design contest

August 28, 2002

Left to right: Julien Barrier of France, MIT's Martin Jonikas of the United States and Alexandre Takeshi Ushima of Brazil collaborate on building a robot from scratch using a tablet PC as part of the International Design Contest.

Team One is No. 1 in global robot contest

August 20, 2002

Left to right: Julien Barrier of France, MIT's Martin Jonikas of the United States and Alexandre Takeshi Ushima of Brazil collaborate on building a robot from scratch using a tablet PC as part of the International Design Contest. Although Jonikas won the 2.007 contest, he isn't allowed to reuse his design.

MIT robot contest draws students from around the world

August 14, 2002

Teaching assistant Guillermo Chicas (far left), watches the winning robot in action at the 2002 MITE 2S Robotics Design Competition, held July 26. The team that designed and built the machine included (left to right, wearing white) Cherelle Walls, Oyinade Aderibigbe, Aaron Arizpe and Daniel Chaparro.

Sixty-four students complete MITE 2S program

August 8, 2002

IDEAS competition names winners

June 5, 2002

Ancora Pharmaceuticals won the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. Left to right: team members Professor Peter Seeberger of chemistry, Carmichael Roberts (M.B.A. 2000), Obadiah Plante (Ph.D. 2001) and Sloan graduate student Jeremy Bender bask in the glory of their win.

Ancora Pharmaceuticals takes top prize in $50K business plan contest

May 22, 2002

Bright Idea

May 15, 2002

Jon Salz was a semi-finalist in the TopCoder Collegiate Championship.

Coding competition makes good spectator sport

May 8, 2002

Students built tiny motors to participate in a contest in freshman physics class.

Motor contest revs up physics class

April 10, 2002

The MIT programming team works on a problem at the world finals of the ACM computer programming contest in Honolulu last month. Left to right: Sophomore Percy Liang, freshman Reid Barton and sophomore John Danaher came in second place, the best MIT finish in more than two decades.

Students take second in computer programming competition

April 10, 2002

Uzamere

EECS sophomore wins Martin Luther King oratory contest

March 20, 2002

Students promote new businesses in Ghana with workshop and

March 13, 2002

Contest seeks inventions designed for public service

February 6, 2002