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          I2D2 event to be held Sept. 9

          
            
              
                
                Published: September 07, 2011
              

              
                Author: William G. Gilroy
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

University of Notre Dame College of Engineering undergraduates will be working with 340 fifth-grade students from the South Bend Community School Corporation on Friday (Sept. 9) as part of a technological discovery day titled, “I2D2—Imagination, Innovation, Discovery and Design at Notre Dame.”

The event will take place in the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Students will participate in two active learning projects designed to help them learn about the kinds of questions that engineers and scientists ask and answer, such as “Why do things work the way they do?” and “How do we make them work better?”

In the “Irish Pet Project,” first-year Notre Dame engineering students will work with their fifth-grade “customers” to brainstorm ideas for toy robotic pets. The Notre Dame students will then design and build these pets using the LEGO®Mindstorms® NXT system and demonstrate them at the intermediate schools at a later date, when the fifth-graders will judge them.



The South Bend students also will participate in the “2011 Domer Freewheeling Derby,” during which they will design and race LEGO vehicles to learn about energy and motion. Through racing their designs and collecting data, the students will learn how scientists and engineers test their ideas with experiments.

In addition to designing a robotic pet and competing in the derby, the students will learn about educational options available to them in engineering and sciences, have lunch on campus, be given a campus tour and receive their own LEGO kit.

This year’s I2D2 event was sponsored by Konica Minolta.

Contact: Victoria Goodrich 574-631-1220, vfroude@nd.edu or Jay Brockman, 574-631-8810, jbb@nd.edu.

        

        
        
          
            
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