Explore Group - Fall 2007


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Students brainstorm with engineering mentors at the beginning of the BEST Robotics Competition. Robotics team hard at work in D Building Julia Buckland works on the Engineering Notebook research paper. Students make give-aways for the BEST Robotics Competition. Painting shakers for the BEST Robotics Competition Cheering on the robot drivers during competition BEST Robotics Competition Awards Ceremony BEST Robotics Team Thanking engineering mentor, Jason Autrey, for helping with the BEST Robotics Competition Thanking engineering mentors, Eddie Herring and Charlie Vance, for their help with BEST Robotics Students in Eglin AFB Hanger in front of an F15 Students on field trip to Eglin Air Force Base Explosive Ordinance Disposal demonstration at Eglin AFB Students practice operating bomb removal robots. Kimberly Rogers practices driving a bomb removal robot at the EOD. Otto Lee tries on a bomb removal safety suit at the EOD. Crisely Melecio-Zambrano in the EOD's remote control robotics trailer Julia Buckland also tries on the bomb removal suit at the EOD. Students visit the Students experience subzero temperatures in the McKinley Climatic Lab at Eglin AFB. Nokuse Plantation herpetologist, Dr. Margaret Gunzburger, and an amphiuma Students thank engineering mentors, Kristen Maconi and Suzanne McDaniel, for helping with BEST. Checking a trap in Dismal Creek on Nokuse Plantation Students use dip nets as part of an ongoing wetland sampling program at Nokuse Plantation. Dr. Margaret Gunzburger with students at Nokuse Plantation Gregg Stubberfield gets up close and personal with an alligator snapping turtle. The BEST Robotics Team won first place for their Engineering Notebook.