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Thursday, July 9, 2015
Robotics campers have a blast during NASA visit
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| Participants in the University of Houston-Victoria Digital Simulation and Robotics Summer Camp pose with university faculty and staff in a group photo at Space Center Houston. The week-long camp, funded by an Alcoa Foundation grant, taught area high school students how to build and program robots. The camp concluded July 3 with a trip to the space center organized by Alireza Tavakkoli, kneeling in front, director of the UHV digital gaming and simulation program. Pictured in the front row, left to right, are Dylan Herring, Vi Le, Tim Nguyen, William Conway, Teresa Nguyen and Melissa Clark. Pictured in the back row, left to right, are Tracey Moore-Sweeney, UHV grants facilitator; Lucas Kabela, Paula Edging, a senior secretary in the UHV School of Arts & Sciences; Jessica Nguyen, Randall Jasek, Joshua Symonds, Chase Laux, Brandon Wilson, Nathan Valadez and Nathaniel Marek. |
The University of Houston-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region, offers courses leading to more than 65 bachelor’s and master’s degree
programs and concentrations in the schools of Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Education & Human Development, and Nursing. UHV provides face-to-face
classes at its Victoria campus as well as teaching sites in Fort Bend and Harris counties, and online classes that students can take from anywhere. Since its
founding in 1973, UHV has provided students with a quality university education from excellent faculty at an affordable price.