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Coogs suffer losses over weekend
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UH will use their losses at the Flo Hyman Collegiate Cup as experience as they move forward against Rutgers and UConn, their first American Athletic Conference match-ups.
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COMMUNITY
High school visitors get feel for UH Daniela Di Napoli Contributing writer
Every year since 2010, the C.T. Bauer College of Business has invited high school students who show an interest in marketing, entrepreneurship and hospitality to visit the campus, attend presentations and participate in classes to get a taste of the programs UH offers. Program Coordinator Natalia Lara, responsible for middle and high school outreach, will welcome schools like Dekaney High School and Carl Wunsche Sr. High School this week to Bauer. Lara said this program helps showcase the college’s outreach to the community. “It effectively exposes students to UH and Bauer for the purpose of future matriculation,” Lara said. “It also gives the Bauer faculty, staff and students the opportunity to give back.” Petroleum engineering
freshman Zachary Kerls said he wish he would have participated in this program while he was in high school. “It would have given me a chance to see what I was getting myself into,” he said. “I feel like a lot of kids don’t realize what it takes. Having something like that helps.” The program is expected to continue expanding, develop new relationships with Houston-area high schools and maintain UH’s relationships with current partner schools. The program lets young students see what it is like to be on a college campus. According to Lara, it is an experience that is not only good for the students in terms of setting future goals for themselves but also gets students thinking about UH as a prospective university. “Students are driven to attend a university and obtain the diploma,” BAUER continues on page 3
The exoskeleton is based off of NASA’s Robonaut 2 and is a collaboration with UH professor of electrical and computer engineering Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, pictured second from left. | Courtesy of the Cullen College of Engineering
SCIENCE
Research gives patients chance to walk again Tristan Reickhoff Staff writer
Technology developed to prevent muscle atrophy in space is coming back down to earth with a research collaboration between NASA and UH professor of electrical and computer engineering Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal.
Contreras-Vidal’s brain-machine interface technology is now being tested with NASA’s X1 robotic exoskeleton to assist patients with learning to walk again after a debilitating event like a stroke, according to the Cullen College of Engineering’s website. MIND continues on page 3
WORKSHOP
Teachers prepare for Mars rover competition at UH Ryan Graham Staff writer
The Mars Rover Model Celebration and Exhibition hopes to get Kindergarten to 12th graders excited about science and space travel. | Courtesy of Jesse Villarreal
For 12 years, UH has played host to the Mars Rover Model Celebration and Exhibition, a program that seeks to help young, local students excel in science and raise enthusiasm over space travel. While the exhibition itself will not take place until later this year, UH is hosting two workshops to help teachers prepare their students for the exhibition and go over scientific curriculum that ties into the exhibition. The first workshop was held Sept. 21, and
the second will be Saturday. “The essence of the program is that kids pick a mission to Mars of their choice, which means they have to learn a great deal about Mars science before they make their choice,” said physics and computer engineering professor Edgar Bering, founder and chairman of the exhibition. “So we have put together, with support from NASA and the College of Education, a six-week curriculum for the teachers to use.” The purpose of last weekend’s workshop was to provide teachers with a primer to Mars science,
covering the basics and focusing on information that the attendees may not have previously been aware of. The second workshop will focus on the six weeks of curriculum about the exhibition, including methods and strategies for teaching the material. Bering said he originally proposed the idea of the exhibition to the Houston Independent School District in 2002, based on a smaller-scale project his children did in elementary school. He’s been closely involved with MARS continues on page 3