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FAMU Students Fly With NASA |
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In the summer of 2011, ARTSI students at Florida A&M Unviersity, advised by Professor Clement Allen, flew with their robot on a NASA plane used to simulate zero-gravity environments. Known as the "Vomit Comet", the airplane performs repeated climbs and dives, and during the dives, the occupants are weightless. The FAMU students were studying the use of a fan to keep a robot stably in contact with a surface so it could navigate under zero gravity conditions. 
 
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Dekita Moon going to Clemson |
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ARTSI student Dekita Moon from Fort Valley State University will be entering the PhD program in Computer Science at Clemson University in January 2012. Dekita completed a summer REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) internship at Carnegie Mellon in 2011, where she worked with Dr. Paul Rybski on the Snackbot robot, shown below. 
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