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K-12 STEM Program

The Knoxville Chamber, Knox County Schools, and the Knoxville Section of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers have started a website to act as a clearinghouse to link science and engineering professionals with students and educators. The Knoxville Chamber has requested that local technical society members show their interest in pre-college STEM outreach activities by volunteering to help schools meet the challenge of graduating students with technology proficiency. Find out more on the Vols4STEM page.

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Tennessee First Lego League Tournament

The Section sponsored First Lego League teams at Farragut Middle School, Cedar Bluff Middle School, and Robertsville Middle School (Oak Ridge) in 2009. All three teams competed in the Tennessee Tournament at Tennessee Tech on Dec. 5th. Brainiac Attack of Farragut Middle (in white) placed 3rd in Robot Design. The CBMS Giants of Cedar Bluff Middle (in black). The RMS Rams (in red) of Robertsville Middle placed 1st place in Performance and 1st Place in Robot Design.

See more photos from the Tournament here.

This program is a K-12 outreach project in keeping with iEEE's Education Activities goals of encouraging pre-college kids interest in pursuing science and engineering careers. If you are interested in helping next year, please complete the Lego League Questionnaire.

2010 Tennessee Science Bowl - Call For Volunteers

Please volunteer to help with the 2010 Tennessee Science Bowl! Do your part to encourage students in the pursuit of technical careers. The event will be Saturday, February 27, 2010. Register at orau.gov/sciencebowl. The organizers will award a new 2010 Tennessee Science Bowl T-shirt to the 1st, 5th, and 15th person who signs up!

IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference to be held in Knoxville in 2010

IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society will sponsor the "2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (2010 NSS/MIC) ". This conference will be held October 28 - November 7, 2010 in Knoxville. NPS Symposiums

UT Student Branch Excels at SoutheastCon 2009

The UT IEEE Robotics Team placed 2nd out of 44 teams entered in the SoutheastCon 2009 Robotics Competition held in Atlanta March 6-8. The objective of the competition was to construct an autonomous robot to collect and sort aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles. Students worked on the robot both as part of senior design and as an extracurricular activity.This is the first time that UT has placed in several years. UT's robotics team was just restarted this past year after a multi-year hiatus. The final scores are available at: http://new.gt-ieee.org/scores.php. You can view video from UT's Final Round at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKbZQwHCgig. Additionally, the IEEE Ethics team placed 2nd out of 11 teams. See a photo of the robotics team on the Sudent Activities page. Additionally, read the article appeared in the UT Daily Beacon April 7th.

Pellissippi State placed 11th, which is outstanding since all the other participating teams except 1 are from 4 year colleges.