Spring Meeting & MicroMouse Contest 2008
Date & Time
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, May 3, 2008Online Registration & Deadline
All participants should register online before April 21, 2008.
Location & Direction
San Jose State UniversityEngineering Building Auditorium (street view map and direction)
Free parkings are offered between 6AM and 6PM on weekends and holidays at 4th Street garage at San Fernando Street (street view map and direction) across Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library on San Jose State University campus, only 3 blocks to the Engineering Building along San Fernando Street.
Hotels in downtown San Jose for participants from out of San Francisco bay area, some of them only a few walking blocks to the campus and many have shuttle service to and from the San Jose International Airport and therefore no need to rent a car.
See Region 6 Policy for Travel Expense Reimbursement & claim form
Submit claim to: tom[at]tomcoughlin[dot]com or
Tom Coughlin
665 Willowmont Ave
San Jose, CA 95124
Agenda
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8:00 AM Registration 8:30 AM Introduction 8:45 AM Region 6 News and Board Candidates 9:15 AM Section and Student Branch Reports 10:15 AM Break 10:30 AM Student Paper and Design Contest Micromouse teams preparation for afternoon race Section Officer Breakout 12:00 PM Lunch 1:00 PM Keynote Talk by Dr. Mike Montemerlo of Stanford University 1:30 PM MicroMouse Races 4:30 PM Awards & Closing Remarks |
Student Paper & Design Contests
GuidelinesEntry Deadline: April 25, 2008
Submission to: Central Area Student Activities Chair Mostafa Mortezaie
Winners of Student Paper Contest:
(School, Name of Authors, “Title of the Paper”)
First Prize:
University of Nevada-Reno, Dale Hughes and Andrew Rybold, “The Deer-Terrent by Agricultural Defense System”
Second Prize:
CSU-Fresno, Sven Fagerstrom, “Chilled Water System Energy Optimization”
Third Prize:
UC-Berkeley, Aaron Staley and Shah Bawany, “Optimizing for Average-Case Latency: A Case Study of a 16-bit Asynchronous Floating Point Unit.”
Winners of Student Design Contest:
(School, Name of Authors, “Title of the Design Project”)
First Prize:
CSU-Fresno, William Hyatt, Nino Viray, Hitender Sidhu, and Brent Estrada, “The Voice Activated Remote Control (VARC)”
Second Prize:
University of Nevada-Reno, Jason Andersen and Daniel Dower, "Designing the Electrick Avenger - an Electric Skateboard"
Third Prize:
University of Nevada-Reno, Andrew Rybold and Dale Hughes, “The Deer-Terrent” by Agricultural Defense System.
MicroMouse, Rules and Entry Form
DescriptionRules
Entry Form
Winners of MicroMouse Contest:
(School, Team Members, “Mouse Title”)
First Place:
UC Davis, Josephine Sabado, Laura Biggs, Michael Miller, Mark Tuk and Harpreet Kaur, “Mousey”
Second Place:
University of Hawaii, Malcolm Menor, “Chebyshev”
Third Place:
CSU-Chico, Matthew Raybourn, “Micromole”
Winners of CPMT MicroMouse Best Packaging Award:
(School, Team Members, “Mouse Title”)
First Place:
University of Hawaii, Mark Fujihara, Bryant Komo, and David Ota, “Mighty Mouse”
Second Place:
UC Davis, Ryan Moore, Jake McMan, and Zedeik Steinklaubier, “Fred”
Third Place:
University of Hawaii, John Miyajima, “Amaze Me”
