Intellectual Student Competitions in Modern High School Realities

Using Robot Competitions to Promote Intellectual Development

three international mobile robot competitions as the foundation for educational projects in undergraduate and graduate computer science courses. The three competitions—(1) AAAI Mobile Robot, (2) AUVS Unmanned Ground Robotics, and (3) IJCAI RoboCup—were used in different years for an introductory undergraduate robotics course, an advanced graduate robotics course, and an undergraduate practicum ...

Student abstracts and poster competitions: encouraging research.

s with numbers that do not begin with the letter designation S were submitted through the AOA Research Conference and were thus published in the August 2010 issue of the JAOA along EDITORIAL Student Abstracts and Poster Competitions: Encouraging Research Joseph K. Prinsen, OMS VI Joseph K. Prinsen is the National Research Director for the Student Osteopathic Medical Association, a member of the...

High School Socioeconomic Segregation and Student Attainment

Understanding the Realities of Modern Patent Litigation

Sixteen years ago, two of us published the first detailed empirical look at patent litigation. In this Article, we update and expand the earlier study with a new hand-coded data set. We evaluate all substantive decisions rendered by any court in every patent case filed in 2008 and 2009—decisions made between 2009 and 2013. We consider not just patent validity but also infringement and unenforce...

Student Competitions and Bots in an Introductory Programming Course*

An introductory programming course that is both an introduction to the major and a university-wide distribution course can suffer from a large disparity of interest as well as ability. Motivating all students to participate improves outcomes. At St. Lawrence University we have found that competitions are fun and engaging for students while providing a vehicle for both individual and collaborati...