Three Vex Robotics alumni and current OPRFHS robotics club team members Jesse Cornman, Ian Parks, and Luisa Vasquez took 1st place in the Engineering category at the April 15 Illinois State University Research Symposium in Normal, IL. Their entry, built from scratch, was titled "A Robotic Arm with Myoelectric Control", enabling manipulation by thought. That same weekend, the team took first place at the Percy Julian Science Symposium over 48 high quality entrants in both pure and applied science.
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