Dr. Doug Blank from Bryn Mawr College delivered a talk on Friday 2007.11.9 entitled "Robots in the Classroom: This Time It's Personal!"

His talk focused on ways that relatively inexpensive drawing robots could help retain students in Computer Science, especially women. Bryn Mawr is a liberal arts college for women outside Philadelphia.

Mark Meyer delivered a paper entitled "Robotran: A programming environment for novices using LEGO Mindstorms robots" at the FLAIRS-07 conference (Florida AI) in Key West, Florida, May 7, 2007. Deb Burhans coauthored this paper.

In June, Dr. Meyer participated in a workshop for using NXJ Lejos for the new NXT robots in Oxford, MS. He also presented a talk there on Robotran.

Three of the faculty (Dr. Deb Burhans, Dr. H. David Sheets, Dr. Mark Meyer) are working on integrating robotics into the curriculum, including Computer Science and Engineering as part of a 3-year Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professorship appointment.