ROBO RUMBLE: A robot designed by Tacoma high school students with the help from UW engineering undergraduates and members of the Seattle Robotics Society took a top award in regional competition. The robot, Rainmaker One, won the award for best offense during the two-day contest in California. The team went on to a national competition but failed to place. The competition, sponsored by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, asks the students to build robots that pick up balls, negotiate an obstacle course, then deposit the balls in a goal six feet off the ground. EE Professor Alex Mamishev was lead adviser for the project.

KUDOS: James Bassingthwaighte, professor of bio-engineering, bio-mathematics, and radiology, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to integrative physiology and bioengineering using transport theory and computational methods. ¶