Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Tuesday's Trek

Today's trek brought us to the Fed Ex Institute for a few interactive demonstrations.
Students interacted with a pilot program designed to test the brain's ability to do 2 things at once.  

The program required students to talk about a given topic while interacting with an animated dog on the screen.  This student found this task relatively easy since "talking comes natural and requires little thought."  HA! 
It wasn't as easy as it sounded!  
Next, students got to interact with motion sensors.  These sensors allowed hand movements to control a piano and a theremin.  Students tried to sync up!  It was quite entertaining.



Here's what the screen image looked like!  



Next Mr. Andrew showed us some of his robots!

Meet this humanoid.  He responds to auditory and visual input.  Here it is replicating claps.

He also danced, walked, and could even lay down.  
Mr. Andrew also had a sphere that could be controlled with electrical signals in the brain.  
The ball would move when the brain was quiet.  

Next we loaded up on the Blue Line and trekked to south campus!  



Here we are at the Billy J. Murphey Athletic Complex.  Home of the Tiger football training facilities.


We began with an inspirational video in the team meeting room.  

Locker Room

Weight Room
Jacob's Ladder 
A look out onto 1 of 4 practice fields.  
Rehab pool
Hot and Cold Tubs
Another fun trek!  


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