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On November 12th, 2022, the 91�ֿ� Combat Robotics Team placed 3rd at a Norwalk Havoc Robotics League (NHRL) competition, qualifying for the 2022 Championships in December 2023. The competition, held in Norwalk, Connecticut, is the 6th and final qualifying event of the 2022 season including four different weight classes and over 100 bots. The top 4 bots in each weight class qualify for the 2022 Championships, which was held on December 17th, 2022.  At the competition in November, the team lost in the first round, before fighting back through the elimination bracket to cl...

On Saturday, February 4th, 22 teams of students in grades 7-12 gathered at the 91�ֿ� Student Center for a FIRST Tech Challenge event, hosted by FIRST Robotics and the College of Aeronautics and Engineering. As part of a FIRST Tech Challenge team, participants design, build, and operate a robot to complete specific tasks depending on the competition year. Students gain valuable experience in coding, problem solving, and the engineering process, in addition to building teamwork skills.  The competition doesn’t only include driving the robots in the game arena. On Friday, ...

Get ready to Reduce, Reuse and then Recycle in February and March! 91�ֿ� is competing in Campus Race to Zero Waste, an international waste reduction and recycling competition for colleges and universities. Over 300 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada compete every year to see who can recycle the most, who can produce the least amount of waste and more. There are four main competition categories in Campus Race to Zero Waste: Diversion, Per Capita Recycling, Zero Waste and Food Organics. Everyone’s collective actions on campus—reducing, reusing and recycling—prevent...

Kent Wired Article by Kait Murray By Kait Murray, Kent WiredKIC’s Recyclepalooza kicks off Campus Race to Zero Waste with sustainability-themed activities  Kait MurrayKIC hosted Recycle Palooza on Feb. 8, where students were able to learn about sustainability, play games and plant seeds to take home.  Jillian Schrift, ReporterFebruary 9, 2023A long line wrapped around the second floor of the Kent Student Center Wednesday evening as students waited to take part in reusing, reducing and recycling at Recyclepalooza.With about a hundred students coming and going from the K...

Gus Holman knows a thing or two about mushrooms. First, he knows that morel mushrooms are prized finds by those who hunt and gather them. Secondly, he knows that these mushrooms are expensive for others to purchase. And, he knows that morels are not easy to grow outside of their natural environment. Knowing these three basic facts helped lead him to the 91�ֿ� Salem Campus and, ultimately, an extensive research project involving morel mushrooms. “My interest in studying mushrooms started with a conversation with my father,” Holman said. “While building my parents a greenhouse,...

Alicia Costello is making the rounds of Northeast Ohio. As an upperclassman who was born in the Sandy Valley area, she now resides in Canton, and commutes to the 91�ֿ� Salem and Stark campuses regularly to attend class. Last academic year, she also became a fellow within the Environmental Science and Design Research Institute (ESDRI) at 91�ֿ�, which means she occasionally comes to the Kent Campus now. Alicia also drives all over the state to see her siblings (including an identical twin sister at Ohio State University), hike, ski, snowboard and spend time ...

Congratulations are in order for the 91�ֿ� Precision Flight Team! On January 20th, the National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) announced that 91�ֿ� was among 30 flight schools across the country receiving an invitation to the 2023 National Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference (SAFECON) hosted in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in May.  Prior to this announcement, the team attended the NIFA SAFECON in October. This competition was held at Bowling Green State University, at the Wood County Regional Airport. 91�ֿ� competes in Region III, which includes flight sc...

"EVs are efficient, clean, inexpensive to operate, and better for the environment overall than fossil fuels," said Joseph Ortiz. Ortiz, a professor in 91�ֿ�'s Department of Earth Sciences, recognizes that people have many questions about electric vehicles. He spoke about the things that someone would want to know if they were considering purchasing a new EV.  "How far can you drive in an EV? How do you charge your EV? Are there places to charge your EV away from home on a long trip? What financial incentives are there to buy an EV? How do you measure the efficiency o...

In the new video series "What's the Big Idea?", 91�ֿ� President Todd Diacon travels around campus exploring research activity.  In Episode 2, Diacon talks with a student and an assistant professor from 91�ֿ�'s College of Aeronautics and Engineering about the research they are conducting involving birds, drones and the challenges in keeping them from colliding in the sky.  Take a ride with Diacon to find out more about their research.      Katie Horn is a sophomore aeronautics major, who participated in the...

In the new video series "What's the Big Idea?", 91�ֿ� President Todd Diacon travels around campus exploring research activity.  In Episode 2, Diacon talks with a student and an assistant professor from 91�ֿ�'s College of Aeronautics and Engineering about the research they are conducting involving birds, drones and the challenges in keeping them from colliding in the sky.  Take a ride with Diacon to find out more about their research.      Katie Horn is a sophomore aeronautics major, who participated ...