Philadelphia public school
students Kevin Ransom (left) and Hakim Moffitt (right) are building
their own robots with oversight from Director of PENNlincs Chris
Massey, Ph.D., at the PENNlincs Summer Robotics Academy. Two one-week
programs at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science this
summer also gave middle schoolers a chance to program the robots
and to meet people who worked with robots.
“Even though they themselves were wealthy and privileged men, they would be appalled by the impact and effect of money, not only on elections but on governance.”
Richard Beeman, the John Welsh Centennial Professor of History Emeritus, on what the founding fathers would think about today’s political atmosphere. (Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 2013).