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Article: Aerospace & Defense News - Technology North America.(Company overview)
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- March 23, 2009
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Mar 22, 2009
Fifteen students at a Seattle, Wash.-area high school are using Altair Engineering[sup.1]s OptiStruct software to help build robots for the national FIRST Robotics competition; but, to their amazement, the real prizes they have won have been improved social skills, a passion for teamwork and a newfound love of engineering. The team from Jackson High School in Mill Creek, Wash., worked with their career technical education instructor Maggie Thorleifson, along with Boeing engineer Brian Gattman and four other mentors, to learn about robotics and engineering from scratch. Over a period of six weeks they absorbed information about motors and structures ...