MEMS department to hold robotics contest
The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science will hold a design contest Nov. 16 known as the “Duke Dust Scramble,” in which students will design and build remote-controlled devices. The purpose of these devices is to transport blue rice—nicknamed “Duke Dust”—up a flight of stairs and deposit it in a receptacle.
The overall winner will be awarded $500, and second and third places will receive $200 and $100, respectively. Prizes will also be awarded to the designs with the best concept and the best fabrication.
Interested students can attend an information session on Aug. 31 at 5:30 p.m. in room 203 of Teer Engineering Library. The contest is open to both students in both the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College.
Tickets for comedian Black go on sale
Student tickets for a Sept. 9 appearance in Page Auditorium by comedian Lewis Black go on sale today. Student tickets are $25 each, and general public tickets, which go on sale tomorrow, are $30.
Black, who is renowned for an angry, harried delivery in both his stand-up act and his “Back in Black” commentaries on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is being brought by the Major Attractions Committee of the Duke University Union as a part of its 50th anniversary programming.
Tickets will go on sale at the University Box Office in the Bryan University Center.
Robertson bus to resume route
The buses that run between Chapel Hill and Durham in order to facilitate the Robertson Scholars program started service for the school year Tuesday. The service, designed to foster greater collaboration between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, runs from the West Campus bus stop to Franklin Street in Chapel Hill from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays. It also runs on weekend afternoons.
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