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Thursday, April 10, 2025
ETC Collaboration Fuels Future Careers in Space
Entertainment Technology Center: Last fall, the team of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) graduate students behind MoonRover — one of Fall 2024’s ETC projects — got big news during their final presentation.
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Ari K
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Immersive experiences like these at museums are incredibly important. It's stuff like this that gets kids excited about science and learning and that’s so valuable to have at a museum. I am a huge museum fan. There’s a lot of activities like this at the Museum of Science in Boston, and it’s one of the things they pride themselves on. It’s a way to make science accessible and engaging to everyone. I think using VR to do that was clever. It makes it so much more immersive, but it also draws people in. If it was on just a computer screen, it’d be interesting, but it wouldn’t draw people in the same way a headset does. Working with rovers is the kind of stuff I’m interested in, so I’ll have to see if there’s a way I can try it!!
It is so easy to attend a university like CMU and not know about all of the cool things going on in each department. I didn’t even know that Carnegie Mellon had an Entertainment Technology Center, let alone that they were creating interactive museum exhibits. It is so cool to learn about how students are affecting the world around them. If students can find ways to make their mark, they will be able to enter the workforce with a leg up. It is also inspiring that programs like this one are working to inspire young minds and provide knowledge and confidence in their abilities to go into a career of their choosing. I know that in the past, there have been many ways that CMU has reached out into the community with projects like the Workhorse robot that assisted with the cleanup of Three Mile Island and the Alice programming language that was the first experience that I and other children had with the world of programming.
2 comments:
Immersive experiences like these at museums are incredibly important. It's stuff like this that gets kids excited about science and learning and that’s so valuable to have at a museum. I am a huge museum fan. There’s a lot of activities like this at the Museum of Science in Boston, and it’s one of the things they pride themselves on. It’s a way to make science accessible and engaging to everyone. I think using VR to do that was clever. It makes it so much more immersive, but it also draws people in. If it was on just a computer screen, it’d be interesting, but it wouldn’t draw people in the same way a headset does. Working with rovers is the kind of stuff I’m interested in, so I’ll have to see if there’s a way I can try it!!
It is so easy to attend a university like CMU and not know about all of the cool things going on in each department. I didn’t even know that Carnegie Mellon had an Entertainment Technology Center, let alone that they were creating interactive museum exhibits. It is so cool to learn about how students are affecting the world around them. If students can find ways to make their mark, they will be able to enter the workforce with a leg up. It is also inspiring that programs like this one are working to inspire young minds and provide knowledge and confidence in their abilities to go into a career of their choosing. I know that in the past, there have been many ways that CMU has reached out into the community with projects like the Workhorse robot that assisted with the cleanup of Three Mile Island and the Alice programming language that was the first experience that I and other children had with the world of programming.
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