• Closing the Circle

    Celebration was in the air at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) this past April. A team of students from the Albuquerque, N.M., school had topped 20 other college teams to win the NASA Swarmathon. In this lively robotics competition, teams from minority-serving institutions develop computer code used by swarms of robots in an arena to autonomously find and collect the most resources. More than 500 students participated in this year’s event at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.