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elebration 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.
The SIPI students eventually bested a team from the
University of Houston to capture the grand prize for
the physical competition, which included a $5,000
check for the school and the coveted Gold Mars
Trophy. Members of the winning SIPI team were Glen
Allen, Brian Bahe, Schulte Cooke, Mathew Gachupin,
Geoff Gustina, Christian Martinez, Simonie Salazar, Ty
Shurley, Joshua Sparvier, Emery Sutherland, Collin
Whitehair, and Andrew Wright. Four students -
Cooke, Martinez, Shurley, and Sutherland - represented the group in Florida. Dr. Nader Vadiee, SIPI
engineering professor, served as the team faculty
advisor along with Jonathan West, adjunct instructor.

CREATING Possibilities
For Vadiee, the recognition is a high point in a career
spent largely in building SIPI's engineering program.
He started working with SIPI students in 1994 through
a grant from Sandia National Labs. His work continued
in 1998 through a NASA grant with the University of
New Mexico, where he was a research associate
professor. When that program ended in 2005, he helped
write another grant to start an engineering program at
SIPI. It was funded, and he transferred to SIPI.
The SIPI team
competes in the 2017
NASA Swarmathon,
held in April at the
Kennedy Space Center
in Florida.
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