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Srijeet Halder presented his research on hand gesture control of robot arms at the International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Dr. Afsari presented a quadruped robot demonstration session on November 29th, 2022, to Robotic Team 401 that included robot training and discussions on how quadruped robots can assist with construction progress monitoring to promote STEM education in local schools.

Dr. Afsari with PhD student Srijeet Halder offered two sessions in the C-Tech^2 summer camps on June 27th and July 1st, 2022, to 32 students in total. C-Tech^2 is a two-week summer residential camp for rising junior and senior high school young women. A primary focus of the program is to help develop and sustain the interests of young women in engineering. The team presented real-world applications of robots for construction inspection and monitoring and provided hands-on robotic activities for the participants in a fun and exciting way.

The ARCADE lab organized a construction robotics workshop which was attended by more than 20 students from various programs like Construction Engineering & Management, Building Construction, Architecture, Computer Science, Civil Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. 

Students learned many things about Construction Robotics and legged robots. The workshop also provided networking opportunities to the students when they developed and presented startup ideas with robots with the help of industry mentors. Two winning teams also won Hokie swags.