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When asked to define key characteristics of University of Maryland alumni, graduates list a competitive spirit and readiness for hard work among the top attributes. Clark School students bear out that assessment, excelling in daunting challenges and international and national competitions.
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contests and prizes are great motivators for our students, who have the spirit of competition in their blood,â&#x20AC;? confirms Clark School Dean Darryll Pines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are creative, hard-working and fight through setbacks. And each challenge raises their expectations higher.â&#x20AC;? (See Recent Competitive Successes, next page.) In motivating the Gamera team, Pines told the students about an opportunity he passed up in graduate school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I declined an invitation to participate in a competition to build a human-powered, fixed-wing aircraft that eventually flew 74 miles across the Aegean Sea,â&#x20AC;? explains Pines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I decided then that if I were ever in a leadership position, I would challenge my students to do something inspiring, something that changes their perceptions of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible. Gamera does just that.â&#x20AC;? Adds team member Brandon Bush, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You learn what it really means to be an engineer when you work on a project like Gamera.â&#x20AC;? 3\UW\SS`W\U . ;O`gZO\R N 4OZZ