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Still Unbeaten, Northern Bites Advance to RoboCup World Championship Semifinals

The Northern Bites, Bowdoin's team of soccer-playing humanoid robots and their student programmers, are 6-0 as they advance to the semifinal round of the 2009 RoboCup World Championship games going on in Graz, Austria.
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Winning Streak Continues for Northern Bites at RoboCup World Championship

The Northern Bites, Bowdoin's RoboCup team of 22-inch-tall humanoid robots, have been unstoppable so far at the 2009 RoboCup World Championships in Graz, Austria. The team has a perfect 5-0 record in pool play entering Saturday's quarterfinal games.
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A River Runs Through It: Bringing History Home

With input from middle-schoolers in Topsham, students in Matthew Klingle's Environment in North American History class are creating an interactive online curriculum about the Androscoggin River.
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Japanese Internees Use Environment As Resistance

Connie Chiang explores ways that Japanese Americans and immigrants interned during WWII were able to leverage harsh physical environments to protest their confinement.
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