VISIT SPARTANDAILY.COM FOR SPARTAN UPDATE AND CAMPUS VOICES Hi: 70o FINDF OUT HOW LOOK AHEAD AT o SSTUDENTS FEEL THE CINEQUEST Lo: 49 AABOUT BANNING FILM FESTIVAL AAP U.S. HISTORY IN AND WEEKEND Thursday, OOKLAHOMA SPORTS February 26, 2015 VISIT SPARTANDAILY.COMCOOMM Volume 144 • Issue 15 Serving San Jose State Universityy sisincence 1934 We Day motivates youth SAP Center hosts students, teachers BY RIGOBERTO GOMES hard work of young individuals who be- & JUSTIN SAN DIEGO Daily come global citizens and take action on lo- @AskRigo Video cal and global issues. @IncredibleJSD Th e event was founded by brothers and activists Craig and Marc Kielburger. More than 16,000 students and teach- Th e event is connected with a program ers packed the SAP Center yesterday to for the youth, known as We Act. view motivational speeches and music “We Act is an educational program that Rigoberto Gomes | Spartan Daily performances in celebration of We Day empowers young people to become active Mustafa the Poet shares his poetry with an array of lights behind him on We California. SEE EMPOWER ON PAGE 3 Day at the SAP Center in San Jose on Wednesday night. We Day is an event that recognizes the First-generation Spacecraft Throughout the Ages students awarded scholarships, prizes Vostok 1 BY ADRIAN MONROY st -1 Human in space Dragon @iammanr0y st -1 Lanch: 1961 -Currently used to -Flight time: 108 min. Scholarships and raffl e Soyuz resupply ISS You’reYou’re pprobablyprr -Crew Size: 1 nd -1st Launch: 1967 -2 version, Dragon prizes were awarded at the Apollo 11 -Newer iteration used MK2 to begin use in fi rst ever First-Generation going to fail as -1st Moon Landing in modern times near future Scholarship Luncheon on -1st Launch: 1969 Wednesday in the Student much as you -Flight time: 8 days Union Ballroom. - Crew size: 3 Th e event was hosted by succeed GENERATE, a program at San Jose State University that “ helps fi rst-generation college students. Jose Lopez, Speeches, free food, a Keynote speaker and fi lm and resource fair tables an alumnusnnusus of San JoJosJoses were also part of the event. Amanda Aldama, the State UniversityUniversity program coordinator, was Skylab one of the hosts of the event -First American Space Station and said the purpose of the -Launched in 1973 luncheon was to support Aff airs Renee Barnett Terry. -Manned for 171 days fi rst-generation college stu- “You are put in this world -2746 revolutions around earth dents by helping them con- with wings, so why crawl in nect with various resources this life?” Terry said, quoting on campus. Rumi, the” 13th century Per- “So many fi rst-generation sian poet, during her talk. students go through their Th is luncheon is planned experience feeling like they to take place every year. are alone or disconnected,” “I think that this is a Aldama said. “So the pur- great start and a beginning pose of today is to really be of what I hope will become like, ‘No you’re not alone.’ a tradition on the campus in Th ere are so many of us that which we bring together not are going through the same only the students, but also journey with you and here to our faculty, staff , commu- support you and really help nity to help support these everyone have a successful students in their success,” International Space Station (ISS) college experience.” Terry said. - In orbit since Nov 1, 2000 Aldama said more than A performance by the - Has been visited by 215 individuals half of the incoming fresh- Groupo Folklorico Luna y - Serves as orbiting laboratory and space man and transfer students Sol de San Jose State came port for international astronauts are fi rst-generation college aft er Terry’s speech. students . Th e keynote speaker for Some students signed up this luncheon was Jose Lo- for this luncheon in advance pez, an alumnus of SJSU. and in order to get food, stu- “You’re probably going dents were given a sheet that to fail as much as you suc- had to be signed by fi ve peo- ceed,” Lopez said. ple who were in charge of the A short fi lm was shown at resource fair tables. the event before the scholar- If students visited all 24 ship presentation. tables, they had a chance to Five students were award- win a prize. ed a scholarship. Some of the departments One of the winners was that set up tables, were an- Rigoberto Garcia, a graduate thropology, fi nancial aid, ac- student in the Mexican-Amer- ademic advising, several key ican Studies program. resources and diff erent col- Garcia described his feel- leges on campus. ings when he was called up Th e event started off with to the stage. Smaller objects shown for scale a welcome from Aldama and “It’s always nice to be Evelyn Ramos, another host recognized for the struggles of this event. Ramos works at that you had in life,” Garcia the Career Center. said. Hyon Chu Yi-Baker, di- Donations for the rector of the Mosaic Cross First-Generation Scholar- Cultural Center, was anoth- ship Fund are always being er host. accepted. INFOGRAPHIC BY JEREMY CUMMINGS Information compiled from: braeunig.us, airandspace.si.edu, astronautix.com, history.nasa.gov, spacex.com Th is was followed by a Adrian Monroy is a welcome from the Interim Spartan Daily staff writer. SEE FULL COVERAGE ON AEROSPACE STUDENTS AT SPARTANDAILY.COM Vice President for Student 2 TECH Th ursday, February 26, 2015 Robotics team reaches midpoint in NASA rover competition BY ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ down because of those last sions, relegating existing @Abe_Rodriguezzz couple of parts,” Estell said. designs back to the draw- “Once we have those we are ing board. Th e task was clear: build pretty much ready to go.” “For the mechanical a fully functioning rover to Estell is the club’s pres- team, all the deadlines compete at NASA. ident and project lead. He are mainly having things But months aft er design doubles as the Soft ware constructed already,” Mati and testing, the Robotics and Computer Engineering said. Club at San Jose State still Society’s president, which Th e entire manufac- has major hurdles to over- currently houses the Robot- turing, designing and en- come. ics Club aft er having lost its gineering process is done Sponsored by NASA club room early last year. in-house by students with and the National Institute SJSU’s rover, called Lab- guidance provided by ad- of Aerospace, the “Revolu- rador 1, is a six-wheeled visors. tionary Aerospace Systems remote-controlled vehicle Mati said certain shop Concepts Academic Link- equipped with a manipu- rooms are only open for a age” Robo-Ops competition lator arm called a “univer- certain amount of time, so pits eight universities from sal gripper.” Th e gripper is getting work done when Abraham Rodriguez | Spartan Daily across the U.S. to compete at attached to the end of the the project members are Mechanical engineer Giann Peñalba drills holes into Labrador 1’s leg John Space Center in Texas. rover’s arm and sucks up available rarely happens. assembly. Labrador 1 is SJSU Robotics Club’s all terrain rover. Each rover will have to nav- samples using a vacuum. “Th e biggest thing that igate a simulated Martian Samples are then ab- needs to be done is actu- landscape, collect samples sorbed and cushioned by ally fi nishing the physical and complete the course in a balloon-like membrane rover and having it built,” Read more Tech articles online under an hour. that forms a soft mold Mati said. Engineering heavy around the sample. Th e arm is designed at SpartanDaily.com weights like MIT, Virginia Th e arm then moves the using 3-D soft ware, taken This week: Tech and the University of sample over a release bas- to a computer lab where Maryland are competing ket, infl ating the membrane the blueprints are sent to a in the contest. CSU Long and releasing it into the bas- printer where it prints the Lick Observatory recieves $1 Th e Nymi Band turns users’ Beach was also admitted ket. object using plastic-like million donation from Google heart rate into a password into the competition along- Labrador 1 is controlled material. side SJSU, bringing two remotely. While the rover Following a 15-hour public universities from will have to be transported build time, mechanical IT Services upgrades Wi-Fi RefMe app takes page citing California into the fray. to the space center in Hous- engineer and arm design on Campus to a whole new level Before they can get to ton, the team at SJSU will lead Andy Bru was disap- Houston, the SJSU team control the rover via mobile pointed to fi nd the motor still needs to have a func- Internet connection. Th e controllers on the arm did tioning rover. control apparatus uses web- not clear the predesigned Open Data Day Hack San Jose brings Highlighted in the based applications with a casings. mid-project report to joystick. “We’re actually sur- hackathons for civic improvement NASA, project lead Khalil Rocely Mati, the club’s prised we were this far Estell talked about the dif- treasurer and mechanical off ,” Bru said. BY STACY TORRES position for San Jose to be up with ideas to improve fi culties in getting the rov- project lead, said the biggest Th e club was awarded a @Stacy_Towers able to focus on doing some the Digital Collections da- er built.