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   7 ## What is challenge-bot?
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   9 The [challenge-bot](http://goo.gl/fHGKyO) course is an 8-hour long
  10  course where we walk you through the process of building your own
  11  robot, which you will keep. The goal of this class is to teach you the
  12  basics of robotics, get you excited about making stuff, and empower you
  13  to go out and create new robotics projects on your own after the class.
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  15 ## Team
  16
  17 ### Daniel Watson
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  19 <img class="person" alt="danny" src="/images/danny.png"/>
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  21 Daniel simulated a self driving car in a massive online class a few
  22  years ago.  Since then he has worked towards making this happen in the
  23  real world.  Along the way, he has learned a great deal about
  24  electronics, and mechanics.  He now has a very solid understanding of
  25  a very basic robot.
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  27 He rock climbs, and makes robots.
  28
  29 ### Erin Bennett
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  31 <img class="person" alt="erin" src="/images/erin.png"/>
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  33 Erin learned to program in a Linguistics class, where she explored text
  34  corpora and drew pictures of finite state machines. A few years later
  35  while programming a remote-controlled robot, she implemented her first
  36  finite state machine. She was so happy, she made up a song about it.
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  38 She enjoys spending her time juggling, sleeping, drawing, designing
  39  webpages, putting together robots, and making computational models of
  40  cognition and language.
  41
  42 ## Contact Us
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  44 For more information or to sign up for classes, contact
  45  [Daniel Watson](mailto:ozzloy@gmail.com).