{"id":562990,"date":"2021-11-15T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?post_type=news&p=562990"},"modified":"2021-11-15T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:07:05","slug":"ralph-etienne-cummings-mentors-seychelles-to-top-20-finish-at-first-global-robotic-challenge-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/ralph-etienne-cummings-mentors-seychelles-to-top-20-finish-at-first-global-robotic-challenge-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Etienne-Cummings mentors Seychelles to top 20 finish at First Global Robotic Challenge 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Click here<\/strong><\/a> to read more about Team Seychelles’ achievement at FGC 2021 as reported in Seychelles Nation by Elsie Pointe.<\/p>\n

After scoring its best ever finish at First Global Challenge (FGC) in 2020<\/a> by coming in 44th, Team Seychelles – which is mentored by ECE Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings<\/a> – raised its standards even higher by placing 17th at the 2021 iteration of the competition. The group also secured a silver medal by earning second place in the competition’s solution challenge.<\/p>\n

FGC is a yearly international robotics challenge that aims to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) among the more than two billion youths across the world. Etienne-Cummings, who is from Seychelles, has been involved with the team as a mentor for multiple years, but this past year he was able to be more involved while living in the country during his sabbatical.<\/p>\n

“I am very proud of the team, which is composed of students from both public and private schools, as well as from elementary\/middle schools and high schools,” Etienne-Cummings said. “There are some remarkable student leaders in this group. They worked hard, interfaced with a variety of communities and executed their project with aplomb!”<\/p>\n

The team’s performance in 2021 continues the group’s rise in the rankings on a yearly basis. The group finished in 126th place in 2018, and has improved their ranking each year since.<\/p>\n

This is not the only way Etienne-Cummings has aimed to give back to his home country. In addition to developing technology to automatically measure and log COVID contacts in Seychelles’ population, Etienne-Cummings has been passionate about and active in pushing STEM initiatives in Seychelles, particularly in education. He has engaged with K – 12 students numerous times, presenting lectures on AI and robotics, as well as discussing opportunities for higher education in the United States. Etienne-Cummings has also worked with the ECE department about organizing and creating a 3D printing facility in Seychelles that can be used for both education and commercial prototyping.<\/p>\n

“During my sabbatical, I was able to do all of this in person,” Etienne-Cummings said. “It was a very rewarding experience and I continue to help where I can.”<\/p>\n

Click here<\/strong><\/a> to read more about Team Seychelles’ achievement at FGC 2021 as reported in Seychelles Nation by Elsie Pointe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-562990","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRalph Etienne-Cummings mentors Seychelles to top 20 finish at First Global Robotic Challenge 2021 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/ralph-etienne-cummings-mentors-seychelles-to-top-20-finish-at-first-global-robotic-challenge-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ralph Etienne-Cummings mentors Seychelles to top 20 finish at First Global Robotic Challenge 2021 - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Click here to read more about Team Seychelles’ achievement at FGC 2021 as reported in Seychelles Nation by Elsie Pointe. 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