>> Jorgette Grosso: I like the
fact that it was a challenge.
That's what I liked
most about it.
It's common -- it's very common
actually for me to be here late
at night, 10:00 at night, 11:00.
I'm very okay with it.
For some reason, I don't know
why, I like to torture myself.
[Background Music] I'm Jorgette
Grosso, and I'm from Boonton,
New Jersey, and my major is
a Bachelors in Electronics
and Computer Engineering
Technology.
There is a big stereotype that
women can't do math, or can't,
you know, work with
high tech stuff.
But I've taken the hardest
level math course in this --
that this school
offers, and I'm here
to attest that that's not true.
In this major, basically
with the computers,
we do a lot of digital
programming.
Without them we'll do basic
circuitry design, and actual --
actually building circuits.
>> [Inaudible].
>> Yep, the number of
pixels that it's seeing
so that we will be able to judge
how far away the object is.
This major is definitely a
mix between theory and lab --
one hour of theory and
three hours of lab.
That's why I liked it.
That's why I came here.
I learn a lot better doing.
My project is an autonomous
color tracking robot.
Autonomous meaning that it
doesn't have a remote control.
Nothing is controlling
it except for itself.
Color tracking basically
will follow a specific color
that you choose, in
this case I chose red.
And then robot is just the,
you know, thing that goes along
with it is working on its own.
It was a previous
student's project that I took
and just improved -- made,
you know, made it better.
It has a camera right
in the front of it
that actually does track colors.
It takes JPEG pictures very,
very quickly, actually.
It has its own microcontroller
right on it,
so basically it'll just send
to the other microcontroller
that I have on here how many
pixels of that color that I see.
And then that other
microcontroller just controls
the wheels basically.
Had to make a bunch of I guess
you could call it contingency
plans -- what to
do if this happens,
what to do if that happens.
Running into objects was
also a problem which I fixed
and added sensors to it so
it wouldn't do that anymore.
My professors did tell me
that it was very well done.
Over winter break, I reverse
engineered the existing robot
that they had.
The reward for completing
this major I think is having
job security.
And I actually do have a job,
you know, for after I graduate.
The position that I got is a
System Application Engineer.
I wouldn't be able to do that
job without being here first,
so they are relying
on the skills
that I learned here
to do the job.
I'm very, very happy
that I got it.
Definitely another
challenge conquered.
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