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Kansas State University achievements
2008 Judging teams
* The K-State Collegiate Crops Team placed second at both the Kansas City Board of Trade Collegiate Crops Contest and the Chicago Collegiate Crops Contest, both national competitions. The K-State team placed second in grain grading and in plant and seed identification, and fourth in seed analysis in the Nov. 18 competition at Kansas City. The team placed second in all three phases of the Nov. 22 contest in Chicago. December 2008
* For the second consecutive year, the K-State robotics team took first place in the Student Robotics Competition at the national convention of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. This year's competition, in July, was in Providence, R.I. Faculty adviser to the K-State team is Naiqian Zhang, professor of biological and agricultural engineering. The competition challenged the teams to build and program an automated robot or robots to harvest a simulated forest that included harvestable and un-harvestable trees. The robot or robots had five minutes to harvest the good trees only. The K-State team built two robots, a harvester and a dumper. K-State also won the first place at the inaugural Student Robotics Competition/Demonstration at the 2007 convention of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. October 2008
* A graduate student team from K-State was first in the team sprayer calibration event and was the third place overall graduate team at the North Central Weed Science Society Collegiate Weed Science Contest, Aug. 14, in Carlyle, Ill. Team members, all graduate students in agronomy and all from Manhattan, included Joy Abit, John Frihauf, Meshack Ndou and Haydee Ramirez. Anita Dille, associate professor, and Dallas Peterson, professor, from K-State's department of agronomy, coached the team. SGS Alvey Ag Research, a contract research company in Carlyle, hosted the contest. August 2008
* The K-State Soil Judging Team won first place overall at the 2008 National Soil Judging Contest. It is the first time K-State has won the national contest. The event was hosted by the University of Rhode Island and had 21 teams competing. The team is coached by Mickey Ransom, professor of agronomy. Team members, all agronomy majors, who placed individually in the competition include Leah Ferdinand, second place; Paul Hartley, sixth place; Ryan Cyr, 14th place; and Adam Heitman, 20th place. May 2008