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In the summer of 2005, MIT purchased Machine Science kits for its long-running Minority Introduction to Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Science (MITE2S) program. Every summer, students from all over the country come to MIT for this intensive, six-week residential program. This year, the MITE2S students used Machine Scienceâ€™s kits to build robots for the programâ€™s much-anticipated engineering design competition at the end of the six-week period. MIT chose the Machine Science kits so that the MITE2S students could build more advanced robots than in past years. These robots had to operate in remote-controlled and autonomous modes, negotiate a maze, deposit plastic balls in a target holes, and push a rod up an incline. The MITE2S students did an amazing job, designing and building their robots in a very short time period!