My name is Elizabeth Childs and I am a mechanical engineer at the University of Maryland. Last summer I worked under Dr. Johnathan Hurst in the Robotics department at Oregon State University and am excited to work with Phnom Penh Institute of Technology. Outside of research and academics, I enjoy everything outdoors including hiking and camping, cooking, meeting new people, and experiencing new things.

This summer I will be working to create a small snake robot to get into places the current EOD robot cannot reach. Currently, the dense vegetation of the region needs to be cleared in order to find and excavate ordinances. This is a very time consuming process. For this reason, the snake robot project was created to navigate in dense underbrush, making ordinance removal faster and less obtrusive to the environment.

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