{"id":25947,"date":"2018-06-11T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25947"},"modified":"2018-06-11T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T22:51:21","slug":"high-school-students-jump-into-life-size-super-mario-experience-at-apsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/06\/11\/high-school-students-jump-into-life-size-super-mario-experience-at-apsu\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students jump into life-size Super Mario experience at APSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin Peay State University<\/h2>\n

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – High school students are getting a Super Mario Bros.-sized treat this summer at Google-sponsored coding camps at Austin Peay State University.<\/p>\n

The College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, has put up a life-sized set that depicts the first level of Nintendo\u2019s 1985 classic Super Mario Bros. And it\u2019s interactive, allowing students to run, jump and bash through the game, complete with boing, ping and slide sound effects.<\/p>\n

\"Google-sponsored<\/a>

Google-sponsored coding camps at Austin Peay State University run through June.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Josh Allen, a recent physics graduate from the APSU Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy, envisioned the set, and Jonathan Bunton, also a recent physics graduate, led the programming.<\/p>\n

They and other members of the astronomy and physics club Del Square Pi built the set at last October\u2019s Greater Halloween Options for Safe Trick-or-treating at APSU. The club also rolled out the set at November\u2019s Science Fiction & Fantasy Expo at Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library and April\u2019s Month of the Military Child at Fort Campbell.<\/p>\n

Families at those events enjoyed the set so much that STEM\u2019s interim dean, Dr. Karen Meisch, asked the college\u2019s lab manager Bryan Gaither to rebuild it for the Google camps.<\/p>\n

\"Life-sized<\/a>

Life-sized set of Nintendo\u2019s 1985 classic Super Mario Bros allows students to run, jump and bash through the game.<\/p><\/div>\n

The set comprises six panels the club needed to paint, a trampoline, a pole, some wiring and a small, hand-built computer to operate the interactive features from the game: a Goomba, a pipe, three blocks and a stage-ending flag pole.<\/p>\n

The Raspberry Pi computer behind the set and its Python coding is where the magic lies for this summer\u2019s Google camp students.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018This is even cooler than seeing what\u2019s out front,\u2019\u201d said Bunton, who will start his graduate work at UCLA later this summer.<\/p>\n

Added Allen, who\u2019ll start his graduate work at Vanderbilt: \u201cWe\u2019ve only ever set this up for little kids, which is awesome, but with the high school kids, we\u2019re like, \u2018Look behind it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The Google-sponsored coding camps run through June.<\/p>\n

Visit www.apsu.edu\/csci\/camp\/<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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