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In 1959, Elaine Johnson Coates became the first African American woman to complete her undergraduate degree at Maryland. She went on to a long career in teaching and social work.

An engineer who graduated from UMD invented the UPC barcode that’s on every product we buy.

Engineering students every year build a canoe out of concrete and take it out onto the water for a national competition. Yes, it floats!

UMD has 19 varsity teams: 11 for women and eight for men.

UMD has won 46 national athletics championships, including five since the Terps joined the Big Ten in 2014-15.

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“Diary of a Wimpy Kid” author Jeff Kinney, TV news host Gayle King and Super Bowl champion Torrey Smith are all graduates of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

UMD alum Munro Leaf wrote the famous children’s book “Ferdinand the Bull.” Disney adapted it into a short film in 1938, and a full-length movie came out in 2017.

When Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from UMD in 1960, he was already a local TV star. He hosted a short puppet show twice a day featuring a character named ... Kermit.

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UMD tests robots for space by sending them underwater in the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility. It’s the largest lab of its kind on any university campus.

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The University of Maryland is one of only two schools to win a national championship in both men’s and women’s basketball.

UMD engineers created a robotic system that learned to pour drinks and mix salads by watching YouTube.

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Testudo is lost! Help him through the maze to reach McKeldin Library so he can find his friends.

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FILL IN THE BLANKS1 Testudo is a d_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ terrapin.

2 UMD has four official colors, all based on the distinctive Maryland

state flag: r_ _, g_ _ _, w_ _ _ _ and b _ _ _ _.

3 Testudo is L _ _ _ _ for “protective shelter.” Hard shells protect

Maryland Terrapins!

4 The UMD women’s l _ _ _ _ _ _ _ team has won 15 national

championships—more than any school in the country.

5 UMD students designed and built a h _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ called

Gamera powered by the pilot’s arms and legs.

6 UMD scientists are developing safer batteries using an unlikely

material: w_ _ _

7 Most chemical elements in the periodic table are metals. The

most naturally abundant metal found on earth is a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

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FILL IN THE BLANKS8 Do you like to go outside and ride bikes? UMD students are building

e _ _ _ _ _ _ _bicycles that can travel 125 miles on one battery charge!

9 UMD has a herd of dairy cows known as H _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, a breed

of cattle that are large and black and white. Cows drink up to 50

gallons of water and eat 100 pounds of feed a day.

10 Water is necessary for all life, and it’s constantly on the move.

The water cycle carries it from the ground, to bodies of water

(like Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay!) to the atmosphere, where it

condenses into water vapor and makes c _ _ _ _ _.

11 Robotics e _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ have designed a robotic “starfish” with

appendages that curl like a real starfish.

12 UMD students have built robots that fly like ravens, slither like

snakes, swim like fish and scuttle like horseshoe crabs. There’s even

a Robo Terp! What kind of robot would you build? Name it here:

1. Diamondback; 2. Red, Black, White, Gold; 3. Latin; 4. Lacrosse; 5. Hellicopter; 6. Wood; 7. Aluminium; 8. Electric; 9. Holsteins; 10. Clouds; 11. Engineers

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