Carnegie Mellon University

High school (ages 12+)
Making & Design

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/carnegie-mellon-university

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the founding year?1900
2. What is the merger year?1967
3. Why is Carnegie Mellon known for robots and AI?It has strong engineering and computer science programs that help make robots and teach computers to think.
4. Where can students study at Carnegie Mellon?The main campus is in Pittsburgh, but there are also campuses in Qatar, Rwanda, Silicon Valley, and many other places around the world.

Interdisciplinary: Involving or bringing together different academic subjects or fields of study.
Pioneering: Developing or being the first to do something in a particular field.
Human-Computer Interaction: The study of how people interact with computers and technology.