Random UMD Facts
Clark School
BTX: The Foundation
Black Excellence
Misc.
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This campus resource is committed to the recruitment, retention, development, and graduation of underrepresented minority pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate students in engineering.

What is the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering?

100

The full name of who the engineering school at UMD is named after?  

Who is A. James Clark. 

100

The three E's in order. 

What is Empower. Engineer. Exceed?

100

Barack Obama is this number president of the United States 

What is 44th? 

100

These two words are represented by the shorthand term R&B

What is Rhythm and Blues? 

200

This UMD tradition is something that students take part in when seeking good luck before exams.

What is rubbing testudo's nose?

200

The smallest clark school major 

What is Fire Protection Engineering? 

200

BTX's Founders Day 

What is February 24, 2020? 

200
First Black woman to enter space 

Who is Mae Jemison? 

200

UMD's Course Code in which Blacktronix was officially formed.

What is ENME350? 

300

The number of Testudo statues around campus

What is seven? 

300

The course code for an engineering course that every engineering student takes at UMD. 

What is ENES100? 

300

These three board members are on the cover of the BTX Foundation website.

Who are Marcus, Dania, and Kelsey. 

300

Name of the creator of the BTX Foundation's Logo

Who is Aleah McWilliams? 

300

In the color purple, how long did Sofia have to fight? 

What is all her life? 

400

This spot on campus is supposedly cursed — if you step on it, you won’t graduate in four years.

What is the Point of Failure? 

400

Located in Clark Hall,  this 90% undergraduate student-run operation provides rapid prototyping, advanced manufacturing, and digital design resources as a service to the campus and surrounding community.

What is Terrapin Works?

400
The two winners of the BTX Legacy Award 

Who are Paul Brown-Taylor and Racheal Ssentongo?

 

400

The first African American Graduate Student admitted to UMD (Hint: They renamed a building after him in 2015.)

Who is Parren James Mitchel?

400

Two rappers that headline UMD Art Attack in 2014 AND one rapper that headlined UMD Art Attack in 2017. 

Who are Wale & Big Sean and 2 Chainz?

500

This national landmark can be seen from the top of Maryland Stadium

What is the Washington Monument?

500

This lab simulates the conditions of space and is the only facility of its kind on a university campus.

What is the neutral buoyancy lab?

500

The three part mission of the BTX Foundation. 

What is Provide support for underrepresented minorities in the field of Engineering

2) Ease some of the financial burdens undergraduate students face

3) Help strengthen the engineering community through encouragement of collaboration, well-roundedness and academic excellence

500

The first black woman elected to United States Congress, the first black candidate or a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

Who is Shirley Chisholm?

500

Name of all BTX Board Members in alphabetical order by last name 

Who are: 

Eliab Ayichluhim, Marcus Davis, Kelsey Earle, Tomi Falodun, Chariah Ghee, Cillisha Knights, Dominick Littleton, Dania Morris, Darien Strachan or 

Eliab, Marcus, Tomi, Kelsey, Chariah, Cillisha, Dom, Dania, Darien