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Bots High on Huffington Post

September 15, 2011

Larry Bock: Bots High Robotics Documentary – STEM, Gender Gaps, And Future Engineers In High School. Check out the awesome article on Bots High in the Huffington Post!

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Sheryl Sandberg on Women in Engineering

July 9, 2011

One reason there are few female executives in Silicon Valley is that few women become engineers. In the United States, less than twenty per cent of engineering and computer-science majors are women. Girls are said to think that software and video games and computer programming are for guys. “Growing up,” Mark Zuckerberg’s older sister Randi [...]

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Bots High Review in Orlando Sentinel

April 27, 2011

Joey Daoud’s “Bots High” is a winning documentary…The movie lets you root for Will and Elizabeth, kids of different ages with different skill sets at different schools, as they fight and build their way into the Big Tourney. But mainly it lets these teenagers be teenagers; nerdy boys a little too eager to rush to [...]

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Instapaper Long Reads that Make Hospitals Bearable

February 2, 2011

If you have an iPad or iPhone, a must have app is Instapaper. You install a bookmarklet in your browser, and when you come across a long article that you’d rather read on the go, you click your shortcut and Instapaper pulls just the text and sends it to your phone. Even cooler, you can [...]

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Robot Magazine – Full Article

December 21, 2010

It’s off news-stands now, but if you didn’t get to read the four page article on Bots High in Robot magazine, now you can! Download a scan of it below: 4-Page PDF | Page 1 JPG | Page 2 JPG | Page 3 JPG | Page 4 JPG

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Colbert on the End of Space Travel

April 12, 2010

Here’s a clip from Colbert’s piece on Obama announcing the end of the Constellation program, the thing that was supposed to take us back to the moon. You know, that place that we managed to go to 40 years ago before iPads or cellphones or the internet. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / [...]

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More (Steve) Jobs and Ambitions to Become a Disney Animatronic

January 27, 2010

Obama should launch his own moon shot. What the country needs most now is not more government stimulus, but more stimulation. We need to get millions of American kids, not just the geniuses, excited about innovation and entrepreneurship again. We need to make 2010 what Obama should have made 2009: the year of innovation, the [...]

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Nickelodeon Aims to Teach Preschoolers Math

January 12, 2010

“Everybody’s trying to teach preschoolers how to read and nobody is trying to teach them how to do math”… In some ways the new program is standard children’s fare. The main characters are miniature superheroes — a boy, a girl and a break-dancing robot — who zoom about fixing simple crises in their city, whether [...]

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Technology Review: The Year in Robotics

January 9, 2010

In the past year, researchers have developed new robots to tackle a variety of tasks: helping with medical rehabilitation, aiding military maneuvers, mimicking social skills, and grasping the unknown. via Technology Review: The Year in Robotics.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Fighting Robots as Sport [Article]

January 6, 2010

The construction and competition of combat robots is a hobby for all but a select few builders. Robots builders may be middle-aged engineers, or enthusiastic teenagers. Robot building can teach young people a great deal about technology, and some schools use the construction of combat robots in their courses. via Everything You Wanted to Know [...]

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