Education

Starbot – Miami’s Robotics HQ

January 27, 2011
Students Make Awesome Things at Starbot in Miami!

Starbot is pretty much the nerve center of robotics in South Florida. It’s a center that focuses on enabling high schoolers to create whatever they can imagine. Though it’s usually robots, I’ve seen student work on go-karts, R/C cars, art projects, and even a camera dolly (ok, that was me during some down time). An [...]

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The President Never Misses a Chance to See Cool Robots

October 24, 2010
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‎”I never miss a chance to see cool robots”-President Obama Above is a video of a speech the President gave during the White House’s Science Fair. In attendance were the Mythbusters Adam and Jamie and Bill Nye the Science Guy (it seemed like a sequel to the Preisdent’s STEM speech). Some interesting highlights: Obama said [...]

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Twitter’s 4.005th Birthday and a Cool Video

March 23, 2010

Twitter celebrated its 4th birthday this past Sunday (March 21). Look at the first Tweet here. Summer of 2008 I was able to interview Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter. I’m sure today he wouldn’t have time to sit down with some college kids in the Twitter HQ, so I was lucky I [...]

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Underwater Robot Testing

March 13, 2010

Underwater Robot Test Run from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. Today 16 of the above underwater robots are going to be built by 6th graders, mentored by seniors. The robots have a waterproof camera that goes up to a laptop, so you can explore the ocean. The robots are being built in preparation for BioBlitz in Biscayne National [...]

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Going to the Moon or Grounded on Earth?

February 5, 2010

Check out this video on saving NASA’s Constellation program and Ares rocket (the program that was going to replace the Space Shuttle and take us back to the moon, and then Mars). In his proposed budget Obama wants to raise NASA funding by about 2%, but cut the Constellation program (and basically manned space flight), [...]

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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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Obama Supports Bots High (Sort Of)

November 23, 2009

Earlier this morning President Obama gave a speech pushing for better STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education in middle and high school. Well if you’re looking for a documentary about all of that then look no further because that’s what Bots High is all about. The MythBusters were in attendance (way cool!) and the [...]

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