[ November 10,2011;5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Team Duct Tape was honored to be selected to represent FIRST Tech Challenge at this week’s Elliott Masie Learning 2011 Conference in Orlando. TDT students joined Exploding Bacon’s FRC team and FLL Team Party Boss in a fantastic day that included an opportunity to meet with FIRST founder Dean Kamen,in the morning,along with [...] [...]
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From PC Magazine:The special pairs robotics legend Dean Kamen—who also founded FIRST,an organization devoted to pushing kids to science,technology,engineering and math (STEM) fields of research—with Will.i.am,supposedly still Intel’s director of creative innovation and a robotics builder in his own right. The back-to-school special was filmed during the FIRST Championship 2011 so it [...] [...] Dean Kamen with FIRST LEGO League students Dean Kamen writes,in the Huffington Post,“Two decades ago,I founded FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology),a program that encouraged students to pursue careers in science and technology through robotics competitions. At that time,not many people believed that we could [...] [...] From US FIRST:MANCHESTER,N.H.,Sept. 13,2010,5 p.m. Eastern ― FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology),an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology,officially launched its 2010 FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC®) season with an online Kickoff event unveiling this year’s [...] [...] Graph of TDT Design Progress A few of our Team Duct Tape members remembered this graph of “The Dark Night of the Innovator”shared by FIRST founder Dean Kamen,when he was the keynote speaker at a PTC Users World Event they attended a couple of years ago. And all of them felt their robot design [...] [...] As reported in Saving the World…Through Technology,FIRST founder Dean Kamen delivered the commencement address to University of Arizona graduates on Saturday,appealing to them to join the effort to make “science and technology fields as appealing to America’s youth as the sports and entertainment industries.”From the University of Arizona article (http://uanews.org/node/25722):______________________________ Kamen believes that the [...] [...] |    Visit Florida FTC on  | |||||
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