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From Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy blog:
PITTSBURGH—A new four-year, $7 million educational initiative by Carnegie Mellon University will leverage students’ innate interest in robots and other forms of “hard fun” to increase U.S. enrollments in computer science and steer more young people into scientific and technological careers.
The initiative, called Fostering Innovation through Robotics Exploration (FIRE), is [...]

Ken Johnson reports, on his FTC blog, on some ”behind the scenes” work for the new season:
“We’ve now produced 2,500 Samantha WiFi modules and they are in transit to PITSCO/LEGO for inclusion in the new kits! As a reminder these are being provided free of charge thanks to the generous donation of time and money from John [...]

It works!
Campers are catching on fast to programming and build principles in TDTs 2010 LEGO Engineering summer camp. Even
New programmer
 students who have never programmed before are captivated by NXT G, and today enjoyed learning the magic of loops. In our build class, levers got a good work out,  and some pretty sturdy looking attachments have been [...]

[ June 28, 2010 to July 2, 2010. ] TDT 2009 LEGO robotics campers TDT is hosting our 2010 LEGO Robotics Summer Camp in Odessa, this week, and looking forward to showing a new crop of students a new way to play and learn with LEGOs!

iRobot has launched a new robotics education portal at http://ow.ly/pxSn . Two sections: Educational Resources and Cool Stuff, both take you to some pretty cool stuff!
The Educational Resources section serves  iRobot’s committment to “supporting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education in schools. By using robots, students have fun, teachers get to teach in new [...]

Watching the Kick Off video with FL teams at the Orange County Extension Service in Orlando
Team Duct Tape joined 11 other teams from around Florida, on Saturday, to watch the new season  FL FTC Live  Kick-off event that included an early look at the Hot Shot! game video, and an opportunity to examine the new [...]

Another new area FIRST LEGO League team, Brick Buddies, has come together in the Odessa area. Team Duct Tape will be providing mentoring assistance to this new team, as well as to FLL Team 3519 , which is also hosting Jr. FLL Team  23.
Congratulations to all our new area teams!  We’re really looking forward to [...]

Saw this tidbit on a National Instruments FIRST tweet - From the New York Times, the Most Lucrative College Majors all have math skills in common. The story includes a great list of the top fifteen engineering fields by pay (tops is “Petroleum Engineering”):
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Math majors don’t always get much respect on [...]