I read a great video blog by Wall Street Journal — Andy Jordan reports on the robot-building tournament. See the final competition below or at WSJ site: Video
For a complete listing of awards, match results and scholarship winners, please visit FIRST online at www.usfirst.org and click on the “FIRST Championship 08” headline.
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2008 FIRST Championship
Robotics Competition in NYC: April 4th-6th 2008
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) helps high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be. See details @ http://www.usfirst.org/: Dates: 4/4/2008 – 4/6/2008 View the 64 teams registered for this event
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March 11th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Bill Gates Career Question
Bill Gates recently posted an interesting question: How to encourage young people to pursue careers in science and technology?
I believe that we can start by having the cartoons that little kids watch on TV portray engineers and scientists as heroes rather than villains and nerds as it’s done. There’s a disconnect between media and reality [...]