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The Purple Gears – Cranking Out Innovation By Kim Wierman How do you lift batons from a vertical dispenser without using your hands? If you’re the Purple Gears, a seven student team from Raleigh, N.C., taking part in this year’s FIRST Tech Challenge, you design, build and apply to patent a foldable forklift. Team 2901 [...]
Jon Dudas was director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 2005-2009. Afterward, while working as a partner in a private D.C. law firm, famed U.S. inventor Dean Kamen made Dudas an offer he couldn’t refuse – take over as president of FIRST or For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, an international [...]
A special guest appears tonight on Got Invention Radio – Jon Dudas. The former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is the president of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an international robotics competition that encourages students to pursue technology and engineering careers. Listen and chat live with him tonight on Got [...]
The FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award is designed to get FLL teams excited about further developing their “Body Forward Projects.” The deadline for online voting for the teams has been extended to 5 p.m. EST, March 18. Click on the name of a FIRST LEGO League team in the shaded box on the left of [...]
