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Saturday, September 2 • 9:30am - 10:30am
Education Workshop - Build a Robot LIMITED

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Limited Capacity seats available
Informal learners will interact with a demo that utilizes a skull and/or robot head and raspberry pi that has been used to create a talking head that has the same functionality as Amazon’s Alexa. This exhibit could also include a workshop element during which learners code their own robot and take the code home on an SD card.
Take-aways: How to problem solve using technology, programming, and imagination
Class size is limited to 15 participants, grades 8 and up only
Parents, please come and join your children for the fun!

Moderators
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Dr. Henry Winter

Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Dr. Winter is an astrophysicist working for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Dr. Winter has worked on eight NASA missions observing the Sun with varied duties such as designing optics, analyzing complex data... Read More →

Volunteers
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Jessica Paul

Director of Education and Outreach, Museum of Science Fiction
Jessica is an English/Language Arts special education teacher in Lafayette, Louisiana. Jessica strongly believes in teaching the whole child and is passionate about differentiation in education. As an educator and life long lover of all things Sci-Fi, she is thrilled to be able to... Read More →
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Santha Walters

Classroom Teacher, Bellevue Public Schools
Santha Walters is an 8th Grade Language Arts Teacher and the Building Technology Coordinator for Logan Fontenelle Middle School. Her school is located within a technology-based district, and thus she has advocated for and helped implement STEM education into the standard curriculum... Read More →
Saturday September 2, 2017 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
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