South By South West (SXSW) is now a week over. Imagine, 20000 people at a 5 day party in a two mile radius around the Austin Convention Center. Oh, and there are a few hundred panels, discussions and speaker sessions …
Continue ReadingOur final look at the teams in the MoonBots Challenge takes us to a state steeped in transportation tradition, Michigan. From steamships to railroads to automobiles, The Great Lakes State has played an important role in moving people. And now, …
Continue ReadingThis post is a continuation of my series of profiles for teams competing in the MoonBots educational competition. In brief, MoonBots challenges teams of students (aged 9-18, with adult ‘team captains’) to essentially mimic the requirements of the $30,000,000 Google …
Continue ReadingThis is a guest post by Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X Prize Foundation. Over the weekend, I provided a quick introduction for myself, the X Prize Foundation, and the MoonBots educational competition as part of …
Continue ReadingThis is a guest post by Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X Prize Foundation. By way of quick introduction, I am not yet a dad, but I am most certainly a geek — earning a degree …
Continue ReadingRecently, the MoonBots Challenge announced its final field of 20 teams, down from more than 200 who initially entered the competition. The teams entering the second phase of the challenge hail from 13 different states, South Africa and Belgium. All …
Continue ReadingJust a reminder to all of our GeekDad LEGO, space and robotic-minded readers: the registration deadline for participating in the first MoonBots Challenge is coming up in just a few days. Registration is easy and just takes a couple minutes …
Continue ReadingIt’s been about three weeks since the MoonBots Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO MINDSTORMS Challenge was announced and registrations continue to pour in. About 40 teams have submitted applications, with the bulk of applications coming from the United States. (Come …
Continue ReadingLadies and gentlegeeks, gather around, because today is a special day. Down Texas way — specifically at the NI Week conference in Austin — a number of very cool companies, and one geeky blog, are pleased to announce an exciting …
Continue ReadingAs Ken pointed out the other day, GeekDad has been fortunate enough to land some early LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kits. At our house, we’re big LEGO supporters, but we’re NXT noobs; our kids have been too young to delve …
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