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The zany story of two self ordained sports science entrepreneurs
By David Epstein and George Dohrmann, Sports Illustrated and CNN, January 29th, 2013
On the two nights before the Jan. 9, 2012, BCS national championship game, a handful of Alabama players in crimson and gray sweats made their way to room 612 in the New Orleans Marriott. A few brought family members, but most arrived in clusters with teammates. They came in search of an edge....
Tech mate! DUMBO’s tech incubators hatch the next generation of boro entrepreneurs
By Eli Rosenberg, Courier Life's Brooklyn Daily, January 25th, 2013
Forget storks, this is where techies come from. DUMBO’s future tech titans are working together in a handful of incubators — co-working spaces for new start-up companies — which have become nurturing nests of innovation in Brooklyn’s lauded Tech Triangle. The NYU-Poly...
Tech babies! Brooklyn’s tech triangle is real
By Eli Rosenberg, The Brooklyn Paper, January 25th, 2013
It’s no secret that there is greatness among us here in Brooklyn, and for the tech world, DUMBO is our epicenter of excellence. One manifestation of this micro-boom taking root down under the bridges is a clutch of co-working spaces known as incubators, where start-up companies get a couple...
STEM Education's National Moment
By Ben Esner, Huffington Post, January 23rd, 2013
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) hosted 400 students on its downtown Brooklyn campus. It's of course not unusual for a university to invite young people to its campus; only, these students were 9 to 14 year olds. They came with parents,...
STEM Education's National Moment
By Ben Esner, Huffington Post, January 23rd, 2013
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) hosted 400 students on its downtown Brooklyn campus. It's of course not unusual for a university to invite young people to its campus; only, these students were 9 to 14 year olds. They came with parents,...
Lego-mania! Lego robots duke it out Downtown
By Eli Rosenberg, Courier Life's Brooklyn Daily, January 18th, 2013
Forget playing with pirate ships, kids these days prefer making robots out of Legos — and are forgoing weekend soccer for building-block battles. More than 400 elementary and middle school students built working robots with the popular toy that some teachers use as learning tools, then...
Local School Places in LEGO Robot Competition
By Caitlin Nolan, Ditmas Park Patch, January 17th, 2013
Children from all corners of Brooklyn came together last weekend to compete in a day of engineering challenges by building LEGO-based robots to complete tasks modeled after real-life technological challenges. At the 13th annual FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Brooklyn Qualifier, 42 teams gathered at the...
Fort Greene, Clinton Hill Schools Place in LEGO Robot Competition
By Caitlin Nolan, Fort Greene - Clinton Hill Patch, January 17th, 2013
Children from all corners of Brooklyn came together last weekend to compete in a day of engineering challenges by building LEGO-based robots to complete tasks modeled after real-life technological challenges. At the 13th annual FIRST LEGO League Brooklyn Qualifier, 42 teams gathered at the...
NYC Grade Schools Compete in Lego Robot Competition
Technoverse Blog, January 15th, 2013
I couldn’t make it to MetroTech Center on Saturday to witness the FIRST Lego League Brooklyn Qualifier. But friends of TvB were there to let us know what happened. In case you haven’t considered Lego building blocks in a good long time, they’ve since been mechanized with gears and...
Youth Lego Robot Competition Focuses on Solutions for Seniors
By Jesse Lent, DNAinfo.com, January 13th, 2013
BROOKLYN — They aren’t your grandmother’s robots, but these kids sure would like them to be. More than 400 robot-building students from around the city confronted the challenge of building a functioning machine that would improve the lives of senior citizens, at a qualifying...
