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Re: USA Science and Engineering Festival - 2010
I went on Sunday and spent most of my time at the RECF/VEX/LM tent. (How can anyone pass up a chance to hang out with Jenny for the day?) It was very impressive with all the future roboteers that came through. (4,000 on Sat, I'm guessing about that number for Sunday too) They had a blast playing robot soccer with the VEX robots.
Lots of kids had on the "I Love Robotics" stickers and were excited about what they had seen. We also had lots of roboteers that were interested in Lego and I sent them "down the street" (go to the big space capsule and turn left) to learn more about FLL,
We also had a batch that knew how to drive the XBox like controller already, they had been down at the ROV tent driving around. Those kids were really excited about that.
I was able to walk around before things got going at 10. The huge numbers of Science related tents was amazing. All the people were jazzed about what was going on and all the stuff to see. In mid afternoon people were saying that they were coming next year for two days so they could see it all. (And I got to meet Bill Nye the Science Guy, almost as cool as hanging out with JVN)
The sponsors of the event should be very proud of what they've done. Thanks Lockheed Martin for your support, I'm guessing we'll have 100's of new roboteers joining us soon.
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