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Student robotics teams and their business benefactors hope to build on momentum – Las Vegas Sun

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Students from Nate Mack Elementary, from left, Chacen Rasavong, Kole Jacobs and Elijah Biddle, were among the Nevada representatives at the 2017 VEX Robotics Worlds competition in Louisville, Ky. inApril.

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A group of Henderson students involved in robotics clubs at their various schools recently competed in a world championship with the help of area businesses.

Students from Greenspun Junior High, Basic Academy of International Studies and Nate Mack Elementary earned spots in the 2017 VEX Robotics Worlds competition in Louisville, Ky., after netting state titles in their respective age divisions earlier this year.

With the clubs being entirely self-funded, the hard part wasnt qualifying for the event it was raising the money to travel the more than 1,800 miles to compete.

The business community in Henderson stepped up, raising $12,500 in a single night at a Henderson Chamber of Commerce event in April in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce Foundations Biz + Bots initiative.

Henderson-based tech company Tronox donated $2,500 and Mayor-elect Debra March donated $1,000, for a total of $16,000 for the night, eclipsing the initial $11,000 goal.

Although the students didnt win, they learned lessons at the competition that could prove more valuable than any trophy.

When the Nate Mack students arrived in Louisville, their robot didnt pass the initial inspection because their robot was an inch too big when open. So the students worked together, rebuilt and reprogrammed the robot overnight and ended up netting the highest score theyve ever registered.

We had some matches that were amazing and strong, and some that did not go in our favor, but throughout it, they did not give up and worked as a team, said Nate Mack Elementary robotics team coach Casey Juliano, who initially reached out to the Chamber of Commerce for fundraising help for the teams.

For the next school year, Juliano will switch from teaching third grade to focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) studies. Nate Mack Elementary will convert its library to a STEM library this summer.

As a result of the success, all three schools will expand their robotics clubs presence next year. The Henderson Chamber of Commerce has adopted the teams and will continue to help raise funds.

These robotics teams are preparing students as young as elementary school for jobs that are currently changing the face of the manufacturing industry, said Scott Muelrath, president and chief executive officer of the Henderson Chamber of Commerce. It absolutely behooves the Henderson Chamber to support our citys future workforce by helping them go as far as they can.

These skills are becoming increasingly sought in Nevada, home of such technology companies as Tesla, Faraday Future and Switch, with additional Google and Apple facilities on the drawing board.

The STEM-related economy is growing faster than the nations economy as a whole, according to Nevada K-12 STEM Pipeline, an article by UNLV College of Education instructors David Vallett and P.G. Schrader. In Nevadas elementary schools, about 15 percent of classroom time is dedicated to science instruction, according to the article.

According to the Nevada Advisory Council on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 2016 Strategic Plan, few Nevadans consider STEM careers largely because they are not exposed to STEM education as students or are not made aware of the career opportunities in STEM available to those with some postsecondary education.

Fostering the local manufacturing industrys future workforce supports the goals of the Henderson Development Association, the Chamber of Commerces economic development arm.

Being involved in a robotics team encourages excitement for STEM-related jobs, as well as teamwork, innovation and more, Muelrath said. These are all qualities businesses look for as well. Were excited to support these young professionals on their journey to becoming our future business leaders.

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OMEGA Engineering Sponsors High School Robotics Team at FIRST National Championship – Quality Magazine

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NORWALK, CT OMEGA Engineering-sponsored Sim-City robotics team from Simsbury High School who ranked 19 out of the 68 teams in their division at the 4-day FIRST Robotics National Championship in St. Louis.

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) runs the largest and oldest student robotics competition in the world. 30,000 students from 39 countries competed this year, with 2,400 volunteers helping 1,394 teams show off their robots to more than 65,000 attendees.

Sim-City finished 19th out of 68 teams in their division after losing in the semifinals because their Alliance Captain robot suffered a drivetrain malfunction, forcing them to rely on a substitute alliance partner they hadnt worked with before, said Mike Bonchick, a consultant for OMEGA whose son was on the Sim-City robotics team.

FIRST teams are high school students that compete under strict rules, limited resources, and an intense six-week time limit, where teams are challenged to work together to raise funds, and build and program industrial-size robots to play a difficult field game against like-minded competitors.

Student teams work with STEM professionals to coach them through the build and competition. Millions of dollars of scholarships are also available to participating students.

Dean Kamen, president of DEKA Research & Development Corporation, founded FIRST in 1989. He wanted to inspire students to practice using science, technology, engineering, and math in real-life competition situations that can prepare them for future careers and leadership opportunities.

Everyone at OMEGA is extremely proud of the Sim-City Robotics Team, and we look forward to future competitions together, said Bonchick.

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Robotics helping to build futures for Alberta Indigenous students – CBC.ca

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Whirring to life, elaborate robots constructed by students from three Alberta First Nations showed their stuff Friday at Edmonton school Amiskwaciy Academy.

Students from the Alexander, Alexis and Kainai First Nations demonstrated their skills, driving their robots around obstacles, picking up objects and firing wiffle balls across the room.

"I really like the process of building the robot, starting to build it from scratch, and watching it, piece by piece watching things come together and watching it do what you program it to do," said Foursuns Letendre, a Grade 12 student from Alexis First Nation west of Edmonton.

Quincy Davis and teammate Keyshaun Mountainhorse stand in front of their robot. (John Robertson/CBC)

Most of the machines had already been used in competitions.

The robotics class for Indigenous students was helped by a $40,000 US grant from U.S.-based FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) to the Alberta Distance Learning Centre, which provides learning opportunities for students across the province.

The money covered event registration fees, travel costs and supplies to build robots for competitions.

"We have a six-week build period," said Keyshaun Mountainhorse, a Grade 11 student from Kainai First Nation, 200 kilometres south of Calgary.

"After that we have to bag it up and can't touch it until game day starts. So once you open it you are, like, really excited because you finally get to play with the robot and do the objectives that you have to do.

The teams demonstrated how their robots performed specific tasks. (John Robertson/CBC)

"For me, I'm not as competitive, so if we win or lose it doesn't really matter. At least I got to be in the game and do as good as I can and this actually gives me some skill sets for when I go out of high school."

This is the fourth year of the robotics program at Kainai High School.

Teacher Matthew Prete has noticed a change in his students over that time.

"A lot of our kids are quite shy and reserved," Prete said. "Our kids are quite isolated and so to bring the technology, which is where the world is today, opens their eyes."

Phoebe Arcilla is working with Alberta Distance Learning Centre to encourage students to learn about robotics. (John Robertson/CBC)

His students become more outgoing and confident as they learn about robotics, he said.

"A lot of the jobs that they are going to have probably don't even exist yet, but that is where the world is moving and so we are trying to position them to be in place to move with things."

The team from Kainai First Nation has competed in Calgary, but funding from FIRST allowed the students to travel even further, to Boise, Idaho.

Phoebe Arcilla, a teacher with ADLC, said it's important that students learn computer programming.

Students control the robots through different hand-held controllers. (John Robertson/CBC)

"We use technology every day, whether it's a website or a phone, so kids should know how to program those," Arcilla said. "These are jobs that are taking over."

The robotics program has special meaning for Arcilla, whose first teaching job was on the Alexis First Nation.

Arcilla wants to make her students gain an edge and go as far as they can dream "to the stars, I hope.

"I hope that several of them go and move on into engineering and maybe be astronauts, because that would be the most amazing thing, an Indigenous astronaut."

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What Exactly Is a Martech Stack? – AdAge.com

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The Martech conference is conveningin San Francisco this week. Credit: George Slefo

The TL is a part laundromat, part high-end coffee bar, and it's just around the corner from this year's Martech conference at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. It's the type of place that can dry your undergarments while also serving you a delicious cup of java.

James Thomas, CMO of ultra-hot marketing technology startup Allocadia, is there, sipping his cappuccino out of a paper cup. The seven-year-old company, with clients including Microsoft, GE and Phillips, provides insights into things like the return on investment for sponsored events. It also aims to show what type of return brands get when they advertise on Facebook, among other things.

Thomas, a curly-haired man with a slim build from Vancouver, is giddy because in a few hours Scott Brinker, editor at ChiefMartec.com, host of the Martech conference and godfather of all things marketing technology, will crown Allocadia for having one of the best "martech stacks."

I don't know exactly what a so-called martech stack is, so Thomas explains.

"Think about a car," he says. "It has a collection of parts and technology, but ultimately, its job is to get you from point A to point B."

"A martech stack, in this case, is a number of different technologies from a number of different companies that's meant to attract and retain customers in the most efficient way possible." To combine into a machine, that is, that gets marketers all the way from point A to point B.

Allocadia is just one of 5,381 different companies that operate in the marketing technology space, up from 150 in 2011 by Brinker's count. And nearly all of them are laser-focused on providing brands data in areas like workflow management, content, social media or analytics.

Over at the Martech conference expo hall, 4-year-old email marketing company Iterable claims they're snagging clients like AT&T and Yelp away from behemoths like Salesforce because it's easier to use and take less time to integrate data than competitors.

"Say someone starts creating a profile on CareerBuilder, but exits out before uploading their resume," an Iterable salesman says. "That's a hole in the funnel. We specialize in plugging that hole by messaging the person on whatever device they're on. We get them to come back to CareerBuilder and finish building their profile."

Wrike, which specializes in workflow management, says its customers include Tesla, Sony Playstation and Hulu.

"It just blows my mind when I go on LinkedIn Jobs and see how many of them require applicants to know how to use Wrike," says a sales associate. "Slack is one thing when you're managing one or five people, but how do you manage hundreds for a big project? That's where Wrike comes in."

Companies like Allocadia, Wrike and Iterable are among the 30 or 40 -- sometimes more -- different parts that make up a marketing technology stack. Outfits like these are aggressively pursuing a new breed of marketer called "chief marketing technology officers," whose primary duties include selecting different vendors to assemble the stack. Microsoft, for one, has added such roles to build out its stack.

"It's chaos," Thomas says of choosing vendors to make an optimal martech stack. "We're making it really hard for marketers."

To hear Thomas explain it, picking which vendors to work with is difficult because there are so many, and most can't easily integrate with one another.

The whole idea of having a martech stack is to create a one-to-one relationship with the consumer. And imagine knowing when the best time to reach that person is, on which device and with what creative.

That's martech's sales pitch, and legacy brands like Nestl, for example, are buying into it. Microsoft recently described the companies that it has pulled together into the marketing stack that it uses for its own marketing, which consists of several dozen different companies. An operation of such scale, Thomas says, would cost at least $15 million per year.

And that's not including the cost of mantaining a team with the chops to integrate and make sense of all the "Big Data" that's going to come through.

"The idea of the stack is to bring order to the chaos," Thomas said. "There's so much data and things like AI are helping make sense of all of it, but we're still one or two years away."

Each stack is built around a "core" -- think Marketo, for example. But it then branches off into different areas like data acquisition and management, content creation, SEO and social. None of this is integrated into one giant, easy to use platform, either. Instead, teams are put in place for each of the branches, experts at using and understanding each of the different companies' offerings. Data from the different branches eventually gets plugged into the "core" of the stack.

Of course, there's a lot more to it and it's still too early for many brand marketers to start worrying about what their martech stack will look like. Ultimately, though, they'll get there, according to Thomas.

"The people who say, 'Half my money spent on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half' are going to get fired," he said. "Why? Because the technology to measure it is already out there."

~ ~ ~ CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article said Allocadia was two years old. The company is seven years old.

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Can Virtual Reality Help Us Make Better Buying Decisions? – Forbes

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Teachers tour new school through virtual reality – Houston Chronicle

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Brad Smith, the HSPVA orchestra director, said after using VR, he began to imagine what he'll be able to do once the building opens next winter.

Houston ISD physics teacher Eastman Landry explores a virtual model of the new High School for the Visual and Performing Arts campus presented by McCarthy Building Cos. on Friday, May 12, 2017.

McCarthy Building Cos. presents a virtual reality model of a new Houston ISD school to teachers on Friday, May 12, 2017.

A teacher sees a virtual reality image of the new High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, presented by McCarthy Building Cos.

Houston ISD orchestra conductor Brad Smith explores a virtual reality model of the new High School for the Visual and Performing Arts on Friday, May 12, 2017.

Teachers tour new school through virtual reality

Building plans for large facilities, complex schematics chalked with dotted lines on blueprint, convey little about the planned space to anyone but expert designers.

It wasn't so on Friday, when Houston public school teachers donned HTC Vive virtual reality headsets and chuckled with awe as they stepped inside the digital plans for a new flagship campus in downtown. This is one example of how revolutionary technology is making changes in construction and real estate.

McCarthy Building Cos., construction manager for the new High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, set up shop at the school's current location to showcase their plans. Principal R. Scott Allen called teachers forward and asked the technicians to guide the science instructor to the third floor's northwest corner and walk the social studies teacher to the library on the fourth floor.

A man on a laptop took them there with a few keystrokes as the teachers, goggles strapped to their faces, looked up and down and around the space they'll move in to next winter. A technician with an Xbox controller steered them down the hallways.

"We've looked at lots of plans over the last several years," said Brad Smith, the HSPVA orchestra director. "For some of us, it's hard to look at an architectural drawing on paper and turn it into a space."

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Once he experienced the space, Smith began to imagine what he'll be able to do once the building opens next winter: add a chamber music class or bring a full chorus to perform with his orchestra on stage.

Others pointed out some minor tweaks.

Dance teacher Courtney Jones said the ballet bars should not be mounted to the floor, as they were in the model, so that mobile lighting could be set up for performances.

Physics teacher Eastman Landry suggested adding a few more sinks in the back of a lab.

"The VR system really allows people who are not design and construction experts to be involved in decision making," said Chris Patton, senior manager of virtual design and construction with McCarthy, which started using VR on a flat screen in 2013 and debuted the headset in 2016.

Medical facilities

On some projects, a hospital operating room, for example, VR technology can help fine-tune facilities that make the difference between life and death.

Medical facilities are among McCarthy's specialties. In Houston it is building two expansions of MD Anderson Cancer Center facilities and a new building for Texas Children's Hospital. Physicians often need to make inch-by-inch adjustments to the locations of gas ports or other hardware before spaces like that are constructed.

Previously, companies like McCarthy made those adjustments by building costly full-scale mock-ups and bringing in clients to tweak the design.

"You're building almost a full working operating room," Patton said. "The VR solution provides huge cost savings."

It's had similar effects elsewhere in the industry. McCarthy senior project manager Wesley Mancrief recalled that at the first annual tech committee conference of the Associated General Contractors of America, held in 2016, the keynote address was devoted to virtual reality and its changes in the industry.

As big as the iPhone?

"A lot of people in this industry are likening it to the advent of the iPhone," said Jamie Fleming, a Seattle-based architect by training who started Studio216, a company that develops virtual reality media for the real estate business.

One client used VR to exhibit a 20,000-square-foot mansion in the Pacific Northwest to prospective buyers in China, who wouldn't have crossed the ocean for a showing.

"They believe they will sell this home without the buyer ever setting foot in the building, and I think that is really a trend," he said.

In the market for luxury apartments, clients can experiment with changing wall colors, appliances or counter top materials, or tour different unit designs without ever leaving the leasing office.

Fleming said VR has been used to pitch designs for big projects, like convention centers or industrial buildings, allowing investors or clients to see exactly how their money will be spent.

But there's more to the digital display than sleek looks. These are the actual building plans, and subcontractors will use them to coordinate their efforts.

Hidden layers

The model displayed contains hidden layers, like structural elements or electrical systems in the walls.

The ventilation system, for example, was designed by the subcontractor in charge of ventilation and then imported into the model. McCarthy lays out the concrete design, and all the other pieces fit within.

The model requires about 50 gigabytes of memory to run through the headset, about the equivalent of streaming 300 hours of video.

For most of the teachers present, Friday was their first time using a VR headset, and some giggled at the dreamlike quality of the experience. All said it got them excited and planning for their move into the five-story campus.

"To actually step into the room and see that space, that really helps," Landry said.

And when the model allowed him to fall off a catwalk, he suggested the space include a handrail.

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Microsoft unveils a big Windows update and virtual reality hand controllers – CNNMoney

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People are on the go, jumping between their computer, phone and smart home speakers. A new update for Microsoft's (MSFT, Tech30) operating system will keep multiple devices on the same page, so a project started on your Surface laptop at work can be finished on your iPhone in line at Starbucks.

The "Fall Creators Update" was one of the big announcements to come out of Microsoft Build developers conference in Seattle on Thursday. Here's what the company is working on next.

The next big Windows 10 update

A handful of new features will try to bridge the gaps between Windows 10 and devices running iOS and Android.

Timeline remembers exactly what you were doing on your computer, so you can zoom back in time and see what applications, websites or files you were working on this morning. It should make it easier to resume working on something when you switch devices.

Related: Microsoft's Nadella: It's up to us to keep dystopian scenarios from coming true

If you pop over to your phone, Microsoft's smart assistant Cortana will ask if you want to pick up where you left off. It's another way to dive right back into whatever you were doing on your computer.

A seemingly simple task that's been difficult to do on multiple devices is copy and paste. Clipboard is a tool that lets you copy something on your Windows 10 computer, then paste into other Windows, iPhone or Android apps.

Windows will also start to look a little fresher. Developers will use Fluent Design when creating their apps. The result will be a number of subtle design changes like different lighting, depth and motion effects.

Automated movie editor Story Remix

Microsoft will take your raw video clips and photos and assemble them into cute little movies. The Windows 10 Story Remix app will let you tweak and customize the creations, and add soundtracks and custom titles.

Related: Why Google, Apple and Microsoft are battling for education

Microsoft is the latest company to jump on the automated video-editing bandwagon. Apple (AAPL, Tech30) added automatic movie editing to its Photos app, and Google (GOOG) includes it in Google Photos. There are also a number of third-party tools that do automatic editing, like Replay.

iTunes coming to the Microsoft Store

Here is some good news for the few people who love iTunes and the masses who are stuck using it because they've already invested in large video and music libraries. Microsoft will offer iTunes in its Windows Store at the end of this year. It will include access to Apple Music and work on all Windows 10 PCs.

Virtual reality motion controls

Windows is making hand-held controllers for virtual reality. Like Oculus Rift's Touch controllers, the Windows Mixed Reality Controllers will let a person interact more with virtual reality environments. There are buttons, a touchpad and a little joystick in each hand, and a ring of sensors that the headset can track. They will work with third-party virtual reality headsets from companies like Acer. They'll be sold as a $399 bundle with Acer Windows VR headsets later this year.

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Virtual reality patients are teaching med students how to break bad news – Mashable

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Las Vegas taps AI for cybersecurity help – TechCrunch

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Hundreds of thousands of people live in the city of Las Vegas. But the citys information security team is made up of just three employees and one intern, so the chief information officer of Las Vegas relies on artificial intelligence to keep the citys data and tech secure.

The things that keep me up most are ransomware and phishing, Vegas CIO Michael Sherwood tells TechCrunch. Theyre some of the simplest attacks but the hardest to defend against. In order to rest easy at night, Sherwood relies on AI security solutions from Darktrace to support his small team.

Artificial intelligence is becoming buzzy throughout the tech industry, and cybersecurity is no different. Enterprise security firms are adding AI features to their products to detect anomalies on customers networks no human intervention required.

But Darktrace, which launched in 2013, says its been using AI since the beginning. Wehave a three-plus year lead on anyone else, says CEO Nicole Eagan. Alot of companies are messaging machine learning. I always ask, What is it doing? The way we are using it is quite different.

While some vendors use machine learning to teach their products to recognize malware, Eagan says her team uses machine learning to give enterprise networks a sense of self so they can detect intrusions. She likens it to a human immune system, which detects infections and responds automatically.

Detection has been part of Darktraces product for a while now, but automated response is new and its a crucial feature for small teams like Sherwoods. With Darktrace, a lot of the worry is taken out of certain components, he says. As it tells us what it would like to do, we can say those are good responses and implement these controls immediately.

The goal is for Darktrace to eventually take over, making decisions about its responses without approval from a human. The AI takeover might sound intimidating, but Sherwood is bullish on the idea. He compared his all-in approach to Uber and Lyft, which fought regulators and the taxi industry to deploy on Vegas streets. Do you go in all the way or do you not?, he asks. I wouldnt live without artificial intelligence. Humans make wrong decisions every day.

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The Surprising Repercussions of Making AI Assistants Sound Human – WIRED

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