The event was funded by the Isakovich-Critz Community Enrichment Initiative, the purpose of which is to bring distinguished lecturers, scholars, scientists, mathematicians, writers, and performers to visit Derryfield for school community meetings and classroom visits.
One small delivery for a robot; one giant leap for the technological future of mankind.
Wednesday morning, Dean Kamen, New Hampshire’s premier inventor and entrepreneur, stood at the podium in front of members and guests of ARMI to introduce them to the its BioFabUSA Spring Summit event to share what the organization is doing in its efforts to transform biotechnology research into practical, large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies to help people around the world.
With a fun and festive theme of gaming, the New Hampshire High Tech Council (NHHTC) held its 13th annual Entrepreneur of the Year recognition Wednesday night in Nashua, giving awards to two Manchester entrepreneurs while high school robotics teams eagerly demonstrated their devices in the lobby.
The House and Senate passed a bill, NH SB 564, to encourage companies that devote at least 75 percent of their activities toward the growth human organs by exempting them from the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax for ten years.
Worlds will collide on April 26 in a way that, frankly, Dean Kamen probably imagined because, well, he’s an imaginative kind of guy. And because this is why he started FIRST Robotics in the first place.
Inventor and FIRST Founder Dean Kamen launched the 2016 FIRST® Robotics Competition season Jan. 9 with the Kickoff of a new robotics game called FIRST STRONGHOLD before a crowd of more than 1,000 people at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, hometown of FIRST Headquarters.
Dean Kamen, Mayor Gatsas and Gov. Maggie Hassan were among the dignitaries who attended a special show-and-tell at Jewett Street School.
The implementation plan for Junior STEAM Ahead will begin with three schools, Beech Street, Green Acres and Jewett Street. In 2015, four more schools will be added, and the remaining elementary schools in the city will participate starting in the 2016-17 school year.