At their user meeting last month, National Instruments introduced several new products, but also reinforced their corporate focus on the support of science and engineering for school-age children. In the course of their program they announced the NI / Lego Education’s “WeDo” classroom robotics platform aimed at students ages 7 to 11—available to elementary schools in January 2009. Fifth-grader Sarah Almgren was brought on-stage in front of the 3,000 engineers to demonstrate the product. The attached video is her unscripted presentation on how to program the robotics platform. Her amazing ease, stage-presence, and skill in this presentation was an inspiration to the audience on the value that intelligent products can have on our children in this increasingly competitive world of ours.
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