Teens learn robotics as factories lack skilled workers
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - At the Escuela Vieau School in downtown Milwaukee, seventh-grader Camila Garcia was building a model wind turbine in a class intended to spark interest in engineering. "At first, I thought, 'This is for boys, it's not for me. I can't do it,'" the 13-year-old recalled. "Now I see that I can do it and that it's fun." Her nascent interest in both learning math as well as the ...
RNC Pounces on President's Google+ Exchange with Wife of Unemployed Engineer
The RNC has been making much hay out of President Obama’s Monday exchange on Google+ with Jennifer Weddell, whose engineer husband has been having trouble for years finding a job. As ABC News’ Mary Bruce wrote at the time, the exchange seemed to highlight how...
Akio Toyoda: Toyota's comeback kid
When the final tally was made for 2011, Toyota Motor, formerly the world's largest automaker, slipped to third place in production behind General Motors and Volkswagen. It's not surprising: Toyota has endured a string of calamities over the past three years -- natural and man-made -- that would make even the company's famous paranoia seem like sunny optimism. The latest is endaka, the strong yen ...
Candidates clarify their answers for the 2012 checklist
Question #1:
First 2012 hickory shad caught
Henry C. Knight, III, caught the winner in the 2nd Annual Tar River First Shad Contest, in Tarboro this past Sunday morning about 9 a.m. Henry Knight? Are you kidding me? Henry winning this season’s Tar River First Shad Contest is about like Albert Einstein being a contestant on Jeopardy, and asking Alex Trebeck, in his best old-world German accent, “Alex, I vood like you should give me da ...
TRI-MUNICIPAL: Heated exchange from partners of Sewage Treatment facility
With a lagoon system that was built in 1979 and a Tri-municipal agreement to build a sewage treatment plant- last Tuesday should have been the final meeting for the Tri-municipal Board to tie up lose ends for this project.
See it in the sea, buy it on a card
SANTA CRUZ -- As it seems to do for many artists, inspiration struck Beth Shady suddenly and powerfully.
See it in the sea, buy it on a card: Santa Cruz artist works with seaweed
SANTA CRUZ -- As it seems to do for many artists, inspiration struck Beth Shady suddenly and powerfully.
Makin' It: Maurice Leacock, Robot Builder
Maurice Leacock is a senior technical product manager at iRobot, which manufactures (among many other devices) the Roomba, the hands-free vacuum cleaner that bumps around your living room. He's also a husband and father of two (soon to be three). Between personal and professional obligations, he was kind enough to enlighten us about the mechanics of creating a real robot, the pratfalls of ...
Vietnam Staff Da Nang and Central Vietnam
Mark Conroy has been with East Meets West since 1994 and has held his current position, as Senior Advisor and Da Nang Office Representative, since March 2009. Prior to that, he was EMW’s Country Director for 15 years. His tenure at EMW was preceded by a wide variety endeavors.