WHAT: New Hampshire inventor and founder of FIRST, Dean Kamen, will reveal the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) game and competition scenario for 2008 via a live, digital broadcast on NASA Television.
Media are invited to join the Ohio high school teams as they learn about this year’s exciting challenge. The teams will participate in the 2008 FIRST Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition at the Cleveland State University Wolstein Center this spring.
The event also will be streamed live on the NASA Robotics Alliance Project (RAP) Web site at http://robotics.nasa.gov.
WHEN: Saturday, January 5, 2008
WHERE: Cuyahoga Community College’s Unified Technology Center 2415 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
WHO: East Tech, Cleveland; Bedford; Success Tech Academy, Cleveland; Brush, Lyndhurst; Beachwood; Hathaway Brown, Shaker Heights; Orange, Pepper Pike; Berea; Midpark, Middleburg Heights; St. Edward, Lakewood; Cloverleaf, Lodi; EHOVE Career Center, Milan; Highland, Medina; Amherst Steele; Lorain Admiral King; Champion, Warren; Timken, Canton; Warren G. Harding, Warren; Youngstown Chaney; Girard NASA TV’s Public, Education and Media channels are available on an MPEG-2 digital C-band signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization. For additional information go to:
