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Needed: #PDX area front-end #developer willing to #volunteer time to teach and mentor a high school FIRST Robotics program.

The Tactics & Strategy wing of the Skyview Robotics program has been working on a data collection and reporting tool and could use some professional guidance. The mentor "stack" includes Product, UX Design, Data Analyst, and Dev Ops, but nobody to teach front-end coding.

We'll meet Tues and Thursday nights starting in the fall. Reach out for more info. Thanks!

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#bostonWeekend 41/x

Mon #Robots -

#DeanKamen at the MOS

Free with pre-registration.
“A Conversation with Inventor Dean Kamen at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston, on the Cambridge border. Free with registration. Kamen discusses his and his company’s work on human health innovations, including robotic arms, insulin delivery systems and more. (Kamen may yet be most famous for the Segway mobility device – which, bizarrely, in 2001 drew predictions from Steve Jobs it would be “as significant as the personal computer” and praise for being “revolutionary” from Jeff Bezos.) President of the museum Tim Ritchie joins.”
#FIRST #Stem #FirstRobotics #Segway

FIRST Robotics time again, and this year I'm judging, which requires some pre-work.

The hardest part of judging is the final few rounds, when we're trying to decide to hand the award to the team that walks on water or the team that cures leprosy. Lemme tell you: one of the reasons I keep doing this event is that. The original purpose of FIRST is to inspire the next generation of students (originally the future engineers, but increasingly just good people who know how to be good to other people).

That's a head-fake. The inspiration is circular. These students make me want to stand up and demand the world be better because they fucking deserve better from it.

When I'm tired... Bone-tired, blood-tired, forty-years-in-the-same-flesh-tired... These kids ain't ready to quit yet and all of a sudden, neither am I.

#OTD on the 24th of February 2020 the robotics club of Willow Glen High School, which I was a part of, prepared for the #FIRSTRobotics competition. We'd learn later that week that it was going to be cancelled due to the pandemic - I often forget how full of enthusiasm we were before that occurred.

My life is focused on family, friends, reading & robotics. I love being a mentor for 2 robotics teams #omgrobots #FIRSTRobotics #frc

I live with chronic pain #fibromyaglia but am working on being accepting of that. With that in mind, I will end with a fav quote.

"Well the universe brought me this far, handed me this body, and this situation and this family. Thank you. And since it got me this far ,it might as well just keep going where it goes, and I will go along for the ride. “ Jundo Cohen

#Introduction.

I am a #Cascadia boy, born and raised. My pronouns are he/him/his and I'll happily use yours if you share them. I live with my genius wife, two kids, and three cats.

I work as a #Software #SaaS #ProductManager, with a #UI #UX #Usability and #Design background, not engineering. I enjoy public speaking, conducting training, documentation, problem solving, testing, market research, and running beta groups.

I am a #FIRSTRobotics mentor, avid reader, #DnD DM, and fairly decent cook.