<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Friends,<br><br>We are having our monthly R&A meeting on Oct 7th, 2019 at 7:00pm (6:30 pm for pizza) in 1005 NCSU Engineering Building 1. The topic will be <br><br>"<b>LEGO Mindstorms Robots for STEM Education by Charles Lord, Rodney Radford + Jetbot Robot using NVIDIA Jetson Nano by Dr. Paul MacDougal</b>"</div><div class="gmail_quote">All of our speakers Charles Lord, Rodney Radford and Dr. Paul MacDougal are highly experienced professionals in the industry.<br><br>Registration link:<br><b><a href="https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/197396">https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/197396</a><br></b><br>Please refer to event details in the forwarded email below for more details. Our monthly events are open to public including non-IEEE members. All are invited. <br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Mahesh Balasubramaniam<br>IEEE ENCS RA24 Chair<br>IEEE SouthEastCon Program Committee<br><a href="mailto:maheshba@ieee.org">maheshba@ieee.org</a><br>919-649-6902<br><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:enotice@ieee.org" target="_blank">enotice@ieee.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 12:58 PM<br>Subject: LEGO Mindstorms Robots for STEM Education by Charles Lord, Rodney Radford + Jetbot Robot using NVIDIA Jetson Nano by Dr. Paul MacDougal<br>To: <<a href="mailto:maheshba@ieee.org" target="_blank">maheshba@ieee.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<div><strong><span style="color:#000000">Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) are simple when there is enough interest and understanding on the subject matter.</span></strong></div>
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<p><span style="color:#000000">To emphasize this key message which is an eminent noble task, <strong>Charles Lord</strong> will talk about and walkthrough effective methods of using LEGO mindstorms robots for STEM motivational education in every level of academic institutions. <strong>Rodney Radford</strong> will be helping on the demonstration part of the talk. It is interesting to note, Lego Mindstom Nxt has opensource components abstracting a simple but efficient embedded systems - providing easy to use SDK(Software Development Kit), HDK(Hardware Development Kit) and BDK(Bluetooth Development kit) along with multiple programming languages including C, Python, Matlab, Ada, Lua & graphical NXT-G.</span><br><span style="color:#000000"> </span><br><span style="color:#000000"><strong>Dr. Paul MacDougal</strong> will present about Jetbot robot using NVIDIA Jetson Nano. NVIDIA Jetson Nano is an affordable System On Modue(SOM) with CPU, GPU, Power Management IC, DRAM & Flash - a Maxwell architecture with 128 NVIDIA CUDA cores for performance and power efficiency to run autonomous machines, faster with less power. It is interesting to note, Jetbot has a Robot Operating System(ROS) port along with a model for Gazebo Robotics Simulator.</span><br><span style="color:#000000"> </span><br><span style="color:#000000"><a href="https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-IOT/jetbot/wiki" target="_blank">https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-IOT/jetbot/wiki</a></span></p>
<p><br><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#000000"><strong>Speaker Information:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000"><strong>Charles Lord PE</strong> is the Chair of Western North Carolina section, a veteran serving for the technology community through IEEE holding multiple positions in past few decades. Charles has also led several IEEE SouthEastCon conferences and the General Co-Chair of <strong>IEEE SouthEastCon 2020</strong>. <strong>Rodney Radford</strong> is an expert senior embedded software developer and maker, Chair of IEEE NC Council and past IEEE RA24 chair. Rodney also leads the Student and hardware competition programs in IEEE SouthEastcon 2020.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000"><strong>Dr. Paul MacDougal</strong> is a Design Engineer in the architecture team of NVIDIA designing and profiling advanced graphics architectures. Paul holds a PhD in computer science from Ohio state university.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Plenty of free parking available at following locations adjacent to EB1 Building.</strong></p>
<p>911 Partners Way, Raleigh NC 27606 (EB1 entry)</p>
<p>890 Oval Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606 (EB2 entry)</p>
<p>1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606 (Hunts library 0.2m away)</p>
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<p>6:30-7:00pm Networking with pizza and soda</p>
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<p>7:00-7:10pm News and Announcements</p>
<p>7:10-7:40pm Use of LEGO Mindstorm Robots for STEM Education by Charles Lord PE & Rodney Radford, IEEE </p>
<p>7:40-8:10pm Jetbot Robot Using NVIDIA Jetson Nano by Dr. Paul MacDougal</p>
<p>8:10-8:30pm Show & tell by interested hobbyists</p>
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