On This Day - Snow and Robotics (2014)

November 14, 2014 

November snow
Smithville Morning - Nov 14, 2014

On this day in 2014 we started out with a snowy view of the Smithville Reservoir. Winter usually makes an appearance before the solstice.

snowy day

Robotics Club

New Ipswich had a robotics club for younger people. They wrote programs for Lego robots that would  perform various tasks. I wonder how many of them have gone on to pursue their studies in AI?

Robot engineers
Writing programs

Programming the robots
Robot gripping a ball

Programming robots
Programmers

John and Parker
Future AI Engineer


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