Madison-based Firia Labs levels-up Educational Robotics

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Design Teardown and Startup Storytime: Madison-based Firia Labs levels-up Educational Robotics with EE/CS focus

This is a invited virtual talk event from the IEEE Huntsville Joint Robotics & Automation - Control Systems Chapter.

See the talk abstract and speaker bio below as well as Webex information to join the virtual event. Password: IEEE

Speaker: David Ewing, President, Firia Labs

Website: https://firialabs.com/

Robot Simulator: https://sim.firialabs.com/ 


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  • Date: 05 Apr 2022
  • Time: 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM
  • All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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  • Huntsville, Alabama
  • United States
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  • Leandro G. Barajas, Ph.D., PMP 
    Chair IEEE Huntsville Section, Huntsville, AL
    https://r3.ieee.org/huntsville/
    L.G.Barajas@ieee.org
    (248)705-8192
  • Co-sponsored by IEEE Atlanta Section
  • Starts 26 March 2022 07:00 PM
  • Ends 05 April 2022 05:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
  • No Admission Charge

  Speakers

David Ewing David Ewing of Firia Labs

Topic:

Design Teardown and Startup Storytime: Madison-based Firia Labs levels-up Educational Robotics with EE/CS focus

Did you know there’s an Education Technology startup right here in the Huntsville Alabama area? Firia Labs launched their first robotics product into the education market back in 2018, and has been successfully equipping classrooms worldwide with state-of-the-art hardware and software ever since. Their hardware and software are designed right here, by a team of engineers who bring a wealth of IoT and commercial product design experience to bear on an important and challenging problem. What’s the challenge? Many teachers are being “volunteered” to teach CS and coding classes when they have little training or background in the subject. Educational robotics is often mainly centered around mechanical challenges, rather than being used as an opportunity to really teach electronics and coding.

In this presentation David will discuss the hardware and software Firia Labs has developed to meet this challenge. Along the way you’ll learn of some “world first” technologies created right here, tales from the bleeding edge, and more!

https://firialabs.com/

Biography:

David thrives at the intersection of Software, Hardware, and Education. An Electrical Engineer by schooling (Auburn University) and a lifelong student of Computer Science, he’s held Chief Software Architect positions at Nokia and ADTRAN, and helped start Internet of Things company Synapse Wireless where he was CTO and inventor of the SNAP mesh network platform. From circuit design to embedded coding on tiny microcontrollers to cloud computing to the latest front-end web application software, David’s breadth of practical experience yields unique insights and innovative approaches to product development. As the president of edtech startup Firia Labs, David and his team’s current focus is on providing educators with the tools and curriculum they need to overcome the obstacles to teaching CS in a way that inspires in students a “passion for creating”.

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Address:1038 Research Blvd, Suite 240, Madison, Alabama, United States, 35758