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Jun 01, 2013 (Saturday)

Mini-Urban Challenge

The Lemelson Center will host the national championship of the Mini-Urban Challenge. The competition challenges teams of high school students to design and operate an autonomous "car" using a LEGO Mindstorms Kit to successfully navigate through a mini city.

 

Jun 21, 2013 (Friday) - Jun 22, 2013 (Saturday)

Innoskate

Innoskate is a major public festival that will celebrate invention and creativity in skate culture. Innoskate will highlight the contributions skate innovators make to society through demonstrations, hands-on education activities, public programs with inventors and innovators, and donations of objects to the national collections. Activities will also include discussions and demonstrations of evolving technology such as decks, wheels, trucks, board design, materials, etc., as well as innovations in tricks that fueled further technological innovations. Hands-on activities related to skate culture may include aspects of board design and fabrication, use of new materials, and/or the engineering and physics of making decks and performing tricks.

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