Current Lifestyle Energy & Design LED lights. Giant Origami Fractal. A three-dimensional, modular origami fractal has taken form for the first time in the history of the world—and perhaps the universe—at the USC Libraries in Los Angeles.
Led by the libraries’ Discovery Fellow Margaret Wertheim, USC students, faculty, staff, students from nearby middle schools, and other volunteers built the level-three Mosely Snowflake Fractal out of 49,000 folded business cards. The fractal takes its name from engineer and mathematical origami artist Jeannine Mosely, who designed the construction process.
The snowflake is a relative of the famous Menger Sponge, which Mosely also built from business cards in 2006. To break the construction process into repeatable modules that origami novices could build, Mosely created a software model to visualize the object, assess its structural integrity, and calculate the required thickness and number of business cards. USC community volunteers then assembled thousands of basic cubes, each made out of six cards. Collaborative Campaign Competition. Showcase your company at the PICNIC Crossover Marketplace. For the past six years, the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce and the Syntens Center for Innovation have sponsored the Marketplace, an exhibition where promising Dutch and European start ups and small and medium enterprises showcase new and often game-changing products and services.
This year, it will be re-launched as the Crossover Marketplace and will be dedicated to start ups and SMEs based in the Netherlands that develop products and services with partners from other sectors. To participate in the Crossover Marketplace during PICNIC Festival 2012, Syntens and the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce are looking to recruit approximately 60 companies that have: Participating companies will showcase their products and services at exhibition stands where they can meet people who can trigger further innovation, and grab the attention of potential partners and investors. For more information on how to sign-up, please visit the Syntens website (Dutch) Scholarships · Creative Innovation 2012.
Ci2012 SCHOLARSHIPS WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED!
With well over 100 outstanding applicants received from around Australia, the selection panel has named 10 winners of the Innovation Leader Scholarships for Ci2012. Congratulations to: Susan Barton (VIC) – Founder/Director of The Lighthouse FoundationJami Bladel (TAS) – Artistic Director and CEO of Kickstart Arts TasmaniaSally Hill (NSW) – Founder and Editor of SustahoodRowan Lamont (QLD) – Founding Director of Transformative Technology Research GroupDr Shelley Meagher (VIC) – Co-Founder of Do it on the RoofAvis Mulhall (NSW) – Founder of Think Act Change, Loo Loo Paper and Co-Founder of mmMule.comDarryl Nichols (NSW) – Co-Founder of The Garage Sale TrailJulian O’Shea (VIC) – Founding Director of Engineers Without Borders InstituteSusan Wade (VIC) – PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Monash University focusing on gifted individuals on the autism spectrumArron Wood (VIC) – Founder of the Kids Teaching Kids program.
Programmer James Whelton leads CoderDojo session for youths at Dell in Dublin - Irish Innovation News. Teenage programmer James Whelton, co-founder of the CoderDojo youth coding movement in Ireland, led a coding session for more than 30 children of Dell employees at the computing giant’s site in Cherrywood, Co Dublin, on Saturday.
The youths who took part in the coding class were aged between seven and 16. As the not-for-profit CoderDojo nears its one-year anniversary, what started in Cork last summer when Whelton came up with the idea after finishing his Leaving Cert, has spawned into a global movement of free coding clubs where kids can learn the fundamentals of writing software code, plus programming languages, such as Scratch and Java. In addition to coding clubs springing up all over Ireland since 2011, local volunteers have since set up clubs in countries such as Italy, the US, the UK, Brazil, Slovenia, Uganda and India.
Speaking at Dell on Saturday, Whelton said it was great to be continuously growing CoderDojo. Carmel Doyle. Startup Abroad - Bali - August 2012. GENERATION 1992 SUMMER CAMP BARCELONA. Kinect used for holographic 3D video conferencing. Demo. Twitter Townhalls. Sure, there was a staffer in the room live-tweeting the president's long answers (albeit abbreviated to 140 characters, minus the hashtag), but that isn't the same thing as the president tweeting replies.
As far as i am concerned, he might as well have taken the questions via email. When I participate in a Twitter townhall, I expect it to take place on Twitter. The whole thing. Not just the questions. After this event I made it my mission to hold a real Twitter townhall. With short notice of the change, plans to host the entire townhall, along with real-time tweets translating the chat into Spanish, on Twitter were nixed. But neither the Majority Leader's office nor I were giving up on the pure Twitter play. I developed a fairly straight forward format that took into consideration some of the quirks built into Twitter. For a week prior to the event we promoted it via our various Twitter and Facebook channels. After this round of questions, I welcomed @SenatorTomUdall to the townhall.