If you're at the State Fair this weekend ...

Clarkson's University's Northern New York Robotics Academy and its traveling Robot Zone exhibit will be at the New York State Fair this Saturday, September 5, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. both inside and directly outside the 4-H Youth Building/ Youth Center Complex of the Fair.

Faculty and students from Clarkson's Robotics Living-Learning Community and Robotics SPEED team will provide hands-on demonstrations of the FIRST pipeline of extra-curricular programs, as well as an in-class project based curriculum, developed for middle and high school classrooms using robotics technology.

They will also offer some research-oriented robotics, including a quad-copter and assistive robotic devices, such as the NAO robot, an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot currently being used at Clarkson in research to develop new strategies for teaching children with autism. FIRST stands for "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology."