CTA Foundation News By Steven Ewell ● Dec 12, 2023 Smart Brevity® count: 2 mins…478 words Paul — The Consumer Technology Association Foundation is excited to announce the closure of entries for our CES 2024 Pitch Competition. Stay tuned as we prepare to unveil the remarkable finalists in the next few days! Keep reading to learn more about: CES 2024 Pitch Competition Accessibility Panels at CES 2024 Your impact on #GivingTuesday As always, thanks for your support.

CES 2024 Pitch Competition We invite CES attendees to join us at the Startup Stage in Eureka Park on Wednesday, January 10th from 2-4 PM and help select the audience choice winner! In just four weeks, innovators will compete for prestigious prizes in both the Judge’s and Audience Choice categories at CES 2024. Winners will enjoy exclusive opportunities, including recognition, interviews, and meetings with CTA Foundation executives. We are thrilled to share that Paul Amadeus Lane, a distinguished podcaster, radio host, and accessibility advocate, will be our emcee for the CES 2024 Pitch Competition. Our judges include Jeremy Brown of CF Health Advisors, Shana Lawlor of 2raze and Totipotent Capital and Dr. Susan Malinowski of Retina Consultants of Michigan. The grand prize winner, in addition to a cash prize will be featured in a special BBC StoryWorks piece building off the successful Technology’s Golden Age series and in Established’s Startup of the Year Podcast. Special thanks to sponsors Next50, Ricoh, Patient Safety Technology Challenge and Canon for their invaluable support. Your contributions drive innovation and transform ideas into reality.

Accessibility Panels at CES 2024 As part of our commitment to accessibility and inclusivity, we invite all CES 2024 attendees to participate in a series of incredible accessibility panels happening throughout the show. Engage with industry experts, share insights, and learn more about driving innovation through inclusive design, the evolution of accessible gaming, designing for vehicle accessibility, the future of inclusive design, trends in assistive tech, updates on OTC hearing aids, and embracing neurodivergent employees in the tech industry. Accessibility Related Panels: Driving Innovation Through Inclusive Design – Jan 10, 10-10:40 AM Evolution of Accessible Gaming– Jan 10, 11-11:40 AM Designing for Vehicle Accessibility – Jan 10, 1-1:40 PM The Future of Inclusive Design – Jan 11, 1-1:40 PM Trends in Assistive Tech – Jan 11, 2-2:40 PM OTC Hearing Aids – An Update – Jan 11, 3-3:40 PM Embracing Neurodivergent Employees in the Tech Industry – Jan 11, 4-4:40 PM Join us at these informative sessions to foster a more inclusive tech landscape. Check out the conference programming schedule and mark your calendars!

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
• LEGO® Education WeDo 2.0 is a hands-on, elementary science solution that develops science practices in the classroom through a robot-based learning system.
• Correlated to standards-based projects, the solution engages and motivates students to solve real-world science problems by working with engineering, technology and coding through the LEGO® brick,
classroom-friendly software and 40+ hours of hands-on projects.
• LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 strengthens students’ understanding and develops competencies across key science topics including physical sciences, life sciences, earth and space sciences and engineering.

CES – LAS VEGAS – NEWS RELEASE – January 5, 2016 – Today, LEGO® Education announced LEGO Education WeDo 2.0, a hands-on science solution designed for elementary classrooms using a robot-based learning system. The unique solution combines the LEGO® brick, classroom-friendly software and engaging, standards-based projects to teach elementary students essential science practices and skills . With WeDo 2.0, students explore, create and share their scientific discoveries as they build, program and modify projects. Through a series of collaborative challenges, they deeply engage with science, engineering, technology, and coding, sparking a love for experimentation and investigation. Teachers receive support through training, curriculum and built -in assessment. The result – a resource that builds students’ confidence to ask questions, define problems, and design their own solutions by putting scientific discovery in their hands.

Featuring curriculum that contains 40+ hours of lessons and activities built on key science standards for 2nd-4th grades, WeDo 2.0 enables students to engage with the science practices and engineering habits of mind by testing multiple designs through eight guided and eight open-ended projects. For example, in the “Drop and Rescue” project, students are challenged to design a device to reduce the impacts on humans, animals and the environment after an area has been damaged by a weather-related hazard. Students can prototype solutions to a challenge where there is no single right answer helping teach creativity and problem-solving skills. This also enables educators to tailor lessons to meet all students’ needs, no matter their abilities.

“Teachers know that science and technology skills are crucial for today’s elementary school students, but providing engaging projects that mean something in the real world is a challenge,” said Jeffrey Marlow, a Geobiologist at Harvard University and founder of The Mars Academy education and development program. “WeDo 2.0 offers projects that let students discover the surface of Mars with a model rover, or explore the Amazon rainforest thro ugh frog metamorphosis. These science lessons do more than just teach students facts to memorize – they represent an immersive experience that instills a deeper understanding of the scientific method and evidence -based reasoning. Not only are these skills central to science- and technology-based fields but providing a platform for our students to spark that one idea that could change the world is something they can build on for the rest of their lives.”

The wireless platform includes a Bluetooth low-energy Smarthub element; an electronic based building brick that is part of the LEGO Power Functions (LPF); a new technology platform for LEGO Education; one motor; one tilt and one motion sensor. The WeDo 2.0 Core software is an essential and easy-to-use component that is colorful, age- appropriate and has a drag-n-drop interface that is graphical in nature. It also contains a documentation tool that enables students to document their problem solving process and provides an assessment opportunity for teachers.

LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 is available today on iPad, Android, PC, and Macs. Chrome Book support will be available in the second half of 2016. A Scratch interface for WeDo 2.0 (both web-based and stand-alone) will be available for Macs in February 2016 and for PC/Windows in June 2016. For information on how to implement

LEGO WeDo 2.0 in your school, or how to transition to WeDo 2.0 from WeDo, visit www.LEGOeducation.us/WeDo

About LEGO® Educati on:
LEGO® Education offers playful learning experiences and teaching solutions based on the LEGO® system of bricks,
curriculum-relevant material, and physical and digital resources to preschool, elementary, middle school, and after school. In partnership with educators for more than 35 years, we support teaching in an inspiring, engaging, and effective way. Our educational solutions, which range from humanities to science, enable every student to succeed by encouraging them to become active, collaborative learners, build skills for future challenges, and establish a positive mind-set toward learning.

LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2016 The LEGO Group.

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Maker Media is a global platform for connecting makers with each other, with products and services, and with our partners. Through media, events and ecommerce, Maker Media serves a growing community of makers who bring a DIY mindset to technology. Whether as hobbyists or professionals, makers are creative, resourceful and curious, developing projects that demonstrate how they can interact with the world around them. The launch of MAKE Magazine in 2005, followed by Maker Faire in 2006, jumpstarted a worldwide Maker Movement, which is transforming innovation, culture and education. Located in Sebastopol, CA, Maker Media is the publisher of MAKE Magazine and the producer of Maker Faire. It also develops “getting started” kits and books that are sold in its Maker Shed store as well as in retail channels.

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Chief Technology Officer, Village Green Technology
Dr. Peter Bishop is the Chief Technology Officer www.villagegreentechcenter.com and the Co-Inventor of their technology.  Dr. Peter Bishop has been a computer professional for over thirty years.  After getting his Ph.D. at M.I.T. in 1977 in object-oriented computer systems, he met the founder of Remedy while they were together at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.  He left PARC in 1980 to work on operating systems and compilers for the National Semiconductor 16032. He then started working for a series of startups.  He helped found Forethought, the first publisher of FileMaker, which went on to create PowerPoint. Three startups later, Dr. Bishop, developed the key technology for Aeroprise, Inc., a partner with BMC Remedy, providing their mobile solution.

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