Sweet 16! Arduino is turning 16 on Saturday, March 27 – it’s Arduino Day! As partners of Arduino Education, we couldn’t be more pumped to celebrate making technology accessible to everyone, including students and educators. (Plus, March is Pitsco’s birthday month too!)
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We have exciting curriculum options at Pitsco Education, especially around an emerging technology: drones.
We’ve all heard about drones and how they’re becoming more and more prevalent in our lives.
- HVAC companies are using drones to inspect hard-to-reach places.
- Farmers are using drones to survey crops to determine which crops are healthy and which ones are not.
- And, yes, drones are even being used to wash windows!
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January 19 is National Tin Can Day. Yep, there really is a day for everything it seems. So why recognize this one? Well, we can’t pass up the opportunity for some hands-on learning! Tin cans are celebrated for the advancements they brought to food preservation in the early 1800s. Outside of their primary purpose, I’m thinking about celebrating the science of the tin can telephones. The Guinness World Record for the longest functioning tin can telephone is 796 feet!
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An idea. 💡
Started from scratch. 📝
From a brilliant mind. 🧠
That’s exactly where entrepreneurship begins.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a giant network of connected devices that collects and shares data from all over the world, and it’s changing the way we live, work, and study. There are nearly limitless options and opportunities for IoT-connected devices and industries incorporating IoT.
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