The NXTstep as Educational Resource

Our readers may remember Cyrus the Cat and his encounters with an NXT robot. (Video is here).

Erik, the creator of the "Cyrus" video, is looking for the perfect engineering school for him. (His search is chronicled here).

On Erik's short list for the "perfect" engineering school is Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), because it has a first-in-the-nation, bachelor's degree in robotics. Erik first learned of WPI in the NXTstep blog, thanks to Larry Langellier's post about it on March 3, 2007.

Invest in your child's future: read the NXTstep blog. ;-)

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