Rhode Island Nexus

We'll keep the core the same, casual drop-in, drop-out, buy your own coffee. Fluid discussion topics focused around tech startups, a few will be suggested in the schedule reminder, but its up to those who show to decide what they want to talk about. Seems like "digging in" on an idea or question is what the Open Coffee can provide, along with a conducive setting to trade resources and connections.

Build and program your robot to deliver wind turbines, harvest corn for bio-fuel, and install a solar panel as you help solve the global power puzzle. Students will focus on either programming or building. Programming group will learn to create simple algorithms and write programs in Robolab. The Building group will start with a basic robot and adapt it to improve it's ability to move reliably.

For 8-12 year olds.

Cost: $15/per 

A neighborhood like Beverly Hills right here in Providence? You’ll never guess where it is… Beacon Hill in the shiny-new Sunbelt city of Dallas? There is a neighborhood just like it!

Andrew Schiller, founder of Woonsocket-based Location Inc./NeighborhoodScout.com, a nationwide neighborhood search engine for home buyers and movers with 1.8 million unique visitors last year, will be talking about their patented search technology that answers the first question most home buyers have: “where should I focus my house hunt?”. The audience will try the algorithm by ‘building their ideal neighborhood’ on the site, and finding the local neighborhood that best matches the ideal imaginary one. A sneak peak at NeighborhoodScout v2 will reveal flash-based maps, data mining that has produced new levels of granularity for neighborhood crime, appreciation rate, and school ratings, and ‘smart search’ taken to a new level. Andrew will be joined by Andy Couture, VP of Business Development for the company.