Hacknight Session #65 featuring Erin Kennedy (RobotGrrl)

You are invited to Ottawa Civic Tech's weekly "hacknights", held every Tuesday evening from 6:00-8:30pm. Free and open to all, hacknights bring together people from all walks of life to connect, learn, share, and collaborate.

You do not need to be a "techie" to attend - everyone is welcome to participate and contribute to building civic good through technology, data, design, policy, advocacy & citizen engagement. Join us!

The first (or second) Tuesday of the month always features a guest speaker. Other weeks may also feature a guest speaker, but is primarily meant to provide dedicated time and space for the community to make progress on their projects.

Agenda:

6:00-6:30pm -- Doors Open; Networking

6:30-7:00pm -- Welcome; Guest speaker presentations and Q&A

7:00-7:20pm -- Introductions

7:20-7:30pm -- Project updates + new pitches

7:30-8:20pm -- Hacknight (breakout group work sessions)

8:20-8:30pm -- Wrap-up

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Guest speaker: Erin Kennedy

Erin “RobotGrrl” Kennedy is the CEO and technical founder of Robot Missions, where she has designed and developed a robot to collect shoreline debris, which can be replicated anywhere with a 3D printer. Kennedy studied digital fabrication at the Fab Academy, and worked with a global team at MIT on a forty-eight-hour challenge during Fab11 to build a fully functional submarine. A former fellow in social innovation at the MaRS Discovery District’s Studio Y, Erin has been recognized as a finalist in the Lieutenant Governor’s Visionary Prize (Ontario, Canada), an Intel Emerging Young Entrepreneur, and her previous robotics work has been featured in Forbes, Wired, and IEEE Spectrum and on the Discovery Channel.

In this presentation you will learn about the vision of Robot Missions, and the upcoming Municipal Trials. As a community initiative, we are looking for your help to make it happen!
http://www.robotmissions.org/
http://www.robotmissions.org/trials2018/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4ysImGbwU

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In addition to our weekly in-person hacknights, the YOWCT community uses Slack to communicate and collaborate on projects. Request an invitation to join our workspace here: https://yowct-invite-bot.herokuapp.com/

Find out more about Ottawa Civic Tech at http://ottawacivictech.ca/