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RobotLAB. RobotLAB is an American educational technology company that manufactures robotics and virtual reality products for K-12 and higher education, as well as business robots for retail, hospitality, and medical companies. The company distributes the Pepper and NAO humanoid robots developed by SoftBank Robotics. They are headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

RobotLAB is a Google partner and powers Google Expeditions.

Overview
In addition to distributing SoftBank’s Pepper, Nao, and Whiz robots, which can be used as personal assistants and educational tools, RobotLAB also provides educational robots designed for use in K-12 and other classrooms. Their robots are programmed to help instructors teach subjects such as STEM.

In 2020, Google announced their discontinuation of their virtual field trips app Google Expeditions.  RobotLAB, as Google's partner for Expeditions, created a substitute in partnership with Avantis. The Google Expeditions alternative was named VR Expeditions 2.0. RobotLAB also provides robots for assistance for use in retail, medical and other types of businesses.

History
RobotLAB was founded by Elad Inbar, who is also the CEO of Robot App Store, under the name RobotsLAB in Israel in 2007. The company was originally conceptualized as the educational division of Robot App Store. The company eventually spun off into a separate entity and relocated to San Francisco in 2011 and changed its name to RobotLAB Inc.

The company developed a STEM teaching tool, called the RobotsLAB Box. RobotLAB won Robotic Business Review's Game Changer Award for Education in 2013.

In 2014, RobotLAB released STEM-BOT 3D, a 3D-printed robot that students can assemble and program. in 2014, RobotLAB also won the LAUNCHedu competition from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at the SXSW EDU and Kaplan's EdTech Accelerator award.

In 2016, RobtLAB received the Inc 5000 fastest-growing private company award and also ranked first in educational technology category.

In 2020, RobotLAB released VR Expeditions 2.0, an alternative to Google's Expeditions app and also partnered with Avantis to develop applications for ClassVR, a VR platform designed for use in the classroom.

In 2021, RobotLAB became the distributor of their Pepper, Nao, and Whiz robots. In the same year, the Roanoke County Public Library partnered with RobotLAB to create content and programming for Pepper robots used for library purposes.

RobotLAB also partnered with Curious Technologies, in 2021, to distribute the Elias robot model, which is an artificial intelligence designed for language learning.

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Vera Huckel. Vera Huckel (1908–1999) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer and one of the first female "computers" at NACA, now NASA, where she mainly worked in the Dynamic Loads Division.

Life and work
Huckel was born in 1908 and studied math at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1929. After living in California for ten years, she visited a friend in Newport News and was hired as a ''junior computer,'' doing mathematical calculations for other researchers for $1,440 a year (a man with her background typically earned about $2,000 a year). Before the invention of electronic computers, these so-called "computers," who were mostly women, would do the time-consuming calculations necessary for successful flights.

Huckel became one of the first female engineers at NASA and wrote the program for its first electronic computer. She also worked as a supervisory mathematician and aerospace engineer during her time at NACA/NASA. By 1945 she had been promoted to section head in charge of up to 17 other women.

She was involved in helping researchers make the switch from using slide rules to do their complex calculations to super computers. She also worked on theories of aerodynamics. As a mathematician, she was involved in the testing of sonic booms in supersonic flight.

Huckel retired from NASA in 1972 after working there for more than 33 years.

She was active in the Soroptomist Organization, the AAUW, and volunteered with the Hampton United Way.

Huckel died at 90 years of age on March 24, 1999, in Newport News, Virginia, where she had lived for more than 60 years. She was buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

Selected publications 

 Morgan, Homer G., Harry L. Runyan, and Vera Huckel. "Theoretical considerations of flutter at high Mach numbers." Journal of the Aerospace Sciences 25, no. 6 (1958): 371-381.
 Morgan, Homer G., Vera Huckel, and Harry L. Runyan. Procedure for calculating flutter at high supersonic speed including camber deflections, and comparison with experimental results. No. NACA-TN-4335. 1958.
 Hilton, David Artland, Vera Huckel, Domenic J. Maglieri, and R. Steiner. Sonic-boom exposures during FAA community response studies over a 6-month period in the Oklahoma City area. No. NASA-TN-D-2539. 1964.
 Hilton, David A., Vera Huckel, and Domenic J. Maglieri. Sonic-boom measurements during bomber training operations in the Chicago area. Vol. 3655. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966.

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 Harvard Computers

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Mareena Robinson Snowden. Mareena Katherine Robinson Snowden is the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education 
Snowden enrolled at Florida A&M University as a business major.

In Spring 2011, Snowden was graduated from Florida A&M University as Mareena Robinson,  with a B.S. Degree in Physics.

In 2017, Snowden was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D., nuclear science and engineering, as Mareena K. Robinson-Snowden, 30 years old, becoming the first self-identified American black woman to graduate with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the MIT, walking across the commencement stage on 8 June 2018, after 11 years of post-secondary study.
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Career 
Snowden worked as a National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellow in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the US Department of Energy before serving as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Arquay Harris. Arquay Harris is an American software developer and former senior director of engineering at Slack. SInce April 2021, she has been vice president of engineering at Webflow.

In 2018, Harris was named one of "America's Top 50 Women in Tech" by Forbes.

Early life and education 
Harris graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree. She went on to study at the Academy of Art University, continuing her technical education as well as practicing fine art painting in 3D, graduating with a degree in Fine Arts.

Career 
Harris started her career in technical production at CNET before moving into a software development role at CBS. She moved from the media industry to the technology industry when she joined Google, where she ultimately worked as a web development manager, leading a team of information architects, software developers and designers. In June 2016, she joined Slack, where she ultimately held the position of senior director of engineering, expansion. In her first week at Slack, she started a project to redesign Slack's user interface using principles of responsive design.

In April 2021, she joined Webflow, where she holds the position of vice president of engineering, growth.

Awards and recognition 
 Forbes magazine's "America's Top 50 Women in Tech 2018"

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Dana Bolles. Dana Bolles is an American spaceflight engineer and advocate for those with disabilities in STEM. She has worked at NASA since 1995 in a variety of fields. She is also an ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science's If/then initiative.

Early life and education 
Bolles was born without arms or legs. She has stated that she became interested in visiting space at an early age since it would allow her to move without the assistance of her wheelchair. 

She credited teachers who accepted her in  mainstream classrooms as very important to setting her on a path for success in her chosen career. 

Bolles earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Long Beach in 1993, and has a master's degree in rehabilitation engineering and technology from San Francisco State University.

Career 
Bolles started working at NASA in 1995 as an engineer in regulatory compliance, including work on environmental regulations. This later expanded to work in protecting humans in outer space and scientific communications.

She also volunteers as an advocate for women, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT community. Her advocacy has a particular focus on the challenges that people with disabilities encounter in their lives, and has spoken about the stereotypes they often face, mentioning that people tend to respond the most to disability compared to other intersectionalities.

In 2021 Bolles joined a group of people with physical disabilities in a zero gravity parabolic flight.

Bolles was one of the women depicted in the Smithsonian Institution's 2022 exhibit spotlighting women in STEM.

Awards and recognition 
 NASA Equal Employment Opportunity Medal (2014)

References

External links 
Interview, Gravity Assist: Breaking Barriers, with Dana Bolles

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21st-century American women scientists
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Silicide carbide. Silicide carbides or carbide silicides are compounds containing anions composed of silicide (Si4−) and carbide (C4−) or clusters therof. They can be considered as mixed anion compounds or intermetallic compounds, as silicon could be considered as a semimetal. 

Related compounds include the germanide carbides, phosphide silicides, boride carbides and nitride carbides. Other related compounds may contain more condensed anion combinations such as the carbidonitridosilicates with C(SiN3)4 with N bridging between two silicon atoms.

Production 
Silicide carbide compounds can be made by heating silicon, graphite, and metal together. It is important to exclude oxygen before and during the reaction. The flux method involves a reaction in a molten metal. Gallium is suitable, because it dissolves carbon and silicon, but does not react with them.

Properties 
Silicide carbides are a kind of ceramic, yet they also have metallic properties. They are not as brittle as most ceramics, but are stiffer than metals. They have high melting temperatures.

In air silicide carbide compounds are stable, and are hardly affected by water. The appearance is often metallic grey. When powdered the colour is dark grey.

When ErFe2SiC is dissolved in acid, mostly methane is produced, but the products include some hydrocarbons with two and three carbon atoms.

The lanthanide contraction is evident with the cell sizes for rare earth element silicide carbides.

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Mitsubishi Electric Hydronics & IT Cooling Systems. Mitsubishi Electric Hydronics & IT Cooling Systems SpA (MEHITS) is the Mitsubishi Electric Group company specialized in hydronic systems for air conditioning and IT Cooling. Based in Italy the company designs and manufactures in 12 production plants in Europe, China, and India, and distributes its products worldwide.

History 

Mitsubishi Electric Hydronics & IT Cooling Systems SpA was established in 2017, after the acquisition of the previous company DeLclima, which belonged to the De’Longhi Group, by Mitsubishi Electric, in 2015.

MEHITS believes and invests heavily in patenting not only through innovative technologies applied to new products but also its own facilities like the new ML21 Testing Center in Belluno, unique in its kind for the different types of tests that can be carried out inside.

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Zero (corporation). Zero is a manufacturer of non-biological e-fuel claimed to be carbon-neutral co-founded by former Formula One engineer Paddy Lowe. Its product is designed as an alternative to fossil-based fuels and a more scalable sustainable alternative to waste and bio-fuels. 

In 2021, the Royal Air Force used its fuel to achieve a World Record first flight powered by synthetic fuel. In July 2022, Zero entered a new partnership with the Royal Air Force to move towards mass production of sustainable aviation fuel.

History

In March 2020, Zero Petroleum Limited, now known simply as Zero, was founded by Paddy Lowe and Nilay Shah. Lowe is a former Formula One race engineer. Shah is the Head of Imperial College London's Department of Chemical Engineering and received an OBE for services to the decarbonisation of the UK economy in 2020.

In September 2021, Zero received capital from a Glasgow-based investment syndicate with investors including Damon Hill.

On 2 November 2021, the company's synthetic fuel was used by the Royal Air Force to achieve the world's first successful flight using only synthetic fuel. The fuel was manufactured in Orkney using locally generated wind, and tide and wave energy. The aircraft, an Icarus C42 microlight, was flown around Cotswold Airport.

In February 2024, Zero signed a two-year sponsorship deal with Sauber Motorsport.

Technology
Zero uses a specialised version of Fischer-Tropsch to manufacture target fuels (gasoline, kerosene and diesel). Lowe claims that, when manufactured using renewable energy, synthetic fuel can be used as a carbon neutral or carbon negative direct drop-in replacement for fossil fuels to ensure the continued use of legacy vehicles.

It is manufactured using a process known as petrosynthesis, in which carbon dioxide and hydrogen are combined to create hydrocarbons. The process involves direct air capture of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and the electrolysis of water to obtain hydrogen.The carbon dioxide is converted into carbon monoxide in a Reverse Water-Gas Shift (RWGS) reactor and this combines with the hydrogen to create a ‘Syngas' that is fed into a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor to create the final hydrocarbon products. The use of renewable energy throughout the process results in the production of carbon neutral and carbon negative hydrocarbons.

See also

 Carbon capture and storage
 Synthetic fuel
 Synthetic fuel commercialisation
 Carbon neutral fuel
 Electrofuel

References

External links
www.zero.co

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British companies established in 2020
Meenakshi Power Plant Nellore. A 1000 MW power plant, Meenakshi Energy Pvt. Ltd. is located at Nellore in Andhra Pradesh. The first phase of the Project (300 MW) was configured in a unique “part tolling-part merchant “ configuration with PTC India Limited. The Plant has a Capacity of 1000 MW (Unit I – 2 x 150 MW; Unit II – 2 x 350 MW). It is located adjacent to Krishnapatnam port and near coal basins Units (size in MW) Unit I (150 MW) Unit II (150 MW) Unit III (350 MW) Unit IV (350 MW).  Water from the Kandaleru creek Sea is used as source for the plant. Their outstanding debt was over Rs 4,000 crore and was forced to sale, led by REC [Rural Electrification Corporation] and SBI. India Power Corp. Ltd, a SREI Group company acquired this power plant to run on coal imported from Indonesia, which will be directed by Raj Kanoria. The Bench of Judicial Members admitted the insolvency petition as per the provisions code. Meenakshi Pvt. Ltd. availed a term loan and working capital from the lenders leadings to insolvency. As a result, Engie Global purchased the shares and was inducted as the promoter of the corporate debtor.GDF Suez, France acquired 74% stake in Meenakshi thermal power project in Nellore later.

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Zero Carbon Displacement. Zero Carbon Displacement is a unique measure of an organisation's carbon footprint which can be achieved when an organisation uses carbon-free energy which produces zero carbon emissions.

Zero Carbon Displacement is distinguished from other markers of environmental sustainability. A study by Stanford University (2019) revealed that companies that claim to use ‘100% renewable energy’ often underestimate their greenhouse gas emissions. Accordingly, to claim Zero Carbon Displacement a business must be willing to provide hourly accounting of its energy sources instead of annual reporting. Crypto mining has pushed up demand for environment-friendly energy sources. Currently, 39% of all energy used for crypto mining is renewable. Zero Carbon Displacement requires strict analysis of an entire grid ecosystem to make sure that no additional fossil fuel based energy is being forced into use before it can be claimed. Once Zero Carbon Displacement is achieved a crypto miner or data processor associated with the blockchain can legitimately claim Zero Carbon Displacement. Under Zero Carbon Displacement power use must be drawn from grids which are  > 99% renewable source or from newly installed renewable power supply through direct feed in a closed loop with no fossil fuel back up for operations.

The concept of Zero Carbon Displacement was first used by the Norwegian People's Think Tank on 16 August 2021 in response to a post on Medium by ariNO.CTT  entitled "I care about the environment as much as you do."

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4th Test and Evaluation Squadron. The 4th Test and Evaluation Squadron (4 TES) is a United States Space Force unit. Assigned to Space Training and Readiness Command's Space Delta 12, it is responsible for testing and evaluating the Space Force's electromagnetic spectrum capabilities. It is headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado.

List of commanders 
 Lt Col Ryan Caulk, 27 August 2021
 Lt Col Benjamin Szutar, 1 June 2022
 Lt Col Jonathan Lang, 2 July 2024

See also 
 Space Delta 12

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Yogesh Singh. Yogesh Singh is an Indian academic who is the current and 23rd Vice-Chancellor of University of Delhi.

Education 
He earned his Ph.D. in computer engineering and M.Tech. in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.

Career and professional activities
He is the former Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University (DTU). Prior to joining DTU in 2015, he served as the Director of Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology-NSIT (now known as Netaji Subhash University of Technology) from 2014 to 2017. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from 2011 to 2014. From 2001 to 2006, Professor Singh served as the Dean of Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.

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Omar Paganini. Omar Ignacio Paganini Herrera (born 2 June 1962) is an Uruguayan electrical engineer, academic and politician of the National Party, serving as Minister of Foreign Relations since November 2023 under president Luis Lacalle Pou. Previously, he served as Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining from March 2020 to November 2023.

Graduated from the University of the Republic with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Paganini obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Catholic University of Uruguay. He also trained in Entrepreneurship at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, and in Negotiation by the Global PON program at Harvard University.

Career 
In 1990 he founded an engineering and automation services company for the industry and in 1995 he settled in the department of Paysandú to take over as director of the company Paylana S.A. From 2001 to 2003, back in Montevideo, he joined Antel's ITC consultancy.

In 2003, he was appointed dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Catholic University of Uruguay (UCU), a position he held until 2012. Later, he served as vice-rector for Economic Management and Development and in 2018 he became head of the UCU Business School. In addition, he directed the Observatory of Energy and Sustainable Development of that university, through which he has made publications and presentations in the country and in foreign universities, mainly, on the change of the energy matrix.

Minister of Industry 
Paganini was announced as Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining on December 16, 2019 by then-President-elect Luis Lacalle Pou. He took office on March 1, 2020, stating that his portfolio should be "a channel for Uruguay to take advantage of its opportunities and face its challenges." He also pointed out that the country's competitiveness is the main challenge of his management. He was succeeded by Elisa Facio.

Minister of Foreign Relations 
On November 4, 2023, in the midst of a cabinet reshuffle, President Luis Lacalle Pou announced that Paganini would succeed Francisco Bustillo as foreign minister.

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