Tom Lauwers

Calling all educators! It’s time to pack away the sunscreen and break out the computers to make sure you’re #AIReady this fall. Come #BacktoSchool with us by accessing our “AI Bits & Bytes” series to thrive with #AI in the classroom. Access five on-demand, bite-sized webinars from speakers from #TeachAI @Code.org, @Infosys, and @MarkCubanFoundation, covering topics from Gen AI to Multimodal AI Tools and everything in between. Make your classroom #AIReady this school year: bit.ly/BitsandBytesPOI

Very excited to start this new chapter in partnership with the excellent team at RW Thrive!

Encouraging creativity one robotics kit at a time, @birdbraintech teaches kids #STEM with robots. Finch, Hummingbird & Owlet math tools are among the bird-themed kits to engage & inspire students' hands-on learning. bit.ly/45crszi #NSFSBIR 📷: BirdBrain Technologies

What will the Finch Loan Program do for YOUR school community? We're so excited to find out! Apply today & add your students to the 225,000+ who have experienced deep and joyful hands-on learning for free with the #FinchRobot. What are you waiting for? birdbraintechnologies.com/loan-program/

TBH we may never fully recover from #ISTE23 & we're not mad about it 🔥🙌🏻🤩🎆💕🤖🤯💯 #ISTELive23 @TeacherCoats @HoyasInEd @TsuiAllen @MrHaske @AmandaJeane2 @Rdene915 @cookbeecrafty @whisperinedtech @TeacherCoats @makeymakey @HummingTom @heidi_STRETCh @EDGEucating @ISTEofficial

Although AFAIK I don’t have any close personal contacts with it, I have seen what MS can do and it is a terrifying disease. It is also a condition where tremendous progress has been made over the last twenty years. I’m riding and fundraising to keep that progress going!

In two weeks I’m cycling the 140 mile, two-day Escape to the Lake ride, a fundraiser for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. If you’d like to join me, consider donating here: mssociety.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuse…

This week's mini #makered project - I created a praxinoscope using @tinkercad @microbit_edu and @birdbraintech. It was a lot of fun to see the pictures come alive to become #animation. This could possibly be a new #innovation for #art lessons! @chrisgadbury #edtech

#Pittsburgh represent! Of the 9 illustrious companies present in the #InfyXRoads PD Exhibitor garage, 3 include representation from the Steel City, a blossoming tech hub that we're proud to be a part of. Pretty impressive n'at, yinzers! @CodeJoyEdu @microbit_edu @greggbehr

@RoboPGH Finished setting up @birdbraintech's space earlier today. If you're in Pittsburgh, stop by to code a #FinchRobot and interact with our #Hummingbirdkit robots!

In less than 48 hours this space will be bustling with dozens of live robot & AI demonstrations! Join us on Wed, November 16, for Robotics Discovery Day, a free all ages event! Learn more and register at robopgh.org/discoveryday/ #DiscoveryDay #Pittsburgh #Robotics #AI

@SVicGlass @TeacherCoats @birdbraintech We do free demos, if you'd like to borrow one to get hands-on with it yourself. Check out the "Try a Demo" button here: birdbraintechnologies.com/products/owlet…

Using technology with hands-on math manipulatives, makes connections with math concepts understandable in a whole new way. My class and I are super impressed with #Cube from @birdbraintech 👏🏾

We've brought some new friends to #NCTMLA22! Come to booth 438 to meet Cube and Glow, two hands-on manipulatives that connect to apps for real-time feedback. Stay at the booth to meet the #FinchRobot and its brand-new math mat. Hope to see you in LA!

We’re excited to announce Pittsburgh Robotics Discovery Day on Nov. 16th, a first of its kind can’t miss event where we pull back the curtain on the Pittsburgh robotics community & share it with the world! Learn more & register for free now at lnkd.in/epXhTsis! #Pittsburgh

@vi_iserp @InfyFoundation @uvi @VI_EPSCoR @birdbraintech Wonderful to see & happy the lessons and Finches are helpful in the new school year!

Our teachers are continuing to use the amazing skills and resources from the 2022 @InfyFoundation Pathfinders Training at @UVI through the @VI_EPSCoR STEM Insitute. Check out some @birdbraintech fun. Tom, hope you see this, and thanks for everything. youtu.be/J6OLCaNULOY

Had a great time with the Pittsburgh Allderdice AP CSA and AP CSP students this week! The spent the whole day applying what they have learned this year to complete #FinchRobot challenges - here is a small sample of their hard work! #CS4All @PPSnews @birdbraintech @DocMcCoyAtDice

Some lovely pictures of the results... (2/2)

Drawing outside the lines with #FinchRobot at #InfyPathfinders on St. Croix. Luckily these markers are washable! (1/2) @InfyFoundation, @GT_CCEC, @UVI_edu

Sometimes when you're experimenting, you happen upon the code for a lovely spiral figure 8. @InfyFoundation @UVI_edu @GT_CCEC

Even robots get motion sick....Using variables to make spirals at #InfyPathfinders Virgin Islands on St. Thomas, @UVI_edu and with @GT_CCEC.

Try try again. Successful #FinchRobot Jousting at @InfyFoundation's Pathfinders in the USVI. Thanks @GT_CCEC and @UVI_edu for supporting the event.

If at first you don't succeed...