12:15 PM
Only one high school team entered last year?s $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize. And out of 110 other entries from accomplished engineers, both vehicles they designed made the semifinals. Soon after, West Philly?s GTM biodiesel hybrid won the Green Grand Prix by achieving the equivalent of 160 mpg over 100 miles. The team shares the secret to their success?and why hands-on education matters from students? point of view.
Simon Hauger, faculty adviser, West Philadelphia High School Academy of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering
Azeem Hill, team member
Stefon Gonzalez, team member
Brandon Ford, team member
The Machine-Human Interface
1:00 PM
Electronic implants have revolutionized medicine, restoring lost vision, hearing and speech. Now, they may offer hope to the 6 million people suffering from some form of paralysis. Thanks to a team of scientists and experimental stimulation of the spinal cord, one person paralyzed from the chest down has regained unprecedented voluntary movement of his legs.
V. Reggie Edgerton, vice chair of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA
Yury Gerasimenko, research specialist, UCLA
Susan Harkema, rehabilitation director, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center
Joel Burdick, bioengineer, California Institute of Technology
Rob Summers, first recipient of epidural electrical stimulation
One on One: James Cameron
With James Meigs, Editor-In-Chief of Popular Mechanics
2 PM
Director James Cameron invented the world?s most advanced 3D camera in order to bring his vision to the screen. But his impact extends far beyond Hollywood: Cameron has logged dozens of submersible dives and served on the NASA Advisory Council. PM talks with the 2011 Breakthrough Leadership Award winner about his passion for exploration, the submarine he plans to take to the Challenger Deep, and the next frontier for 3D.
From Invention to Reality
3 PM
Often, achievements in science and technology represent a modest advance?but occasionally there are stunning breakthroughs. Six such innovators tell their invention stories, offering insights into how an idea develops from a back-of-napkin sketch to a working prototype to a polished product, and relate some of the hurdles faced along the way.
Corwin Hardham, co-founder, Makani Power
Peter Hofbauer, founder, EcoMotors International
Paul Edmiston, co-founder, ABSMaterials, Inc.
Laura Niklason, scientific founder, Humacyte, Inc.
Matt Keennon, program director, AeroVironment, Inc.
Tod Sizer, head of wireless research, Bell Labs
Space: Where Do We Go Now?
4 PM
America?s space program finds itself at the kind of crossroads not seen in five decades. It has been 40 years since humans left low Earth orbit and NASA?s shuttle has flown its last mission. What will the next launch vehicle to carry astronauts look like? Aerospace pioneers discuss the future of manned space exploration and the spectacular successes already being achieved by robots.
Garrett Reisman, SpaceX
John Callas, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Steve Gorevan, Honeybee Robotics
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10019
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