What’s The Big Idea? Pentagon Agency Backs Student Tinkerers To Find Out

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TECHNOLOGY NEWS FROM NPR

by JON KALISH

At Analy High School in Sebastopol, Calif., three students are taking apart a bicycle that generates electricity. Another student is calibrating a laser cutter. They’re all working in a cavernous building that once held the school’s metal and electronics shop. Let’s just say it has been updated.

 

“I’m thinking that I might make a quadrocopter and a tremolo. It’s a type of guitar thing that uses light to change the volume. And a few other things; we’ll see,” says Gabe Cook-Spillane, a senior at Analy High.

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