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The Heinz Awards :: Dean Kamen and performer Will.i.am launch the 20th FIRST Robotics Competition
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The Heinz Awards

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January 8, 2011

FIRST (press release)

"LOGO MOTION” Game Revealed by Dean Kamen and will.i.am to 50,000 High-School Students at 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff

MANCHESTER, N.H. ― Inventor Dean Kamen and will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas launched the FIRST Robotics Competition 20th anniversary season today with the Kickoff of a new robotics game called “LOGO MOTION” before a crowd of 600 people at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, hometown and headquarters of FIRST. An estimated 50,000 around the world joined the Kickoff via live NASA-TV broadcast and webcast....

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Dean Kamen and performer Will.i.am launch the 20th FIRST Robotics Competition