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Technology / Business
6:25 am
Thu March 22, 2012

Making tech start-ups stick in St. Louis

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Silicon Valley has been the place for IT development since the dawn of the computer age, but new technology and cheaper resources are leveling the playing field for other cities across the country. As St. Louis Public Radio’s Joseph Leahy reports, a network of local business leaders is pushing to make St. Louis a regional hub for IT start-up companies.

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Technology
11:58 am
Mon August 22, 2011

Rural US sharing federal money for broadband Internet

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Telecommunications companies in 16 states are sharing more than $103 million in federal funding to help expand broadband Internet access to rural America.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the grants and loans through its rural development office on Monday.

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Robotics
6:35 am
Tue April 26, 2011

Student-made robots take over Chaifetz Arena. Next stop? The Edward Jones Dome!

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Peter Prombo Cates (left) and Chirag Doshi, students at Gateway Institute of Technology in St. Louis, carry their team’s robot off the playing field.
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Perpetual Chaos team members Peter Prombo Cates, Josh Kish, coach Frank Dressel, and team members Liz Arnold and Chirag Doshi (left to right) will compete with their robot in the FIRST Robotics Championship this week.
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Team members from the Ratchet Rockers (Wentzville School District, in blue) Rob Fletcher (front) and Matt Moore help Perpetual Chaos team members (in green) repair their robot.
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Home-schoolers Camryn Vrbka (left, from Old Monroe, Mo.) and siblings Elizabeth and Bryan Stearns (from St. Peters, Mo.) are members of the FIRST Robotics team the Channel Cats, which won the St. Louis Regional Chairman’s Award.
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Matt Duelo (left, Hazelwood Central High School) and Cameron Dozier (North County Technical High School) get their Robohawks robot ready for “autonomous mode” at the start of a match.
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Spectators watch as participants prepare the field for a FIRST Robotics Regional competition match at Saint Louis University’s Chaifetz Arena.
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Robohawks mentor Mike Duello and team members Brandon Cannon, Evan Mensinger, Sarah Harter and Jaylen Taylor (left to right) work on their robot.
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Normandy High School students Dajuan Drake, Dushon Brackins, Bianca Bailey (seated), J’von Coleman, Binder Kayland, and teacher Patsy Issom-Harper (left to right) cheer on their team.
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Students Latisha Hall, Ashley Hunt, Bianca Bailey, and Justin Battiest are members of the NYACK team from Normandy High School.
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Camdenton 4-H LASER team members Brandon Kapp, Mitchell Woodside, Blake Barbour and Stephanie McQueen (left to right, Camdenton High School) show off their St. Louis Regional winning alliance medals.
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John Gillis and Danielle Sylve (team mentor) watch the St. Louis Regional FIRST Robotics awards ceremony. Their team, the Army Ants of Columbia, Mo., won two best rookie team awards this year.
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The goal of this year’s FIRST Robotics competition is for robots to hang inner-tube-like shapes on pegs to form the FIRST logo (red triangle, white circle, and blue square).
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In the pit area, the FIRST Robotics teams prepare their robots for competition.
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The Robohawks (Florissant, Mo.), Robo-Lions (University City, Mo.) and Camdenton 4-H LASER (Camdenton, Mo.) won this year’s St. Louis Regional FIRST Robotics competition.
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This week in St. Louis, close to 9,000 high school students from five countries will compete in the FIRST Robotics Championship.

Teams of student-built, remote-control robots will take to the field at the Edward Jones Dome. Organizers hope the competition will draw more than 20,000 spectators and generate at least $18 million in local spending.

Véronique LaCapra was at the St. Louis Regional event in March and has this inside look at the competition.

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