HPCC Systems 10 Year Open Source Anniversary Discussion with Tai Donovan, American Heritage School

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In this next episode, Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, speaks with Taiowa Donovan, Robotics Program Director and Instructor, American Heritage School, in Delray Beach Florida. Tai’s passion with mechanics and being an educator gave him the opportunity to start a robotics camp at the school which now has grown into a huge engineering and robotics program including six competition teams for over one hundred students in grades 4-12. Team 5472 Stallion Robotics was one of the first two teams HPCC Systems has sponsored in our academic program. Tai shares how this collaboration has made a huge impact to students, being able to take skills learned well beyond the robotics lab into the real world. Over the course of the five year relationship, Tai explains how the team has evolved, both academically and professionally. Being able to leverage open source resources, internship programs and mentors from industry has helped drive innovation and spark new ideas into their autonomous robot builds. Tai and his team make sure the robots they build have purpose. From a self-driving golf cart to an autonomous agricultural vehicle to a security facial recognition robot – these cutting edge inventions are helping collect and analyze data in critical ways needed in today’s society.

Be sure to listen to the full interview to hear more about his journey on how HPCC Systems has filled the gap in programming certain aspects of their builds, the success of his students participating in our HPCC Systems internship program, and what’s lurking in the lab that we might just see unveiled at our next Community Day event!