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NI Week video: Are you smarter than a 5th grade engineer-to-be?

A 5th grader with plans to pursue engineering wows the National Instruments Week crowd with creativity and mastery of LabView.

By Staff -- EDN, 8/9/2007

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National Instruments has long been active in promoting engineering education--both at the university and K-12 levels.

In the Thursday morning keynote at NI Week 2007, Ray Almgren, vice president of academic marketing, emphasized the need for engineering education for youth and hosted a demonstration of 5th-grade-student Samuel Majors prowess with technology and LabView.





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