Outreach: Soaring Into The Future
NSF made a
Children’s book about the students, birds, and robots in the Lentink lab. The book was handed out to kids during the
2018 USA Science & Engineering Festival The story in the book titled ‘Soaring
Into The Future” is based on research by alumnus Eric Gutierrez and his amazing
Bird Obi, who he trained to fly with miniature laser goggles to do flight research
together. The story was all over the internet in 2016 and the illustrations in
the children’s book are wonderful. Side stories feature the other bird and robot
projects in the lab, including those of Diana Chin, Laura Matloff, Eric Chang
and Amanda Stowers, as well as postdocs Dan Quinn, Daniel Kress and others.
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