Fun with Science
Some of Curiosity Lab’s shining stars visit Peachtree Corners Library to show practical lessons about STEM.
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dults often think that kids automatically know a lot about technology. Just because they know what all those weird emojis on your phone are supposed to represent and they can text faster than they talk, much of the new stuff out there is just as amazing to them as it is to the rest of us.
By Arlinda Smith Broady
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That’s why the folks at Peachtree Corners Curiosity Lab decided to pack up a few goodies — two very awesome robots — and head over to Peachtree Corners Library to show some young patrons how the center of Silicon Orchard is growing and
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setting the standard in several industries. One of the coolest things at Curiosity Lab — one that’s too big to fit into the library — is the shuttle that circumnavigates Curiosity Lab’s 1.5-mile autonomous vehicle test track along Technology Parkway. Launched on Oct. 1, 2019, two Olli electric vehicles will someday shuttle Peachtree Corners residents and workers to shops, office buildings and more. “Have you guys seen the trams, the shuttles on Technology Parkway?” Louis Svehla, communications director for the city of Peachtree Corners, asked the several dozen children present. As hands shot up, he told them peachtreecornerslife
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Louis Svehla speaking to kids about Curiosity Lab at the Peachtree Corners Library.
something they probably didn’t know. “Those are driving themselves,” he said. “Nobody’s driving those and that’s part of the test vehicle that we’re using. …We have cameras, we have radar — you guys heard of radar, right? — and radio waves. You turn on your station and you can listen to radio; it runs on radio waves. And now we have a brand-new thing that’s called LIDAR. What that is, really, is the radar that allows a car to see everything around it, up and down, peachtreecornerslife
