Students’ Ideas Adopted by U.S. Intel Agency
The Loudoun Times website reported that a team of students from Loudoun County’s (Va) Academy of Science is turning its ideas into real-world solutions after impressing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the U.S. Army Geospatial Research Lab (GRL). After impressing the NGA, the students are now tasked with prototyping a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)-based module over the summer as they work as interns supporting a real-world project that is underway with the NGA and the GRL. “I am personally not aware of another open innovation state-wide middle school/high school ideation challenge that resulted in a winning team supporting a U.S. Combat Support Agency project,” Ken Spedden of the Innovative Solutions Consortium said.
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