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🗓️ 15 August 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to STEM Talk. |
0:01.2 | Stem Talk. |
0:01.4 | Stem Talk. |
0:02.0 | Stem Talk. |
0:03.0 | Stem Talk. |
0:04.0 | Welcome to Stem Talk, where we introduce you to fascinating people who passionately inhabit the scientific and technical frontiers of our society. |
0:13.0 | Hi, I'm your host, Don Cornagus. |
0:15.0 | And joining me to introduce today's podcast as the Man Behind the Curtain,. Ken Ford, IHMC's director and chairman |
0:21.5 | of the double secret selection committee that selects all the guests to appear on STEM Talk. |
0:25.2 | Hi, Dawn, great to be here. Today's guest is a good friend and colleague of ours at IHMC, Dr. |
0:31.3 | Jerry Pratt. Jerry is a senior research scientist who heads up IHMC's robotics group, which, |
0:37.3 | in 2015 2015 placed second |
0:39.8 | in the DARPA International Robotics Challenge and achievement that all of us here at ICHNC are |
0:46.2 | quite proud of. |
0:47.3 | Yeah, we're very proud of them. |
0:48.3 | And it was great fun getting to know more about Jerry. |
0:51.3 | I actually didn't know that his first invention was the knockout |
0:54.3 | keyless doorlock, which he built as a teenager for his tree fort, which is just an awesome story. |
0:59.3 | Jerry has been inventing ever since. In 2015, he was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. |
1:04.7 | And in case our listeners haven't heard, our very own STEM Talk hosts, Ken Ford, will be inducted |
1:09.0 | into the Hall of Fame in September. Thank you, Dawn. It is indeed an honor to be an inductee and join such an accomplished |
1:15.4 | group of scientists, engineers, and inventors. Of 27 people in the Hall of Fame, four of the inductees |
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