Digital Open Winners: "Hybrid Airship," by teen robotic blimp builders.

Institute for the Future teamed up with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing to create the Digital Open, an online tech expo for global teens. In this video, you'll meet a winning team: "Hybrid Airship" by robotic blimp builders "The Funky Shiitake Mushrooms."

The Digital Open is a project of Institute for the Future, in partnership with Sun Microsystems and Boing Boing.

The competition welcomed entries in 8 categories: Open Code, Community, Discovery, Earth, Entrepreneurs, Gear, Media, and Play.

more online:
http://www.digitalopen.org
http://www. iftf.org
http://www. sun.com

Thanks to Mathias Crawford, David Harris, Marina Gorbis,
David Pescovitz, Jean Hagan, and the IFTF team. Special thanks to Sun Microsystems and to all of the judges, stewards, institutional partners, and participating youth entrants and their families.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• teen
• high
• school
• maker
• diy
• iftf
• future
• science
• engineering
• student
• sun
• microsystems
• boingboing
• boing

[RenatoandEric]

obviously all asians:P

[boyniao]

F U!!!!! NERDS ARE AWSOME lol they make life easier for the dummer people around

[jukio02]

@ciararavenblaze just weird i guess. dont like the feeling around them is all

[ciararavenblaze]

@heliumblimp I wish you wouldn't spam. :(



[ciararavenblaze]

@jukio02 yeah, but what's wrong with being nerdy?

[jukio02]

this stuff is pretty cool, but i wouldnt hang out with these type of people. just cause your smart, doesnt mean you have to act all nerdy.

[roblimusic]

"Please Do Try This At Home" :-)

[heliumblimp]

Hi folks, Seems to be very agile in control terms, although the spinning is not exactly usefull.

If you want to see more on hybrid airships try 3w dot hybridairship dott net

[LawStudent7]

THEY GOT ALL THAT SPONSORSHIP AND THEY MAKE SOME THIRD GRADE SHIT??? GTFOH

[VeXorian1337]

They did something similar in my institute, and made it fly properly.. nothing special tbh...

[G777GUN]

nothing new

[candr]

LOL Nerds? Like the Wright brothers, or Robert Goddard, or Bill Gates. Nerds made our world :):) And they all started flying kites, playing with rockets in the desert and building computers from spare parts.