Thales Arduino goes global
Training sessions are now underway to show engineers in Thales who are volunteers, how to use the Arduino and to run the workshops at participating universities. These workshops will take place this October and November.
Project Arduino offers students the opportunity to learn new skills and win prizes. Entrants are taught how to use and program an Arduino by Thales engineers, and are then given two weeks to imagine a creative and innovative usage of the system, which aligns to Thales’s markets – and make a video of their solution.
A trip to a Thales Research Centre or Innovation Hub of their choice
After the success of the competition in the UK, it has been expanded this year to seven countries, and 40 universities. Aiming not only to raise awareness of Thales as a company in these countries, Project Arduino also seeks to inspire students to take up a career in technology and engineering fields.
An Arduino is a single board open-source electronic microprocessor platform, created to help get people into coding and electronics. The applications of this small system are seemingly endless, and it is this variation and opportunity for creativity that is at the core of Project Arduino.