Artash with his homemade experiment on LIGO’s Quadruple Pendulum at the Toronto Science Fair 2019 On 28 November 2018, we attended a lecture given by Dr. Rainer Weiss (2017 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics) at the Ontario Science Centre, Toronto. The lecture was about his work with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The beauty of Dr. Weiss’s lecture on discovering Gravitational Waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars using LIGO was in its simplicity and…

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Arushi Nath, Grade 4 MaRS Bot and I are happy that we got a participation medal and a certificate!  The 2019 Toronto Science Fair was held on 6 April 2019 at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Hundreds of school children were there to demonstrate their projects and experiments. There was a big crowd of students, parents,  teachers, and volunteers. My robot waiting for the action to begin at the Toronto Science Fair 2019 I enjoy…

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Artash Nath I am 12 years old. Three years ago I started to program in Python. Since last year I have been interested in machine learning. I have been taking free online courses, attending Meetup group meetings, and attending lectures on Artificial Intelligence. I am fascinated by the topic and have started to make several programmes of my own. I am also interested in space and robotics and wanted to combine machine learning with real-time…

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The Ontario Science Centre held its second Tech Art Fair on the family day weekend from 16 – 18 February 16-18. 20 artists were selected through a juried competition to exhibit their work at the Ontario Science Centre that mixed science with art, and technology. Artash and Arushi busy explaining the projects HotPopRobot family team was selected to present their latest work over the 3 days. We demonstrated two of our latest projects – Deep…

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Artash and Arushi speaking at Ontario Science Centre 50 years Celebrations On 24 January 2019, the Ontario Science Centre launched its 50th birthday celebrations. The celebrations were attended by Honourary Patron for the 50th birthday year – the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and the Honourable Michael Tibollo, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport. Artash and Arushi were invited to address the gathering and share their experiences on the role Ontario Science Centre…

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Artash and Arushi were the Guest Speaker at the 2019 Innovation Nation Conference held in Hamilton, Ontario on January 20, 2019 at the LIUNA Station, Hamilton, Canada. The conference was attended by over 100 people and included speakers from NASA, Canadian Space Agency, University and Research institutes. Artash and Arushi gave a talk on “How NextGen can Hack Space Exploration?” The talk had 4 sections: Hacking Model Rockets Making and launching model rockets are fun. It is exhilarating to…

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On 14 January 2019, Artash and Arushi appeared on Breakfast Television Toronto to share their passion on space,  science and robots. They were interviewed by the show hosts Dina Pugliese and Roger Petersen. The hosts asked them to share information about their recent project – “Deep Space Musical” which ended up amongst 2018 NASA Global Finalists from over 1395 projects worldwide. Artash and Arushi explained how they used iconic mages from the Hubble Telescope and…

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We love rockets. Space exploration and rockets go together. As humans dare to dream to explore Moon (once again), Mars and deep space we need to create bigger and powerful rockets that are safe, reusable and intelligent. As with all complex projects, the important thing is to break them into simpler parts and work on them modularly.  Anyone can contribute to building rockets by sharing expertise, or lessons from their own experiments in making them,…

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Science starts with curiosity. Learning happens by doing. Science flourishes where there is an encouraging environment. These are our takeaways from the lecture delivered by Dr. Rainer Weiss, 2017 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics for his decisive contributions to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector and the observation of Gravitational Waves, at the Ontario Science Centre, Toronto on 28 November 2018. Dr. Weiss is a Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The lecture was delivered…

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On 20-21 November 2018, the Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS) is being held at The Carlu, Toronto. TMLS is a collaborative event for the Canadian Machine Learning community comprised of over 6,000 Machine Learning researchers, professionals, and entrepreneurs across several Bagdisciplines. Artash (12 years) is interested in space, robotics, music, and artificial intelligence. He has been lately working on using machine learning to predict the risk of Asteroids colliding with Earth. He submitted a paper to…

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