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NEWS RELEASE – 24 January 2007 – LEGO Education will join National Instruments (www.ni.com/asean) at the 2007 NIDays conferences in Southeast Asia. NIDays is the company’s worldwide annual virtual instrumentation conference featuring new product presentations; hands-on, technology-focused sessions; and exhibits on the latest solutions in design, control and test.
Coming to Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Bangkok, NIDays 2007 offers new, innovative technical hands-on sessions featuring products such as the NI LabVIEW Embedded Module for ADI Blackfin Processors, a Technical Consultation Corner for attendees with technical questions, and an opportunity to network with hundreds of engineers, scientists, developers, educators and National Instruments Alliance Partners. Event dates and locations include:
| Location | Date |
| Singapore | 2 February |
| Manila | 13 February |
| Kuala Lumpur | 8 March |
| Penang | 13 March |
| Bangkok | 15 March |
“National Instruments has revolutionized measurement and control applications in many industries,” said Chandran Nair, managing director of National Instruments Southeast Asia. “We see this collaboration as part of our commitment to make learning fun and effective. Future engineers and scientists are now exposed to graphical programming and control concepts at a very young age.”
LEGO Education and National Instruments will jointly present the closing keynote “Virtual Instrumentation in Your Everyday Life – Reloaded” at NIDays in Singapore. LEGO Education and National Instruments began their long-standing relationship in 1998 and most recently collaborated to develop the new LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT software, which includes a simple drag-and-drop, graphical interface optimized for the target MINDSTORMS NXT consumer, ages 10 and above. In addition, NI recently released the new LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, which more advanced MINDSTORMS NXT consumers, including adults and secondary school and university students and educators, can use to program the NXT with advanced LabVIEW graphical programming tools.
“Through this collaboration, we are able to put advanced technology into the hands of students from a young age,” said Lim Cheng Pier, regional manager of LEGO Education (South and East Asia). “Thus, students can learn through hands-on, real-world experience, which underscores the core of the LEGO Education learning philosophy. By infusing their own creativity, design, logic and problem-solving skills, students using LEGO MINDSTORMS can explore endless math, science, technology and engineering opportunities, and have lots of fun while doing it.”
Conference attendees also have the opportunity to learn about new NI software – including LabVIEW 8.20, the 20th anniversary edition of the graphical development environment – and NI hardware innovations including PXI, PCI Express and CompactRIO. Additionally, attendees will hear from experts on the hottest industry topics during keynote presentations and technical sessions, study future technology trends in virtual instrumentation and learn firsthand how NI software and hardware increase productivity and lower costs.
To register or obtain more information on the conference, including technical tracks and presentations, visit www.ni.com/asean/nidays or e-mail asean.nidays@ni.com.
About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,000 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past eight years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
About LEGO Education
The goal of LEGO Education is to be part of a young person’s entire preschool and school career. With our wide and diverse product range we would like children to associate LEGO sets with fun-filled, rich learning experiences, and for teachers and child-carers to see them as vital educational tools where children are totally engaged, their creativity challenged and their knowledge and understanding enhanced.
About LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education
LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education concept is developed specifically for school and after-school settings. It consists of brick sets, programming tools and activity packs. The programming tool is developed by National Instruments and is based on LabVIEW. Please visit www.LEGO.com/education.
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