On June 1st, 2023, NextFlex hosted the Spring 2023 Santa Clara County FlexFactor Finals. Five teams across three school districts competed for top honors. The three districts represented at this event were San Jose Unified School District, Milpitas Unified School District, and Metropolitan Education District. The students present at FlexFactor …
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Dear Members and Colleagues, We are hoping to see many of you at our next workshop, The Hybrid Electronics Commercialization Path for Aerospace Applications, in Renton, WA on June 26 – 28. On the evening of the 26th, there will be an excellent welcome reception at the Museum of Flight …
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Recently, NextFlex had the opportunity to host 115 fourth grade students from Noddin Elementary School (Union School District) for a full-day FlexFactor Sprint. FlexFactor is a project-based learning program during which students are introduced to flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) after which they research a problem area, conceptualize an advanced hardware …
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Dear Members and Friends, As you know, NextFlex is one of 16 Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs) located around the country, with each one focused on a different emerging technology. We at NextFlex are focused on hybrid electronics, while others focus on such things as wide-bandgap semiconductors, e-textiles, 3-D printing, lightweight …
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NextFlex hosted the FHE community March 28-29 at the Technology Hub in San Jose, CA where 135 attendees from industry, academia, and government convened to provide technical updates on development projects, and to form collaborative teams for the eighth project call which launched the prior week. The workshop launched with …
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Dear Members and Colleagues, If you haven’t yet registered to attend our Winter Symposium on March 28 – 29 here at the Technology Hub in San Jose, please do so. It’s shaping up to be a fantastic event where we will launch our eighth project call. This part of the …
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