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Hello from the PTC Education Advanced Technologies Team. We hope everyone is staying well and the spring semester is wrapping up nicely 

Please reach out to us at EduTech@ptc.com with any questions, or if you would like to share opportunities for collaborations in this newsletter. If you did not receive this letter directly, please complete this form to be added to the mailing list. 
 
The PTC Digital Transformation in Education Summit
May 19th from 8am-12pm EDT 

This event will bring together thought leaders from around the world using PTC technologies in research and teaching. Click here to register, and please invite any colleagues who may be interested. Part of the summit will be a Student Poster Session for any stents doing research projects with PTC technology. Abstracts should be submitted be submitted to this form by Friday, April 23rd. 
 
Announcements
Webinar Series
The next webinar of the semester will take place on April 26th at 9am EDT with a talk from Dr. Peter Zink and Dr. Matt Mueller about the technology development happening within PTC Education. You can join the webinar here. Recordings of all past webinars can be found on this page. 

General
Please reach out if you would like to share any announcements or recruit research partners through PTC’s academic collaborator network. 
Key Collaborator Highlight
Research
In collaboration with Tufts University in Boston, UAS Technikum Wien in Austria, White Mountain Science Inc. in New Hampshire, and Afrel Co. in Japan, PTC Education lead an activity in which students from around the world were able to control a robot arm using Vuforia Spatial Toolbox, and send the motion path to an Onshape document as a sketch. Students from each of these sites logged on to Zoom at the same time and were able to create sketches in the one Onshape document. Video of the activity linked here. 
Education Student Research Associate Program 
Advanced Technology Highlight 
In an effort to create the simplest possible way of getting started with the Vuforia Spatial Toolbox, we have developed a method for turning a Raspberry Pi into a WiFi hotspot after the Spatial Edge Server has been installed on it. This allows anyone connected to the local network created by the Raspberry Pi to control and connect any piece of hardware connected to the edge server, no internet connection required. Github tutorial linked here. 
Intern Highlight 
Jessica Stastny is a student at Brigham Young University studying Manufacturing Engineering. When asked what she has learned using PTC Technologies, Jessica said, “Working for PTC has been a very enriching experience. I have learned how to take charge of my project and how to move forward when I do not understand something by researching and asking for help from more experienced coworkers and PTC experts. I come from a limited coding background, so I have enjoyed diving deeper into aspects of Vuforia Studio and ThingWorx that I have otherwise not touched, like the Identity Resolution Service and API calls.” 
PTC Resources and Product Announcements 
  • Check out what’s new in version 9.0.3 of Vuforia Studio 
  • Vuforia Chalk 4.0.0 has been released and now supports multi-expert sessions. Learn more here. 
  • Check out the new features included in the latest release of Onshape 
  • You can find a collection of publicly available resources on digital transformation technologies on this GitHub page . Please let us know what other supports you would like to help in your digital transformation journey. 
Please reach out if you would like to share any announcements or recruit research partners through PTC’s academic collaborator network. 
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