This wide-ranging conversation with Eswar Anandapadmanaban takes us from his roots winning the Google Science Fair, to studying at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology where he invested time in a wide range of projects and internship experiences (at companies including NASDAQ and IDEO), through his award-winning mixed reality work for the US Air Force, and finally, back to his time driving MIT's premier global mixed-reality programs.

Resources Mentioned & Other Links of Interest

Eswar’s Website

MIT Reality Hack Hackathon

VR/AR @ MIT

What is a hackathon?

PTC

Waypoint Labs Acquired By PTC

MIT Online Courses Free (OCW)

Samsung Next Accelerator

WebXR

NASDAQ Innovation Lab

IDEO CoLab

IDEO Designed the first Apple mouse

PillPack Case Study

Design Thinking

MIT Media Lab

MIT Hacks

Eswar Win’s Air Force Competition

AFWERX Challenges

Model UN

7 Amazing Google Science Fair Projects

TheraNIM: A Touchless Respiratory Monitor.

ISEF Science Fair

Eswar on LinkedIn. 

Eswar’s portfolio.

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