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Episode Synopsis
Send us a textDo you pride yourself in how your organize your organics, recycling, and garbage materials for pick-up? Or do you just throw everything together in one bin? Clearly, if materials are organized properly it makes it much easier to process them at the relevant facility.In this episode we sit down with Sam Dietrich to learn about his career, which has seen him working in robotics and programming. Sam has a background in Industrial Systems engineering, and minors in both Electronics and Software Systems engineering. Sam is the CEO at Prairie Robotics, which uses smart technologies to help clients gather data during the collection of recycling, organics, and garbage materials. This data can then be used to help educate residents on how to organize their recyclables, organics, and garbage for collection. Sam talks about his experience at university, his initial work experiences after graduation, and what led to the creation of Prairie Robotics. Sam also offers advice to young people thinking about a career in engineering.
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