Friday Fun: TRON

I subscribed to Disney+ last week and started reliving part of my childhood. I saw the original TRON in 1982 as an 11 year old kid. Of course, that had to be the first thing I watched. It suddenly occurred to me, about half-way through, that TRON, the movie, is one of the influences that led me into an engineering career. As a middle-schooler, I began to explore computers and engineering. A demonstration of robotics during a field trip solidified my desire to be an engineer and led to my enrollment at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering. How many more programmers and engineers did this movie and similar demonstrations help create? Now, I am wondering how we can inspire today’s generation of middle-schoolers with EVs in such a way that will encourage them to take us to new levels of energy generation and application.

Thanks for listening and allowing me to geek-out a bit. It’s funny how something, insignificant in the grand scheme of things, can be life changing. Let me hear from you. Did you see TRON? Did it influence you? Email, DM and/or leave a review.

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