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NextFlex: FlexFactor Goes Virtual as Nation Reacts to COVID-19

Students tasked with creating hardware device that addresses a real-world problem, creating business model, presenting project to panelists.

On March 19, 2020, California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded the shelter-in-place order from just the Bay Area to include the entire state. In the following days, several other states enacted similar orders that all had the same effect: students are no longer going to school in person. In a sometimes-difficult transition, K-12 schools and institutions of higher education did what they had to do to bring school to their students virtually. Similarly, the industry had to move its operations to a ...

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