SEPATON Sponsors Local FIRST LEGO League Team to Encourage Science and Technology Ingenuity

Submitted by mhoagland on November 17, 2009 - 1:12pm

MARLBOROUGH, MA -- November 17, 2009 -- SEPATON, Inc., the leader in enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions, today announced its sponsorship of the FIRST LEGO® League's Needham, MA Hillside School team grades 4 – 5. The Needham team will compete against other local school teams in a task to design a computer program to navigate a Lego robot through an obstacle course in 90 seconds.

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"Through our sponsorship in events such as this the objective is to encourage young people to take up science, technology and engineering to help them learn new skills and inspire innovation, while enjoying themselves and gaining self-confidence and leadership," said Mike Worhach, president and CEO, SEPATON, Inc. "Add to this team spirit and a sense of achievement, the students will be sure to learn new well-rounded life lessons and capabilities."

FIRST was founded in 1989 by Inventor and Entrepreneur, Dean Kamen to inspire young people's interest and participation in science and technology. Based in Manchester, NH, the 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit public charity designs accessible, innovative programs that motivate young people to pursue education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math, while building self-confidence, knowledge, and life skills. Mr. Kamen's passion and determination to help young people discover the excitement and rewards of science and technology are the cornerstones of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).

About SEPATON, Inc.
SEPATON is the only disk-based data protection company with a scale-out backup and recovery system built to achieve the performance and capacity requirements of the most data intensive organizations. Built on our patented scale-out architecture, SEPATON products enable data-intensive enterprises to deduplicate, back up, replicate, and restore petabytes of data at wire speed without disruption to their existing infrastructure. As a result, these products provide the most return on their investment in backup technology. For additional information call 866-SEPATON or visit http://www.sepaton.com.

 

Contacts:
Beth Winkowski
SEPATON, Inc.
978-649-7189
bwinkowski@sepaton.com

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