{"id":221,"date":"2014-11-25T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/?p=221"},"modified":"2022-03-09T22:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:51:59","slug":"certificate-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/2014\/11\/certificate-of-excellence","title":{"rendered":"Certificate of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_222\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2694-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nice to be Certifiably Excellent\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2694-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2694-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice to be Certifiably Excellent<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week I was awarded another Certificate of Excellence at NASA for building and leading the Dynamic Tensegrity Robotics Lab.\u00a0 I&#8217;m quite touched by the recognition!\u00a0 Despite the fact that it feels to me like I&#8217;m just chugging along, working hard every day, with small incremental progress, I must be doing something right, since I&#8217;m getting multiple awards every year now.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the current list since I returned to NASA in 2011 from being CTO of Apisphere Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nov\u00a0 2014 Ames Contractor Council Certificate of Excellence &#8212; Individual<\/li>\n<li>May 2014 Space Flight Awareness Team Award, Ames Research Center International Space Station Team.<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2013 Employee of the Quarter, ISRDS Contract, SGT Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2013 Certificate of Achievement for Business Development<\/li>\n<li>Aug 2013 Group Achievement Award, Smart SPHERES Team<\/li>\n<li>March 2013 Certificate of Achievement for Leading Innovation, and academic and NASA collaboration on Tensegrity Robots.<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 2012 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Fellow<\/li>\n<li>Nov. 2011 Ames Contractor Council Certificate of Excellence for ISRDS Human Exploration Tele-Robotics Spheres Team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_223\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2696-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-image-223 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2696-copy-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate of Excellence\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2696-copy-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_2696-copy-1024x798.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Certificate of Excellence<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was awarded another Certificate of Excellence at NASA for building and leading the Dynamic Tensegrity Robotics Lab.\u00a0 I&#8217;m quite touched by the recognition!\u00a0 Despite the fact that it feels to me like I&#8217;m just chugging along, working hard every day, with small incremental progress, I must be doing something right, since I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64,21],"tags":[115,46],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brains","category-joy","tag-award","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pShAo-3z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magicalrobot.org\/BeingHuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}