Source: Visit website LARAMIE -- Coming off top-level summer internships at prestigious companies like NASA and Qualcomm, one thing University of Wyoming graduates Christian Bitzas and his friend Oreoluwa Babatunde quickly realized is they didn⁘t like the idea of working a traditional 9 to 5 job in a cubicle for someone else.
And the realization that they⁘d have to move somewhere other than Wyoming to have the kind of jobs in robotics they wanted?
About the same time the two Gen Z grads were wrestling with this quandary, Bitzas⁘ dad called him up with a little quandary of his own. He owned a home inspection company and needed something to help him look inside a crawl space too tight for him to physically get into.
This kind of thing was right up Bitzas⁘ alley. Not only is he an electrical engineer, but he⁘d done lots of side projects with GIS drone mapping and 3D printing.
But, as Bitzas was working on his dad⁘s 3D-printed miniature smart robot crawler, he realized that what he was doing could be the answer to his own problem.
If he and Babtunde, a computer science engineer, started their own company making smart robotic home inspection gadgets, they wouldn⁘t be working 9 to 5 for someone else. They⁘d be working for themselves.
And even better, they⁘d be creating jobs for other engineers like themselves with an interest in robotics. They could help not only themselves, but other fellow students stay in the state they love, with a diverse job opportunity in robotics.
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