Osmoces (Open Source Mechatronics Outreach & Creative Exchange Symposium) is the natural progression of the very successful ASME Open Source Microcontroller Workhop.

Organized by the Fox Valley ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) the target audience are High School Students/Instructors, Scientists/Engineerings and the Open Source/ Maker Community.

The objective is to facilitate the flow of knowledge and ideas from these groups (hence the play the word Osmosis). If you have a inner geek in you, it’s really a good time.

Underlying this all, we want foster & mentor our local High School Robotics teams and expose them to the fun of engineering.

Steven M. Collins will be the keynote speaker at OSMOCES.  Steve is an engineer at JPL and an expert on spacecraft attitude control-- but very knowledgeable on all aspects of planetary missions, and very good at explaining his work.   He's worked on Curiosity, Galileo, Deep Impact, Deep Space One, the Mars Exploration Rovers that landed in 2004, and many other missions.