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Indiana Bond Bank: Financing Road Infrastructure and Equipment
Get PDFLearn how the Indiana Bond Bank can support your community’s road projects through innovative financing solutions. This session will explore project and equipment financing options, fuel price protection strategies, and other resources designed to help municipalities fund road infrastructure improvements, maintenance, and expansions. Discover how to make the most of these financial tools to keep your community’s roads safe, reliable, and well-maintained
A Mixed-Use Model: Lafayette Sagamore Parkway NLT Trail
Get PDFThe City of Lafayette and the Wabash River Enhancement Corporation (WREC) recently constructed a nearly 1-mile segment of mixed-use trail along Sagamore Parkway. The project was funded through an IDNR Next-Level Trails (NLT) grant. Presenters will discuss the partnership between a local non-profit (WREC), the owner (City of Lafayette), and the planners and engineers (Kimley-Horn)
A Dyer Story: US 30 Bridge Replacement
Get PDFDiscover how a utility company, contractor, designer, and utility coordinator collaborated to safely and successfully execute a bridge replacement project right next to a gas pipeline. This session will provide an in-depth look at the challenges faced, the strategies employed, and the teamwork that made it all possible. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a project that utilized available resources to mitigate risks and achieve a successful bridge replacement
UniT: Data Efficient Tactile Representation with Generalization to Unseen Objects
Get PDFUniT is an approach to tactile representation learning, using VQGAN to learn a compact latent space and serve as the tactile representation. It uses tactile images obtained from a single simple object to train the representation with generalizability. This tactile representation can be zero-shot transferred to various downstream tasks, including perception tasks and manipulation policy learning. Our benchmarkings on in-hand 3D pose and 6D pose estimation tasks and a tactile classification task show that UniT outperforms existing visual and tactile representation learning methods. Additionally, UniT\u27s effectiveness in policy learning is demonstrated across three real-world tasks involving diverse manipulated objects and complex robot-object-environment interactions. Through extensive experimentation, UniT is shown to be a simple-to-train, plug-and-play, yet widely effective method for tactile representation learning
Creative Readers: Arts Programming for Special Needs Inclusion at the Public Library
Get PDFCreative Readers, an arts & literacy inclusion program and winner of the 2017 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, turns books into a multi-sensory experience for K- 6th grade students offering all learners the ability to be challenged, motivated and successful. Using theater, art, movement and music each lesson enables participants to bring a book to life, increasing their love of literature while exploring their strength of expression through the arts. The program also offers a space for unique learners of all abilities, to socialize and work together creatively. High school volunteers are paired with participants to model behavior and socialization skills offering social, emotional and academic growth for all. Creative Readers was developed in partnership with the Port Washington Public Library, at the request of the Special Education Parent Teacher Association, to meet a growing community need. By creating safe spaces for a mixture of students, from general education, inclusion, self-contained, and out-of-district special needs classrooms, to explore literacy through the arts, all learn and shine in their own way
LEaPP Basic Code Sight Word Vocabulary Screener
Get PDFThe LEaPP Basic Code Sight Word Vocabulary Screener can be used to determine which words a learner has in their sight word vocabulary. These words are organized according to the concepts on the LEaPP Scope and Sequence Progress Monitoring Form. The list contains phonetic and non-phonetic words that are frequently used in early reading text and each set has an established criteria for mastery. The accompanying PowerPoint deck allows for quick examination of a learners’ sight word vocabulary. This document contains instructions for use and the record form