Seeing this Tweet earlier this week, I had to investigate!
Matt responded: "I attached the only pic I took during our workshop last night with the students first being introduced to Java and NetBeans by Ross Etchells and Briana Hoffman (in the right of the photo) who are software engineers with a local software development company Innovative Software Engineering (ISE) and Mentors on our FIRST Robotics Competition Team. And you can actually see last year's robot in the far background with the big blue ball."
And look really closely and you'll see a few laptops with NetBeans IDE installed!
The group above is using NetBeans IDE as a tool to learn Java as a programming language to control a robot for the FIRST Robotics Competition this coming season.
Below are some links with info on FIRST and FRC, West Branch High School, Team 5041 (which is the above FRC Team), and ISE below.
West Branch, Iowa Schools
FIRST and FRC
Team 5041 Website
Innovative Software Engineering
Watch this space on more around the above group, and others, in the coming months!