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49ers STEM Education Program Partners With Silicon Valley Robotics Company

The San Fransisco 49ers Museum recently announced an educational partnership with Wonder Workshop, a robotics company from Silicon Valley.  This partnership will allow the 49ers Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Program to provide its students with programmable, interactive robots, promoting technological and engineering practices in the children. The 49ers STEM Program, which accepts students […]

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NFL Social Report Cards: NFC West

The NFC West entered the season with big expectations and did not disappoint by having the best collective record of any division. Most importantly, and as widely predicted, the Seahawks and 49ers will face off this weekend with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. But how did such a successful division fair with […]

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Atlanta Falcons Announce Plans For Tech Savvy New Stadium

The  NFL’s stadium building craze is in full force and it looks like the latest gridiron masterpiece will be making its way to downtown Atlanta. Team officials announced yesterday that 360 Architecture presented its’ vision to the Georgia World Authority on Monday and the plans were approved. The mock-ups are nothing short of extraordinary. NFL […]

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NFL Upgrades to New Digital Headsets

(AP) Imagine the coach of your NFL team failing to relay the play call to the quarterback on the field because his outdated analog headset is picking up the random signal of nearby airplane pilots. Seems a little farfetched for America’s largest sport to have simple communication problems right? But just ask San Francisco 49ers Offensive Coordinator, Greg Roman, about trying to communicate with his quarterback, Alex Smith, last year. According to Roman, “There was one time when I was doing it and it happened to be on the same frequency as an airline in a certain city and it was a critical situation in the game and all you hear is Southwest pilots talking.”

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