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Can you solve the basketball riddle? - Dan Katz

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You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re excited to demonstrate its capabilities. Until you read an advertisement: “See the Dunk-O-Matic face human players and automatically adjust its skill to create a fair game for every opponent!” That’s not what you were told to create. Can you recalibrate your robot to make it a fair match? Dan Katz shows how.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Dan Katz
Director
Igor Coric, Artrake Studio
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Music
Cem Misirlioglu, Greg Chudzik
Sound Designer
Cem Misirlioglu
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Produced by
Anna Bechtol, Sazia Afrin
Editorial Director
Alex Rosenthal

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