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Good day Mountain View! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How did a Mountain View startup put 420‑pound robots on patrol?
  • How a Mountain View garage birthed Apple's most iconic race car livery.

Also on today's calendar: Grandparents Day and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: What do evil hens lay? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, with a high of 85 and low of 58 degrees.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 80, low: 60.
  • Friday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, with a high of 79 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Meet the 420-pound robots patrolling America (interestingengineering.com) — A Mountain View-based company, Knightscope, is rolling out 420‑pound K5 security robots that patrol parking lots and campuses nationwide using cameras, lidar, and thermal imaging. The article explains how these slow-moving machines are meant to deter crime, notes mixed real‑world results, and highlights that most of Knightscope's growing revenue now comes from a traditional security-guarding business it acquired.
   

• Made in Mountain View: The True Story of the Apple Porsche 935 Livery (petrolicious.com) — A famed Apple-sponsored Porsche race car was actually built and prepped in a Mountain View shop that once serviced Steve Wozniak's 928 and other local engineers' Porsches. The story revisits how a little-known art director and a hands-on Valley garage, not just Steve Jobs, brought the iconic rainbow-liveried 935 to life.
   

📸 Around Mountain View

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Mountain View

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★ Featured events ★

    Sunday September 13
  • Grandparents Day →
    Animal Assisted Happiness, 999 E Caribbean Dr, Sunnyvale
    9:30 am

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Other local events
    Thursday August 20
  • Back to School Night ESN Classes
    Covington Elementary Los Altos, CA 94024
    5:00 pm
  • Preschool Back to School Night - Theuerkauf
    Mountain View Whisman School District Mountain View, CA 94043
    5:00 pm
  • Instant Play Festival
    Los Altos High Mountain View, CA 94040
    6:00 pm
  • Back To School Night Educational Partners Talk
    Covington Elementary Los Altos, CA 94024
    6:05 pm
    • Friday August 21
  • ASB Freshmen Election paperwork due
    Mountain View High Mountain View, CA 94040
    4:00 pm
  • JV Football scrimmage @ Leigh HS
    Mountain View High Mountain View, CA 94040
    4:00 pm
  • Back to School Dance Party
    Los Altos High Mountain View, CA 94040
    6:00 pm
  • Varsity Football Scrimmage @ Leigh HS
    Mountain View High Mountain View, CA 94040
    6:00 pm
    • Thursday August 27
  • Groovin' Fairchild's at Hyatt Centric Mtn. View →
    Hyatt Centric Mountain View, 409 San Antonio Rd, Mountain View
    6:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Wednesday August 19
  • Custom Chatbots to Support Student Success (Virtual)
    Santa Clara University Remote via Zoom
    10:00 am
  • Free In-Person English Class | Clase de inglés en persona gratuita
    East Palo Alto Library 2415 University Avenue, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
    10:30 am
  • TerminalFour: Working w/ Images & Files
    Santa Clara University Zoom Session or In-person: Learning Commons-Lab 206
    10:30 am
  • Bilingual Storytime / Hora de Cuentos Bilingüe
    East Palo Alto Library 2415 University Avenue, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
    10:30 am

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Deviled eggs (Thank you Karla H. for sending it in!)
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