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Think Transcend and the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Announce Launch of the Transcendent Leader Institute for California Education Leaders

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An Immersive Leadership Experience Begins June 2026

SANTA ANA, Calif., June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Think Transcend, a division of Think Education, and leader in educational professional development, and the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) are proud to launch the Transcendent Leader Institute, an innovative, 10-month leadership experience for current and aspiring California superintendents and system leaders. The inaugural cohort begins in June 2026.

The Transcendent Leader Institute represents a bold investment in the future of educational leadership in California –one that centers not only on technical expertise, but deep personal, relational, and soul-centered capacities required to lead complex systems in service of student success. Rooted in the belief that every single student deserves access to thriving schools, strong relationships and transformative opportunities, the Institute is designed to cultivate leaders who can create lasting impact for students, staff, families, and communities.

“At a time when the demands on educational leaders have never been greater, this partnership reflects a shared commitment to developing leaders who can create conditions for students, staff, and communities to thrive – even amid complexity,” said Dr. Paul Gothold, President and Founder of Think Transcend. “Together with ACSA, we are creating a space where leaders can grow not just in skill, but also in their sense of purpose, presence, and capacity to inspire meaningful change across their organizations.”

The 10-month Institute is grounded in a comprehensive leadership framework built around 12 core competencies for effective superintendency. Participants engage in immersive in-person sessions, ongoing virtual learning, coaching, and collaborative experiences. The design emphasizes real-world application, personal discovery, and the cultivation of a strong, enduring leadership community committed to advancing excellence, equity and student-centered leadership.

Participants in the Institute will explore topics such as systems leadership, data-driven leadership, socially conscious leadership, and empowering and cultivating people. The experience culminates in a capstone project where leaders apply their learning to real-time leadership within a district or organization, with focus on creating stronger outcomes and opportunities for students.

“This collaboration reflects our belief that leadership development must evolve to meet the realities of today’s educational landscape,” said Dr. Edgar Zazueta, Executive Director of ACSA. “This Institute creates space for deep reflection and growth, equipping leaders to strengthen systems, empower people, and drive meaningful and lasting change that positively impacts students and communities.”

Participants will also become part of the Transcendent Leader Fellowship, a lifelong network of leaders committed to ongoing growth, connection, and collective impact in support of California’s students and communities.

Applications and interest for the inaugural June 2026 cohort are open now. Space will be limited to ensure a highly personalized and impactful experience.

To increase access to school leaders from all backgrounds, Think Transcend is seeking philanthropic sponsors for candidates to participate in the inaugural institute.

For more information or to express interest, please visit ThinkTranscend.org or contact the team directly at collaborate@thinktranscend.org.

About Think Transcend
Launched in 2025, Think Transcend offers a soul-centered leadership approach that inspires hope and promise for public education. Designed by three former superintendents who created lasting student impact in their respective districts, Think Transcend strives to elevate and celebrate the possibilities of education systems.

A division of Think Education, Think Transcend’s mission is energizing a movement of transcendent leaders with heart, skill and will anchored in the success of every single student. Think Education is grounded on a simple but powerful belief: when schools and communities work together, students thrive.

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X Square Robot Open-Sources XRZero-G0 to Scale Robot Learning with Interfaces, Data Quality and Ratios

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XRZero-G0: A framework for high-quality robot-free data collection and embodied AI training

SHENZHEN, China, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Scaling embodied AI has long been bottlenecked by data. Teleoperating real robots is expensive and slow, yielding only a limited number of demonstrations per day. While robot-free data collection offers a promising alternative, the lack of systematic quality control and training integration has limited its effectiveness for policy learning.

X Square Robot announces the open-source release of XRZero-G0, a hardware-software co-designed framework for robot-free data collection, trainable policy generation, and real-robot evaluation. Alongside it, the team releases G0-Dataset, a large-scale validated multimodal dataset produced by XRZero-G0, providing reproducible high-quality robot-free data for the global robotics community.

Bridging robot-free and real-world perception

Physical robots perceive the world through multiple viewpoints, typically a head-mounted camera for global context and wrist-mounted cameras for fine-grained manipulation. In contrast, most robot-free systems rely only on wrist-view observations from human demonstrators, creating a gap between training and deployment.

XRZero-G0 addresses this gap with a multi-view aligned sensing system that aligns human demonstration with robot observation spaces.

The system combines a head-mounted camera and dual wrist cameras to capture both global context and detailed hand-object interactions. These synchronized observations are mapped into a shared representation compatible with robot perception.

A wearable VR interface and interchangeable grippers allow human operators to generate demonstrations that are directly transferable to different robot embodiments, enabling high-throughput robot-free data collection across diverse environments.

Making robot-free demonstrations truly trainable

Data quality has been a critical barrier in robot-free learning. XRZero-G0 formalizes trainability governance via a closed-loop Collection–Inspection–Training–Evaluation pipeline:

Observation level: multi-view geometric consistency suppresses visual-kinematic misalignment.Kinematic level: full-body inverse kinematics with collision and joint-limit constraints filters invalid trajectories.Policy level: real-robot playback serves as the final validation criterion.

This pipeline improves the usability of robot-free demonstrations, with experiments showing an effective data yield of around 85% under controlled experimental settings, significantly increasing the proportion of trainable samples.

A 10:1 mixing law reduces real-robot data requirements

A key finding of the XRZero-G0 study is that robot-free data and real-robot data can complement each other effectively.

Controlled experiments show that combining approximately 10 robot-free episodes with 1 real-robot episode achieves performance comparable to purely real-robot datasets in evaluated tasks.

Robot-free data provides broad behavioral coverage and task understanding, while a small amount of real-robot data anchors embodiment-specific factors such as motor latency and friction. This strategy reduces the need for real-robot data by up to 20× under experimental conditions.

G0-Dataset scales XRZero-G0 into a 2,000-hour dataset

Built on XRZero-G0, G0-Dataset provides over 2,000 hours of validated multimodal demonstrations spanning vision, tactile, and audio modalities.

The dataset integrates robot-free collection, automated quality inspection, mixed-data training, and real-robot evaluation for research purposes. G0-Dataset supports large-scale pretraining and cross-embodiment transfer experiments, providing a reproducible open resource for robotics research.

Zero-shot transfer across robot embodiments

Experiments indicate that policies trained with XRZero-G0 exhibit improved generalization across collection environments, including varying robot poses, table heights, and viewpoints.

They also demonstrate zero-shot cross-embodiment transfer ability in evaluated settings, where policies trained with mixed data can be transferred to unseen robot platforms without task-specific fine-tuning.

Building an open ecosystem

By open-sourcing XRZero-G0 and releasing G0-Dataset, X Square Robot provides hardware designs, automated inspection pipelines, training methodologies, and high-quality datasets to the research community.

These resources aim to accelerate the development of general-purpose robots and scalable embodied AI, supporting a transition toward more systematic and large-scale data generation approaches.

XRZero-G0 and G0-Dataset are now publicly available for researchers and developers worldwide.

Project Homepage: https://x2robot.com/x2go
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13001
Code: https://github.com/X-Square-Robot/XRZero-G0
Open Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/x-square-robot/XRZero-G0-3K 

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StarHub’s Got You This June: Staying Connected at Home, Away and Everywhere in Between

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SINGAPORE, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Whether you’re gearing up for the World Cup, or simply looking for more value at home, here’s a quick look at what’s happening at StarHub this month.

Hub More. Save More. Worry Less. 
No two households are the same. That’s why Hubbing helps customers enjoy greater savings and peace of mind when they add on broadband, mobile and entertainment services. Build the perfect family plan with all-inclusive broadband from $29.55/month, up to 25% savings on more 5G Unlimited+ mobile lines and more ways to Hub with us

Find out more: https://www.starhub.com/personal/hubbing.html

From 8 June, look out for the limited edition Hubling™ Happy to Help Blind Box, available exclusively at StarHub retail stores. New customers who sign up for two eligible services will receive a Blind Box for free. Existing customers with one eligible service can add on one service, while those with two eligible services can add on or upgrade an existing service to qualify. Hidden inside 10 Blind Boxes are Golden Tickets, including two grand prizes of a 2D1N Family Retreat at Mandai Rainforest Resort with four tickets to one Mandai Wildlife Park (worth over $900) and $200 Grab vouchers. 

Visit StarHub’s Instagram page for more.  

The World Cup is Here. Don’t Miss a Match
Catch all 104 matches live on StarHub TV+ from 12 June with Mediacorp’s FIFA World Cup 2026™ Season Pass, available at $118 for new and existing customers. Sign up and receive $400 worth of Hisense TV and Samsung device vouchers. Find out more: https://www.starhub.com/personal/bundles/worldcup-2026.html

Looking to catch the action with fellow football fans? Join us at our next StarHub WatchParty on 28 June at Oasis Terraces, Punggol! Enjoy breakfast and family-friendly football carnival games from 9am before Argentina takes on Jordan at 10am. Check out StarHub’s Instagram page for the latest.

However June looks for you, StarHub’s got you.

About StarHub
StarHub is a leading homegrown Singapore company that delivers world-class communications, entertainment, and digital services. With our extensive fibre and wireless infrastructure and global partnerships, we bring to people, homes and enterprises quality mobile and fixed services, a broad suite of premium content, and a diverse range of communication solutions. We develop and deliver solutions incorporating artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data analytics, Internet of Things, and robotics for corporate and government clients. 

StarHub is committed to conducting our business sustainably and responsibly. StarHub is named among TIME’s World’s Most Sustainable Companies 2025 and ranked as the world’s most sustainable wireless telecommunication provider on the Corporate Knights Global 100 (2025). StarHub also ranks 187 on the FORTUNE Southeast Asia 500 in 2025. Listed on the Singapore Exchange mainboard, StarHub is a component stock of the SGX iEdge Singapore Low Carbon Index, iEdge-OCBC Singapore Low Carbon Select 50 Capped Index; as well as the FTSE4Good Index series.   

 

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Systemair delivers future-proof swimming facility technology to Malmö

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SKINNSKATTEBERG, Sweden, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Systemair (NASDAQ Stockholm: SYSR) has been commissioned to deliver ventilation and dehumidification solutions for the new Heleneholm swimming facility in Malmö. The project is carried out together with the City of Malmö, NCC and Assemblin Ventilation AB, and marks an important step toward the next generation of sustainable aquatic centres.

The delivery includes both dry and wet air-handling units as part of a complete turnkey solution, developed in close collaboration with the customer. The delivery also includes specialised swimming facility technology from Menerga, part of the Systemair Group.

At the core of the system are Menerga’s advanced dehumidification units with integrated heat pumps using the natural refrigerant CO₂ (R744). The technology is entirely PFAS-free and enables highly efficient heat recovery to supply air, pool water and the building’s energy system.

“With our CO₂-based technology, we offer a future-proof solution that combines high energy efficiency with a completely natural and PFAS-free refrigerant – an important step toward more sustainable swimming facilities,” says Kent Granberg, Managing Director of Menerga Sweden.

The Systemair Group is currently the only company in Europe offering this type of CO₂-based technology for swimming pools. The installation at Heleneholmsbadet will be the second one in Sweden where Systemair uses CO₂  as a refrigerant.

“Thanks to the expertise within our Group, we can offer a complete and future-proof solution for complex swimming facility projects. For the customer, this means a reliable partner that takes full responsibility – from early design to final installation and optimised operation,” says Marcus Sandlund, Managing Director of Systemair Sweden.

The delivery will take place during 2026–2027 and includes integration with the building’s management system as well as a five-year warranty with a service agreement, making Heleneholmsbadet a reference project for the energy-efficient and sustainable swimming environments of the future.

For further information, please contact:
Cathrine Stjärnekull
Group Communications Director
cathrine.stjarnekull@systemair.com
+46 722406388

Systemair in brief

Systemair (SYSR) is a leading ventilation Group that helps improve the indoor climate through energy-efficient products and solutions. The Systemair Group is conducting business in 51 countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Africa. The Group’s products are mainly marketed under the Systemair, Frico, Fantech, and Menerga brands. In the 2025/26 financial year, the Systemair Group employed approximately 7,400 people and had sales of SEK 12.5 billion. Systemair has reported an operating profit ever since it was founded in 1974, and over the past 10 years growth averaged 7.7%. Systemair is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap List.

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