A wide-range of fun and interactive workshops provide our guests with a hands-on opportunity to see just how exciting and stimulating these professions can be.
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Engineering at Rensselaer is Sweet!
Do you have a sweet tooth? Come learn how to assemble a box of candy in the Advanced Manufacturing Lab and different manufacturing processes, including robotics and automation, plastic injection molding, 3-D printing, and water-jet cutting. This is a sweet chocolate factory you'll never forget!
ErgoGenic Games
Using digital imaging and/or traditional tools, design a dynamic, physically active game for the future. Sedentary digital lifestyles are contributing to a range of physical problems that include obesity, hypertension, coronary artery disease and diabetes. Working in teams we'll create gaming ideas that combine fun, education, and physical activity for a healthier digital future.
Fast and the Furious!
Think microprocessors are just in your PC? Learn about how embedded controllers are everywhere in your everyday life. Get the chance to remote control a blimp!
From iPods to Guitars
Rock out with us and see how a guitar can maneuver a robot! Build an electronic circuit and discover how circuits operate inside iPods, cell phones and robots! One raffle winner from each session will take a $150 circuit board to turn a computer at your school into a full electronics laboratory.
Go Bananas Over Nuclear
Did you know that more than 20% of the US energy supply is nuclear? Learn about surprising natural radiation sources and nuclear systems to power our lives with zero green house gas emissions.
Going Nano
Explore the exciting field of nano-materials and see how and why size matters. Experience color-changing nano-particles, structures that self-construct and fluids that don't know if they're liquid or solid.
It's Hot Being Nano!
Did you hear the buzz about nanoscience? Come and find out what it's all about. We'll talk about heat at the nanoscale level and what supercomputers and cancer have in common. Heat up particles of different sizes and determine which are the hottest!
Law and Order - The New Frontier
Technology, innovation and human creativity is driving exciting changes in our world and our legal system. Learn how engineering and science can be the perfect background for a future career in fields such as patent law, health law, and bioethics.
Looking into the Body with Ultrasound!
Doctors use ultrasound scanners to peer into the human body. This is probably how you were first "seen" by your parents. In this session, you will learn about how ultrasound machines operate and see one of the newest machines in action!
Planes, Trains and Molecules
Using Newton's Laws and computer simulation models see how scientists can accurately predict the behavior of complex systems in every part of life from molecular interactions to spacecraft. Then build your own model and learn how your perceptions can be deceived.
Put the Pedal to the Metal!
Operate cutting-edge tools like a plasma cutter and learn how to create designs just like today's manufacturing engineers. Explore the equipment in this machine shop and bring home something you create from metal!
The Body Bag
With the help of interactive anatomy software and hands-on models, explore how medical devices, prosthetic limbs, tissues and organs are designed, manufactured and used. Students will learn how scientists and engineers can impact human health and quality of life.
What's in YOUR Water?
Study the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, the agent of the disease cholera, and learn how these bacteria spread from aquatic environments to the human population.
Whodunit? The Chemistry of Crime Scenes
Learn how forensic chemistry is used to help solve crimes by gathering and analyzing evidence from our classroom crime scene. Can you crack the crime?