Lego Robotics – Middle School Students

Instructor: Tim Converse, Electrical Engineering Instructor

Digital Photography – High School students

Instructor: Professor Russ Kahn, Associate Professor of Communications and Ryan Orilio, Technology Teacher, Oneida High School

Learn about light and its effect on photography. Practice making changes in composition to change a photo’s impace. Adjust a digital camera’s settings for unique effects. Use Photoshop to edit and alter images. You will take home electronic and printed versions of your work. Students must provide their own digital camera.

Advanced Robotics – Middle and High School Students

For students familiar with the basics of robotics (e.g. Lego NXT). Engineer solutions to realistic problems requiring coordinated design efforts between the physical structure and software control of robotic systems. Students will work in small teams of 3 or 4 to develop solutions incorporating sensor control, multiple robots, and wireless control. At the end of the week teams will demonstrate their favorite project solution and discuss the problems they encountered and overcame while engineering their robot systems.

Girls’ Math/Science – Middle School Girls

Instructors: Zora Thomova, Associate Professor, Applied Math; Carlie Phipps, Assistant Profesor, Biology. Laura Weiser Erlandson, Assistant Professor, Biology

Explore science, technology, engineering and math careers, solve puzzles in a college computer and biology lab. Test your wits and your tenacity in team-building activities on the SUNYIT ropes course. Meet girls from other schools and make friends while trying out new topics, like entomology, paleo-botany, and  mathematical forensics. There’s room in the schedule for fun in the pool and journaling exercises, plus visits with women scientists and mathematicians.