High School Outreach
The Tech Squad Technology Workshop offers a half-day experience at RIT’s laboratories with direction from RIT women engineering technology students, the ‘TechSquad’. Throughout the morning students will tour and see demonstrations in the Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Technology and/or Packaging Science labs. The different engineering disciplines, along with renewable energy will be discussed while building a wind turbine. As each new engineering discipline is presented, another piece of the project will be constructed.
Middle School Outreach
The Girls Technology Workshop offers a half-day experience using RIT’s state-of-the art laboratories with other girls their age with direction from RIT women engineering technology students. The day includes three laboratory experiments conducted in the Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Technology and/or Packaging Science Labs. Activities may include building bridges out of spaghetti and testing their strength, creating boxes using a 3-D cutting table, learning about plastics by making slime and wiring a telegraph or making a motor. Visit our facebook page for pictures! https://www.facebook.com/WITatRIT
K-12 Outreach is designed to
- show the girls that science can be both fun and creative
- connect science and engineering to things in everyday life that they already know and care about
- demonstrate that women can make a positive impact on the world with a career in engineering
E3 Fair www.e3fair.org
WIT supports this science fair by offering a hands-on science experiment for the middle school students to do while they waited for their turn in the competition. In the past WIT has presented: The Science Behind Shrinky Dinks: Shrinkable Polystyrene Plastics.
WIT supports ImagineRIT, an annual festival held the first Saturday in May… FREE to the public. WIT has offered kid-friendly displays such as ‘making concrete’ and ‘shrinky-dinks’.