Community involvement 2010 - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Community involvement 2010 - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Community involvement 2010 - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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K–12 Stem outreach<br />
Science Seminar Series<br />
Dr. todd Rider coordinates a program that sends technical staff members to local schools, giving presentations to students in<br />
grades K–12. more than 7000 students have enjoyed presentations on cryogenics, electronic circuits, paleontology, biotechnology,<br />
astrophysics, and other topics. Since the program’s inception in 2005, technical staff members have delivered presentations and<br />
demonstrations to more than 6000 middle-school and high-school students.<br />
Science on Saturday<br />
this program features on-site science demonstrations by lincoln laboratory technical staff. more than 3500 local K–12 students,<br />
their parents, and teachers attend Science on Saturday events over the course of the school year. Attendees have enjoyed hands-on<br />
demonstrations on rockets, robotics, asteroids, archaeology, optics and lasers, and polymers. Presentations for the current year are:<br />
Feb. 6 Computer voice Recognition/Speech<br />
Apr. 3 optics and lasers<br />
Jun. 5 Digital electronics and Computers<br />
oct. 16 Amusement Park Physics<br />
Dec. 4 How Computers Communicate with each other<br />
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