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Description
What is the Make Your Own Wearables program?
The Lincoln Laboratory Make Your Own Wearables program is an introduction to engineering through wearable technology. The full day workshop developed and hosted by MIT Lincoln Laboratory consists of two major hands-on projects in manufacturing and wearable electronics.
Its mission is to introduce high-school girls to what engineering is, how it is used in many different applications, and to gain key engineering skills such as computer programming and computer aided design (CAD). This workshop aims to help girls entering college have a clear depiction of what an engineer does and have the hands-on skills required to be successful in this field.
What will participants do?
High-school girls will spend the day learning the design process, 3D computer modeling, how to write code, and how to build a circuit. Participants tour a rapid prototyping machine shop and see how 3D printed jewelry and laser-cut purses are created. They will design a bracelet using SolidWorks® and code a FLORA in Arduino for a wearable circuit with pressure sensor and LEDs.
Grading
There are no grades for this workshop.
Acknowledgements
The curriculum and workshop were made possible by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Community Outreach initiative, SolidWorks, and the Society of Women Engineers. Behind its success was a team of volunteers from MIT Lincoln Laboratory:
| Kimberlee Chang | Cathy Loiselle | Emily Peterson |
| Robin Havener | Kelly Lafayette | John Solman |
| Emily Clements | Elizabeth Lukas | Christina Epstein |
| Owen Guldner | Molly Park | Gavin Lund |
| Jennifer Falciglia | Debbie Hamilton | Damas Limoge |
| Dave Granchelli | Chiamaka Porter | Bakari Hassan |
| Clark Wood | Ninoshka Singh | Cheryl Blomberg |
| Alexis Prasov | Michelle Jackson | Carole Sundius |
| Meredith Kelly | Alexandra Berkoff | Allie Stanzione |
| Carole Sundius | Kimberlee Chang | Christine Chen |
| Corinna Ellis | Derek Varga | Ed Lyvers |
| Emily Grosse | Emily Peterson | Elizabeth Kramer |
| Erin O’connor | Ilya Prigozhin | Jessica Kesner |
| Joan Boegel | Kendra Kratkiewicz | Lorraine Bernard |
| Lynne Adamian | Maja Milosavljevic | Richard Marino |
| Melissa Phelan | Michelle Jackson | Meredith Kelly |
| Roberta Merino | Sarah Nelson | Sarah Klein |
| Shannon Roberts | Fred Solman | Suresh Damodaran |
| Anthony Matt | Tim Wells | Keith Hinrichs |
| Reagan Middlebrook | Rob Elkind | Bhanu Vadhera |
| Alyssa Mensch | Elizabeth Kowalski | Rick Frederickson |
| Olga Mikulina | Jing Wang | Era Vuksani |
| Fred Waugh | Julie Arloro-Mehta | Todd Brick |
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