IAP 2001 Activities by Category

Life Sciences: Hands-on

Bioengineering K-12 Outreach Workshop! Mark D'Avila , Erika Brown Wed Jan 24, 11am-01:00pm, E25-119 No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below) Single session event WHO? - You and anyone else interested in bio- or biomedical engineering, educational outreach, kids, or education. WHAT? - This is an excellent opportunity to shape the future of K-12 education. Develop hands-on laboratories to convey cool concepts for K-12 students. WHY? - Because kids are cool! Because bioengineering is cool! Because you want to get involved and meet neat people and eat our food! The goal of this workshop is to develop a three-hour design activity for MIT's Edgerton Center. Workshop participants will use bioengineering technologies to actively engage 8th grade Cambridge school students in learning principles of physical science and medicine. The workshop's content will involve the use of biomechanics to convey Newton's law and the law of energy conservation. What might the activity look like? - Air Jordan-is it the shoes? You might develop a device or protocol to measure the energy expended when jumping. In this example, the impacts of various shoe materials would be explored. - The Six-Dollar Man. You might be guided in the development of a prosthetic limb. This would include studying the balance of muscular forces and examining the impacts of different materials. - Spacercise. You might design exercise equipment for the international space station. The equipment would be used to prevent bone loss due to decreased skeletal loading in a microgravity environment. The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation's VaNTH Engineering Research Center Contact: Mark D'Avila, E25-518, 452.4091, mad@mit.edu Sponsor: Health Sciences & Technology

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