July 7, 2010

Twenty-three Tech Valley Summer Camp ninth-grade students spent one day working with Rensselaer’s Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center undergraduates and graduate students to learn about the intricacies of SMART Lighting and the electronic circuitry required to make it all work. This program was truly a fun hands-on experience that fully engaged the students to learn complex lessons. One student was quoted as saying, “I thought is was so cool to learn how simple materials can be used in sync with other simple materials to power a LED bulb. This gave me a chance to realize that engineering is a lot simpler once it is broken down into pieces.”

This program was sponsored by the NSF funded – Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center.