STEM workshop for visually-impaired youth

The Fong lab organized a STEM workshop for blind and visually-impaired youth to learn about robotics and neural prosthetics, with support from the GT Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), the Atlanta Center for Visually Impaired (CVI), the GT-Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the GT Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS). We reprised our successful solar car activity. Sydney gains developed a new module for the workshop focused on recording and listening to muscle activity using EMG electrodes and using these signals to control a robotic arm. Sydney, Eli, Danielle, Chao, Max, Nahreen, and Ming all participated as mentors. Although it was a cloudy day and students couldn’t race their cars outside using their solar panels, they swapped out the power source for batteries and raced their cars through the second floor hallways of Clough Commons! Congrats to Sidney for winning the race!