Special event
International Day of the Girl
Smart Circuits: Building Programmable Electronics
what you will learn
Students are introduced to the development and applications of embedded systems and taught how to make their systems using a TinkerCad simulation of the Arduino Uno device and the Arduino programming application.
Keynote Speaker
Miral Kotb
Artist and Entrepreneur,
Share Your Light Foundation
Schedule
- 10–10:30am Introduction to Smart Circuits
- 10:30–11:30am Smart Circuits Lab Challenge
- 11:30am–12:15pm Q&A and Wrap-up
- 12:15–1pm Keynote Speaker: Miral Kotb
Lab Days feature time for students to interact with college engineering students and professional engineers!
Meet our keynote speaker
Miral Kotb
Miral is an Egyptian-American artist and entrepreneur who has found a way to merge her love of dance, storytelling and computational problem solving.
While at Columbia she studied dance at Barnard University, Middlesex University in London, England, and around NYC. Her work as a choreographer was presented in New York, London and Paris. Upon graduating, she landed a coveted job on Wall Street at Bloomberg LP writing complex trading software systems from the ground up.
In 2009, she was able to combine all of her passions to create iLuminate - the world’s first light dance technology company. iLuminate’s patented technology is used by major entertainment acts, including Grammy Award-winning superstars Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, The Black Eyed Peas, and Death Cab For Cutie, among others.
A two-time cancer survivor, Miral has overcome extreme obstacles both personally and within the ever-changing world of technology. She founded the Share Your Light Foundation, working with the US Embassy to present programs around the world.
what is a lab day?
Lab Days are live, virtual field trips.
Virtual field trip event
3 hours live, available later on demand
Event type
No-cost, hands-on live-streamed event
Your students will come together virtually with other classes all over the country to learn about a specific topic in engineering and complete their own related projects.
Participate live for the event — or attend as much as you can and watch the rest on demand.
WHY ENGINEERING TOMORROW
Labs are always conducted with no cost to schools, teachers or students.
Hands-on student activities get students excited and keep them engaged.
Cutting-edge instruction designed by professional engineers.
Unlock opportunities for kids all over the country.
