Imagine RIT
Experience education and entertainment through a fusion of art and technology
The Imagine RIT Festival was a huge success. Relive the first-ever festival through this interactive slideshow. Add your photo by emailing ken@huthphoto.com.
Helpful Tips for Visitors to Imagine RIT
A comprehensive plan is in place to make Saturday, May 3 fun for festival-goers. Discover some information that may be helpful for those who plan to attend.
RIT faculty and staff have created a special theme song and music video in honor of the inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.
Check out the 30 second commercial that has hit the Rochester airwaves to advertise the inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.
Exhibit Highlight: Introducing Research at RIT
For the past decade RIT has worked to expand its research capabilities, enhancing opportunities for students and faculty while also advancing technology development in a number of disciplines.
Exhibit Highlight: RIT Engineers Reduce Reuse and Recycle
A number of researchers and engineers are working to advance methods for recycling and reusing materials while also enhancing product design to improve durability, environmental quality and reusability.
Exhibit Highlight: RIT’s METEOR Team Seeks “Final Frontier”
Today’s innovations in engineering and computer science have combined with the opening up of space for scientific and business purposes to allow many individuals and groups to enter ‘The Final Frontier.’
Exhibit Highlight: Calling Earth to Second Life
An increasing number of people are ditching their jobs back on Earth to make their living entirely online within Second Life’s virtual economy-making thousands of U.S. dollars selling designs, developing virtual property, or creating virtual market branches to offer real products.
RIT students are taking up the challenge to showcase their innovative and creative talents as part of Imagine RIT. After months of planning, many of the festival’s exhibits are starting to take shape. RIT graduate student Amanda Wade explains how it will all come together.
Exhibit Highlight: Simulation Device Measures Impact of Smoking
RIT engineering students are assisting research that will enhance the understanding of the impacts of cigarette smoking. As part of a multidisciplinary senior design project, a student team developed and constructed a smoking simulation device, which will be used to model the impacts of smoking on individual organs.
Exhibit Highlight: RIT Students Learn the Art of Being Good Neighbors
Community service learning through the College of Liberal Arts’ partnership with the NorthEast Neighborhood Alliance will be showcased at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival May 3. Past projects will be on display, including the RIT-NENA summer learning communities involving the Greater Rochester Urban Bounty, as well as on-going community research projects.
Exhibit Highlight: RIT/NTID Student Uses Software and Laptop to “Get the Girl”
A self-described computer geek, Josh Allmann, 21, a computer science major at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, uses his passion for software and algorithms to help him score points with his girlfriend by creating poems in the style of her favorite poet.
President Destler discusses innovation and the Festival
President Destler invites the RIT family, the Rochester community and the world to the inaugural “Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.” The festival is free and will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 3 … Rain or shine!