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RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering hosts RoboCamp over several weeks during the summer for students in grades K-10. While engaging in hands-on activities, the students explored engineering concepts using motors, sensors and programming skills to build robots for fun and challenging team-based projects and friendly competitions. The camp is open to students with varying experience levels but all with an interest in learning more about robotics.

Kids attending Camp Tiger's Sue's Tech Kitchen workshop watch their projects get tested. Zuckerberg Media’s “Sue’s Tech Kitchen: Mission to Mars” is being piloted at RIT before it expands to New York City and other venues. Envisioned by Zuckerberg Media Founder and CEO Randi Zuckerberg, Sue's Tech Kitchen creates STEM-inspired adventures that inspire children from all backgrounds to engage with tomorrow's technologies today. Camp Tiger, formerly known as Kids on Campus, is a summer day-camp at RIT running from July 8 through Aug. 2.

The RIT Foodshare garden is bursting with tomato, zucchini and pepper plants along with mint and basil. Foodshare supplies donated food, both perishable and non-perishable items, to the campus community and is located at 113 Riverknoll.

Salida Cintron, 12, a Calkins Road Middle School student, examines her bottle that demonstrates different weights of liquids. The experiment was part of a RIT Camp Tiger workshop "Experiments in Science!" for fifth- through seventh-grade students. Camp Tiger, formerly known as Kids on Campus, is a summer day-camp at RIT running from July 8 through Aug. 2.

RIT has partnered with Seneca Park Zoo Society to work on several projects on- and off-campus to promote the conservation of pollinating animals, including birds, bees, and butterflies. Globally, pollinators face diminishing populations due to factors such as habitat loss, climate change and agricultural pesticides, which can disrupt ecological health and agriculture. FMS planted a Seneca Park Zoo Society seed mix, specially designed to conserve pollinators in Western New York, on campus along Max Lowenthal Road.   

Renewable Futures, a group exhibit showcasing artists from RIT's College of Art and design during the 1960s, is on view through August 10 in the University Gallery.

RIT is one of the top host sites in the nation for Research Experiences for Undergraduate students, with eight programs in research areas across STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines. The REU Graduate Study and Research Symposium, held here June 28, connects undergraduates in the REU programs with RIT graduate students, who will present their research and share their experiences.

Construction is underway for RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute, a new wing of the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences that will help the university become a nexus of cybersecurity education and research.

RIT China celebrated its first commencement ceremony on June 23, honoring 103 graduates. Courses are jointly offered by Saunders College of Business and the Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) School of Economics and Management, allowing students to earn a dual degree from RIT and BJTU. 

Yosef Zlochower, associate professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, demonstrates code during one of the tutorial sessions at the 2019 North American Einstein Toolkit Workshop June 17. The Einstein Toolkit is a community-driven software platform of core computational tools to advance and support research in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics. The toolkit has a community of several hundred scientists working together to develop these tools, a set of codes to solve Einstein’s equations for binary black hole collisions, neutron star collisions and other astrophysical systems.

The Friends of Mount Hope are offering ASL walking tours July 7 and Sept. 29 at 2:00 p.m. The tours, lasting 90 minutes, include several sites that are important to Rochester's deaf history and culture. Mount Hope Cemetery is America's oldest Victorian cemetery and the resting place for Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. 

First-time participants in the James Papero Enrichment Program paint with watercolors during the two-week line-up of classes. 45 adult clients from East House, an organization supporting mental health or substance abuse disorders, take classes and use RIT facilities to get a taste of college life. The finale is a graduation ceremony and speaker in Ingle Auditorium on June 13 at 2 p.m.