Photo Spotlights

Gallery r, Rochester Institute of Technology’s metro showcase and learning laboratory for the arts in downtown Rochester, presents “A 9/11 Project, Reflections and Memories,” an exhibition running Aug. 5–21. The exhibit showcases a selection from 121 daily newspapers collected during the week following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, along with reflections from RIT students and the Rochester community at large.

High school students participating in the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship’s Future Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs program delivered their final marketing presentations to their business clients Aug. 11. For the past 12 weeks, the high schoolers have been meeting with community business owners to solve problems and develop leadership skills through real-world learning.

First-year students attend the RIT/NTID New Signers Program, an optional two-week pre-orientation program offered to newly accepted deaf and hard-of-hearing students who have little or no prior skills in American Sign Language. This program is designed to help students learn basic sign skills, so they can communicate more effectively with RIT/NTID students, faculty and staff members who use sign language. Students also receive an introduction to Deaf culture and deaf awareness.

From left, Robert Adams, Yaak Awuok and Christian Culmer tested games created by RIT students on Aug. 2. The Thomas P. Ryan Community Center and Sully Branch-Rochester Public Library “Safe to be Smart” youth visited RIT’s Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC) to play test games created by summer Co-Up students. The teens came to campus to begin work on their play testing “badges” designed by the Center for MAGIC as part of the LRNG initiative, a grant the City of Rochester received to facilitate in-school and out-of-school learning. In 2016, Rochester joined 12 other U.S. cities to launch its own pilot program where young people can explore learning opportunities in their communities.

Fifty students in Saunders College of Business new management information systems degree program at Beijing Jiatong University’s Beihai campus spent four weeks this summer on the RIT campus in a cultural/educational exchange to enhance their language and writing skills. Besides sampling American food, the group enjoyed RIT adventures including ice skating and rock climbing. The group will be participating in the 2016 Undergraduate Research Symposium on Aug. 5.

Brian Boulden from Smyrna, Del. works on an oil spill cleanup activity in an environmental sustainability class with Jennifer Daniels from Visalia, Calif., part of Project Lead The Way’s Engineering, Computer Science, Gateway and Launch Lead Teacher Core Training classes. The project is hosting 226 K-12 teachers from 30 states over four weeks, marking 20 years of Project Lead The Way at RIT.

At the RIT/NTID’s Health Care Careers Exploration Camp, deaf and hard-of-hearing high school students from all over the country experienced hands-on activities in health care careers—one of the fastest growing employment fields today.

TechBoyz and TechGirlz campers Zion Nelson, right, a home-schooled student from Midlothian, Va., and Saba Athineos from The Center School in New York City, enjoyed commanding a mission to Mars at The Challenger Learning Center, a high-tech, hands-on facility for space flight simulations located in the Strasenburgh Planetarium at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. NTID’s TechBoyz and TechGirlz camps are designed to help students who are entering seventh, eighth or ninth grades in September learn about and consider jobs and careers in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. Through hands-on activities, campers explore chemistry, computers, engineering and science. The camp is supported by the Motorola Solutions Foundation.

Twelve-year-old Weaver Holley takes off on a bike with volunteers supporting him during the annual AutismUp iCan Bike Camp, held July 25-29 at the Gordon Field House. The camp teaches individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other disabilities how to ride a conventional bike without training wheels.

Pokemon Go is drawing students and others to campus to catch rare Pokemons. RIT has dozens of Pokestops to discover while also exploring the campus and its landmarks. Here, RIT students John Keefe, a third-year graphic design major from Wilton, N.H. and Erika Kallio, a second-year new media design major from Conesus, N.Y. play the game near The Sentinel.

A group of eighth-grade girls attended RIT’s Summer Math Applications in Science with Hands-on Experience for Girls (SMASH), held July 18-22. The program’s focus on mathematical sciences has been recognized by the Finger Lakes STEM Hub as an exemplary K-12 program in science, technology, engineering and math. Here, Amelia Crawford looks through polarizing filters and Lashawna Ellington peers through a glass prism during a hands-on activity.

Natalie O’Hern, a junior at Our Lady of Mercy High School, straps in Olivia Ager, a sophomore at Brighton High School, with some direction from third-year biomedical engineering student Pamelia Slattery. The Medicine and Human Disease weeklong camp offered by the Center for Bioscience Education and Technology included an afternoon at the RIT Ambulance, with demonstrations by volunteers there. Here they learn how to stabilize a patient for transport on a backboard.