Professors from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and their partners at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and Cornell Tech collaborated yesterday conducting two Robotics workshops for NYC high school students at the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech Roosevelt Island campus.

The first workshop was on Engineering and 3D Making.

According to the workshop sylabus:

Students will dissect a small machine, analyze how the parts function, then design and 3D print their improved solutions. Students will learn the principals of design thru reverse engineering and develop skills in project analysis, digital design and making.

The students, including several from Roosevelt Island, reversed engineered a computer fan component, redesigned it and 3D printed the new fan in the

Cornell Tech Makers Lab. The second workshop

was learning about the internet of things by making a smart connected robot:

Students will create an app to control a robot using the internet of things platform ThingWork. The Cloud dashboard they produce will direct the robot to use sensors to weigh and sort objects. Students will learn Internet of Things concepts, smart connected products and robot communications.

Cornell Tech Director of K-12 Education Diane Levitt tweeted

Ms Levitt adds:

Earlier in the week, the Technion robotics instructors, led by Professor Igor Verner , held robotics workshops for NYC High School teachers as well. The workshop was funded by the Jacobs Institutes Julia and Joshua Ruch Faculty Exchange Grant. The Jacobs Institute, Cornell Tech and Technion hope to do more such workshops in the future.