We highlight the annual celebrations held by the University of Rochester and RIT known as, respectively, UR Design Day and Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival.
For the University of Rochester, the event highlights the work of Hajim School engineering students: cooking stoves for Kenya, a tissue engineering project in Ghana, new computer and writing desks for our own American workspaces. RIT's festival features more than 400 exhibits, with 200 brand-new projects on display.
Our guests from the University of Rochester:
- Nikki Sroka, Burn Pot Skirt Team
- Emily Kwan, Braille Reader Team
- Chris Dawson, Robust Electrospinning of Natural Fibers Team Chris Muir, professor of mechanical engineering
And our guests from RIT:
- Barry Culhane, founder and chair of the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival
- Jennifer Smith, a fifth-year Mechanical Engineering student
- Crystal Mendoza Paulin, a fifth year undergraduate biomedical engineering student
- Drew Walters, a third-year student
