More than 30,000 people are expected on Saturday to attend the annual Imagine RIT Innovation and Creativity Festival.
It involves more than 400 interactive exhibits across the campus.
Among the faculty involved in the event is Dan Phillips, an associate professor of bio-medical engineering. He says this event is not only fun, it also offers students experience in developing products that could someday be marketable.
"RIT has really a pipeline that they can take it through the stages that are necessary to bring it to market . It's sort of the beauty of being at RIT, I think we have a really strong business school, really strong center for innovation that's student oriented,” Phillips told the Connections with Evan Dawson program recently on WXXI.
Festival chairman Barry Culhane says one of the opening events entails teams that are operating drones within the ice rink.
"We have 15 teams of students, faculty and staff competing with drones and they go into the Polisseni Ice Rink, and they have to follow a series of paths, stop, hover, take pictures of administrators that we've done cardboard cutouts of."
The event runs from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday and it’s free and open to the public.
