Beaver Works Assistive Technology
engineering, design, and innovation programs for high school students.
engineering, design, and innovation programs for high school students.
Beaver Works Assistive Technology is a set of courses offered under the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works Summer Institute that teach engineering design to high school students through prototyping products that improve the lives of people with disabilities.
An international challenge with a combination of asynchronous and synchronous elements, where students form local teams and work with local co-designers to build AT products, while being supported by Beaver Works staff and mentors.
A two-part course comprising of an asynchronous online course that introduces the engineering design process in the assistive technology (AT) context and is a prerequisite for the summer component. The synchronous summer course is a month-long, full-time course where students design, prototype, and test AT solutions with local co-designers.
A virtual Saturday course for 9th and 10th grade students, focused on designing 3D printed educational aids for use by visually impaired learners.
