The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors Program teamed up with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and iCREATE-Division of Information Technology to hold the Summer WISE program, which brought Long Island middle school girls to Stony Brook University to find their inner engineer and take part in a STEM program they will remember for years to come. This outreach initiative focused on providing the young women with exciting application-based and hands-on engineering experiences to help grow their confidence and engineering skill sets.

One of the Design & Build students works on her Home Security System with Zahraa Krayem, a PhD candidate and mentor.

Students enrolled in iCREATE’s Inventor session were introduced to innovation, conceptualization, design, branding, and robotics through projects that utilized TinkerCAD, 3D Printing, and Little Bits.

Students experienced how to work through the design process to develop and test their prototypes. This experience gave the students a first-hand experience of what it is like to be an innovator.

iCREATE challenged the students to analyze how new technologies impact our changing environments and how the students can work to achieve positive impacts on challenges we are facing utilizing engineering and technology.

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