Prospective Student Outreach Programs



Prospective Student Outreach Programs

I. CIS Intern Program

CIS ran its CIS High School Intern program for the 9th consecutive summer in 2008. A total of 15 students were accepted as interns. For the first time this year, the RIT interns were given the opportunity to interact with a group of high school students participating in a similar intern program at the University of Rochester. The UR interns, who worked on research in the area of bioengineering, visited the labs used by their imaging science counterparts, hosted a tour of their UR labs for the RIT interns, and worked together with the RIT interns on peer reviews of each groups’ final presentations.

The following table lists the names of the 2008 RIT imaging science summer interns, as well as their high school and the research group they worked with.

|AJ Lanphere |Honeoye Falls Lima |Visual Perception |

|Erkia Murphy |Victor |Visual Perception |

|Matt Hart |Victor |Visual Perception |

|Jane Petzoldt |Midlakes |Visual Perception |

|Tom Colosky |Honeoye Falls Lima |Astronomy |

|Nicole Staie |Rush Henrietta |Astronomy |

|Basma Eid |Rush Henrietta |Astronomy |

|Kevin McCabe |Honeoye Falls Lima |Astronomy |

|Alex Long |Bloomfield |Remote Sensing |

|Laura Serio |Churchville Chili |Remote Sensing |

|Upasana Marwah |Pittsford-Mendon |Document Restoration |

|Gretchen Smith |Nazareth Academy |MRI |

|Nicole Conway |Canandaigua |MRI |

|April Harding |Churchville Chili |Nanoimaging |

|Gary Menezes |Webster Schroeder |Ultrasound |

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Erica Murphy, an RIT summer intern from Victor High School, describes her research in the area of visual perception to the visiting UR interns.

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Churchville-Chili High School’s Laura Serio, an RIT summer intern, describes how her goniophotometer contributes to research in the area of remote sensing.

II. College and Careers

A total of 105 prospective students attended the summer’s annual “College and Careers” events in 2008. Participating students chose from among two CIS workshop offerings – one with an astronomy theme and the Center’s longest running workshop, “Make Your Own Hologram,” which has been a part of College and Careers for the past seven years.

III. Classroom Visits

CIS personnel made classroom visits to, or hosted groups from, the following schools in the past year:

|Victor Intermediate School |Gates-Chili Middle School |Kenney Middle School |

|Victor Junior High School |East High School |Midlakes High School |

|Seaton School |Canandaigua Academy |Churchville-Chili High |

|Rush-Henrietta HS |Edison Tech High School |Bloomfield High School |

IV. Special Projects

- Workforce Innovations Conference: The Monroe County School-Business Partnership (MCSBP), a service for school districts coordinated by Monroe #1 BOCES, offered a new Youth Workforce Innovations Conference for sophomore high school students enrolled in its ten member school districts. The conference was designed to align with the Workforce Innovation for Regional Economic Development (WIRED) initiative with the goal of having students learn about regional workforce areas offering high potential for future employment. Joe Pow presented an imaging science overview to over 50 students at this event.

- Girl Scouts: CIS sponsored a number of events designed to make girls aware of educational and career opportunities in the fields of math and science. Specific events included career fairs, astronomy overnighters, and training sessions for troop leaders.

- ImagineRIT: CIS sponsored four booths at this inaugural event, designed to showcase RIT’s culture of innovation and creativity. Two of the CIS displays won prestigious Sponsor’s Awards – “Immersive Imaging for Science Education” by Dr. Jake Noel-Storr, and “Eye Tracking in the Real World” by Dr. Jeff Pelz.

- NOVA Academy: CIS Associate Director Joe Pow taught an 8-week workshop on the fundamentals of imaging science to a group of students from Rush-Henrietta High School and Edison Tech High School. This workshop will be offered again to another group of students in early 2009.

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Edison Tech High School’s Desean Cruz and Marlena Gorham, participants in the 2008 NOVA Academy imaging science workshop, prepare equipment for an experiment involving thermal imaging.

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