Charles River Collaboratory
Workshops every hour from 10:30AM - 2:30PM
You’re invited to come see the Collaboratory space during Riverfest on the 17th of June. The wonderful WHS youth that we have been working with for the past few months and our team will be hosting a follow-up soft-opening of the Charles River Collaboratory space at the Museum.
This summer we will be hosting almost 50 WHS youth across programs and now with funding from an anonymous foundation that matched National Science Foundation funding (close to $3M in funds) will start to offer workshops on 3D printing (learn things like how to make the attached 3D printed forest canopy map of Waltham), laser cutting and engraving (learn to do things like the map image attached to this post), coding workshops. These funds also enable us to expand our college-bound oriented program to Waltham to support youth toward their post-secondary goals.
Youth will be learning to build automatic and Artificial intelligence enabled garden robots this summer. You can read more here:
Waltham Riverfest we will be hosting some entry level workshops and you will be able to come see the space and what youth are starting to work on.
To learn more, one of the fantastic youth leaders wrote an article for the WHS Talon, that summarizes the work nicely.
The youth will be engaged in new funded project where we will expand the installation of light, noise pollution sensors and be able to create augmented reality visualization of heat island around parts of the city.
