Beaver Works Assistive Technology
Community-driven engineering design courses for high school students.
Community-driven engineering design courses 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.
A community-driven, project-based course, where students form teams and work with local people with disability-related challenges to build solutions, while being supported by Beaver Works staff and remote mentors.
A two-part course with an asynchronous online component that introduces the engineering design process in the assistive technology 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.
