Spira Night ???: Time to Celebrate!
To wrap up Spira 2017, we held one last gathering to celebrate our campers' accomplishments! A huge thanks to Whole Food Market for...
Spira Day 19: Last Dayyyy
After a month of engineering, it was time to wrap up camp 💔 Our campers did incredible work with their propeller cars, which they...
Spira Day 18: Build build build!
Today our campers worked on their final design project: rubber band propeller cars! Each group was given a different terrain to design...
Spira Day 17: Instron!
Today we took a field trip to Instron! They talked to us about material testing and showed us around their facility, ultimately...
Spira Day 16: Cardboard & Cars
Today we continued with our theme of design, making cardboard furniture and starting in on our final projects!
Spira Day 15: Brisk Building!
A major part of engineering is the design process. After meeting with Professor Jennifer Franck, our campers utilized their creativity to...
Spira Day 14: Bristling with Excitement!
Today our campers learned about bio-inspired engineering from Joyce Mok and Professor Kesari, even creating their own bristlebots to...
Spira Day 13: Prosthetics & Chemistry
We began our day by looking at another application of Biomedical Engineering: assistive technology! We met with three members of the...
Spira Day 12: No Biggy - We Just Made Nanoparticles...
Professor Colvin gave us an introduction to nanoparticles and what it means to be a biomedical engineer. We discussed how different...
Spira Day 11: What do Biomedical Engineers do?
We started off our day with a talk by Hannah Chung, one of the founders of Sproutel! She talked about how she designed a teddy bear...
