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GreenFab Engineering and Tech Program
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A student participating in the GreenFab program experiments with an Arduino microcontroller to power light-emitting diodes (or LEDs). Supported by the National Science Foundation, GreenFab is a 3-year program designed to introduce low-income, minority high-school youth in New York and New Jersey to engineering and technology skill sets used in the sustainable technologies industry.
Located at the Sustainable South Bronx (a community organization dedicated to environmental justice solutions) Fab Lab--an NSF-supported and MIT-designed fabrication laboratory--GreenFab provides students with hands-on experience in digital fabrication, allowing for the prototyping of unique inventions and innovative solutions to community issues. Through the program, students explore how small-scale manufacturing can achieve environmentally innovative solutions to the community's needs.
Additional images of the GreenFab program can be viewed in the Photo Gallery that accompanies the NSF Discovery story Computer Scientists Bring Digital World to Bronx Kids. Further information about GreenFab is available on their website Here. [Research supported by NSF grant DRL 08-33751.] (Date of Image: Spring 2009) [Image 1 of 3 related images. See Image 2.]
Credit: Jonathan Santiago, STEM2GETHER
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