Bot Power at Discover Engineering Family Day
MITRE offered Discover Engineering Family Day visitors a chance to build their own tiny robots.
Author: Russell Woolard
What child can resist the challenge of building a tiny robot (or “bot”) using the head of a toothbrush, a button battery, and a pager motor?
Judging from MITRE volunteers at the company’s Discover Engineering Family Day booth, plenty of people were eager to try their luck.
Children line up at the MITRE booth.
At the start of the 27th annual event—held on Feb. 16 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.—MITRE volunteers brought 750 bots. By early that afternoon, they were all gone. A steady stream of children, parents, and teachers lined up at the MITRE table to collect the parts, then decamped to wherever they could find space to assemble the bots, with MITRE volunteers ready to assist.
Some of the MITRE employees and family members who volunteered at the event (left to right): Demetrius Davis, Shiva Anand, Kenan Unal, Lynette Wilcox, Salwa Abdul-Rauf, Dahuong Phan, Andrea Ton (seated), Katie Murray, Jon Cline, and Samm Geyer (seated).
For more photos of MITRE at Discover Engineering Family Day, see the gallery on MITRE’s Facebook page.
Russell Woolard writes for MITRE’s Strategic Communications department.
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