STEM Mentoring neural engineering workshop

Fifty-one middle school students from Boston, Cambridge and Lawrence participated in two hands-on activities on Saturday, March 7 that taught them how engineers can improve quality of life for people affected by medical conditions relating to the nervous system. The workshop – an introduction to the evolving field of neural engineering – was part of the STEM Mentoring program at MIT, which matches middle school students with mentors, who are undergraduate students, graduate students, or young professionals from the Boston area.

For more information on the MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs, including STEM, visit http://oeop.mit.edu/

Video by Victoria Quamme.