Imagine RIT

About the Festival

Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival is the annual kickoff to Rochester’s rich festival season.

Imagine RIT, which will take place Saturday, May 2, 2009 on the RIT campus, is designed to demonstrate what can be accomplished when, as RIT President Bill Destler likes to say, “the right and left brain collide.”

More than 400 interactive exhibits were on display during the first Imagine RIT Festival.

Visitors witnessed a robot that serves hot dogs, a concrete canoe that floats and dozens of musical and theatrical performances. Children made freeze-dried ice cream, test drove Roomba Robots and took a spin on a Ferris wheel.

“There was definitely an electricity in the air,” says RIT Student Government President Ed Wolf, who was also an exhibitor at the festival. “You could tell that a lot of people just didn’t know about all of these cool things that exist at RIT.”