Imagine RIT
2008 Program
The inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival included more than 400 exhibits, live entertainment, plus carnival rides and inflatables for the kids. Check out some of the highlights from the 2008 festival below or click here to see a complete list of exhibits from 2008.
You may also download the 2008 program guide.
Take a tour of the inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. This video presentation offers just a sample of the many highlights from May 3, 2008, that helped make the debut of Imagine RIT such a success.
Take a tour of the inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. This video presentation offers just a sample of the many highlights from May 3, 2008, that helped make the debut of Imagine RIT such a success.
Take a tour of the inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. This video presentation offers just a sample of the many highlights from May 3, 2008, that helped make the debut of Imagine RIT such a success.
Take a tour of the inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. This video presentation offers just a sample of the many highlights from May 3, 2008, that helped make the debut of Imagine RIT such a success.
Take a tour of the inaugural Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. This video presentation offers just a sample of the many highlights from May 3, 2008, that helped make the debut of Imagine RIT such a success.
The Imagine RIT Festival was a huge success. Relive the first-ever festival through this interactive slideshow. Add your photo by emailing ken@huthphoto.com.
For the past decade RIT has worked to expand its research capabilities, enhancing opportunities for students and faculty while also advancing technology development in a number of disciplines.
RIT Engineers Reduce Reuse and Recycle
A number of researchers and engineers are working to advance methods for recycling and reusing materials while also enhancing product design to improve durability, environmental quality and reusability.
RIT’s METEOR Team Seeks “Final Frontier”
Today’s innovations in engineering and computer science have combined with the opening up of space for scientific and business purposes to allow many individuals and groups to enter ‘The Final Frontier.’
An increasing number of people are ditching their jobs back on Earth to make their living entirely online within Second Life’s virtual economy-making thousands of U.S. dollars selling designs, developing virtual property, or creating virtual market branches to offer real products.
RIT Students Learn the Art of Being Good Neighbors
Community service learning through the College of Liberal Arts’ partnership with the NorthEast Neighborhood Alliance will be showcased at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival May 3. Past projects will be on display, including the RIT-NENA summer learning communities involving the Greater Rochester Urban Bounty, as well as on-going community research projects.
RIT/NTID Student Uses Software and Laptop to “Get the Girl”
A self-described computer geek, Josh Allmann, 21, a computer science major at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, uses his passion for software and algorithms to help him score points with his girlfriend by creating poems in the style of her favorite poet.
Visitors to the Imagine Festival can watch a traditional coke fired cupola, a visual labor-intensive process used for several hundred years to produce cast iron objects.
Hands-on Experience with Business Computer Networks
A hands-on exhibit that allows K-12 students and parents to set up a small office/home office computer network.
Edible Books Fair
Visitors vote for most creative edible books and have a chance to decorate cookies in the shape of books.
Interactive Mini Golf Hole
This isn't your everyday miniature golf game: automatic ball return, laser putter, stroke counter an
FIRST Robotics
See the action when teams of high school students build and design robots to compete in high-spirited challenges at the regional and national level.
Formula SAE Car Unveiling
See the the RIT Formula SAE racing team’s 16th car and learn more about the complicated processes that went into creating and designing it.
Innovations in Publishing
Check out “The Innovation News,” a real-time Web repository and “newspaper” published at the festival. And play the Innovation Festival Social Networking Game by collecting and swapping “trading cards” to complete scavenger-hunt tasks.
Innovations in Teaching and Learning with Technology
Discover how technology has transformed teaching – and see how RIT’s Department of Online Learning has given us the choice to learn anywhere, anytime.
Rube Goldberg Lives!
Phi Sigma Pi fraternity members will present the classic Rube Goldberg devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways.
Bioengineering: a Robotic Hand
Get a look at a robotic hand technology currently under development by RIT engineers.
American Society of Civil Engineers Concrete Canoe
Each year, RIT’s Civil Engineering Technology students design and build a concrete canoe, proving that in the hands of creative engineers, concrete can be made to float.
Capoeira Performance
Experience capoeira, a Brazilian art form that uses acrobatics, music, dance, and martial arts.
Mobilized Hotdog Robotic Assembler
Check out a machine that automatically dispenses hotdog toppings to the customer’s order.
Fluids are Fun
Discover a new meaning of “liquid assets".
RIT Baja SAE
RIT’s Baja SAE team shows off its all-terrain vehicle. Each year, students design and build a vehicle that it competes in three international competitions.
GenJam
Professor Al Biles performs with his virtual jazz quartet.
Autonomous Roomba Robots
Drive a computer-controlled iRobot Create robots (similar to Roombas) and see autonomous demonstrations.
Ancient technology and other matters
Find out about faculty and student archaeological research including pigment analysis and cultural resource management.
Collaborative Community Painting
Bring your inner artist to a painting in progress, where passers-by can pick up a brush and a can of paint and join in the creative process.
Radio-Controlled Blimps
Visitors will be able to see the blimp fly and also watch video from a wireless camera mounted on one of these small airships.
Raku Firing
Raku firing involves removing the pot from the kiln at their maximum temperature. The shock of this rapid cooling is stressful on the pottery, these glazes are enhanced by the post firing smoking of Raku pots that embeds carbon into the crackles of the glaze.
Reporter Magazine: The "Me" Issue
RIT’s weekly student magazine uses student faces and data as variables to create 6000 unique covers.