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.