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Inspiring Creativity, Collaboration, and Discovery
RIT’s Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) brings together technology, art, design, performance, and making under one roof. Located at the heart of campus, the SHED is a flexible, interdisciplinary environment where students create, collaborate, perform, prototype, and explore new ideas.
Designed to support active learning and hands-on experiences, the SHED houses makerspaces, classrooms, performance venues, project team spaces, rehearsal studios, event venues, and collaborative gathering areas. The building serves as a hub for creativity and innovation while showcasing the intersection of technology, the arts, and design at RIT.
News
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August 3, 2026
RIT startup program teaches founders to listen
The Bernard Kozel StartUp Program is a 12-week immersive summer experience open to students from across the university and run through Saunders College of Business.
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July 13, 2026
RIT students help bring Floating Garden to life
The Floating Pavilion, part of a Floating Garden food forest envisioned by New York-based interdisciplinary artist Mary Mattingly, was created by RIT students.
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April 13, 2026
Engineering students dive into projects to learn about naval ship technologies
Students are building Navy-funded autonomous underwater systems, including a robot designed to inspect and clean ship hulls. The hands-on senior design projects teach robotics, sensing, and machine learning through real naval technology challenges.
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March 16, 2026
RIT tech helps NASA astronaut photograph the cosmos
When Don Pettit, NASA’s most senior astronaut, sought a way to accurately capture his view from the International Space Station, alumnus Peter Blacksberg connected him with Ted Kinsman, associate professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.