In our demonstration on radar systems, Science on Saturday participants learn how radar measures speed of a moving object.

Outreach

Making an Impact in our Community

Community service and educational outreach are important to us. Our outreach programs are motivated by the desire of our employees to help people in need and to encourage students' interest and participation in engineering and science.

In response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, MIT Lincoln Laboratory will suspend all summer K-12 outreach programs. This includes LLRISE, LLCipher, and all other scheduled programming. We are following MIT’s policy on K-12 Summer programming. In light of this announcement, Lincoln Laboratory is exploring ways in which we can modify the teaching of these courses in a virtual environment. We will keep you informed on the potential of this approach in the coming months.  

If you are interested in being consider for virtual LLRISE and LLCipher programs please continue to complete your application. The LLRISE student application portal will remain open till April 3, 2020, 8 PM and LLCipher’s deadline will remain the same. Teacher recommendation portal will no longer have deadline for both programs.

Thank you for your continued interest in Lincoln Laboratory’s STEM programs.  

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In the large near-field scanner chamber, the full-scale Multifunction Phased Array Radar prototype undergoes beam pattern testing.
Online STEM Course
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Graduate Students

Adaptive Antennas and Phased Arrays

The 16 lectures in this course cover the topics of adaptive antennas and phased arrays. Both theory and experiments are covered in the lectures.
AFCEA intern Darian Rivera spent his summer in our Active Optical Systems Group, modifying firmware in an existing camera to calculate a real-time centroid.
STEM Program
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) High School Internships

AFCEA arranges internships for 40 high school seniors interested in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Lincoln Laboratory selects two students to do hands-on, project-related work with a mentor.
Photo of MIT students with UAVs they designed and built
STEM Program
  • Undergraduate Students

Beaver Works

Project-based learning lets students explore solutions to real-world problems.
Students in the Beaver Works Summer Institute practice steering their self-programmed robotic racecars, a challenge that included using the robots' sensors, programmed to detect a lane marking.
STEM Program
  • Middle School (Grades 6–8)
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

Beaver Works Summer Institute

The Beaver Works Summer Institute is a rigorous four-week engineering program for rising high school seniors from across the country.
Students in the Autonomous RACECAR Grand Prix course program the software to control the camera, lidar, sensors, and embedded processing for the robot pictured.
Online STEM Course
  • High School (Grades 9–12)
  • High School Teachers

Beaver Works Summer Institute Online Courses

The Beaver Works Summer Institute provides a variety of rigorous online courses for high school seniors interested in engineering and programming, or for teachers conducting an afterschool STEM course.
At a ceremony in Washington, D.C., Grant Stokes, seated center, head of the Space Systems & Technology Division and lead of the LINEAR program, recognized the 40 finalists of the Regeneron Science Talent Search with asteroids named in their honor.
STEM Program
  • Middle School (Grades 6–8)
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

Ceres Connection

Middle and high school science fair winners from around the world have asteroids discovered by Lincoln Laboratory named in their honor.
Laboratory staff connect with students while teaching coding exercises.
STEM Program
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

Code Creative

Code Creative is a 10-week educational outreach program that introduces students to the core concepts of computer science.
In CyberPatriot, high school students compete in a networking challenge and a digital forensics challenge after learning how to secure a Windows client, a server, and a Linux computer.
STEM Program
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

CyberPatriot / Capture the Flag

We offer a joint program that introduces students to the challenges faced by cybersecurity specialists. Both CyberPatriot and Capture the Flag competitions engage students in races to find and fix bugs in computer systems.
Our "Wow! That's Engineering!" workshop for girls offers a reverse engineering station where the girls disassemble a variety of electronics to see how the parts of a machine are connected.
STEM Program
  • Middle School (Grades 6–8)

Engineering Workshop for Girls

Twice a year, 100 middle school girls visit Lincoln Laboratory for the day to explore engineering. They explore the contents of cellphones, cameras, and clocks to learn about the inner workings of various types of electronic devices.
We sponsor robotics programs through the FIRST program. Teams build and program a robot and compete in local and state tournaments.
STEM Program
  • Elementary School (Grades K-5)
  • Middle School (Grades 6–8)

FIRST LEGO League

Guided by coaches, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Lego League teams (made up of students in grades 4–8) research a real-world problem, such as food safety, recycling, or energy, and are challenged to develop a solution.
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