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

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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.

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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 — Online Course

The 16 lectures in this course cover the topics of adaptive antennas and phased arrays. Both theory and experiments are covered in the lectures.
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
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

Beaver Works Summer Institute

The Beaver Works Summer Institute is a transformational STEM experience, using project-based, workshop-style programs for rising high school seniors. We also work with public schools and teachers conducting STEM courses for their students.
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 help students in Explorer Post understand the functionality of seismic monitoring instrumentation.
STEM Program
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

Engineering: Lincoln Laboratory Explorer Post

Explorer Post is a youth development program sponsored by Lincoln Laboratory, that focuses on engineering and problem-solving skills.
Young girls build a closed circuit during a G.I.R.L. workshop
STEM Program
  • Middle School (Grades 6–8)
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

G.I.R.L. - Girls' Innovation Research Lab

G.I.R.L. provides hands-on activities to make electronics and programming accessible to middle school girls.
The Girls Who Build Cameras course covers how to program a Raspberry Pi camera and design Instagram-like filters.
Online STEM Course
  • High School (Grades 9–12)
  • High School Teachers

Girls Who Build Cameras ─ Online Course

The Girls Who Build Cameras course is an introduction to camera physics and technology.
This course provides instructions for programming a wearable circuit board that measures resistance from a pressure-sensitive conductive sheet in the heel of the shoe. When resistance changes, red lights are triggered.
Online STEM Course
  • Middle School (Grades 6–8)
  • Middle School Teachers

Girls Who Build Wearable Technology ─ Online Course

The Girls Who Build Wearable Technology online course guides students on how to use computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering to make their own wearable technology.
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)

Girls' Engineering Workshop

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.
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