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 outbreak, MIT Lincoln Laboratory outreach programs will be virtual until further notice based on MIT's safety policies. This includes LLRISE, LLCipher, Science on Saturday, and all other scheduled programming. 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 — 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 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.
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.
Students in LLCipher attend lectures in abstract algebra and number theory to understand cryptography-based concepts.
STEM Program
  • High School (Grades 9–12)

LLCipher

LLCipher workshop is a one-week program that introduces high school students to cryptography, an approach to securing data.
We offer our most popular STEM course, LLRISE, online for those interested in a hands-on engineering activity.
Online STEM Course
  • High School (Grades 9–12)
  • High School Teachers

LLRISE — Online Course

The Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers (LLRISE) workshop is online. Teachers and students are provided with a list of materials and instructions on how to obtain them. Then the students can listen to the lectures and follow a video on how to build radar.
High school teachers listen to lectures and participate in hands-on building activities to construct a small radar system.
Education Resource
  • High School Teachers

LLRISE — Teacher Training

We offer high school physics and science teachers an opportunity to take part in the Laboratory's two-week radar workshop for high school seniors. The goal is to introduce teachers to a hands-on program that they could implement in their classes or as an afterschool program.
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