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.
Internships via AFCEA
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (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.
Lincoln Coders
Students learn how to build their own chatbots, games, and animations using their choice of Scratch, JavaScript, or Python. Lectures include topics related to coding, programming, and artificial intelligence.
LL EduCATE
LL EduCATE (Lincoln Laboratory Courses for Accessible, Technical Education) visits underserved schools to introduce students to core engineering skills to see how STEM topics can apply to their own lives. Each course practices a hands-on engineering application.
LLCipher
LLCipher workshop is a one-week program that introduces high school students to cryptography, an approach to securing data.
LLRISE
Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers (LLRISE) is a two-week radar workshop for rising high school seniors.
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.
Radar: Graduate Level — Online Course
The Radar Systems Engineering course (video, audio, screen-captured PowerPoint slides, and separate pdf slides) has been developed as an introductory course in radar systems for first-year graduate students, advanced senior undergraduates, or professionals new to radar.
Radar: Introduction to Radar Systems — Online Course
This set of 10 lectures, about 11+ hours in duration, was excerpted from a three-day course developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory to provide an understanding of radar systems concepts and technologies to military officers and DoD civilians involved in radar systems development, acquisition, and related fields. That three-day program consisted of a mixture of lectures, demonstrations, laboratory sessions, and tours.
Robotics: FIRST Technical Challenge (FTC)
FIRST Tech Challenge is a national robotics program for students in grades 7–12 who are interested in building and programming their own robot from a kit and then testing it in competition against other teams.
Robotics: FIRST LEGO League (FLL)
Guided by coaches, FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Lego League robotics 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. Students also build a robot from a Lego kit and learn how to program it to complete specific obstacles.