Girls built and programmed their own Raspberry Pi cameras as part of the Girls Who Build Cameras workshop. (Courtesy of Jon Barron, MIT Lincoln Laboratory.)
Author(s)
Kristen Railey
Bob Schulein
Olivia Glennon
Leslie Watkins
Alex Lorman
Carol Carveth
Sara James
Resource Description
Resource Features
- Video lectures
- Captions/transcript
- Image galleries
- Lecture notes
- Assignments: activity with examples
- Assignments: programming with examples
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Course Description
The Girls Who Build Cameras workshop for high school girls is a one-day, hands-on introduction to camera physics and technology (i.e. how Instagram works!) at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaverworks Center. The workshop includes tearing down old dSLR cameras, building a Raspberry Pi camera, and designing Instagram filters and Photoshop tools. Participants also get to listen to keynote speakers from the camera technology industry, including Kris Clark who engineers space cameras for NASA and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Uyanga Tsedev who creates imaging probes to help surgeons find tumors at MIT. During lunch, representatives from the Society of Women Engineers and the Women's Technology Program at MIT will present future opportunities to get involved in engineering in high school and college.