Over the past two summers, seven of our team members worked for one of our mentors, David, as STEM interns at his summer camps. We taught critical STEM concepts to students grades Kindergarten to Eighth. GigaBite team members had the opportunity to teach camps such as Lego Robotics, Maker Creativity, Coding, and a favorite, mini Battle-Bots! For all of us, teaching these camps was a full circle moment because many of us went to David's camps when we were younger and they nurtured our passion for STEM at a young age. The biggest projects we have done has been building boats with MIT students. Our first summer we built wooden rowboats from scratch, and the second we built large remote controlled boats. Our GigaBite interns hope to continue participating in this mentoring experience and honing their teaching skills.  

We have been able to reach out and hear from many people who work in STEM in our community. Doing this outreach is great for our team of aspiring engineers and people who want to go into STEM-related fields. One of our mentors, David Wise, is a mechanical engineer from MIT, and another mentor, David Whittington, has worked as a professional 3D designer. Some of our sponsors such as Lumos, a civil engineering firm and Slate Geotechnical, a geotechnical engineering consulting company have been able to show us what they do in their engineering jobs. We have also had the opportunity to do lessons with students from MIT in the MIT Spokes program. If you would be willing to talk with GigaBite about what you do in your STEM related work, please reach out at gigabiterobotics@gmail.com !