This Facebook Live video features David Nolan ’06, an Illinois State alumnus who works in information technology at Caterpillar Inc., teaching students at the Illinois Summer Research Academy about artificial intelligence.
The Center for Mathematics, Science, and Technology (CeMaST) is hosting 65 high school students July 10–15 for the 2016 Illinois Summer Research Academy (ISRA) at Illinois State University.
Students from across the state and beyond are spending a week on campus conducting hands-on research projects with Illinois State professors. Students are participating in one of four research opportunities: molecular neuroscience, biochemistry, organic chemistry, and computing and information technology.
Here are photographs from this year’s Research Academy.
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- Students work on their Lego Mindstorm robots during the IT camp at the research academy. (Photo by Andrea Casali)
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- Chemistry Professor Andrew Mitchell is teaching students about organic synthesis during the research academy.
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- Students Aditi Katwala and Tom McGraw conducted chemistry research in Professor Andrew Mitchell’s laboratory in 2016.
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- Research Academy Instructor David Nolan watches as a student tests his Lego Mindstorm, a robot that the students programmed. (Photo by Andrea Casali)
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- Students work on their Lego Mindstorm robots during the IT camp at the research academy. (Photo by Andrea Casali)
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- David Nolan works with students learning how to program Lego Mindstorms. (Photo by Andrea Casali)
