Our club is open to any RCTC student who is interested. The following are some of our activities.
- Tours of local engineering and science facilities – guided by engineers and scientists who work in those areas and answer our questions. Past tours include:
- IBM Rochester – Blue Gene supercomputer, Xbox/Wii/PS design, etc.
- Mayo Clinic – Biomedical Imaging Resource Center
- 3D bone printer, haptic sensing technology, etc.
- Yaggy Colby – Civil Engineering firm
- Regular club meetings every 3 weeks or so, more often when events draw near
- We meet in ST218, our study room, where we have some food and plan what we’ll do next
- Physics demonstrations and shows
- STEM summit each November; 2000 middle school and high school students come to the RCTC Sports Center and local technology businesses have booths set up to showcase cool technologies. We have a booth with interactive physics demos that our club members show. Fun!
- Large public demo shows in February (most years)
- Put on by our club
- Several hundred people attend the shows
- Lots of fun; we build new demos every year
- Spring science trips
- 4 or 5 day trips in early April (we miss 2 days of class)
- We go and see cutting edge science and technology
- Most expenses are paid by the club
- Past trips:
- 2013 – Boulder, Colorado
- Many national laboratories, atomic clocks, aerospace (link)
- 2012 – Washington, DC
- National laboratories, NASA, museums
- 2011 – Boulder, Colorado
- Similar to 2013 trip
- 2009 – San Francisco, California
- NASA, Intel Museum, etc.
- 2013 – Boulder, Colorado
- Retired Engineer’s group
- A group of retired engineers comes to RCTC each Wednesday morning from 9-11 am or so. They help us with projects, building demos, and they are a great resource for students.