On December 2nd, fifth grade students from the Brooke Roslindale Charter School came for a field trip on telecommunications. In the morning, students learned about the history of telecommunications, then took turns either learning more about phone lines / building a 3D network and using snap circuits to learn about and send morse code.
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- Students play a telecom matching gaming
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- Students build a 3D network and connect different phone types and mediums
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- Students send each other morse code using button presses and light flashes
After lunch, ECE professor Kaushik Chowdhury, with the help of his graduate, PhD, and postdoc students, had the students take turns either going on a wireless network-based egg hunt [which also doubled up as a campus tour] and visiting his lab to talk to his researchers and see what they are working on.
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- Kaushik introduces himself and his students
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- Students begin the egg hunt, where they look for virtual eggs on an android phone
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- Students rub the huskies nose for good luck
