{"id":622,"date":"2019-04-29T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/?page_id=622"},"modified":"2021-09-18T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T21:21:11","slug":"outreach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The Material Robotics Lab participates in outreach events for high school students in the Greater Boston area through the\u00a0Boston University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ubms\/\">Upward Bound Math and Science program<\/a>, whose purpose is to prepare low-income and first-generation college bound students for success in higher education, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/lernet\/AI4ALL\/index.html\">Boston University AI4ALL<\/a>, that promotes greater diversity and inclusion in the field of Artificial Intelligence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_4319-636x477.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"179\" class=\" wp-image-648 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_4319-636x477.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_4319-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_4319-1024x768.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-04-18-15.13.51-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"178\" class=\"wp-image-644 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-04-18-15.13.51-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-04-18-15.13.51-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-04-18-15.13.51-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-04-18-10.29.24-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"176\" class=\"wp-image-643 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-04-18-10.29.24-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-04-18-10.29.24-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-04-18-10.29.24-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_6698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-631\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_6723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-629\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_6723.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-627\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_6723.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-626\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_4319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-625\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lab also participates in the BU Graduate Research Puppet Slam, an annual event to engage the public interest in research and STEM using different ways of communicating information to audiences through plays and arts-based research. In particular, we put together a robot puppet game show to explain the concept of Soft Robotics to young students.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-27-at-3.08.40-PM-636x487.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"235\" class=\"wp-image-911 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-27-at-3.08.40-PM-636x487.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-27-at-3.08.40-PM-1024x785.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-27-at-3.08.40-PM-768x588.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-27-at-3.08.40-PM-1536x1177.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-27-at-3.08.40-PM-2048x1569.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/mrl\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_4319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-625\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Material Robotics Lab participates in outreach events for high school students in the Greater Boston area through the\u00a0Boston University Upward Bound Math and Science program, whose purpose is to prepare low-income and first-generation college bound students for success in higher education, and the\u00a0Boston University AI4ALL, that promotes greater diversity and inclusion in the field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14583,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/mrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}