Internship Program for Advanced Students

Hardware, Software and Infrastructure Requirements

Goals for each student
1) be safe
2) be engaged
3) have fun
4) get a constructive result
5) acquire a working knowledge of the lessons posted at:
www.build-it-yourself.com/biy-projectware/biy-projectware-presentations.html

The Build-It-Yourself Global Laboratory
Enter a world where art, technology, and science merge in exciting, unusual ways.  In the Build-It-Yourself global laboratory, specialists from the Harvard/ MIT community and from around the world inspire and guide students to build via live Webcasts.

Please note: Build-It-Yourself programs are rigorous.  It is essential that students who enroll, come eager to build, ready to open their minds, willing to work on teams, and prepared to focus intently on tasks such as drawing, documenting ideas in a lab book, using hot glue guns safely, building complex mechanisms, programming computers and presenting their work.

Creative Robotics Workshop:
Build robots from LEGO Mindstorms and premium quality junk that play music, dance, greet friends, earn money, deliver candy, tell time and more. Stamp you inventions, "Made on another planet." Then present your projects on the Web. Your mission is to build machines that solve a problem and make your friends  say, "Wow, how did you do that?"

Build-It-Yourself challenges are posted at:
http://www.build-it-yourself.com/project/index-project.html

Web Design Workshop:
Imagine that you want to make friends with aliens from another universe. You need to tell them who you are. You must design a Website that describes your life on the planet earth. 

Learn the structure of the Internet and of a web site.  Use common text, audio, vector and pixel editors to write HTML code and integrate text, photos, graphics, audio and video.  The Build-It-Yourself Web Design Workshop will introduce you to tricks that will make your Web sites jump off the screen and make your friends say, "Wow, how did you do that?" 

Game Design Workshop:
Do you like unusual computer games?  The next generation of computer games will have a new dimension … exotic, real world, robotic characters that jump right off the screen onto a real playing field.  Build-It-Yourself is looking for a team of hot shot 'gamers' who will design computer controlled robots in a game environment. Your robots will be powerful characters in role playing games, strategy games, pin-ball machines, or sports competitions. 

Digital Media Design:
Would you like to design eye-catching, wicked cool posters, calendars, comic books, web sites, animated presentations and reports? Graphic designers from Build-It-Yourself will show you how to push Power Point to the limit and make your graphics pop off the screen in Photoshop. Basic graphic design principles will be presented and then exercised using popular tools.

Instructors:
John Galinato is the chief engineer at Build-It-Yourself in Cambridge. John has a  Master's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell and has worked on engineering teams to develop submarine technology, space probes, computer graphics software and Internet applications. 

Build-It-Yourself brings a variety of expertise and specialists into the classroom via a live Webcast platform including former Build-It-Yourself students who are now studying at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, Phillips Andover Academy and Buckingham, Browne and Nichols.

John Galinato - MEE Cornell
Valeria Roman - Science Journalist, Argentina
Naseem Makiya - Harvard class of 2009
Liu Huan - MIT class of 2010
Lindley Graham - MIT class of 2010
Marshall Everett - Princeton class of 2011
Seth Mastin - MIT class of 2005
Max Seidman - Dartmouth class of 2012