Ge-Filter Fish

Joshua Yu, Jonathan Edmond, Gerard Potts Submersible robotic fish that catches and filters debris in a swimming pool.

Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is a program of the South End Technology Center @ Tent City, a Timothy Smith Computer Learning and Education Center.Our purpose is to enable people to become producers of knowledge and sharers of ideas and information. For the past nine years, Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn has offered nearly 300 teenaged youth an awesome educational experience in partnership with the MIT Media Laboratory, meaningful work and an opportunity to serve their communities. These youth teachers have taught emerging science and technologies in after- school, and summer programs to nearly 3000 elementary and middle school children from over 25 Boston community organizations. The aim of Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is to create a critical mass of Boston youth engaged in emerging technologies and sciences. These youth teachers not only influence change in the lives and neighborhoods of Boston youth; they also catalyze cultural change in their schools and communities about what is possible to achieve in science, technology, engineering and math. The youth teachers you will meet today spent every Saturday from April to June LEARNING emerging technologies and sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory and the South End Technology Center. This summer, the youth teachers have been BUILDING and TEACHING. They worked over 20 hours a week for 6 weeks to bring theses new inventions and ideas to life. At the same time, these youth teachers have been sharing what they learned with 400 Boston elementary and middle school youth in free summer technology and science camps.

Welcome Friends and Family to the

Youth Teacher Project Exposition

Saturday August 13, 2011 1:00 pm through 4:00 pm

We invite you to enjoy our innovations and experience our success! South End Technology Center @ Tent City
359 Columbus Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02116 617.578.0597

Many thanks for their support and resources to:

The Timothy Smith Fund for our computers & technology equipment
MIT Media Lab Center for Bits & Atoms & Lifelong Kindergarten Group

2011 Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Projects!

AquaGarden \
David Solomon, Samuel Obanla, Jonathan Juliao, Hector Almodovar

Barr Foundation The Boston Foundation ATT&T Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust Museum of Science Paul & Edith Babson Foundation Hyams Foundation Massachusetts Cultural Council Boston Private Industry Council Martin Luther King Jr. Summer Scholars Program Boston Youth Fund ABCD Summer Works Our many individual donors and contributors

An urban aquaponic system with a physical programming design that can be used inside a house or apartment, incorporating a fishtank where fish waste is automatically pumped into a small garden to fertilize the plants. Excess garden water is filtered and returned to the fish tank.

Pill Box Dispenser

Taylor Hicks, Xia Josiah-Faeduwor Rebecca Mondesir, Sabah Mohamed

Gratitude to those who helped our youth teachers:

DIRECTOR: Mel King

Appreciation for our community organization partners:

An automated pill dispenser that uses an on-screen interface with audio and visual prompts, as well as an electromechanical system to dose and dispense medication.

SETC Core Program Camfield Estates Castle Square Tenants Association STAFF: Hattie B. Cooper Community Center Ed Baafi CharlesNewtown Co-op Bruna Francois Curry Room @ Theroch Housing Donna Parker Franklin Highlands Community Center Amon Millner Keylatch Program Susan Klimczak Madison Park Community Center Mildred Avenue Community Center COLLEGE MENTORS: Salvation Army South End Phi NgoAshley Yu Squashbusters of Northeastern U Beckett Dunning South End Technology Center Tobin Community Center VOLUNTEER Vine Street Community Center EDUCATORS: Roslindale Hub Kevin Brunswick Archdale Community Center Allison Bland Gallivan Community Center LMerchie Frazier Greater Boston Nazarene David Hill Eva Kerr Compassionate Center Sherry Lassiter Roslindale Community Center Jean Lespinasse South Street Youth Center Steve Vinter and their L2TT2L Interns: Colin Reisdorf Jasmin Argueta Rafael Baez David Sengeh

Ping Pong Playground of the Future

Jaylah Wynn, Liban Yusuf, Olivia Murphy, Jamory Lewis

This project imagines how to get children back on playgrounds & active by incorporating online games into outdoor play equipment. The interactive see-saw serves as a game controller for an online ping pong game projected onto the wall of a playground.

Smart Closet
David Allen, Jose Zayas James Macglashing, Abigail Ezedonmwen

This smart closet is for teenagers with extreme fashion sense who need an extreme closet organizing system, where each of the hangers is equipped with resistance-based identifiers & a computer monitor displays which clothes are inside & outside the closet.

Just Spin It!

Adrian Santiago, Lee Berthaud, Jenny Nguyen, Bi Huang, Ruben Dejesus

A wind turbine as a sustainable energy source for charging Smartphones & iPods. The outdoor device has a handcrank/pulley system option to drive the generator when there is no wind.

Smart Pack
Jalen Wiggins, Williston Johnson

A sustainably-powered bicycling backpack with removable LEDlit turn signals controlled by a button attached to the front strap that makes night-time biking safer.

RoboGarden 2.0
Sule Rene-Carthy, Jada McNeil, Somto Ebele

A garden that uses humidity sensors & physical programming to activate a pump that provides water until the garden is wet enough.