Middle School Intersession 2025

Biomedical engineering (BME) is a field that blends engineering, science, and healthcare to solve some of the world's most pressing medical challenges. Biomedical engineers and scientists work on a variety of innovative projects, from developing medical devices to advancing technologies that improve lives. By applying creative problem-solving and engineering principles, biomedical engineers develop solutions that enhance health and well-being for individuals worldwide.

One area of BME that’s having a profound impact is the development of prosthetics -artificial limbs. Prosthetic limbs are critical solutions for people who have lost limbs due to accidents, illness, or congenital conditions, helping them regain mobility and independence. However, challenges still exist. Many prosthetics are heavy, difficult to personalize, and not as intuitive or functional as they could be. There’s a significant need for prosthetic designs that are lightweight, affordable, and capable of mimicking natural movement.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll dive into the engineering design process to build a prosthetic limb prototype. You'll explore how biomedical engineering is addressing these unmet needs and learn how innovations in prosthetics are improving the lives of many.

🔧 What You’ll Do:

• Design and build a functional leg prosthetic prototype using everyday materials—no high-tech tools required!
• Apply the engineering design process: brainstorm, build, test, and refine.
• Discover the exciting intersection of science, creativity, and real-world problem-solving in biomedical engineering.

💡 Why Attend?

• Gain hands-on STEM experience 
• Develop teamwork and critical thinking skills while tackling real-world challenges.
• Create an innovative project to showcase your talents!

Seats are limited—secure your spot today!

Biomedical engineering (BME) is a field that blends engineering, science, and healthcare to solve some of the world's most pressing medical challenges. Biomedical engineers and scientists work on a variety of innovative projects, from developing medical devices to advancing technologies that improve lives. By applying creative problem-solving and engineering principles, biomedical engineers develop solutions that enhance health and well-being for individuals worldwide.

One area of BME that’s having a profound impact is the development of prosthetics -artificial limbs. Prosthetic limbs are critical solutions for people who have lost limbs due to accidents, illness, or congenital conditions, helping them regain mobility and independence. However, challenges still exist. Many prosthetics are heavy, difficult to personalize, and not as intuitive or functional as they could be. There’s a significant need for prosthetic designs that are lightweight, affordable, and capable of mimicking natural movement.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll dive into the engineering design process to build a prosthetic limb prototype. You'll explore how biomedical engineering is addressing these unmet needs and learn how innovations in prosthetics are improving the lives of many.

🔧 What You’ll Do:

• Design and build a functional leg prosthetic prototype using everyday materials—no high-tech tools required!
• Apply the engineering design process: brainstorm, build, test, and refine.
• Discover the exciting intersection of science, creativity, and real-world problem-solving in biomedical engineering.

💡 Why Attend?

• Gain hands-on STEM experience 
• Develop teamwork and critical thinking skills while tackling real-world challenges.
• Create an innovative project to showcase your talents!

Seats are limited—secure your spot today!

This class is intended for self-identifying girls

Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey to a world where girls feel equally confident participating in STEM fields and unleash their entrepreneurial potential? Look no further than The World of Wireframes Intersession by Lexie Polevoi! Lexie Polevoi is a current Product Manager in the EdTech space and the founder of Learn with Ms. Lexie where she teaches a problem-based entrepreneurship and empathy-based leadership curriculum to middle school girls. With The World of Wireframes, students will gain exposure to design thinking and product creation with the goal of feeling empowered and inspired to pursue entrepreneurship and any other field as the next generation of female thinkers. In a time when women hold only 6% of STEM CEO positions, this Intersession will help to break barriers and encourage students to embrace their STEM superpowers by teaching them a fundamental skill in the product lifecycle, creating wireframes.

No prior STEM experience? No problem! The World of Wireframes is an inclusive enrichment session for all self-identifying women from various backgrounds and experience levels. During this session, girls will practice problem-solving as they learn part of the product lifecycle and how to visually represent their ideas. The only prerequisites are a collaborative spirit and open mind! Join us in defying the stereotypes and stigmas surrounding female leadership and women in STEM. The World of Wireframes teaches students that women can excel in STEM and product work at any level. So, what are you waiting for? Enroll today and let's unleash your potential and conquer the world of entrepreneurship together!

Dive into the exciting world of artificial intelligence! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how AI works and discover the ways it impacts our everyday lives. From personalized recommendations to ChatGPT, we’ll uncover the hidden AI behind familiar technologies and get to play with some of the latest, cutting-edge tools. Join us to explore how creativity meets tech in surprising ways! (btw, ChatGPT wrote this :) )

In this session we introduce the concept of word embeddings as a proxy for "meaning" and explain the intuition of how they play an important role in modern AI systems. We will begin by starting with a simpler example - colors - and show how we can use a simple 3-dimensional vector to represent colors. We will then show the intuition of distance between colors and how colors that are closer to each other in distance are also closer to each other visually. We will then connect the concept of vectors to represent colors to vector in a higher dimension space that can represent the "meaning" of words and then show how words that have similar meaning will be closer to each other.

This class is intended for self-identifying girls

Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey to a world where girls feel equally confident participating in STEM fields and unleash their entrepreneurial potential? Look no further than The World of Wireframes Intersession by Lexie Polevoi! Lexie Polevoi is a current Product Manager in the EdTech space and the founder of Learn with Ms. Lexie where she teaches a problem-based entrepreneurship and empathy-based leadership curriculum to middle school girls. With The World of Wireframes, students will gain exposure to design thinking and product creation with the goal of feeling empowered and inspired to pursue entrepreneurship and any other field as the next generation of female thinkers. In a time when women hold only 6% of STEM CEO positions, this Intersession will help to break barriers and encourage students to embrace their STEM superpowers by teaching them a fundamental skill in the product lifecycle, creating wireframes.

No prior STEM experience? No problem! The World of Wireframes is an inclusive enrichment session for all self-identifying women from various backgrounds and experience levels. During this session, girls will practice problem-solving as they learn part of the product lifecycle and how to visually represent their ideas. The only prerequisites are a collaborative spirit and open mind! Join us in defying the stereotypes and stigmas surrounding female leadership and women in STEM. The World of Wireframes teaches students that women can excel in STEM and product work at any level. So, what are you waiting for? Enroll today and let's unleash your potential and conquer the world of entrepreneurship together!

Have you ever had to write a five-page paper, but only filled up four pages? This workshop will teach you how to write a computer program to solve this problem! We’ll discuss strategies and algorithms for generating “random text”. Then, using the Python programming language, we’ll write a program that does what we want. This workshop would be appropriate for all levels of programming experience, from beginning to more advanced.