ART AND ENGINEERING: How to Build and Race a Kinetic Sculpture How do a group of students design, build and race a bicycle powered work of art that can float, go through sand and mud, and survive 15 miles of Baltimore roads? It all starts with the plan and a great design. This virtual workshop will engage creative students in building the model prototype and challenge them to work as a group to propose the kinetic sculpture design for UMBC students to build during the Fall 2021 semester. 

GAMING DESIGN FOR ARTISTS: Transform your passion for art and gaming into new tech skills while you create your own video game. Building new computer games takes cooperation between lots of different people with different skills. In this week-long course, you'll find out what it's like working as a digital artist in a game development team together with programmers to build your own video game.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGThis course is a unique offering from UMBC and will make exploring the world of chemical engineering fascinating and fun. Chemical engineering has diverse applications beyond the traditional oil refining. Breakthroughs in drug delivery, chemical manufacturing, water cleanup and air pollution are only a few of the cutting edge applications coming out everyday. Students will spend a week conducting hands-on experiments and demonstrations that highlight the versatility of the field. Students will be introduced to fundamentals of material and energy balances, chemical reactions, and the many areas they are used. The class will also explore how these concepts can be applied to environmental and biochemical engineering.