November 6, 2026
For the 4th year in a row, we had the honor of celebrating National STEM Day with Bard High School Early College Bronx and volunteers from the ITE Met Section.
This year’s students got to explore NYU’s Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence (CREO), led by PhD candidate Jennifer Zhao. Jennifer toured the students around the lab and introduced them to several of the prototypes currently under development within CREO.
A pizza lunch was accompanied by a panel of the ITE volunteers who discussed their own educational and career backgrounds; though each panelist currently works in a transportation related role, their varied experiences and routes to their jobs served as good inspiration for students who will soon make choices about their own professional trajectories.
After lunch, the students broke out into groups and were able to test out our Virtual Reality driving technology with the help of student researcher Shuo Zhang. Students were able to drive on virtual courses coded by Shuo himself, to varying degrees of success, as many of them had never driven a real car before.
C2SMART would like to extend a major thank you to all of the volunteers, staff, and students for making another year so special. See you for STEM Day 2027!
