This year, Art Technically hosted two workshops for the 23rd annual Black Families Technology Awareness Day at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Our first workshop was on Astrobotany:

Plants are very important to life on Earth. They provide us with food and clean air, and being around plants can make us feel happier! For these same reasons, scientists want to learn how to grow plants in space for astronauts. In this session, students will learn about astrobotany, or the study of plants in space, through hands-on activities exploring biology, physics, and space science. They will also attend a virtual tour of the plant labs at the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer.

Our second workshop was a Young Black Scientists and Engineers panel featuring Grace Kigaita, Adonis Billizon-Johnson, Andolyn Medina, Leelina Dagim, and Randy Tran, and concluded with a short Creative Coding workshop.