The University of Texas at San Antonio has announced its second annual ExploreSTEM@UTSA. The hands-on programming and machine learning camp is open to high school students ages 14 -22 with disabilities.
The event will be presented by the UTSA Departments of Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching, and Geological Sciences.
At ExploreSTEM@UTSA, students will build autonomous driving, lane-detecting vehicles. Students will also learn computer programming concepts, programming skills, computer vision, and data science. Through these activities, students gain a glimpse of what it is like to work in the STEM fields of software engineering and data science.
In addition, each day a guest speaker working in STEM fields will be invited to interact with the students to discuss their STEM-related careers and their individual professional journeys. The program will culminate with online testing of their AI models on dash camera videos.
According to UTSA Today, last year, a blind student with some coding experience was able to program AI for autonomous lane detection.
The ExploreSTEM@UTSA teaching and learning experience revealed flaws that could only be encountered by people with blindness while using screen reader-assistive technology as a computer programmer. The revelation of these flaws has led UTSA researchers to innovative possibilities that are currently being explored for research and development.
The UTSA program is a collaboration with the Texas Workforce Commission, which helps refer students. The goal this summer is to expand enrollment to about 30 participants from middle and high schools. Click here for more information.
Other summer camps at UTSA include:
Engineering Summer Camp
Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP)
Cybersecurity Camp
Summer Career Academy in Architecture and Interior Design
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