Engineering offers the processes, methods, and mindsets to create practical changes and innovations in the physical world around us, from designing and building bridges, making airplanes more fuel efficient, or masterminding the electronics in our cars! Biomedical engineering applies these principles to medicine and healthcare, creating solutions that improve people’s health and daily lives, engineering devices such as hearing aids, artificial joints, and heart monitors.

Join us on August 20 from 1:00 – 3:30pm for the 2025 Youth Technical Program of the IEEE EMC+SIPI Symposium in Raleigh, NC, where we’ll learn about the intersection of engineering and medicine and create our own precursor to real-life prosthetics — a robotic arm model!

Open to children ages 6-19. Children younger than 6 may participate, if a parent or older sibling accompanies them. Please sign up via the Registration portal. Please plan on escorting your child to drop them off at the activity, and picking them up at the end. Parents are welcome to stay for the entire session, if they wish.

Stephanie Zajac

Youth Technical Program Chair

Stephanie Zajac is a Radiation Effects Engineer at John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and is excited to introduce young minds to the unique joys of Science and Engineering. Stephanie recognizes the positive impact that mentorship can have on students of all ages and enjoys encouraging their curiosity and natural proclivity for exploration.