HipScience Inspires STEM Students at Microsoft's ‘Youthspark Live’ Event at Harris-Stowes

ATLANTA - Feb. 10, 2016 - PRLog -- HipScience organization spent the day with students at the YouthSpark Hack4Innovation event on January 29th from 8:00AM – 2:00 PM at Harris-Stowe State University. This event was designed as a community outreach event focusing on familiarizing the next generation with the technology that has become so prevalent in their lives. The HipScience activities were focused on exposing the kids to higher level programming concepts, explaining connected devices and IOT, and relating how they can leverage the Cloud to solve problems.

Kids participated in a hands-on lab using the new HipScience Mantis™ Climate Sensor in conjunction with a mobile app to chart environmental variables. With the sensor and brand new Surface Tablets generously donated to the event by Microsoft, the kids were able to receive instant feedback as they watched the process unfold. The students also participated in writing a program to text the readout data to their phones. Sensory capabilities of the new sensor include thermometer, ozone sensors, and an expansion port that will allow for many more sensors to come! It’s portable as well!

COO Marquette Trishaun, one of the technological leaders with HipScience who attended the event, recalled his own roots and feelings surrounding the workshop: “We migrated from the rural south so my mother could attend a small teacher’s college. Here I am 30 something years later sharing our STEM sensors with the next generation at that same teacher’s college, now known as Harris-Stowe State University. That’s one awesome example of life coming full circle – to paying it forward!” This attitude of giving back to the people and places that raised us is a crucial part of building a future.

Visit http://www.mantisopenstem.com/ for more about Mantis STEM-related sensors and probes.  In addition to its predecessor, the Mantis Weather Station, the new Climate Sensor adds an expansion port that will allow for many more probe and sensor possibilities to come

About HipScience LLC:  With locations in Atlanta and Orlando, HipScience is bringing STEM to life.  An embedded sensor company, HipScience in partnership with Sciberus, Inc., is designing and creating  sensors to communicate with other relevant technology. The Mantis™ brand of sensors and probes is designed with STEM education in mind promoting an open platform and standards-based curriculum. With over 15 years of experience in the aerospace industry, the company has been designing and engineering sensors that embed in wearable items like wristbands and clothing to weather stations. Visit us at http://www.mantisopenstem.com/  to learn more!