Projects

LAIA Projects and Project Areas include:

CURRENT Projects:

• LAIA Eagle Robot Design & Development Project

  • Involves: Artificial Intelligence, design, research, engineering, physics, software development, robotics
  • BB8 Creation Learning Project

 

• LAIA Intelligent Website Chatbot

  • Involves: Artificial Intelligence, software design & development, research

 

• LAIA Keep Clean

  • Involves: Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, mobile app and web development, research

 

• LAIA Intelligent Tutors

  • Involves: Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, learning science, mobile app and web development, research

 

• LAIA Cloud (powered by 200-server donation from Yahoo!)

  • Involves: hardware, centos operating system, open-source software, network design, network administration, TCPIP

 

• LAIA Rooftop Garden Robotics

  • Involves: Design, research, gardening, engineering, physics, drones, software development, high school computer science outreach

 

General Project Areas

• Intelligent Systems

  • Involves: Artificial intelligence, electronics, physics, software design and development, design and innovation, engineering, robotics, research

• Robotics/Internet of Things

  • Involves: Artificial intelligence, Lego Mindstorm, electronics, engineering, physics, mathematics, programming, design and innovation, PreK-12 computer science and engineering outreach

• Game Design & Development

  • Involves: Artificial intelligence, gaming, software design and development, graphics, mathematics, design and innovation

• Undergraduate Research Experiences

  • Involves: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science/data analytics, research
  • Partner: Identity & Success Research Lab @ Howard University (Dr. Cynthia Winston-Proctor)

• PreK-16 Computer Science Education

  • Computer Science and Computer Engineering Education are essential to learners of all ages in today’s society.  LAIA focuses on efforts in PreK-16.  Some recent projects include:
     
    • Girls in CS Summit – A collaboration with Code in the Schools
    • The on-going resource use and impact of the #coppincs movement: cultivating a culture of coding.  This includes:
      • social media (@coppincs on instagram & twitter),
      • our coppincs.slack community (with ~100 members and over 13K messages to-date), and
      • the www.coppincs.com website.
    • {CSU <Hacks!/>} & #evening-code – various opportunities for Coppin students to practice coding outside of the classroom projects
    • 2018 Summer Coding Camp for Elementary School Students near Coppin

• Culturally Relevance & Ethics

  • Involves: Artificial Intelligence, research, culturally relevant pedagogy, software design and development, human computer interaction, web design and programming, database design, K-12 design partners