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Outreach Activities

  • 2023 STEAM Explore Day. Dr. Xie delivered an invited talk on “Autonomous Systems: Drones” at the STEAM Exploration Day in November 2023, which was attended by over 30 students in the 9th grade.


  • 2023 SDSU Robotics Summer Camp. This one-week-long program trained middle and high school students on programming, robotics, sensing and autonomy through hands-on experience with mbots and DJI Tello drones. Check out this Youtube video to see the activities that took place during this camp.


  • 2023 STEM Pathways program. Justin Pudiquet, a community-college student, worked in the SMILE lab on drone face tracking through this program.


  • Lab Tours. In 2023, the SMILE Lab provided lab tours for multiple groups of middle and high school students from the Bell Middle School S.W.A.G (Student With Achievement Goals) program, Explore SDSU Admitted Student Day, and the Robotics Summer Camp.


  • Women's History Month panel. Dr. Xie was a guest speaker for the Women’s History Month panel hosted at the Scholarship Prep Charter School – Oceanside in March 2023. This panel was attended by over 200 students in grades 5th-8th, and was zoomed to younger students. .


  • 2022 SDSU Robotics Summer Camp. This two-weeks-long program trained high school students on programming, robotics, sensing and autonomy through hands-on experience with mbots and DJI Tello drones. Check out this Youtube video to see the activities that took place during this camp.


  • 2022 STEM Pathways program. Two community-college students, Roxana Nevarez and Amy Gonzalez, worked in the SMILE lab through this program. Roxana presented her work on hand gesture-base drone control at the 2022 SACNAS. Amy presented her work on body gesture-based drone control at the 2022 ABRCMS.


  • 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Academy program. One undergraduate student, Johnny Rosas, worked in the SMILE lab on UAV swarm control through this program.


  • 2022 EIS FIRE UP! 25 middle-school girls visited the SMILE lab.


  • 2021 WE BELIEVE internship program. Two undergraduate students, Zoe Jeffrey and Jervaughn Gaines, worked in the SMILE lab on drone research through this program.