Category: Green Grant

GREEN GRANT UPDATE: SOLAR POWERED MEDIA

Tega Brain is an Assistant Professor, artist, environmental engineer, and has experience building computational projects that address energy use and sustainability. This project builds on her ongoing research by leveraging technology to improve environmental health. Benedetta Piantella is an Industry Assistant Professor with ten years of experience in the design and deployment of open source hardware/software solutions that address social challenges in low resource settings globally and developing curricula that uses design to solve large real-world problems. This project builds on her current research around wireless local networks, information sharing, and community resilience. Alex Nathanson is an NYU Tandon alumni, multimedia artist, A/V engineer, technologist, and educator. As an educator he has worked with students from K to graduate level and beyond, teaching skills related to electronics and solar technologies for creative expression. His thesis project for the IDM Program included an extremely in-depth study on the use of solar in media arts.

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