Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation Inc

Alumni engagement program: this program fosters ties with its alumni to support educational programs to include the following:homecoming: an annual event that highlights brooklyn tech's educational programs. It involves approximately 500 students as well as current and retired faculty. The ike heller '43 center for computer integrated manufacturing and robotics: a state-of-the art facility for student learning, professional development and career preparation. The center has undergone a number of iterations to make cutting edge technology available to both students and teachers. It provides students and faculty with a high tech, learning environment that meets university and industry standards. In the center, students in the electrical engineering, mechatronics, and robotics classes convert computer-assisted designs into three-dimensional prototypes using 3d printers and utilize cnc machines to manufacture the parts.recent alumni day: alumni who have graduated during the last five years, come back to tech to meet with classes. They discuss college life, career pathways and other post-secondary opportunities. They also discuss how tech prepared them for college. The program attended by over 300 alumni.ruby engineers: connects current tech female students to our female graduates. Provides sessions on college and career options, resume writing and interviewing and introduces current students to the vast network of women professionals who have graduated from tech. This program is on a temporary hiatus due to staff capacity.

The weston research scholars program (wrsp): this program is designed to provide students with a three-year opportunity to participate in the creation of research projects. The wrsp builds on brooklyn tech's strong stem-based curriculum, the exceptional talents of brooklyn tech faculty and students, and the tremendous research opportunities at nyc colleges, universities and research facilities. The program is unique in its structure, incorporating an internal mentor model consisting of brooklyn tech teachers with research experience, student research teams, ongoing activities through the academic year and summer, and external mentors at multiple colleges, universities and research facilities. The students who participate in this program develop projects that are worthy of submission to the regeneron science talent search, regeneron science and engineering fair, the google science fair, act-so. Approximately 110 students are enrolled with five teachers serving as mentors.