“The kids got an opportunity to experience working with a client, with all the challenges and positives that ’s an experience they wouldn’t get from just making something for themselves.” Mixing STEM and Sportsįor ten weeks, about 100 Lane Tech students taught by Solin and Dan Law learned about urban sensing and brainstormed how it could best be used in the 104-year-old ballpark. “There’s a coolness aspect for the kids of working with the Cubs, and a lot of them have never even been to Wrigley before,” said Jeff Solin, a computer science teacher at Lane Tech. Students quizzed team representatives on their most pressing questions, designed custom devices for measuring sound, weather and customer satisfaction, and installed the sensors around the ballpark in late May. While the first two years of the workshop, called “Lane of Things,” deployed student-built sensors in the hallways of Lane Tech, this year’s partnership with the Chicago Cubs presented a much higher-profile experimental setting. With Lane Tech, AoT researchers have developed a pilot educational program to bring the project into schools as well, using off-the-shelf devices to help students create their own smaller version of the sensor network. Across Chicago, more than 100 Array of Things nodes currently collect data on temperature, humidity, air pressure, magnetic field, vibration, light and air quality, publishing the results openly for scientists, city officials and residents to use.
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