Some student chairs from UF IEEE helped the ECE ambassadors facilitate a circuit based activity to help teach students from Booker middle about how RBG LEDs work and basic concepts on voltage, current, Ohm's law, and LED operation. This event started with a short presentation that explained the idea behind what an LED is, how electrical current correlates to brightness, and how resistance is similar to allowing less water flow through a pipe. After the introduction, students engaged and experimented with a basic circuit by connecting a battery and adjust potentiometers to create certain colors through RGB light combinations.
After the students finished their activity, our volunteers had a great time answering questions about what college is like, why we chose to pursue ECE engineering, and engaging with the students to show them that they are similar in many ways to college students. After the event ended the students expressed that their favorite part was getting the opportunity to connect with and ask questions of our IEEE chairs.
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