Tech Mania at Howard Community College

Join Learning Undefeated at Howard Community College for Tech Mania, a day-long event created to bolster high school students’ interest in STEM-based careers by showcasing the technology that is being designed, created and built right in their own backyard.

Our team will be running our RADAR activity developed to help students explore wave properties through the lens of radars.

In this activity, students are introduced to radar and the Doppler effect as well as how it applies to plane detection and air traffic control.  Students will use a constructed radar box to model the data collected by radar systems.  Students will use the provided equipment to identify the object of a shape they cannot see by using the equipment to measure the distance to the object from a sensor.  Students will also collect simulated data of an object in motion to see how the same equipment can relay information of not only distance but movement and direction as well. Students will see how this applies to the Department of Defense and understand the need for updated radar systems to detect fast-moving and low-flying vehicles.