RICHLAND TOWNSHIP ? Looking through a set of Google Glass ? a tiny computer mounted on a pair of glasses frames that uses a prism screen to display data before a user?s right eye ? 17-year-old Josiah Bailey got a glimpse of future technology before it hit the market.
After he said the magic words, ?OK, glass,? to activate the device, Bailey used voice commands to search the Internet for cat photos, which appeared shortly afterward on the suspended screen.
?I think it?s pretty cool,? Bailey said. ?It?s not hard to see.?
The Forest Hills senior was among a small group of students who got a preview of emerging technology that will be incorporated into a new camp by The Learning Lamp and Problem Solutions, a Johnstown-based technology company.?
The students gathered in a classroom July 9 at the Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center, where the new camp, DoIT!, is to be held Aug. 19 to 21. The program is free and open to ninth to 12th-grade students in Cambria and Somerset counties, but those interested will have to post a brief video on YouTube and send the link to hrizkalla@thelearninglamp.org. Interested students also can email a one-paragraph essay to the same email address.?
Organizers said they will accept only 16 participants. DoIT! camp applications can be submitted through Aug. 5.
Heidi Rizkalla, Learning Lamp education director, said video and essay applications should focus on one question: Why does the student want to use technology to change the world?
?DoIT! is the first in what we hope will be a series of interactive camps that promote technology awareness and teach aspiring dreamers, designers, computer scientists and software developers professional design techniques,? she said.
Problem Solutions CEO Michael Hruska said teens chosen for the camp will walk away with real-world experience in creating and using innovative technology.
?We?ll be talking about what we do as a technology company and incorporating that into the camp,? Hruska said. ?Students will learn about advanced technology, understand how it solves problems, develop their own creativity and leave with a tool kit of skills to design new technology.?
Dreaming up new ideas is part of his company?s philosophy, he said. It?s how they got their hands on Google Glass, which camp students will be testing before consumers are able to purchase the device.?
Mark Dewey, a software engineer at the 10-year-old company, was a winner of Google?s ?If I Had Glass? contest. He entered by tweeting his concept for a Google Glass application: A virtual tutor to help him learn to juggle by pointing out what he?s doing wrong.?
?When you realize what you?re doing wrong, that?s when the magic happens,? Hruska said. ?It could have so many applications and could be used for any difficult learning process.?
The company is working to develop that juggling app and other technologies.?
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