TABC’s engineering students capped off another year of technological innovation as they debuted their projects to both the school and wider communities. The annual TABC Stem Showcase, which was published online this year, features the presentation of student-created capstone projects in culmination of their year of engineering studies. The projects began with an invention idea that each group of students then developed into a working prototype. This year, students had to adapt to using virtual tools, simulated circuits and website design to present their ideas. On May 26, students debuted their projects on a larger (virtual) stage at CIJE’s Innovation Day. The one-hour livestream featured the presentation of awards to the top projects (out of 300 submissions!). Sophomores Daniel Brauner, Yakov Halstuch and Zachary Jerome won second place in the arts category for their Not-So-Grand-Piano, a device that uses Arduino and cheap parts to create an affordable and compact instrument that has the feel of a real piano.

Yasher koach to all the engineering students, guided by their teachers, Aryeh Tiefenbrunn and Rabbi Shaya First, who put a huge amount of effort into their projects over the past semester. In addition to first coming up with an original invention idea and beginning to prototype their invention in the school’s state-of-the-art Makerspace, they then had to abandon their prototypes when the school building closed and start from scratch, ultimately restrategizing and completing digitized forms of their impressive creations.