Technology Clinic
Students Use Interdisciplinary Approach to Enhance Local Fish Farm
By Michele Tallarita ’12 A group of students from diverse majors is working to make a local fish farming operation more economically and environmentally efficient. The students are members of Technology Clinic, a hands-on course founded in 1987 that combines various student expertise and talents to help solve real-world problems of a business, nonprofit, or [...]
Tech Clinic Teams with Local Groups to Increase Access to Fresh Produce
Six students are working to green up the plates of the Easton community, using a variety of innovations to make vegetable-growing possible within limited green space. The team is working as part of Technology Clinic, a hands-on course that brings students from different majors together to help solve real-world problems. This semester, the group focused [...]
Tech Clinic: Sweat + Creativity = Stronger Communities
Five students rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty—literally—through a series of art projects over the last year. The Technology Clinic class undertook a project called “Urban Art as a Form of Urban Ecology in the West Ward.” A central theme the students emphasized is sweat equity, the idea that when people create [...]
Technology Clinic Applies Interdisciplinary Approach to Local Fish Farming
A Technology Clinic class is using the wide-ranging expertise of its members to make a fish-farming operation more economically and environmentally efficient. “The goal of Technology Clinic is to use the resources and background of five or six different students to help solve real-world problems. Currently, we are working with David Due in Roseto, Pa., [...]
A Flowering Arts Scene: Technology Clinic Is Collaborating with Local Community to Create More Welcoming Public Spaces
By Michele Tallarita ’12 The biggest flower in Easton sprung up in the most unlikely of places. Nestled between brick houses and feet away from the passing cars of Northampton Street in the city’s West Ward, a 16-foot-long flower spreads its petals of white pansies while its yellow center stretches toward the sky. The project [...]
Technology Clinic Brings Students Together to Solve Real-World Problems
After he graduates, Chris Kelly ’13 (Boyertown, Pa.) plans to work in the field of environmental politics. A double major in geology and international affairs, Kelly is learning and using many of the skills he will need in a real-world environment through the College’s Technology Clinic. “I bring a lot of passion to this project [...]
Students and Local Residents Help Spruce Up Raspberry Park
Members of Lafayette’s Technology Clinic and the Landis Community Outreach Center worked with Easton’s West Ward Neighborhood Partnership and West Ward residents last weekend to spruce up the neighborhood in and around Raspberry Park. The project is part of a year-long effort by students in Tech Clinic to assist the West Ward neighborhood in becoming [...]
Greening Easton’s West Ward
Technology Clinic is collaborating with local community to create more welcoming public spaces Lafayette students feel a strong sense of community on campus, and now a Technology Clinic team of six students is trying to foster those same feelings in the surrounding Easton community. Working with the West Ward Neighborhood Partnership and supported by a [...]
Spurring Entrepreneurship in the Slate Belt
Technology Clinic strives to create jobs through manufacturing solar golf carts With the economy slowly rebounding from a downward spiral, job creation is a hot-button issue in regions throughout the country. Working with the Slate Belt Council of Governments and the Slate Belt Business Incubator Program, an ambitious Technology Clinic team of six students is [...]
Technology Clinics Will Present Recommendations May 5 and 6
Projects deal with the green renovation of Easton’s West Ward and job creation in the Slate Belt The College’s two current Technology Clinics will present their biannual reports this week. A team working on entrepreneurship and job creation in the Slate Belt will make its final presentation at noon May 5 in room 103 of [...]
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