On Wednesday, youth around the world will participate in 4u2011H National Youth Science Day, the world’s largest hands-on engineering challenge. Schoolchildren will be working together to design, build and refine a wearable fitness tracker that is easy to use and aesthetically appealing.
“Wearable technologies are a great space for youth in education because it really combines a lot of different areas,” Brad Barker, professor of Nebraska Extension 4-H Youth Development, said in a statement. “For instance, you have technology, you have computer programming, circuitry. But then also you have that aesthetic. It’s really personal expression about the artifact that you are creating.