iTECH AI Innovation Lab
A station-based AI lab at Immokalee Technical College. Student teams rotate through stations, each built around one piece of equipment:
- AIPI Lite handheld AI devices
- Hiwonder xArm 1S robotic arm
- MatataStudio Nous AI Robotics Set
- Anki Vector robot
- UNIHIKER M10
Projects focus on AI with real-world physical applications, such as manufacturing and inventory control. Student work doubles as showcase material for the Lab, and the “Silicon Glades” series of grant proposals (DonorsChoose, Champions for Learning) funds new equipment across iTECH programs.
The grant proposals were drafted with AI assistance; the research behind them — scoping the equipment, talking with instructors across programs, and working out what each program could actually use — is mine, and took considerably longer than the drafting.