Record attendance expected for URI Biomechanics Day
April 2, 2025
WHAT: A record number of Rhode Island high school students will attend the Sixth Annual Biomechanics Day at the University of Rhode Island. Close to 500 students are expected to participate from 10 high schools. There will be more than 45 hands-on demonstrations, challenges, and competitions designed to teach students about biomechanics and other science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Some activities will feature technology used in URI laboratories, such as virtual and augmented reality systems, motion capture technology, wearable technology, and photoelectric gait technology. Other stations will test students’ speed, vertical leap, balance, agility, and grip strength.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: University of Rhode Island
Mackal Field House
75 Keaney Road, Kingston, RI 02881
WHO: Students and teachers from Barrington Christian Academy, Bishop Hendricken High School, Central Falls High School, Coventry High School, The Greene School, Portsmouth High School, South Kingstown High School, St. Andrew’s School, Toll Gate High School, and West Warwick High School are among those expected to attend.
The following URI laboratories will be represented: Motion VR Biomechanics Lab, Biomechanics and Wearable Laboratory, Wearable Biosensing Lab, and the Motor Control and Rehabilitation Laboratory. URI’s head strength and conditioning coach, Scott Leech, will participate, as well as students from URI’s Kinesiology Club.
FOR INFORMATION: URI assistant professors of kinesiology Susan D’Andrea, sedandrea@uri.edu, 401-222-9732; and Ryan Chapman, rmchapman@uri.edu, 401-874-7845. Neil Nachbar, URI Department of Communications and Marketing, 401-874-4946.
BACKGROUND: URI’s Biomechanics Day event is part of National Biomechanics Day, a world-wide celebration of biomechanics for high school students and teachers that was founded in 2016.
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