High-Low Tech How to engage diverse audiences in creating their
own technology by situating computation in new contexts and
building tools to democratize engineering.  Research Projects
• Computational Textiles Curriculum      Leah Buechley and
Kanjun Qiu      The Computational Textiles Curriculum is a
collection of projects that leverage the creativity and beauty
inherent in e-textiles to create an introductory computer-
science curriculum for middle- and high-school students. The
curriculum is taught through a sequence of hands-on project
explorations of increasing difficulty, with each new project
introducing new concepts in computer science, ranging from basic
control flow and abstraction to more complex ideas such as
networking, data processing, and algorithms. Additionally, the
curriculum introduces unique methods of working with the LilyPad
Arduino, creating non-traditional projects such as a game
controller, a networked fabric piano, an activity monitor, and a
gesture recognition glove. The projects