The Thinkabit Lab Signature Experience combines our engaging career exploration and hands-on engineering activities. Students from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds can dive into the world of engineering and invent Internet of Things themed projects to solve a problem of their choice. The journey to inventing today and tomorrow’s wireless world begins here!
Why should you learn how to code? Thinkabit Lab students, teachers, and community partners share their thoughts.
Lewis Middle School students reflect on the Thinkabit Lab experience and their aspirations to become engineers in the future.
The Wearable Tech week-long camp is designed to engage all-girl groups in a fun, hands-on engineering experience. Students explore their unique strengths, interests, and values while engaging in hands-on engineering activities using LED lights and servo motors. Students get to use these newly found skills to invent creative Internet of Things inspired, automated wearable technologies. The gender gap in STEM ends here!
Check out how this young inventor showcased her Strengths, Interests, and Values with her cowboy hat.
Watch how this young inventor overcame challenges with building an automated hat!
This middle school student models her hat after herself with a nod to Rosalind Franklin.
Watch how this future engineer uses her servos and LEDs to highlight her resiliency.
The Tech for Good program draws inspiration from Qualcomm efforts to advance worldwide communities socially and economically. Students learn about Wireless Reach and harness the power of Bluetooth technology to invent an automated Internet of Things inspired solution to a real-world problem. Students learn that they can use technology to solve societal challenges at any age!
Watch how this clever invention can create safer slides from your local park to water parks!
This is the perfect solution to collecting litter from the streets!
This future inventor has created a way to make stairs more accessible for everyone!
This middle school students wants to bring medical robots to rural areas. Check out her invention!
The AgTech for Good project inspires students to leverage their every-day experiences in agricultural communities for “good.” Students learn more about both agriculture and technology as they use Bluetooth wireless communication to invent an innovative solution to problems in their community. Qualcomm is committed to ending the digital divide. This program shows the power of technology to students in rural communities!
This middle school inventor drew inspiration for her conveyer belt from looking right outside her window.
The Water Weaver is a wirelessly-controlled irrigation system for farms with crops and animals.
With his invention, this future agricultural engineer tackles how to efficiently test soil for optimal crops.
Check out how this high school student’s love of sea turtles inspired her to invent technology to help rehabilitate them.
Qcamp™ began offering students an invention-packed summer in 2014! Hosted in the Thinkabit Lab at the Qualcomm Headquarters in San Diego, middle school students toured the Qualcomm campus, gazed at the famed Wall of Patents, met Qualcomm engineers, and jumped into an exhilarating week of Internet of Things-inspired inventions. These camps at Qualcomm are what lead to the now themed summer camps that occur across the country!!
In 2014, Qualcomm hosted its first Qcamp to introduce a group of unstoppable girls to the world of invention. Watch where it all started!
2015 Qcamp students return to further develop their sisterhood of female engineers! They learn about environmental awareness and invent automata.
2016 Qcamp students come back for a third and final time! Students reflect on experiencing hands-on engineering and learning about STEM careers.
Learn about the impact of Qcamp on the middle school girls who attended over three years from summer 2014 -2016.
Vista Unified School District students come to Qualcomm headquarters for Qcamp! They participate in a hands-on summer program.
Vista Unified School District students come to Qualcomm headquarters for Qcamp! They participate in a hands-on summer program.
Chula Vista Elementary School District students come to Qualcomm headquarters for Qcamp! They participate in a hands-on summer program.
Chula Vista Elementary School District students come to Qualcomm headquarters for Qcamp! They participate in a hands-on summer program.
Cajon Valley Unified School District students come to Qualcomm headquarters for Qcamp! They participate in a hands-on summer program.
Cajon Valley Unified School District students come to Qualcomm headquarters for Qcamp! They participate in a hands-on summer program.
In 2020-21, everyday life was suddenly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Schools closed, hospitals were overwhelmed, and masks became essential. Students, naturally observant, were drawn to the pandemic-related problems and inspired to invent relevant and highly valued solutions. Watch how they used an Internet of Things framework to mitigate the challenges and help people in this much needed time.
Check out this touchless mask dispenser to keep people safe!
This young inventor created a real-time temperature indicator to keep people safe!
The drone can come to you and diagnose your illness from the safety of your home!
This handy handwash timer makes sure you are you are’re washing your hands for 20 seconds!
Feeling inspired to try coding yourself? The Thinkabit Lab Learning Center offers free online resources, developed to help adult instructors and parents introduce coding and engineering to students. Click here to learn more!
Learn more about the Thinkabit Lab Learning Center and how you can create your own inventions right at home.
Learn how to use a microcontroller as a power source to build an LED circuit and upload and modify code to make it blink at various speeds.
Learn how to wire two different Servo motors to a microcontroller and write and modify code to make them spin in various ways.