LLRISE offers a unique opportunity for high school students to work on real engineering problems with professional scientists in a world-class federal defense research environment at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
The Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers (LLRISE) program is a highly selective two-week residential workshop for rising high school seniors with a strong interest in engineering and computer science. Students gain hands-on experience by working in small teams to build and test their own small radar systems under the guidance of MIT Lincoln Laboratory scientists and engineers. The curriculum emphasizes the engineering design process, from defining a problem and designing a solution to building hardware and software components, testing the system, and presenting results. Participants engage with college-level material, including radar fundamentals, signal processing, electromagnetics, and MATLAB programming. The program culminates in formal presentations where teams demonstrate their radar systems, such as range-finding systems, motion detectors, or synthetic aperture radar imagers. Students develop technical skills like soldering, 3D printing, and coding, alongside soft skills such as teamwork and public speaking.
A typical day includes morning lectures by Lincoln Laboratory staff, followed by afternoon project building sessions where students work on designing, building, and testing their radar systems.
This program is best for rising high school seniors who are U.S. citizens with strong backgrounds in math and physical science and a deep passion for engineering, radar technology, and applied research.
MIT, Cambridge, MA and Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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