In the middle of Baltimore's toughest neighborhood is an after school maker space inspiring disenfranchised kids to design their futures via science, technology, engineering, and math. Within these walls, a 7th grader finds sponsorship from a local millionaire and mentorship from engineers across the internet to build a sensor-enabled wheelchair that could disrupt an entire industry.
Elon Musk is hosting a worldwide competition for students to design, build and run a high speed 700mph train based on Musk's own open sourced whitepaper. We are there to witness history in the making, as we follow a team of students from 6 different universities working together over 18 months to turn the impossible into a reality.
A neurobiology graduate student seeks to fulfill a childhood dream of bringing state of the art prosthetics to the third world. Made from parts costing less than $50, his robotic hand is virtually indestructible, rechargeable, and delivers sensory feedback. Now it's time to launch his invention into the real world with "Patient #1", a Muslim spiritual leader thousands of miles away.