EDGE SCHOLARS VISIT AUSTIN
Five Hajim School students visited state-of-the-art tech facilities earlier this month as part of the EDGE Scholars program. Rochester is a founding member of the new Education Group for Diversification and Growth in Engineering (EDGE) Consortium, an alliance of schools and industry/government partners that seeks to transform the semiconductor industry, and education pipelines, to meet national demand.
Nyasha Gwaza ’26 ECE, Kareem Hassan ’26ECE , Will Knoff ’25 ECE, Ethan Lin ’25 ECE, Matthew Nappo ’25, and Jassem Toumi ’26 went on the trip to visit Ericsson’s R&D Center in Austin on the first day (see skyline group picture) and then visited their Imagine Studio in the morning and Smart Factory in the afternoon on the second day. The students learned about Ericsson’s ASIC technology, 5G and 6G innovations, and got to see inside their state of the art Smart Factory that is truly constantly evolving, with new automations and parts being retooled almost on a daily basis.