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EPIC IDENTITY FEATURING PROF. LEIA STIRLING
Overview
Epic Identity uses wearable technology to enhance human abilities
Objectives
• Introduce Nord Anglia students to an MIT professor and graduate student who develop and
study wearable technology
• Learn about wearable technology and its ability to improve human performance
• Create ways to measure and quantify the improvement in performance against a baseline or
a control
• Conduct a student-led project related to wearable technology that enhances the identity and/
or powers of a superhero
Subjects to engage
The MIT Challenges are intended to be interdisciplinary, and any interested Nord Anglia teacher can lead or
support an MIT Challenge in their school. These subjects are especially relevant to Epic Identity featuring
Prof. Leia Stirling:
• Art
• Biology
• Computer science
• Design technology
• Engineering
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Sports, exercise and health science
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