IUPUI Center for Research and Learning IUPUI Nanotechnology Discovery Academy (INDA)

IUPUI Nanotechnology Discovery Academy (INDA)

The IUPUI Nanotechnology Discovery Academy (INDA) provides week-long summer camps for high-school students and teachers that offer participants a unique opportunity to explore the emerging field of nanotechnology.

Through lecture-based theory, hands-on learning, and teaching module development in renewable energy, nanomedicine, and bionanotechnology, INDA instills students with the desire and capacity to excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and careers.

The “science of the small” has long been a staple of popular culture—since before the home-lab misadventures of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids to the fictionalized nanoscience of Terminator 2 to whatever will be the next Hollywood blockbuster. Nanotechnology involves the control of matter in the nanometer-scale dimensions (one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair), with a broad range of applications such as energy, medicine, information technology, space and aeronautics, and consumer goods.

INDA is a collaborative partnership between the Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute (INDI), the Center for Research and Learning (CRL), and the Special Programs for Academic Nurturing (SPAN).