Today was the first annual Imagine RIT Festival, hosted at the RIT campus in Rochester, New York.  RIT was expecting a maximum of 30,000 people to attend, and although the weather wasn’t favorable for the event, drizzling without much sun, more than 10,000 people came to the campus.  There were more than 400 exhibits around the campus–not only in the academic buildings–but also in the quads and Field House.  The Xerox ‘WOW’ center was setup much the same way our career fairs are setup.  Some of the memorable exhibits included RIT EyeTracking, and Calling Earth to Second Life.  I spent a few hours walking around the campus checking everything out, there was some seriously cool stuff.  Digsby was also present, and I scored a t-shirt from Steve.

The purpose of Imagine RIT, aside from kicking off the Rochester Festival season is to promote the university as not only a steller teaching university, but also as one that is is an innovation university, with an emphasis on research and creativity.  RIT is ranked highly for undergraduate education, and having one of the oldest co-op programs has earned it a reputation which attracts many of the best employers in the USA.