Funding for the CURIE Academy 2021 design project was partially provided by the National Science Foundation through NSF SHF Award #2008471. An equipment donation including Argon Internet-of-Thing devices was provided by Particle Industries. Funding and logistics were partially provided by the Diversity Programs in Engineering Office at Cornell University.
Acknowledgments: In addition to our sponsors, we would also like to thank Patty Clark for managing all of the logistics of shipping the electronics prototyping kits; Alvin Wijaya for designing the digital adder boards; Philip Bedoukian for developing an initial version of the second lab session; and Eric Laine and Chris Dawson for capturing the scholars' hard work in pictures and video.