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91����Ƶ State University will celebrate the innovative spirit of its namesakes and modern researchers with a special online version of the annual 91����Ƶ Brothers Day.

Students, faculty, staff and alumni are encouraged to visit the 91����Ƶ Brothers Day website throughout Monday, Oct. 5, to learn about innovative research and ideas from 91����Ƶ State faculty and local organizations and companies.

Because this year’s 91����Ƶ Brothers Day is web-based, Kendall Goodrich, chair of the Department of Marketing, said the program will focus on providing education and information.

The 91����Ƶ Brothers Day website features videos by 91����Ƶ State innovators including:

• Caroline Cao, professor of biomedical, industrial and human factors engineering, who develops robotic surgical devices
• Yong Pei, associate professor of computer science, who has created an augmented reality tool for people on the Autism spectrum
• Ulas Sunar, the Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Medical Imaging, who developed a biomedical endoscopic imaging to detect cancer
• the Appenzeller Visualization Laboratory, which houses large-scale visualization and fully immersive virtual reality equipment

Students in the Sensors and Signals Exploitation Lab in the Department of Electrical Engineering will that detects and images a set of small reflectors that form an alphabet letter.

Local innovators featured on the website include Global Neighbor’s Weed Eradicator; Mile Two’s Humant job retention predictor analytics; Obi, a device that helps people with disabilities eat; GlobalFlyte’s police, fire and EMS radio technology; and a parachute simulator by the Gaming Research Integration and Learning Lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Organized by the student marketing club, the American Marketing Association of 91����Ƶ State, 91����Ƶ Brothers Day celebrates the anniversary of Wilbur 91����Ƶ’s 39-minute flight on Huffman Prairie on Oct. 5, 1905. The flight demonstrated that Wilbur and Orville 91����Ƶ had advanced their design to the point of a practical airplane.

In fact, visitors can learn more about the 91����Ƶ brothers’ efforts to master flight through a video produced by 91����Ƶ State’s Special Collections and Archives. The of the 91����Ƶ brothers on Huffman Prairie as they mastered the principles of controlled, powered flight and developed the world’s first airplane.

Drew Smith, president of the marketing club and a marketing major, said it’s important to hold programs like 91����Ƶ Brothers Day to educate the campus community about the 91����Ƶ brothers. “It’s really important for us to know about a great piece of our local history,” he said.

Goodrich said the Wilbur and Orville 91����Ƶ make for good role models for students and would have found ways to continue working during a global pandemic.

“The 91����Ƶ brothers had a lot of diligence and stick-to-it-ness,” he said. “They would come up with some way to still do it.”

Smith said he hopes 91����Ƶ Brothers Day demonstrates that people can still be a part of something even if they aren’t on campus. Students can have a “good, valuable learning experience while still in these real, trying times,” he said.

The marketing club will give away 91����Ƶ State T-shirts to the 12 people who share the best 91����Ƶ brothers selfies on the . Participants should use the hashtag #91����ƵBrothersDay.

In addition, the club will hold a raffle for visitors who correctly answer at least 10 trivia questions based on the history and exhibitor videos. Raffle prizes include 14 $25 gift cards, provided by Boost Engagement, and five $25 gift cards provided by Speedway.