Global Village

Willow Hurlburt, left, from Union City, Pa., has henna applied to her hand by RIT student Tara Jan , right, during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. (Photo by Cuauhtemoc Paz)
Willow Hurlburt, left, from Union City, Pa., has henna applied to her hand by RIT student Tara Jan , right, during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. (Photo by Cuauhtemoc Paz)
High school seniors wait for the shuttle bus while trying to stay dry during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. (Photo by Noah Bogusz)
Naif Bauluh, right, prepares Abdul Alahmari, center, for a western Saudi Arabian dance in Global Village during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. (Photo by Cuauhtemoc Paz)
Shehan Jayasekera dances a western Saudi Arabian dance during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. (Photo by Noah Bogusz)
RIT students sing Saudi Arabian and Egyptian songs in Global Village during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. (Photo by Noah Bogusz)
Hamoud Alhajari translates names from English to Arabic at the Saudi Arabian booth in Global Village during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. (Photo by Noah Bogusz)
Elizabeth Hughes shows off her work with Engineer Precision Optical Transceivers during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. Hughes and her team like to joke that the potato runs the lasers, but they just use it to store broken parts. (Photo by Noah Bogusz)
A woman warms her hands near the Global Village fire pit during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018. (Photo by Noah Bogusz)
Lucille Brown sits near the fire pit in Global village during Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on the Rochester Institute of Technology campus in Henrietta, N.Y., April 28, 2018.’ Brown’s mother is Daniella Brown, a faculty member at RIT for 15 years.
(Photo by Noah Bogusz)