Most college and high school physics courses cover few, if any, developments made since 1930.  At Rensselaer, we have developed a novel introductory course, called The Science of Information Technology (ScIT) that combines contemporary applications of traditionally covered topics, like the implications of diffraction for the storage capacity of CD-ROMs, with more recent developments, like the use of giant magnetoresistance in hard drives.  This course has benefited greatly from the Studio environment developed for Rensselaer's more traditional introductory courses.  This workshop will introduce the participants both to the Studio model of teaching and to some hi-tech applications of topics covered in introductory courses.  Participants will complete parts of two different hands-on lessons:  one relating Ohm's Law and resistance to semiconductor technology, and the other relating diffraction patterns to optical storage.