Some area students spent the summer working with two unlikely partners - technology and fashion. NY1 Tech Beat Reporter Adam Balkin finds out what the odd pairing helped create.

Where can you find a Yankees cheerleader, a motorcyclist, a dancer, and an undercover agent all in the same room? At a fashion show, of course. It's the culmination of the high-tech Eyebeam Art Gallery's 2005 Digital Day Camp.

“The program basically exists to give high school students a mock real world work experience in the art and technology field. So each summer we pick a different theme and we pick a different technology and put them together to challenge the students,” says Liz Slagus of Eyebeam. “So the students were given the challenge to design a uniform of their choice, a new uniform - it could be based on reality or be totally fictional - and they were asked to embed different wearable technologies that they were taught in a series of workshops throughout the camp.”

“The majority of their work was spent learning about basic circuitry, so they learned to make their own breadboards, and wire from the ground up, so they had to learn soldering,” Slagus continues. “They were able to make switches to make things go on and off, and as you can see, most of them worked with LEDs - they love the lights.”

They do love the lights. The dancer lights up to draw more attention inside a dark club; the undercover agent, with a little bit of help, lights up as a way to call in some backup; the Yankees cheerleader has a hat and pom-poms designed to be more visible during night games; and the motorcycle rider has and outfit that glows for safety.

“Since we didn't want to make it a plain uniform, we put some designs on it with flames, and the flames have lights so when you're driving the other drivers can see you,” says student Marquis Mendez, who helped design the motorcycle uniform.

And the students say being part of a generation that has grown up with computers helps them think about fashion from a new, 21st century perspective.

“I’d like to design and draw out what I'd like and try to figure out what materials to use and how to put it together, and what I'm going to need to use for it and how I'm going to make it look nice and shiny maybe,” says student Raphia Santana.

Well, since a $206 million payroll doesn't seem to be working for the Bronx Bombers, a switch to nice and shiny couldn't hurt.

- Adam Balkin