At the heart of the MIT mission statement is a call to serve the nation and the world — and this charge is embodied by the MIT Public Service Center and other organizations across campus. The PSC exists to motivate, facilitate, and celebrate the ethic and activities of public service at MIT.
"Real-Time Limit Analysis of Vaulted Masonry Buildings," recorded 6/17/2010
June 14, 2011 - Understanding Individual Human Mobility Patterns is a presentation in which the presenters and audience reflect on how people move and what effects result in their movement. Some highlights for understanding why people move are for: tracking disease propagation, behavior human ...
Students give a presentation on imaging the two gaps of a high-temperature superconductor
MSRP students give presentations on community service projects.
During the summer STEM Program, students are exposed to not only new mental, but also new physical games and challenges - such as the thinking game of squash.
Sherife Abdel Messih '09 founded SPARK!, which is an innovative youth leadership program whose aim is to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Egypt. The program is comprised of a leadership camp for top notch high school students and an entrepreneurship camp for advanced college students.
Caroline Huang ('10, Course 9) founded the MIT branch of Camp Kesem in her freshman year and has continued to coordinate the summer camp for children of cancer patients for the last three summers.
Meet the new cast and crew of leaders of the SEED Academy and hear about the program and what makes the members of SEED special
On Friday, February 6th, 2009, the SEED Academy had their kickoff event with guest speaker and former astronaut Jeff Hoffman talk about his experiences is space.
The Saturday Engineering Enrichment and Discovery (SEED) Academy is an academic enrichment and career exploration program for public high school students from Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Scot Frank '09 participated in the Public Service Fellowship program, the MIT IDEAS Competition, and Student Leaders in Service. Scot was also part of the 2008 IDEAS Team, SolSource Project, which received the Yunus Challenge Award for their innovative design of a solar cooker intended to ...
Scot Frank is a co-inventor of SolSource, a portable solar concentrator that can be used for heating the home, cooking and electricity generation. It was created to withstand the high winds of remote mountainous regions. Scot Frank and fellow teammates of SolSource Tibet received an IDEAS ...
Sadik Antwi-Boampong '09 participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program. Sadik established the Nsutaman Community Library, the only library in the town of Nsuta, Ghana. Sadik convinced Books for Africa to donate 7,000 books and two computers to the library. ...
Jason Scott ('10 Course 7) and Ryan Jackson ('10 Course 6) worked closely with the MIT Public Service Center during their senior year to create a public service opportunity for graduating seniors to spend a week before commencement using their MIT education to benefit a community by engaging ...
disinfect water with a dynamo, 2 d-cell non alkaline batteries, a couple wires, and a water bottle
