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.
Tish Scolnik ('10 Course 2) received two Fellowship awards from the Public Service Center to continue her work on the design of small-business wheelchairs in Tanzania, which was inspired by the ideas and skills she gained from a Service Learning course entitled Wheelchair Design in Developing ...
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.
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 ...
Grace Lee ('10 Course 7) was the President of the MIT chapter of Habitat for Humanity (HFH). With the help of Public Service Grants, Grace Lee and MIT Habitat for Humanity volunteers have worked to provide Habitat families typically living in inadequate shelters with good homes. As HFH ...
Chris Moses ('10 Course 9) was awarded a Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship and participated in the Public Service Fellowship and Grants programs to continue his work with the telemedicine-based health care delivery system called Sana (formerly MocaMobile). Chris is traveling to Manila this ...
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.
