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.
Zehra Ali (G Course 4) is a co-founder of Ghonsla, a developer, producer, and installer of renewable insulation for low-income housing in Northern Pakistan. Zehra and the rest of her Ghonsla team members, Emmanuel Arnaud, Mubarik Imam, and Monica Le, won an IDEAS Competition award in 2008 for ...
Yi Wang '09 received an MIT Public Service Center Grant to work in a D-Lab team on improving the efficiency of the charcoal and briquette production in Lunsar, Sierra Leone and other rural villages. After numerous trials, she found that coconut shells produced the most charcoal, however, ...
Speakers:John Nonnamaker - Associate Director, Graduate Student Career Development?
Get some views from some MIT students on what advice they would give someone in high school.
The first goal of "Voces del Pueblo" was to survey current methods of feedback between communities and NGOs. 23 NGO representatives were interviewed, 18 construction sites were visited, and over 35 hours of footage were taken in the first stage of the project. After meticulously documenting ...
Students from around the world gather at MIT to build alternatively-powered vehicles.
"Emergent Design: Opportunities for Agent-based Computation." Recorded 6/24/2010
Tish Scolnik ('10 Course 2) is a co-inventor of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a lever-powered wheelchair to assist in the ease of wheelchair travel in developing countries. Tish and her team of fellow inventors won a 2008 IDEAS Competition Award for their design of the Leveraged Freedom Chair. ...
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 ...
Ting Shih SM '09 participated in the MIT Paul and Priscilla Gray Value-Added Internship program. Ting traveled to Botswana to implement the ClickDiagnostics telemedicine system she co-founded. The system connects community health workers to remote medical specialists ...
Interphase is a rigorous seven-week summer residential, academic and community-building program for admitted MIT freshmen that instills subject mastery of calculus, physics and chemistry, and helps them explore their cultural identities through reading, writing and discussion. In addition, ...
Tess Veuthy ('08) and Maria Luckyanova ('08) discuss their non-profit organization, Developing World Prosthetics, and their work in India with the Jaipur Foot Organization. Their team, Vac-Cast Prosthetics, now called Developing World Prosthetics, won the 2006-2007 MIT IDEAS Competition.
A tribute to the tenth anniversary of the MIT Public Service Center's IDEAS Competition, including special thanks from past winners to mentors Sally Susnowitz, Amy Smith, and Alison Hynd. Videography by Shannon O'Brien, editing by Josh Kastorf.
An introduction to Sacha Yaku and its work on the potable water system of an indigenous community in Ecuador. Sacha Yaku is now starting an "Art for Water" program to tell the story of Santa Ana in the United States and by selling traditional jewelry and pottery to ...
"Has AAA Got You Covered? - Building Effective Mentoring Relationships from the Bottom Up" Recorded on 7/28/2009
"Electrospray Emission From Nonwetting Flat Dielectric Surfaces." Recorded 7/29/2010
In this last Student Presentation for the 2011 program, a group of students present Professor Linda Elkins' paper on the Formation of Early Water Oceans on Rocky Planets. The research process used mathematical, chemical, and in depth scientific analysis to see how oceans formed on planets ...
The future of Geothermal Energy: An Interdisciplinary MIT study
