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64 complete MITE2S program
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Photo by Justin Allardyce Knight.
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Sixty-four high school juniors from 25 states completed a rigorous six-week regimen in the MITE2S (Minority Introduction to Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Science) program on Aug. 2 [2002], many of them hoping to return in a year as members of MIT's Class of 2007. The 32 male and 32 female students were participating in the 28th session of the summer enrichment program for students from . . . [read more]
MIT mentors inspire kids with 'Eureka!' moments
Twenty-one Boston eighth-graders teamed up with 20 MIT student mentors on eight Saturdays this fall in the Science Projects at MIT program, culminating in presentations of their experiments and an awards ceremony in the Stratton Student Center last weekend. Most of the students from the Umana-Barnes Middle School in East Boston and the Rafael Hernandez School in Roxbury are first-generation Americans and new immigrants from Latin America who speak limited English. Many of them speak Spanish. All of them come from . . . [read more]
Teachers learning
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Teachers work on a product design and development problem at the 14th annual Science and Engineering Program for Teachers held at MIT in June [2002]. Photo by Donna Coveney.
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Sixth graders at Longfellow School study Middle Ages online with 'e-mentors'
Over the past school year, sixth graders at Longfellow School in Cambridge have been using leading-edge technologies to enhance their understanding of the Middle Ages. Taking advantage of the potential for collaboration that an Internet-connected classroom offers, students met online with "e-mentors" who helped them with projects and other learning activities. The mentors -- based at IBM, MIT and Draper Laboratory -- provided guidance to students writing research papers on . . . [read more]
Kids learn about astronaut life and meet 'Dr. Flush'
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Photo by Justin Ide.
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What's life like after liftoff? And how exactly do astronauts go to the bathroom in space, anyway? Hundreds of families from all over New England flocked to the MIT Museum on Sunday afternoon (January 30) to explore the answer to these questions. The program, "A Day in the Life of an Astronaut," kicked off the third season of . . . [read more]
School kids get excited by science
A recent collaboration between MIT and an elementary school in Cambridge succeeded both in bringing the inexact science of science to life in the classroom and leaving fifth- and seventh-grade students hungry to learn more about . . . [read more]
Teenage girls go to Edgerton Center to get hands-on science experience
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Photo by Donna Coveney.
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The Edgerton Center's outreach program for teenage girls, "You Go Girl!" provides hands-on experience and exploration of technology to teenagers who might otherwise never encounter this type of . . . [read more]
High school inventor teams funded by Lemelson-MIT Program
Three New England high school teams have been chosen as the inaugural recipients of grants of up to $10,000 from the Lemelson-MIT Program, which challenged them to use the money to invent something of real benefit to their school or community.
InvenTeam grants, a new initiative to foster inventiveness in high school students, went to . . . [read more]
MIT/CRLS team advances in national robot contest
A robot-building team of students from MIT and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) took second place in a regional FIRST competition last month in New Brunswick, NJ. The team also won "Best Play of the Day" honors for outstanding strategic play in one of the qualifying matches earlier in the competition. Thirty-seven teams participated in the Johnson & Johnson Mid-Atlantic Regional competition, which pitted . . . [read more]
Several from MIT aid Dorchester after-school program
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Photo by Ed Quinn.
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Thanks to the skills and financial support of many from the MIT community, SPES (Supplemental Program of Educational Skills), a nonprofit after-school program in Dorchester, has a new computer lab and information technology platform. Corporation chair Alexander d'Arbeloff (S.B. 1949), who with his wife Brit (S.M. 1961) provided lead funding for development of the new SPES computer platform, was among . . . [read more]
High school girls spend dream vacation in EECS program
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Photo by Donna Coveney.
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Now and then, an ambitious graduate student will decide to tackle a particularly sticky problem in science or engineering. One of those students, Douglas Ricket, created the Women's Technology Program as a partial solution to a tough problem with social rather than technical roots. Ricket, a 23-year-old graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, discovered a deeply entrenched difficulty in his field while . . . [read more]
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