All About Service UROPs
Camilla Shannon
Mon Jan 30, 02-04:00pm, 2-105
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Jan-2006
Single session event
Are you passionate about contributing to the public good through your research? This session is a chance for students to learn about Service UROPs - experiences that allow students to work on public service projects as part of their research and learning. Public service projects allow students to tackle a wide range of issues from poverty to racism to environmental degradation. Students will learn about how Service UROPs can be set up and how to find ideas for projects. A panel of representatives involved in public service research projects will talk about specific project ideas.
Contact: Camilla Shannon, 7-133, x8-0872, camilla@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Alternatives to the Peace Corps
Heather Trickett, Jill Soucy
Thu Jan 19, 12-01:00pm, 56-114
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 35 participants.
Single session event
Thinking of joining the Peace Corps but not ready to commit to two years? If you want to make a difference in the world and are looking for challenging and interesting opportunities, come find out more. We will discuss many of the service program options that exist outside of the Peace Corps. Find out about programs in the United States and abroad. Learn how a year of service can change your life and the lives of others. Light refreshments will be served.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc
Contact: Heather Trickett, 4-104, x3-8968, trickett@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Armenia Gets its Goats: A Project in Sustainability
Linda Bowman
Thu Jan 26, 04-05:00pm, 4-270
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: None
Heifer International’s projects in the Republic of Armenia have responded to that country’s series of disasters by introducing goats or other farm animals to impoverished families with little experience in agriculture. A slide program from this summer's study tour shows the impact of this sustainable project on families, schools, and communities in Armenia, as well as some scenery of the Caucasus mountain area.
Contact: Linda Bowman, 10-500, 253-7742, lbowman@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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Assist the Fish -- Environmental Art Installation/Mentoring
Cindy Snodgrass Artist in Residence
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 16-Jan-2006
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Expand a travelling art installation in a collaborative project that transforms public spaces and increases water awareness. No previous art experience is necessary. Have fun painting and building new fish and bird forms, morph the exhibit to other locations on campus, and around our community. Prepare yourself to mentor students and environmental groups at MIT and in the larger Boston community. Flexible scheduling: choose your own level of involvement. (A six-hour time commitment over the course of the week is recommended if you want to mentor in the spring.)
Web: http://www.windsphere.org/MonProject/
Contact: Cindy Snodgrass, Stata Center Gates Lobby, sosfish@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
Cosponsor: Public Service Center
Meet the Fish
Cindy Snodgrass Artist in Residence
Come meet Cindy Snodgrass, and get to know the fish. Two sessions will be offered so you can pick the best time for you: 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00.
Mon Jan 23, 10am-04:00pm, Stata Center Lobby, Choose either 10-12 or 2-4!
Fish Building
Cindy Snodgrass Artist in Residence
Get involved in the creation of your own fish - Cindy Snodgrass will be demonstrating some techniques for cutting and shaping the fish. Two sessions will be offered so you can pick the best time for you: 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00.
Tue Jan 24, 10am-04:00pm, Stata Center Lobby, Choose either 10-12 or 2-4!
Open Studio: Paint-a-Fish
Cindy Snodgrass Artist in Residence
Mentoring-- practice painting fish and mentorship, bring a friend and help them paint the side of a fish. Two sessions will be offered so you can pick the best time for you: 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00.
Wed Jan 25, 10am-04:00pm, Stata Center Lobby, Choose 10-12 or 2-4!
Guiding
Cindy Snodgrass Artist in Residence
Share painting and research skills with Edgerton Center guests. As students paint fish, prepare them to host an outreach collaboration in their school or environmental center. Together build additional perspectives and awareness of water cycles.
Two sessions will be offered so you can pick the best time for you: 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00.
Thu Jan 26, 10am-04:00pm, Stata Center Lobby, Choose 10-12 or 2-4!
Installation!
Cindy Snodgrass Artist in Residence
Installation and painting with MIT community members. Two sessions will be offered so you can pick the best time for you: 10:00-12:00 or 2:00-4:00.
Fri Jan 27, 10am-04:00pm, Stata Center Lobby
Family Paint and Celebrate!
Cindy Snodgrass Artist in Residence
Family and MIT community members welcome to join in and paint! Mentors are needed to work with drop-ins. Sessions run 11-1, 1-3 and 3-5.
Sat Jan 28, 11am-05:00pm, Stata Center Lobby, Choose one or more sessions!
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Campus Safety Workshop
Marjan Rafat, Laura Sutton
Tue Jan 24, 04:30-07:30pm, 4-237
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: --
The MIT Crime Club is a group of MIT students interested in campus safety. Along with publishing the MIT police logs in The Tech, we wish to improve campus life by trying to reduce students' risks of being victimized.
The Crime Club will run an Assault Risk Reduction Workshop to help students find effective ways of protecting themselves.
--We will provide safety devices such as personal safety alarms and Drink Detective test kits (which test drinks for date-rape drugs).
--Guest speaker: Senior VP of Security on Campus. He has enacted more campus safety bills than any other person in the country.
--We will present new data on property theft rates at local schools. (Which Boston area campus has the highest reported theft rate?)
--We will make available a recently drafted map of crime patterns around local campuses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/crimeclub
Contact: Marjan Rafat, (408) 568-4195, marjan@mit.edu
Sponsor: Crime Club
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Change Your World: Information on Joining the Peace Corps
Heather Trickett Regional Recruiter, Peace Corps, Ingrid Belete Nunez
Wed Jan 11, 01-02:30pm, 4-270
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
If natural disasters have made you think about the state of our world and how you too can learn to get involved and make a difference for the well being of our planet, please come to an informational session led by Peace Corps' MIT Recruiter. Learn why MIT grads are valuable to Peace Corps and how you can put your degree to work to make an impact in communities around the world. With a great past and wonderful benefits, Peace Corps is a top notch option after graduation. Come and learn more!
Web: http://www.peacecorps.com/
Contact: Heather Trickett, 4-104, x3-8968, trickett@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Fish Mobiles
Cindy Snodgrass, artist
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 18-Jan-2006
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
Hands-on—YES—YOU CAN PAINT THE SIDE OF A CARDBOARD FISH or bird.
Choose your own level of involvement—drop in for forty minutes or stay the day. Pick up painting tips and have fun doing something environmental. Add your thoughts and creativity to a mobile fish exhibit with your diverse messages about the critical and inspiring resource which we share with fish—WATER!
Co-sponsored by Campus Activities Complex
Web: http://www.WindSphere.org/SOSFish/About.htm
Contact: Cindy Snodgrass, artist, 4-104, x3-8968, sosfish@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
Cindy Snodgrass, artist
Fish Mobiles - slide/video presentation on community building and environmental art
Tue Jan 24, 06-08:00pm, 32-141
Cindy Snodgrass, artist
Meet the fish and join the collaboration. Paint a cardboard fish. Experiment with techniques that are less polluting. No experience necessary.
Wed, January 25, 11am-1pm and 3-5pm. Choose either session.
Wed Jan 25, 11am-01:00pm, Stata, TSMC Lobby
Cindy Snodgrass, artist
Meet the fish and join the collaboration. Paint a cardboard fish. Experiment with techniques that are less polluting. No experience necessary.
Wed, January 25, 11am-1pm and 3-5pm. Choose either session.
Wed Jan 25, 03-05:00pm, Stata, TSMC Lobby
Cindy Snodgrass, artist
Fish Mobiles - slide/video presentation on community building and environmental art
Wed Jan 25, 06-08:00pm, 32-141
Cindy Snodgrass, artist
Meet the fish and join the collaboration. Paint a cardboard fish. Experiment with techniques that are less polluting. No experience necessary.
Fri Jan 27, 02-04:00pm, Stata, TSMC Lobby
Cindy Snodgrass, artist
Meet the fish and join the collaboration. Paint a cardboard fish. Experiment with techniques that are less polluting. No experience necessary.
Sat Jan 28, 12-03:00pm, Stata, TSMC Lobby
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HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Open Dialog About the Needs in Developing African Nations and the Role of MIT Students
Sally Susnowitz, Kyle Rattray
Mon Jan 9, 02-04:00pm, 1-150
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: RSVP appreciated
The resources needed to adequately respond to the health issues in Africa range from financial assistance and personnel to IT infrastructure and training. We would like to conduct one or a series of on campus seminars during IAP presenting the health and human rights issues as they stand now in Africa, what is being done to change them and what role students (in particular MIT students) can play. We would hope this would be more of a dialogue than a lecture with students taking an active part in the discussion.
Contact: Sally Susnowitz, 4-104, x8-7344, susnowit@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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How To Win the IDEAS Competition - Workshops that Produce Winners
Alison Hynd
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: None
The IDEAS Competition is an invention and enterpreneurship competition with community service at its core. IDEAS encourages teams to develop and implement projects that make a positive change in the world. Each year, at least six teams win IDEAS awards of $2500, $5000, and $7500 to develop and implement their projects. This series is designed to help your team succeed in the IDEAS Competition.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/ideas
Contact: Alison Hynd, 7-133, x8-0691, hynd@mit.edu
Sponsor: Edgerton Center
Cosponsor: Public Service Center
How To Win The IDEAS Competition: The Basics
Alison Hynd
IDEAS staff offer insights and strategies for successful applications. Learn more about IDEAS and the application process; get the low-down on the judging criteria; get tips on proposal writing, project development and convincing the judges; find out the differences between winning projects and all the rest
Thu Jan 12, 06-08:00pm, 4-402
How To Win The IDEAS Competition - Words of Wisdom from Judges and Winners
Alison Hynd
Get great tips from the people who choose the winners and the winners themselves! IDEAS judges will talk about how they evaluate applications and project displays, and what convinces them that a project is a winner. Past winners will share successful strategies and the lessons they learned.
Thu Jan 19, 06-08:00pm, 4-402
How To Win The IDEAS Competition - Resources Workshop
Alison Hynd
Find out what resources are available at MIT and beyond to help your team develop a good project, translate your work into a compelling application, and access additional funding.
Thu Jan 26, 06-08:00pm, 4-402
How To Win The IDEAS Competition - Mentors Social
Alison Hynd
Learn about the skills and experience that some of the IDEAS mentors have to offer, get tips on recruiting mentors, and then meet the mentors over dinner. (If you already have a mentor, this is also a good opportunity to meet with them when the IDEAS staff are on hand to answer any questions).
Thu Feb 2, 06-08:00pm, 4-402
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MIT Public Service Center Open House
Heather Trickett
Wed Jan 18, 11am-01:00pm, 4-104
Wed Jan 25, 03-05:00pm, 4-104
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Looking to make a difference in your community? Not sure where to start? Come learn about the many resources at the MIT Public Service Center, and find out how to locate an opportunity that matches your skills, interests, and time availability.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/
Contact: Heather Trickett, 4-104, x3-8968
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Outreach and Exponentials in a Flat World: Extreme Collaboration
Thomas J. Greene
Tue Jan 17, 03-04:00pm, 32-144
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 60 participants.
Single session event
INSTANT COMMUNICATION: Ideas leap across traditional barriers of distance and language and across the time barrier almost instantly as bits of information technology riding on the web-internet.
ACCELERATED CHANGE: Information moves now not by print media but rather by the explosion of ezines, blogs, virtual communities. Networked people immediately send information across the globe, creating a technology accelerator, resulting in a basic change in the rules for the way people work and learn, which leads to transitions in economic, demographic and ecological domains.
We will examine concrete examples of exponential growth and the demographic and technological changes that brought us to this new world. The new rules of ‘outreach and collaboration’ are replacing 'closed source and competition'.
Contact: Thomas J. Greene, 32-D432, x3-5897, greene@csail.mit.edu
Sponsor: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Public Service Design Seminar Open House
Camilla Shannon
Fri Feb 3, 02-04:00pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: RSVP appreciated
The Public Service Design Seminars (PSDS) engage students in the product design and production process while serving a community need. This spring PSDS classes include "Design for Demining", "Toy Design", and "Technology for Natural Disasters", just to name a few. Come hear a panel of PSDS instructors and alumni speak about the exciting PSDS program.
Contact: Camilla Shannon, 7-133, x8-0872, camilla@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Teaching 201: Running an Educational Outreach Program
Michael Shaw
Wed Jan 25, 07-09:00pm, 1-246
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
They say teaching is one of the most thankless professions, and they're right. And that's when teachers are getting paid. How do you encourage teachers to volunteer hours of their personal time to an outreach program without burning them out? Its no secret how to teach an amazing class--some professors here at MIT have it 100% covered. But how do you put together an entire program of uniformly excellent classes? In this session, we will examine these questions, and prepare you to run outreach programs here at MIT. Some of the discussion will be specific to the Institute, but much of it will apply more broadly. Anyone interested in directing an ESP program or running other educational outreach opportunities at MIT are encouraged to attend. Current MIT students, our own future master educators, are particularly encouraged to attend.
Contact: Michael Shaw, W20-467, x3-4882, esp-iap@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Studies Program
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