Change Your World: Information on Joining the Peace Corps
Heather Trickett, Joshua Strauss, Peace Corps Regional Recruiter
Wed Jan 16, 02-03:30pm, 2-105
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: RSVP appreciated
If natural disasters and global strife 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 and its inhabitants, 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.gov/
Contact: Heather Trickett, 4-104, x3-8968, trickett@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Close to Home: National Service Opportunities for Summer and Post-Graduation
Linden McEntire, Heather Trickett
Wed Jan 23, 03-04:30pm, 3-133
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: RSVP appreciated
Learn about paid community service programs located here in the United States. We will discuss options for the summer or a year following graduation. The panel will include speakers from Teach for America, AmeriCorps, Summerbridge Cambridge and Community Service Work-Study.
Contact: Linden McEntire, 4-104, x3-8065, mcentire@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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How To Fit Service Into Your Crazy MIT Life
Justen Cantan
Thu Jan 31, 04-05:00pm, 5-134
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 29-Jan-2008
Single session event
Are you interested in doing service but just can’t find the time? Do you find yourself tied up in class and longing to do some more service? What if I said that you could take a class that serves a community need? Even better, what if I told you those classes already exist? And, if they don’t fit in with your interests or schedule, there are specific grants and UROPs, which you can use to make a difference? Come and learn how to fit service into your crazy MIT life, and get some helpful time management tips!
Contact: Justen Cantan, W20-507, x4-5176, kamalani@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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How to Get a Service Learning Grant
Camilla Shannon
Wed Jan 30, 03:30-04:30pm, 5-134
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 29-Jan-2008
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Do you want to make a difference in the world? Do you want to use your course assignments to do more meaningful work? Do you need funding for materials or to cover travel costs so that you can effectively do this work? This event will teach you about possible service learning projects, how to negotiate these projects with your professors, and how to secure funding through the service learning grants. Food will be provided.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/servicelearning/
Contact: Camilla Shannon, W20-549, x8-0872, camilla@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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How to Win the IDEAS Competition: Words of Wisdom from Judges and Past Winners
Alison Hynd
Thu Jan 10, 06-08:00pm, 4-153
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 09-Dec-2007
Limited to 50 participants.
Single session event
The IDEAS Competition is an invention and entrepreneurship 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.
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.
Dinner will be served.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/ideas
Contact: Alison Hynd, W20-549, (617) 258-0691, hynd@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
Cosponsor: Edgerton Center
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Intellectual Property Clinic
Alison Hynd
Tue Jan 15, 06-08:00pm, 5-134
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2008
Single session event
Are you an innovator or inventor? Does your work solve the problems of under-served people or communities? Are you uncertain how (or why) to protect your intellectual property? Do you need advice about intellectual property issues for international community service projects? Then come to the Intellectual Property Clinic.
Even if you don't intend to benefit financially from your ideas, IP protection may make your project more effective and sustainable. Explore your options at this drop-in IP clinic. Our panel of IP professionals will consult with individuals or teams.
This clinic is suitable for IDEAS Competition teams, 100k Development Track, and all other members of the MIT community who are working on innovations that solve the problems of underserved communities.
RSVP for this event to ideas-rsvp@mit.edu
Contact: Alison Hynd, W20-549, (617) 258-0691, hynd@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
Cosponsor: Edgerton Center
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It's All in the Details: Successful Event Planning
Kristi Gundrum
Tue Jan 29, 02-03:30pm, 4-257
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: RSVP appreciated
Events are essential to most organizations--they are used to raise money, celebrate your mission or purpose, recognize accomplishments, provide a forum for idea exchange and as a vehicle for education. With such a variety of purposes, understanding the how-to of successful event planning is an essential tool. Learn how to run planning meetings, develop a budget, seek donations, manage volunteers, produce task lists, assemble needed materials, seek publicity, work with vendors, and anticipate human behavior. Skills learned will be applicable to all types of event planning, with a focus on member/non-profit organization's event needs and resources. Information on planning events on the MIT campus will also be included.
Contact: Kristi Gundrum, 4-104, x8-9361, kristig@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Knitting for a Cause
Jordyn Rozensky
Mon Jan 14, 08-10:00pm, Student Center, PDR1
Tue Jan 22, 08-10:00pm, PDR 3
Sun Jan 27, 08-10:00pm, PDR3
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Learn how to knit and enjoy some laid back company. We'll provide the needles and yarn, and finished products will be donated to a Women's Shelter. Join for one or all of the sessions. The first session will be held in the student center in PDR1
Contact: Jordyn Rozensky, (617) 253-2982, jordynr@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Hillel
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Make a Difference! Use Your Skills and Interests to Help Developing Countries
Olimpia Estela Caceres-Brown
Tue Jan 15, 04:30-05:30pm, 10-500, Media Room
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
When you read or hear news about developing countries do you feel inspired to make a difference? Come hear how one MIT staff member, and native Honduran, organized volunteer groups and shipped donations of educational material, computer equipment, and medical equipment to Honduras and other Central American countries. Learn about her latest experience working in Honduras, and how you can get involved!
Dessert and drinks provided.
Contact: Olimpia Estela Caceres-Brown, 14S-134, x3-5680, olimpia@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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Publicity Design Clinic
Camilla Brinkman
Tue Jan 22, 02-03:30pm, 4-253
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 17-Jan-2008
Limited to 6 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: RSVP
Have you ever designed a poster, a web site, or a newsletter for your organization and felt that the message wasn't getting across? It could be the font, the concept, or even the color that's holding the message back. Bring your publicity materials to the clinic, and work one on one to improve the concept and design of your publicity materials. We'll also discuss resources for art, fonts, and web inspiration.
Contact: Camilla Brinkman, 4-104, x3-6821, camillab@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Splash on Wheels
Adam Seering
Sun Jan 27, 08am-03:45pm, Fitchburg, MA, Transportation provided
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2008
Single session event
Teach for Splash on Wheels!!
Splash On Wheels is a chance for high school students to learn things that high-school classes don't cover. It hopes to show students that learning can be fun and exciting, and to pique students' interest and encourage them to explore on their own.
We need teachers! We need people like you, who've come here and learned cool and interesting things either in class or from outside activities, who want to share what you've learned with high schoolers.
Splash On Wheels will be at Fitchburg High School, in Fitchburg, MA. There are three class blocks: 9am-10:30am, 10:30am-12:30pm, and 1pm-3pm. Transportation will be provided before and after each block, so you can teach for as many blocks as you want.
Teacher registration is open online now; see the link below.
Web: http://esp.mit.edu/teach/SplashOnWheels/2008_Winter/teacherreg/
Contact: Adam Seering, splash-on-wheels@mit.edu
Sponsor: Educational Studies Program
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Tangible PeaceMaking
Ven. Tenzin Priyadarshi
Wed Jan 30, 05-06:00pm, W11-004
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Info-session with Ven. Tenzin Priyadarshi (President, The Prajnopaya Foundation)
Interested in making a difference and a contribution to sustaining peace.
Davis Projects for Peace is offering a $10,000 award for an MIT undergraduate student project that promotes peace, to be implemented in the summer of 2008, anywhere in the world. The aim is to "help young people launch some immediate initiatives that could bring new thinking to the prospects for peace in the world."
If you are interested in this project and don't know where to begin or have some ideas of you own, just come by and we will help refine the idea(s) and its implementation. Primarily targeted towards Peace work in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
[Open to MIT Undergraduates Only]
Contact: Ven. Tenzin Priyadarshi, W11-004, x4-6030, tenzin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Buddhist Community
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Towards a quantitative theory of medicine: Opportunities for undergraduates
Dimitris Bertsimas
Fri Jan 11, 11am-01:00pm, WONG AUDITORIUM E-51
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Signup by: 10-Jan-2008
Single session event
In the last decade quantitative methods have created a critical edge in many industries: asset management, the internet, sports, revenue management and many others. We outline how quantitative methods have the potential in creating a critical edge in generating new knowledge in medicine, assess the quality of health care, predict health care risk and in the end make a difference in the health care of people. I outline several examples from our research with particular emphasis on the role that undergraduate students have played as well as exciting new opportunities. Here is an example: Develop a web-based tool that analyzes the existing clinical trial data for all cancers, and proposes new therapies based on the successes and failures of prior trials. The key here is to use information from different cancers.
Lunch provided.
Contact: Jason Acimovic, MIT ORC, acimovic@mit.edu
Sponsor: Operations Research Center
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Yunus Innovation Challenge Lunch
Alison Hynd
Wed Jan 30, 12-02:00pm, 4-149
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 29-Jan-2008
Limited to 50 participants.
Single session event
This year's Muhammad Yunus Innovation Challenge to Alleviate Poverty is "Improving indoor air quality to break the cycle of poverty in the developing world." Indoor air quality is a concern around the world and affects predominantly the poor in their homes and workplaces. Worldwide deaths attributed to air pollution are on a level with those caused by malaria and tuberculosis.
MIT students are encouraged to tackle this challenge with support through Public Service Fellowships, the MIT IDEAS Competition, and D-Lab.
At the Challenge lunch, we will show a film related to the issue and then brainstorm possible solutions to indoor air pollution challenges all over the world. There will also be information about funding and support resources for the Challenge.
Web: http://Web: http://web.mit.edu
Contact: Alison Hynd, W20-549, (617) 258-0691, hynd@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
Cosponsor: Edgerton Center
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