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Active Shooter/ Violent Intruder Preparedness Training
David M. Barber, Senior Emergency Management Specialist
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Jan/23 | Wed | 01:30PM-03:00PM | 34-101 |
Enrollment: go to "prepared.mit.edu/request" to register
Sign-up by 01/22
Limited to 325 participants
Prereq: None
This interactive session with MIT Police adn Emergency Management will provide attendees with information on active shooter/violent intruder situations. You will learn about incidents that have occured and lessons learned from them. Detailed information on how to respond to an active shooter/violent intruder, using the "Run, Hide, Fight" model will be presented, along with some very informative videos on both prevention adn response.
Sponsor(s): Emergency Management
Contact: David Barber, W92-129, 617 253-8022, DBARBER@MIT.EDU
Advocacy 101: How to Influence Your Government
Katie Shulenberger, Chair of GSC External Affairs Board
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none
Title IX… Net-neutrality... Travel Bans…
Does the current political climate leave you feeling powerless? Learn how to make change through the GSC’s External Affairs Board (EAB) advocacy workshop!
The External Affairs Board has extensive experience advocating on behalf of graduate students on both state and federal levels. The Board also organized the GSC’s response to the recent tax reform bill and worked with the administration and local Cambridge government on graduate housing.
This three-workshop course will give you the basic skills to effectively advocate for your opinions at the federal, state, and local levels.
Workshop 1 on Jan 17, 6-8pm: Overview of legislative structure and procedure. You will be supplied with resources to contact your representatives and track issues and policies that impact you. We will review approaches the MIT GSC has taken to advocacy.
Workshop 2 on Jan 24, 6-8pm: Preparing materials for meetings or calls with political offices, and what to expect during a meeting.
Workshop 3 on Jan 31, 6-8pm: Advice from a panel of policy-makers and staff.
Participants of all three course will have the chance to apply what they’ve learned with the EAB at a Massachusetts Statehouse or Washington DC visit later this semester.
If you’re interested, please indicate which workshops you’ll be coming to by filling out this RSVP Form: https://goo.gl/forms/gjvJHsPlfcc55ZT12
Contact: Skylar Deckoff-Jones, 13-4153, (505) 795-4382, sdeckoff@mit.edu
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Jan/17 | Thu | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 50-220 |
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Jan/24 | Thu | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 50-220 |
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Jan/31 | Thu | 06:00PM-08:00PM | 50-220 |
Bridging the Bi-Partisan Divide: A Hands-On Workshop Towards Depolarization
Kate Mytty, MIT Lecturer
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Jan/31 | Thu | 05:00PM-08:30PM | 66-160 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31
Thursday, January 31, 5:00 - 8:30P, MIT Room 66-160
RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/VRfFojzIrnCs8H6M2
Both research and personal experience show that polarization is increasing in the United States. This has real implications for all of us.
The great challenge is to encourage people to move from passive, accepting actors to being catalysts towards a constructive, mediated dialogue model. We think it requires a lot of people working within their communities to address this reality and work to strengthen connectors between and across communities.
This IAP, we invite you to join us for a hands-on workshop on depolarization, where together we will learn and explore:
This is a three-part evening. You can join for all of it or choose the part to join.
RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/VRfFojzIrnCs8H6M2
This event is hosted by…
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Katherine Mytty, 617 715-5474, KMYTTY@MIT.EDU
Bridging the Bi-Partisan Divide: A Hands-On Workshop Towards Depolarization
Patricia Weinmann, MIT Radius, Danny Becker, MIT PKG Center, Kate Mytty, MIT Center for Real Estate
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Jan/31 | Thu | 05:00PM-08:30PM | 66-160 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/31
[RSVP here.]
Research and personal experience show that polarization is increasing in the United States. The great challenge is to encourage people to move from a passive, accepting mode - one that can escalate conflict - to a constructive, mediated dialogue model.
We think it requires a lot of people working within their communities to address this reality and work to strengthen connectors between and across communities.
This IAP we invite you to join us for a hands-on workshop on depolarization, where together we will learn and explore:
This is a three-part evening. You can join for all of it or choose the part to join.
Sponsored by MIT Radius, the PKG Center, The Commons. and The Move.
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So we can prepare the dinner reservations, please RSVP here.
Contact: Katherine Mytty, 617 715-5474, KMYTTY@MIT.EDU
CERT: Campus Emergency Response Team
Andrea Finnin, Security Specialist
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/28
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Join the team!
MIT’s Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) is comprised of members of the MIT community trained in basic emergency response and preparedness. This IAP, members of the community have the opportunity to join this valuable cohort by signing up for CERT training. The main mission of this program is to do the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people during campus emergencies.
MIT hopes to build a network of CERT trained individuals with a presence in all main campus buildings. In the event of an emergency, this network of people could help manage the event on location until disaster responders arrive, or assist in evacuating the building if necessary. To accomplish this MIT needs to build a capable team. The Emergency Management Office is excited to offer the opportunity for any member of the MIT community to receive full CERT training during IAP and become a member of this important network.
The training, developed by FEMA, takes 20 hours to complete and is split into eight units, each with duration of 2.5 hours. At the conclusion of the training, participants will be FEMA-certified CERT members, able to work alongside any of the thousands of CERT teams in the United States.
Training topics include:
Sponsor(s): Emergency Management
Contact: Andrea Finnin, E17-106, 617 715-2469, ANDREAF@MIT.EDU
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Jan/08 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Addresses hazards specific to the campus. Materials cover actions that participants and their families take before, during and after a disaster as well as an overview of CERT and local laws governing volunteers.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/10 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Covers fire chemistry, hazardous materials, fire hazards and fire suppression strategies. PLEASE NOTE: MIT's policy is to not fight fires, but proper use of fire extinguishers will be covered.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/15 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Participants practice diagnosing and treating airway obstruction, bleeding and shock by using simple triage and rapid treatment techniques.
David Barber - Senior Emergency Management Specialist, Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/17 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Covers evaluating patients by doing a head to toe assessment, establishing a medical treatment area and performing basic first aid.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist, David Barber - Senior Emergency Management Specialist
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Jan/22 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Hands-on training covering basic first aid, CPR, and AED use.
David Barber - Senior Emergency Management Specialist, Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/24 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
In Light Search and Rescue participants learn about search and rescue planning, size-up, search techniques, rescue techniques and rescuer safety.
CERT Organizaion addresses CERT organization and management.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/29 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Disaster Psychology covers signs and symptoms that might be experienced by the disaster victim and workers. Terrorism is defined and content covered are potential targets, eight signs of terrorism, CERT operations during a terrorist event, and actions to take following a suspected terrorist incident.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
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Jan/31 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:30PM | TBA |
Participants review and practice the skills that they have learned during the previous six sessions in a disaster activity.
Andrea Finnin - Security Specialist
Fearless Thrones: Celebrating Women/Femme/Trans Leaders
Karen Noiva, MIT Alumni & Researcher, Kate Mytty, MIT Lecturer
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Jan/28 | Mon | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-154, if you like - bring art supplies & a profile idea |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: NA
RSVP so we can plan: https://goo.gl/forms/sH3dYDxtZ76e1eXA3
Help us celebrate women/trans/femme leaders around campus! We will be sprucing up a variety of MIT bathrooms with profiles of inspiring women / femme / trans leaders, scientists, innovators, engineers, and designers who have shown fearlessness and gumption as they’ve followed their hearts and used their minds to push the boundaries and make positive contributions to society.
Artists and aspiring artists, alike--all are welcome. Show your creativity in a variety of ways--we will provide digital templates as well as paper, pencils, and markers so we can put these profiles to paper. These profiles will be scanned after the event and we will print out multiple copies of each one.
Coffee and snacks will be provided at both events. Anyone with a passion for promoting the achievements of women / femme / trans leaders, scientists, innovators, and engineers around campus around welcome!
Questions? Email leadingthrone@mit.edu.
This activity is supported by the MIT MindHandHeart fund.
Contact: Katherine Mytty, 617 715-5474, KMYTTY@MIT.EDU
Public Domain Day Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Phoebe Ayers
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Jan/15 | Tue | 03:00PM-06:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Join the MIT Libraries during IAP for a Public Domain-themed Wikipedia edit-a-thon! January 1st is Public Domain Day – the day when works published in 1923 go out of copyright in the United States and enter the public domain, making them available for anyone to reuse and remix. This is the first time in twenty years that new published works have entered the public domain! To celebrate, the MIT Libraries are digitizing 100 works from 1923 selected from our collections. Because they are now out of copyright, we can freely use images and text from these works on Wikipedia and other open licensed projects.
Join us to explore these digitized works and learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. What did engineering education look like in the 1920s at MIT? We’ll introduce the works and give you an introduction to editing Wikipedia and ideas for topics to work on, or bring our own topics. We will also celebrate Wikipedia's 18th Birthday! Wikipedia was founded on January 15, 2001. We'll have pizza and cake into the evening to celebrate. We will have support from experienced Wikipedia editors and librarians, as well as snacks and pizza. Join us for an afternoon devoted to exploring engineering in the Jazz Age and contributing to the world’s largest reference work.
Register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4841683
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Phoebe Ayers, psayers@mit.edu
Writing to Fund Social Action/Social Change/Community Service
Alison Hynd, Andrea Walsh
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Jan/29 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:30PM | 56-162 |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 25 participants
Individuals and organizations often struggle with the issue of how best to raise funds for social action and community service projects on campus and in the community. The ability to craft different appeals – such as grant proposals, crowdsourcing appeals and donation letters – is key to successful fundraising. Each fundraising genre employs different rhetorical strategies. Writing effective grant proposals means understanding how to read a “Request for Proposals” (RFP), use local data to advocate for your program, construct a budget and follow a common format so that reviewers can easily read your proposal. Crowdsourcing appeals and donation letters vary in form, and may appeal more to emotion than grant proposals. Understanding the distinctions between these genres is key to achieving success as a fundraising writer.
This workshop reviews different types of fundraising writing, such as grant proposals, crowdsourcing approaches and donation appeal letters. We will distribute a list of relevant local and MIT grant opportunities and examples of effective proposals and review common crowdsourcing approaches. We will discuss things to consider before putting pen to paper to ensure your plans are a good match for community needs. In addition, we will provide time for participants to work on fundraising plans for their own projects. Bring a laptop and ideas for projects to fund!
Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Andrea Walsh, aswalsh@mit.edu
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