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New Initiative: Highlights for High Schools

Read about MIT-Germany's new Highlights for High School Initiative in the Weird Science Club.

"The whole project was incredibly rewarding for all parties involved and should definitively be continued." --Dr. Milan Dlabal, Weird Science Club at Lichtenbergschule in Darmstadt, Germany

This year MIT-Germany began the Highlights for High Schools Initiative, a new program targeted towards MIT freshman and sophomores.

Through this new program, students go abroad to teach math, physics, biology and chemistry using MIT's OpenCourseWare. While overseas, you teach at numerous high schools and hold regular lessons. You also have the opportunity to teach at summer camps and participate in local schools' project week or science clubs.

Students present their own culture to the German Gymnasiasten students and learn from their experience in Germany.

If you are interested in Highlights for High School, please contact mit-germany@mit.edu.

"Highlights for High Schools was an extremely rewarding experience. To share the knowledge that I have acquired at MIT with students barely younger than me and inspire them to explore their potential and curiosity was great. I deeply enjoyed meeting people from my generation that were willing to share their culture. They also proved to be excellent hosts."

Adriana Vazquez, Mathematics '11

A Highlights for High Schools intern teaches a group of German Gymnasium students about rocket dynamics and performance on a rooftop.