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The MIT-China Educational Technology Initiative (CETI) is the MIT-China Program's student- initiated team teaching program. The goal of CETI is to promote cultural exchange between American and Chinese students
through hands-on applications of science and technology.
Each summer since 1996, CETI has sent
between 15 and 21 MIT students to high schools and universities in the cities and towns of Anxian, Beijing,
Chengdu, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Hangzhou, Kunming, Mianyang, Nanjing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Taiwan, Wuhan, and Xi'an. Teaching in
teams of three, some of the past CETI participants have taught curriculums on web
design, programming, robotics, electrical engineering, development, civil engineering, English,
biology, aerospace engineering and more.
CETI began in 1996 with the purpose of connecting Chinese high schools to the Internet
and teaching basic web design techniques (See publication on original CETI projects). Since then, the swift global progress of Internet
technologies has enabled CETI to grow above and beyond its original
mission. In 2002 CETI sent a special development team to four rural towns in
China to reach out to students who have had less exposure to educational technologies and
virtually no previous opportunity for cultural exchanges. In addition to working with
high schools in China, CETI is now also collaborating with MIT OpenCourseWare and MIT
iLabs to introduce MIT educational technologies and course content at Dalian University of
Technology, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Qinghai University, Tsinghua University,
Sichuan University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Yunnan University, Zhejiang University, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Fuzhou University, Yulin University (Shaanxi), and YuanZe University (Taiwan). And since 2005 CETI has spearheaded MIT D-Labs' China activities with innovative applications in Qinghai Province.
CETI is built upon the foundation of relationships that we have formed with partner
schools and universities over the past 14 years. At the same time, CETI strives to identify new and exciting
educational and cultural opportunities throughout Greater China.
Current Sponsors:
Dr. Ge Yao Chu
Past Sponsors & Supporters:
The Freeman Foundation
Mr. Raymond Kwok |
