The goal of MIT-CETI is to promote cultural exchange between American and Chinese students by exploring science and technology.

Each summer for the past ten years, CETI has sent between 15 and 21 MIT students to high schools in the cities and towns of Anxian, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Guilin, Kunming, Mianyang, Nanjing, Shanghai and Xi'an. Teaching in teams of three, some of the past CETI participants have taught curriculums on web design, programming, robotics, electrical engineering, 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. Since then, the swift progress of internet technology in Chinese schools has enabled CETI to grow above and beyond its original commitments. Recently, CETI sent a special development team to four rural towns in China to reach out to students who have had less exposure to technology education and virtually no previous opportunity for cultural exchange. In addition to working with high schools in China, CETI is now also collaborating with MIT OpenCourseWare and MIT iCampus to introduce and implement MIT educational technologies at Dalian University of Technology, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Qinghai University, Tsinghua University, Sichuan University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Yunnan University, and Zhejiang University.

CETI is built on the foundation of relationships that we have formed with partner schools and universities over the past ten years. We continue to foster many of these relationships, and at the same time strive to find new and exciting educational and cultural opportunities throughout China.

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