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Opportunities

Focus on the Americas

We encourage students to work with communities in our own hemisphere, from Grise Fiord at the top of Canada, to Ushuaia in Tierra Del Fuego (and the warmer areas in between!) You can find project ideas listed here, or develop your own project with a community whose needs you understand, and apply to the PSC for support.

Costa Rica

• Young Talent Club, Costa Rican National Program
• Inquiry in Rainforests: Website design and operation for communication and outreach

Ecuador

• Join Us in the Amazon jungle and Help Support the Growth of a Budding Social Enterprise

El Salvador

• Sustainable Water Projects: Documenting a methodology for El Salvador and Central America

Mexico

• Identify, Design and Launch a Sustainable EcoTechnology Community – Social Development
• Design, Engineer, and Implement Appropriate Technology for Farming Amaranth in Rural Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico (for Summer 2012)
• Gain field experience monitoring clinic operations in Mexico with InVenture
• Community WiFi Networks and Network Assessments in Tamaula and El Gusano

Peru

• Design of an Independent Power Supply for a new Community and Cultural Center

United States

Greater Boston Area

• MIT Museum Fellow Needed
• Research and planning assistance for the possible implementation of a pilot curbside food scraps collection program for residents
• Teacher Program Developer
• Help Create a Environmental Learning and Action Center Business Plan
• Help Raise Funds for a Math Club for Girls
• Website Design Internship for the Boston Earned Income Tax Credit Coalition
• Website Design and Development with Bread for Bread
• Medication Administration Computer Program
• Audio and drawing applets for online curriculum
• Help a Social Enterprise Empower Consumers To Change The World!
• PR/Social Media Volunteer for Online Human Services Directory
• Biosensor Designer for IIH
• Work with an MIT Inspirational Teacher Award winner in the physics classroom at Brighton High School
• MIT Food and Agriculture Virtual Ecosystem Mapper and Webmaster
• Work in Kendall Square to develop a volunteer network and help with administrative tasks at Community Water Solutions
• Water testing and analysis of a New England pond

Other opportunities throughout the US

• Transition email communication system from Constant Contact to MailChimp
• Compile research and analysis on online learning center models
• Research and recommend technology for World Pulse’s next generation online platform
• Research and Recommend a Virtual On-the-ground Strategy
• Upgrade website hosting infrastructure
• Help Create Decision Matrices For Enterprise That Specializes in Smallholder Irrigation
• Treadle Pumps go Mobile
• Help design and implement a programming/design strategies for major science website
• Shape the GO Innovation Award – a new award to inspire youth in the developing world
• Gravity Powered Water Pump in Appalachia
• Change the “face” of social work with social networking.
• Webmaster
• Help a rehab hospital in CA with bioinformatics, website design, video-gaming

Multiple locations in the Americas

• Collaborate with a Schwab Social Entrepreneurship Fellow