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.

Chile

• Create Recycling Program in Calama, Chile (NEW)
• Patagonia Chile Project – help the Recyclapolis Foundation secure a major grant for green recycling and educational centers with social inclusion (NEW)
• Help build technical, organizational, or design resources for an emergency water-supply start-up in Chile (NEW)

Costa Rica

• Young Talent Club, Costa Rican National Program
• Inquiry in Rainforests: Web programming to improve science teaching

Ecuador

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

Guatemala

• Evaluating the Impact of School-Based Interventions on Child Well-Being and School Achievement in Six Communities (NEW)

Mexico

• Design, Engineer, and Implement Appropriate Technology for Farming Amaranth in Rural Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico (for Summer 2013)
• 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

• Create an app that helps spread the word about dental healthcare & hygiene
• Promote Native Plans: Help us Reinvent our Native Plant Festival
• Provide mobile healthcare and education to children
• Assist the leader in the field of patient safety with a milestone project
• 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
• Medication Administration Computer Program
• Create audio and drawing applets for K-12 students
• Help a Social Enterprise Empower Consumers To Change The World!
• Biosensor Designer for IIH
• Work with an MIT Inspirational Teacher Award winner in the physics classroom at Brighton High School
• 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

• Solve a major problem in voter services with TurboVote (NEW)
• Voter Institutionalization Fellow for TurboVote (NEW)
• Help design and implement a programming/design strategies for major science website
• Gravity Powered Water Pump in Appalachia
• Webmaster
• Help a rehab hospital in CA with bioinformatics, website design, video-gaming