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Blogs

IDEAS Competition award winning team, Egg-energy (formerly EggTech), is blogging about their project that taps power at its source - whether it is a grid, a solar station, or a distributed power generation plant - and packages it into small, light, rechargeable batteries.

Public Service Grantee Sam Kronick ('10 Course 4) is blogging from Cambridge about his work at Prospect Hill Charter Academy. Sam and his team are leading a series of workshops in architectural design that will result in the design and assembly of a customizable outdoor classroom.

Public Service Fellow Danielle DeLatte ('11 Course 16) is blogging from Uganda where she is incorporating wheelchair workshops into the Worldwide Mobility network that links donors in the US to workshops in developing countries.

Brooke Jarrett ('10 Course 1) and Adam Talsma ('10 Course 1) are blogging from Peru. Brooke and Adam received a Public Service Center Grant to travel to Tambo de Mora in Peru to continue the work they begun in their class, Cityscope. Their project aims to continue communication workshops with school children in Tambo de Mora.

Catlin Powers from the SolSource Project, a 2007-08 IDEAS Competition award winning team, is a guest blogger on Change.org. SolSource Project recently won the 2009 St. Andrews Prize for the Environment. Their 75K award will enable the team to conduct their first large-scale field test of the SolSource 3-in-1 One Earth Designs, developers of the SolSource.

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Watch the latest videos from the MIT Public Service Center. To view the entire collection, got to the PSC Collection on TechTV.

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The MIT Public Service Center: An Overview


Priscilla King Gray: A Life of Service

From MITWorld, The International Development Fair: The Human Factor at Work in the World, Amy Smith, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and a co-founder of the MIT IDEAS Competition, describes the tangible results of efforts to inspire students to apply innovative thinking and technology to everyday problems in the developing world.