About

Many of the great thinkers of the past, the so called "Renaissance Men", excelled in both Engineering/Science and Exposition/Rhetoric/Oration. There is no reason why the MIT engineers and scientists of today, the creative men and women who will be the leaders of tomorrow, cannot do so as well. "MIT Can Talk" was organized to promote campus-wide awareness of good oral communication skills. It consists of: (1) a series of independent workshop sessions on public speaking/oral communication, followed by (2) a speaking competition. The workshops are open to the MIT community, but the competition is open only to current MIT students.

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In the News

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mit-can-talk
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pics-or-it-didnt-happen
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/iap-mit-can-talk.html

Thanks go to the sponsors of this event:

• Tau Beta Pi
• Office of the MIT Chancellor
• MIT ACM/IEEE

and to the many individuals who have given their input and support, including:

• The Workshop Leaders
• All Judges
• Radhika Malik (EECS)
• Anne Hunter (EECS)
• Owen Derby (HKN)
• Ashwini Gokhale (MIT ACM/IEEE)
• Raven Reddy (TBP)
• Samuel Millington and Robert McQueen (SigEp)
• Luke Behnke (MIT Sloan)
• Christopher Graves (EECS and Math)
• The Black Sheep Restaurant
• Area Four Coffee/Bakery/Bar/Oven
• Craigie on Main
• Flour Bakery + Cafe
• Thelonious Monkfish
• Av Shrikumar, Miriam E Zachau Walker, Margaret M Lloyd
• Eddie Obropta
• Anna Kohler (Professor, Music and Theater Arts at MIT)
• James Buzard (Professor, Lit@MIT)
• Wyn Kelley (Senior Lecturer, Lit@MIT)

This event is organized by Dr Tony Eng, Senior Lecturer in EECS, with the invaluable help of Radhika Malik.

Last Modified: Jan 31, 2012