Grace Lee ’10: Student Leader in Service
Student Leaders in Service is an AmeriCorps program that provides participating students with tuition assistance for completing 300 hours of service over the course of a year. Forty-two student awards have been handed out since MIT began participating in the program in 2008. Two-time participant Grace Lee ’10 performed the majority of her service as [...]
Indexing skills for disaster relief
In 2010, Konbit was awarded the $8,000 IDEAS Award sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education. Team members Greg Elliott and Aaron Zinman designed a service via phone, Short Message Service (SMS), and web that helps communities rebuild themselves after a crisis by indexing the skill sets of local residents, and allowing [...]
An early warning flood system in Honduras
Elizabeth Basha SM ’05, PhD ’10, spent the summer of 2008 leading a team called FloodSafe Honduras that developed an early warning flood system. This automated system has the capability of alerting 10,000 in the Rio Aguan Basin in Honduras to when water levels get dangerously high. The system uses inexpensive radios to transmit information [...]
