Think Local First: A campaign to help local Hawaiian businesses
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD In this post, MIT undergraduate Cydnie Trice introduces a four-part series on the challenges of building a local economy in Hawai’i. Trice is a marketing intern for the Hawai’i Alliance for a Local Economy this summer. June 21, 2011: Building the Local Economy, Hawaii Style First, lets start with a short [...]
Math tutoring at a local school
Drew Minnear ’14 spent IAP 2011 learning about the Cambridge Public School system. Through a Community Service Work-Study position, he worked in the Cambridge School Volunteers office writing public service announcements and distributing them to radio stations while also investigating ways for the office to go paperless. The second part of his job allowed him [...]
Mixing dance class with homework
During IAP 2010, Ashli Davis ’12 and Merricka Livingstone ’12 worked as homework tutors at the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House afterschool program through Community Service Work-Study. The Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House is a very short walk from campus in Area IV and is a member of the Kendall Community Group—a collaboration between MIT, local businesses [...]
ReachOut: Teach a child to read
The MIT Public Service Center partners with the Cambridge Community Center to run a literacy tutoring program for elementary school aged children called ReachOut. During the 2010-2011 school year, fifty-five MIT students participated in the program as volunteer or work-study tutors, meeting with the same child twice a week to tackle reading, writing, and language [...]
Cleaning up the Charles River during CityDays
CityDays kicks off the school year as a traditional part of orientation at MIT. Groups of MIT students – freshmen and upperclassmen – venture into the Cambridge and Boston communities to complete service projects. Some of the community organizations (among the 42 total) that students work with include AIDS Action Committee, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of [...]
Working for New Ecology Inc.
Community Service Work-Study student Shiva Prakash ’09 assisted New Ecology Inc (NEI) with background research on new technologies for public housing and other government sponsored projects in low-income communities. NEI works with its constituents to help them integrate sustainable development into their ongoing work: development that protects environmental quality and eliminates pollution and waste, provides [...]
Before running the Chi Phi Back Bay 5K
Duane Dennis (’13, Undeclared), Sebastian Begg (’13, Undeclared), and Ishaan Kumar (’13, Undeclared) learning about Pure Home Water before the before the Chi Phi Back Bay 5K 2010 race with proceeds to fund local organizations. Photo: Saba Mohsin
Physiology Understanding Week
Alexandra Elisa German (G, Course HST) and Grace Sock Leng Teo (G, Course HST) using an activity to explain blockage of blood vessels with coffee sticks and straws during Physiology Understanding Week (PhUn Week) in November 2010. PhUn Week, a nationwide outreach program building connections between scientists and their local schools, aims to engage students [...]
Explaining physiology
Harry Benjamin Larman (G, Course HST) explains bones and the skeletons with children for Physiology Understanding Week (PhUn Week) November 2010. PhUn Week is a nationwide outreach program building connections between scientists and their local schools.
