Raul Boquin: Working toward high-quality education for all
MIT senior envisions opportunities for “every person of the world who wants to learn something.”
Celebrating 10 years of Scratch
Scratch Day @ MIT was one of more than 1,100 global events during May to celebrate the kids’ programming language and online community on its 10th anniversary.
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden visits MIT
Swedish delegation tours Institute, participates in dialogue on innovation.
Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) to spark global renaissance in education through innovation at MIT
Empowering underserved populations will be a guiding focus.
Featured video: Celebrating the Edgerton Center, an original MIT makerspace
Twenty-five years after its founding, the first home of strobe photography has grown to include student clubs, workshops, and K-12 outreach.
Wisdom gained: A good engineer should have artisan spirit
In a three-day workshop, 60 Beijing high school students build underwater remotely operated vehicles and launch them in the Zesiger pool.
Two from MIT recognized as outstanding engineering leaders
Grad students Kristen Railey and Alexander Feldstein were named to the Aviation Week Network’s “20 Twenties” for 2017.
Featured video: #AskMIT — Using your full brain
Kids ask tough questions; MIT students, staff, and faculty answer. This episode of "#AskMIT" describes how much of our brains we really use.
Media Lab sets sights on space
MIT Media Lab event, Beyond the Cradle, launches a new initiative to explore the final frontier.
Providing educators with "teachable moments" concerning unconscious bias
Teaching Systems Lab Executive Director Justin Reich awarded a grant from Google for teacher-facing intervention research.
Top high school researchers from across the nation meet at MIT
Talented high school researchers attending the annual AAAS/AJAS conference in Boston meet with MIT faculty.
Women of NASA Lego set blasts off
MIT staffer’s creation celebrating the history of women in the U.S. space program selected to become official Lego set.
Lemelson-MIT Program announces 42 Junior Varsity InvenTeam grants
Grants help middle and high school students develop as young inventors.
How the smallest, most abundant bacteria inspired a children's book series
Institute Professor Penny Chisholm teams up with author and illustrator Molly Bang to write environmental children’s book series.