Overcoming imperfections
By looking to nature, PhD student Leon Dimas 3-D prints materials that resist flaws and fractures.
39th MITES class welcomed to MIT
Top high school students from across the country arrive on campus for six-week program
MIT program fosters inclusive learning community for high school students
SEED Academy students benefit from instructors' training in handling negative stereotypes and diversity issues.
Lemelson-MIT introduces new high school invention program
The program expands its commitment to inspire the next generation of inventors with Junior Varsity InvenTeam Initiative.
Even when test scores go up, some cognitive abilities don’t
MIT neuroscientists find even high-performing schools don’t influence their students’ abstract reasoning.
MIT students help middle-school girls SHINE in dance and math
Senior Kirin Sinha has founded an after-school program to connect seventh-grade girls with MIT female student-mentors.
Coming home to MIT
Alum of MIT middle and high school programs returns to begin doctorate program in aerospace engineering
Startup cofounder discusses entrepreneurship with high schoolers
Rising high-school seniors participate in interactive webinar with MIT Sloan alum
Mass. Secretary of Education Matthew Malone visits MIT
The state's education chief speaks with high-school science teachers on campus.
NASA discusses next manned spacecraft with visiting high school students
Participants in Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science, Women's Technology Program, and Interphase Edge hear insiders' perspective on the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Local fifth graders explore mathematics with MIT graduate students
MITxplore, a free after-school math program, transforms math into an adventure.
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
Chinese students set their sights on an MIT future
Middle and high school students from Beijing engaged in project-based hands-on science and engineering lessons at the Edgerton Center.