STEM education

Researchers at the MIT Teaching Systems Lab have been awarded a Google grant to develop a promising new line of inquiry — a simulation-based teacher education technique designed to address teachers' unconscious bias in the classroom.

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.

March 10, 2017

Equipment to Go kits can be checked out for one week from Rotch Library.

MIT Libraries and MIT MakerWorkshop launch Equipment to Go

Pilot program lends tools to makers across the MIT community.

March 9, 2017

AJAS attendees Jessica Frank (left) and Sriharshita Musunuri (right) chat with MIT Professor Phillip Sharp, former AAAS president and Nobel laureate.

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.

March 8, 2017

Minifigures of five NASA pioneers — from left to right, Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride, Nancy Grace Roman, and Mae Jemison — will appear in an official LEGO set originally designed by MIT staff member Maia Weinstock.

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.

March 2, 2017

JV InvenTeam students proudly show their Super Lens invention activity.

Lemelson-MIT Program announces 42 Junior Varsity InvenTeam grants

Grants help middle and high school students develop as young inventors.

February 22, 2017

Richard Ha (second from right), farmer and Hawaii native, shows MIT TREX participants how he generates his own electricity using water.

Getting their hands dirty: Students experience fieldwork in Hawaii

TREX program from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers undergraduates the opportunity to get out in the field.

February 17, 2017

Dipa Shah of the MIT Teaching and Learning Lab leads a digital education workshop for engineering postdocs. Along with MIT's Dennis Freeman and Janet Rankin, Shah will utilize a new AAU grant to improve undergraduate education in STEM fields.

MIT receives grant from Association of American Universities for undergraduate STEM education

Funds will be used to create a Dean’s Action Group to disseminate evidence-based teaching practices.

February 14, 2017

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences launches post-baccalaureate program

Research Scholars Program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences brings talented students to the department.

January 31, 2017

Dawn Wendell, senior lecturer in mechanical engineering, helps a student during the motor debugging class in 6.A01 (Mens et Manus: Building on the Science Core).

Adding hands-on practice to science and engineering classes

A new advising seminar incorporates making and other types of hands-on learning to enhance first-year required courses.

January 30, 2017

Seymour Papert (left) chats with LEGO Group owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen in 1998 when the Denmark-based company launched LEGO Mindstorms.

LEGO Foundation endows Media Lab fellowships in honor of Seymour Papert

New graduate student fellowship program announced at Media Lab event celebrating the life and work of Seymour Papert.

January 26, 2017

This map shows a city-level view of income percentage spent on lottery in New York City neighborhoods.

What can we learn from lottery spending?

“City Digits: Local Lotto” teaches Brooklyn high school students how to work with data by analyzing lottery spending patterns.

January 26, 2017

Now in its 21st year, the “product engineering processes” class led by David Wallace is designed to give its students a strong sense of what’s involved in taking a product all the way from brainstorming ideas, through preliminary design and testing, to a final, fully functional product design and a basic business plan.

Student product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun

Finale of mechanical engineering class unveils wide variety of ingenious new product concepts.

December 13, 2016

MIT senior Brian Wanek wears a racing helmet inside a prototype of what will be the driver’s seat in the 2017 MIT Formula SAE car as sophomore Wasay Anwer measures the frame.

Harder, better, faster, stronger

The MIT Formula SAE team takes a great leap forward to build their 2017 race car.

November 29, 2016

Members of the MITili and pK-12 Action Group convene to discuss learning and research directions.

Enhancing education from pre-K to MIT and beyond

Two new initiatives take an in-depth look at learning.

November 23, 2016

Materials scientist Jeffrey Grossman lectures to a full house of first-year students in his popular version of a core course, 3.091 (Introduction to Solid State Chemistry). Earlier this year, he was honored with a MacVicar Award for exceptional undergraduate teaching.

Solid-state learning

First-year students get a spirited introduction to materials science and chemistry from Professor Jeffrey Grossman.

November 18, 2016

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