Volunteering, outreach, public service

In January, members of the True Africa team spoke with market vendors at Asigamé, the main outdoor marketplace of Lomé, Togo.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: True Africa

Improving access to local businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa

April 9, 2012

During the month of January, Bilikiss Adebiyi MBA '12 traveled to Nigeria to conduct market research and organize two recycling demo days in the community. Here, residents of Ajegunle, Lagos, exchanged recyclables for raffle tickets and anxiously await the calling of the winners.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: wecyclers

Incentivizing recycling in the slums of Nigeria

March 27, 2012

During January, Essmart began demonstrating solar lanterns in southern Indian rural shops. Two stores sold 17 demonstration items in one week. Solar lanterns are among the products that Essmart seeks to distribute to rural shop owners in India.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Essmart

Improving access to vital technologies in rural India

March 8, 2012

A girl dumps spoiled produce and inedible food clippings in a waste storage area at Azadpur market outside of Delhi. Millions of tons of food go to waste in India each year due to spoilage and other problems.

Sustainable approaches to reducing food waste in India

February 28, 2012

Surrounded by local disaster relief volunteers, Morgan and Caitria O’Neill, center, began developing recovers.org, an innovative recovery platform, last summer in the wake of a tornado that ravaged their hometown — and their own home — in western Massachusetts.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Recovers.org

Out of a crisis that struck close to home, sisters develop innovative disaster relief solution.

February 24, 2012

Navajo Middle School — where senior Joe Conte developed an outer space unit for the school's sixth-grade science class — sits on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.

A four-week commitment, a long-lasting impact

11 MIT students participate in Four Weeks for America over IAP

February 23, 2012

MBA students raise funds for several charities

February 21, 2012

Graduate student Kevin Kung, right, sorted through trash with a waste collector outside of Nairobi, Kenya, over Independent Activities Period (IAP). Kung’s IDEAS Global Challenge team, Takachar, is developing efficient ways to produce charcoal from common household organic waste, such as maize husks and other food products.

MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams innovate around the world during IAP

Students develop quality-of-life solutions for underserved communities.

February 8, 2012

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams showcase inventions at White House Science Fair

February 8, 2012

Education, empowerment and enlightenment through guided disassembly of your broken stuff

Peter Mui ’82 holds Fixit Clinic XVIII at the MIT Edgerton Center.

February 7, 2012

Medicine, microorganisms and Mexico

Biology major and Rhodes Scholar combines research and social service in the study of infectious diseases.

February 6, 2012

Volunteers Betsy Soukup and Chelsea He work on assembling LEGO amino acid models.

Community Service Day draws volunteers from across the Institute

MIT community gathers for an afternoon of public service.

February 2, 2012

Richard Garriott speaks with a student at the 2011 Zero Robotics Challenge.

Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth

Third annual Zero Robotics competition pits robots against each other on the International Space Station.

January 25, 2012

Benjamin Francis, and MIT junior, prepares dinner at the soup kitchen he started to help the homeless.

Students address hunger in MIT’s backyard

MIT students establish new soup kitchen in Central Square

January 5, 2012

From left to right: Thomas Vaughn, head and chair of Massachusetts Hall of Fame for Science Educators; Kathleen Vandiver; and nominator Marilyn Richardson.

Mass. science teachers' association inducts Vandiver into hall of fame

CEHS outreach and education director teaches abstract scientific concepts with LEGOs.

December 8, 2011

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