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Winners of the 11th Math Prize for Girls, including first-prize winner 8th grader Jessica Wan, stand with Arun Algappan, founder of Advantage Testing (far left) and MIT Professor Gigliola Staffilani (far right)

At MIT, 268 take part in world's largest math competition for girls

Now in its 11th year, the Math Prize for Girls has been hosted by MIT nine times.

October 21, 2019

MIT senior Bahrudin Trbalic was involved in STEAM camps held in Hong Kong and Suzhou, China, where he shared his passion for physics and engineering with young learners.

Bringing physics and engineering to life for pK-12 students

MIT students inspire young learners with STEAM camps in Hong Kong, Suzhou, and Athens.

October 16, 2019

Susan Rosevear (center), education officer for MIT Materials Research Laboratory’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, instructs students from the Putnam Avenue Upper School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, how to build a simple direct current (DC) motor.

Cambridge middle school students explore materials science at MIT

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center welcomed area students for lessons in glassblowing, making motors, and making ice cream.

October 11, 2019

Sophie Vandebroek has been appointed as the School of Engineering inaugural visiting scholar for the 2019-20 academic year.

School of Engineering welcomes Sophie Vandebroek as first visiting scholar

Primary focus will be to engage engineering students and peers from across the Institute on the school’s outreach and diversity activities.

September 11, 2019

A student from the Beaver Works Summer Institute's Autonomous Air Vehicle Racing class follows an Intel drone as it navigates an obstacle course.

Beaver Works Summer Institute concludes its fourth year

Students wow visitors with a flurry of races and demonstrations during the program's signature final event.

August 12, 2019

J-PAL North America’s Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition supports education leaders in using randomized evaluations to generate evidence on how technology can improve student learning, particularly for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

J-PAL North America announces second round of competition partners

Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition aims to improve student learning.

July 17, 2019

At the 2019 LINC conference, keynote speaker Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, talked about innovations that aim to scale education to ensure that all young people across the globe develop the skills needed for a fast-changing world.

Making high-quality education accessible to all

Researchers and educators gather at MIT to discuss how to meet the educational needs of a new learning society.

July 15, 2019

"We don't want to lock anybody out because they haven't had a chance to program before," says MIT Lincoln Laboratory staff member Andrew Fishberg, of the RACECAR program he developed and taught at the Roxbury Innovation Center in Boston.

Lincoln Laboratory staff use race cars as a vehicle to teach coding

Laboratory staff teamed up with the Timothy Smith Network to offer a four-week coding course for middle school students.

July 1, 2019

Shawn Robinson, senior research associate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, helped kick off the first-ever MIT Science of Reading event dressed in full superhero attire as Doctor Dyslexia Dude — the star of a graphic novel series he co-created to engage and encourage young readers, rooted in his own experiences as a student with dyslexia.

Bridging the gap between research and the classroom

MIT’s first-ever Science of Reading event brings together researchers and educators to discuss how to use research to improve literacy outcomes.

June 27, 2019

Dharavi Tech Girls learn to create apps to help people in their community.

3Q: Hal Abelson on empowering kids through mobile technology

Through MIT App Inventor, Abelson aims to show children how they can use technology to shape their world.

May 15, 2019

The MIT Materials Research Science and Engineering Center hosted 26 Boston-area high school girls for a solar cell building activity during the Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) in the City program. The girls measured the voltage and current output of their cells with a multimeter.

Local high school girls build dye-sensitized solar cells at MIT

MRL Materials Research Science and Engineering Center encourages studies in science, engineering, and technology.

May 13, 2019

A Cambridge Rindge and Latin School student plays with App Inventor.

Preparing high schoolers for a tech-driven future

MIT researchers joined Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students for a two-day event focused on future-ready skills.

April 19, 2019

The winning students and their coach from Jonas Clarke Middle School's Team One pose with their medals and trophy.

National competition veterans pay it forward at regional science contest

More than 100 middle school students compete at the fourth Northeast Regional Science Bowl, hosted by students at MIT and sponsored by the School of Science.

February 28, 2019

Senior Nikayah Etienne is majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in education. Her aim is to identify ways to merge the two.

Merging engineering and education

Senior and first-generation student Nikayah Etienne aims to incorporate hands-on science in under-resourced classrooms.

January 23, 2019

Thunkable co-founders (l-r) WeiHua Li ’14 SM ’16 and Arun Saigal ’13 SM ’13 began working on the MIT App Inventor project together in 2011.

Democratizing app development

Thunkable gives noncoders the ability to create professional-grade mobile apps.

January 16, 2019

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