SEED Academy students were about to attend the 4th session of their Spring 2020 semester when in-person gatherings were cancelled due to Covid-19. With half of the semester to go, instructors and...
Who knew problem sets (or ‘p-sets’) could have such transformative power?
For Detroit natives Zharia Akeem and Dre’Vonne Hilton, six weeks of endless p-sets at MITES in 2019 yielded, naturally,...
In response to an increased need for in-person academic enrichment programs to transition online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the OEOP shared its almost 10-year experience offering virtual...
Diversity, transformation, and learning are at the core of our OEOP mission. As an organization, we have committed to increasing access in science and engineering since the launch of the first MITES...
Adhering to new MIT guidance on K-12 events in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the OEOP will not offer its residential MITES program this summer, and will expand its 6-month online MOSTEC program.
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Har Patel, MOSTEC ’16 alum and Philadelphia native, is the recipient of the MOSTEC 2019 Hexagon Award for Outstanding Online Facilitator (OF). He was one of 11 OFs serving 137 MOSTEC scholars in 2019...
The Saturday Engineering Enrichment and Discovery (SEED) Academy program reached new records this Spring 2020 semester, with the largest overall enrollment, largest number of new students admitted,...
"A lot of us ask ourselves, why? Why do so many of us want to come back and give back to MITES, and really it's because MITES was our home, and just like kids go back home, we also come back home to...
Renae Irving, MITES ‘13, MIT ‘18, is a molecular biology research associate at Finch Therapeutics Group, based in Somerville, MA. Her work focuses on developing genetic sequencing of the microbiome,...
Joe Steinmeyer, PhD, UMich ’08, MIT ’10, ’14, is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. His work includes the study of the intersection...