Summer 2024 Internship Program: June 3 - July 26

• Learn about unmet needs and challenges in healthcare from experts in the field.
• Engage in solution ideation and team formation.
• Receive mentorship from seasoned entrepreneurs how to transform ideas into viable solutions.

Summer Internship: MIT DHIVE Healthcare Innovation and Venture Exploration

Please join us for the official kickoff session for 2024 Pre-F(x) Trip Leaders! The session will cover logistics, like how to get reimbursed for your trip, and go over expectations & timelines, e.g., when you will receive your list of ‘26 attendees.. . . . This is a required session for at least one leader per trip to attend. If no one from your Pre-F(x) trip can attend, please reach out to the Pre-F(x) Directors, Asha, Natalie & Priya. 
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Leading the Adventure: MBA Pre-F(x) Trip Leader Training

Join us for an informal speed networking session and build your professional network. In this 45-minute activity, participants will make numerous contacts in a short period of time, with an opportunity to exchange contact information if desired. 

This event is presented in collaboration with The Economic Opportunity and Development Division of The City of Cambridge in honor of National Small Business Month. City staff will be on hand to share resources available to small businesses and entrepreneurs in Cambridge, and to celebrate the importance of small businesses to Cambridge's vibrant community.

People of all ages, backgrounds, and industries are warmly welcomed. If you’re able, please download the LinkedIn app and have your QR code pulled up and ready to share when you arrive. If you prefer to keep it old-school, business cards are also welcomed!

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Speed Networking for Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

Distinguished MechE alumni and innovators will share their perspectives on building technologies and companies at the frontiers of the physical world.

Joe Petrzelka PhD’12, VP Starship Engineering, SpaceX

Alice Brooks ‘10, Partner at Khosla Ventures and Co-founder of Roominate

Asegun Henry PhD’09, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-founder and CTO, Fourth Power

REGISTER TO ATTEND KEYNOTE

This keynote event is part of a larger two-day departmental celebration. Please consider registering to attend additional events and activities. We hope to see you at the keynote!

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Building the Frontiers of MechE

The MITdesignX venture accelerator holds its 8th annual pitch and demo day to showcase the newest startups emerging from this transdisciplinary program at the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

MITdesignX Pitch and Demo 2024

12 new startups emerge from MITdesignX this year.

We start off Pitch and Demo Day at 2pm, giving the live audience a chance to meet with the teams and see their new products and services. A lunch buffet will be served.

At 3pm, we begin our presentations with a recap of the year at MITdesignX and pitches by all the new startups. This segment of the day will be hybrid and livestreamed online to a global audience.

We hope to see you in person or online on May 17 !

2-3p Demo

3-4:30p Pitch

4:30p Reception continues

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MITdesignX Pitch and Demo Day 2024

Join the Ashdown Events Committee for our Spring Festival on Sunday, May 19, from 2-4pm in the Ashdown Courtyard (sponsored by the GSC funding board)! All students are welcome to attend.

 

The event will feature a variety of exhilarating activities, including: 

- Bouncing (in a bouncy castle) and sliding (on a water slide) 

- Painting

- Bubble blowing

- Water balloon throwing

 

We will also have a variety of festive foods, including: 

- Hot dogs

- Pretzels

- Donuts

- Ice cream

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Ashdown Spring Festival

Join us at the Media Lab to hear from MIT alum Alvin Graylin as he discusses his upcoming book Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World. This event will be a chance to hear Alvin's thoughts about his work, AI, and how to head towards a future better for all.

This event is open to members of the MIT community only; the registration form is linked here.

Alvin Wang Graylin (汪丛青) is a recognized technology pioneer, entrepreneur, executive, and thought leader with 30+ years of experience delivering innovative products in the AI, XR and semiconductor industries. He is the co-author of Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse will Reshape the World, published by Hachette Book Group. Having built his foundation in VR research at the Human Interface Technology Lab over 30 years ago, Alvin has also developed his expertise in AI and Natural Language Processing after extensive studies at the University of Washington and MIT.

In his recent professional journey, Alvin served as the China President of HTC (2016-2023) and continues to contribute as Global VP of Corporate Development at HTC, a global leader in the VR/AR space. His commitment to the immersive computing field is further reflected in his roles as Vice-Chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA), President of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), and co-head of the ViveX VR Accelerator.

Alvin's entrepreneurial spirit is evidenced by his founding of four venture-backed startups in areas ranging from AI-based natural language search, mobile social to big-data AI analytics, across China and the US. His broad operational experience also includes global P&L roles at multinational corporations like Intel, Trend Micro, WatchGuard Technologies, and IBM.

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Alvin Graylin – Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World

We don’t buy furniture anymore; we consume it. Every year, millions of tons of furniture items are sent to landfills while more are made to replace them. The furniture industry contributes 2% to global CO2-equivalent emissions, which is at least as much as the aviation industry. Designer and climate tech entrepreneur Andrea Quiros-Balma talks about the ways technology can be used to decarbonize this industry and change the way we shop for durable goods. Avenues for more sustainable futures will consider carbon accounting, digital twins, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and image recognition in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of goods.

Register for this MIT Horizon webinar.

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Using technology to eliminate hidden emissions of the furniture industry

MIT Game Lab, with support from MIT MindHandHeart, hosts Games Against Oppression a series of game playing sessions for MIT Faculty and Staff focusing on board, card, and role-playing games that center the fight against oppression by designers representing historically oppressed groups including women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

We invite MIT Faculty and Staff across the Institute to play with us and our invited designers!

No prior experience with these or other board games is assumed or required. In this unique experience, the designer has been shipped with the box to teach our participants how to play in an engaging way.

We will also have drop-in sessions for participants to play related games within our game library, with teaching support by MIT Game Lab staff and students.

We have limited spots available for lunch panel discussions each day, to informally discuss the games and topics at hand.

Our Designers and their Games:

Tory Brown



Tory Brown is the designer of Votes for Women, an award-winning card-driven board game about the American Woman Suffrage Movement and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Inspired by the 70 year effort to build one of the most effective political movements in American history, in her day job Tory is an experienced activist working on campaigns across the progressive movement for the last 20 years. She hopes anyone who plays Votes for Women will be inspired to become part of a cause that is greater than themselves and dedicated to the rights and dignity of all people. 



Votes for Women captures and celebrates the democratic struggle by inviting players to join the suffrage movement, organize support, and campaign for victory across the 48 states that were called to ratify the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. The card-driven game can be played cooperatively, competitively, or in solitaire mode, and in each version players must navigate the historic events, movement schisms, and political challenges of the era to win. 

The deck of over 100 stunning cards feature period art, portraiture, and historic documents and include event instructions that can either be played or discarded to campaign or organize their side of the issue. Campaigners move across the map to build political power with a roll of the included dice that will determine whether each state votes to ratify the amendment or opposes the Vote after three eras of play. Dig deeper into the history and maneuver through the critical choices that suffragists faced for a chance to guarantee equal franchise for all and win Votes For Women!

Cole Wehrle



Cole Wehrle is an ex-academic who decided to abandon the lucrative field of Victorian studies in favor of game publishing. He works as the creative director at Leder Games in Saint Paul and is best known for the award-winning game Root, which uses a children's book aesthetic to explore the politics of police states and insurgency. Root and its expansions have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. He is also the cofounder of Wehrlegig Games with his brother Drew Wehrle, which handles the publication of his historical games which cover subjects related to his academic work including state formation in 19th century Afghanistan (Pax Pamir), the rise and collapse of the British East India Company (John Company), and queer communities in the early 18th century (Molly House, designed with Jo Kelly).



In John Company, 2nd Edition, players assume the roles of ambitious families attempting to use the British East India Company for personal gain. The game begins in the early eighteenth-century, when the Company has a weak foothold on the subcontinent. Over the course of the game, the Company might grow into the most powerful and insidious corporation in the world or collapse under the weight of its own ambition. Unlike most economic games players often do not control their own firms and will collectively guide the Company in ways that benefit their own interests. However, the Company is an unwieldy thing. It is difficult to do anything alone, and players will often need to negotiate with one another as they work to secure their power abroad and their place in fashionable society at home. 



In Molly House, players take the roles of the gender-defying mollies of early eighteenth century London. Throw grand masquerades and cruise back alleys while evading moralistic constables who seek to destroy your community. Be careful, there may even be informers in your midst! Over the course of a couple hours, players will draft hands of vice cards representing the different gestures, desires, and encounters that were frowned upon by the Society for the Reformation of Manners, a citizen group that sought to stamp out any behavior it deemed deviant in late 17th and early 18th century London. These cards allow players to host festivities with the help of their fellow mollies and create joy. But, those same cards can also lead players to be arrested and to the ultimate ruin of the molly house. As players encounter the Society’s enforcers, they will often have to pay bribes or may be coerced into becoming informers for the Society. Informers must try desperately to undermine the community around Mother Clap’s Molly House without being discovered by their fellow mollies.

Non-Breaking Space

Non-Breaking Space builds game models with an emphasis on actor agency. The games put players into positions where the decision space closely resembles that of the actors represented. This allows them to place the impacts of their choices into a context relative to the topic being modeled.  Their games provide players with the opportunity to understand the underlying dynamics at play in complex historic and contemporary situations, at a fidelity that compliments modern scholarship.



Cross-Bronx Expressway from GMT Games looks at the history of the South Bronx New York during the second half of the twentieth century to investigate the impact the first roadway project to cut through an urban center had on life in the area. Three factions - Public, Private and Community - attempt to navigate the area through the most tumultuous period, hoping to avoid bankruptcy and prevent the disenfranchisement of the population.

Everfair, based on the book of the same name by Nisi Shawl, is an alternate steampunk history of Leopold's Congo Free State. It posits the possibility of an international group working with the indigenous peoples of the Cong. They must work together to first resist Leopold and colonial rule, with the hope of building a free and independent African nation before the Great War. Everfair is a cooperative game for four players.

Worker Placement: Under the Table is the first volume of the Worker Placement series which looks at the life of individual workers. Players in Under the Table lack the appropriate documents for legal work, but still must survive their everyday challenges and achieve their individual goals. If they can save enough they may be able to get the documents they need to get a job legally. Worker Placement: Under the Table is a solo game with multiplayer modes.

Popcicleta

Popcicleta is a game design collective that makes culturally engaging games about issues affecting Puerto Rico to be played by families, activists, and the broader public. In the Summer of 2018, Mikael Jakobsson, Rik Eberhardt and Aziria Rodrigez led an ideation and concept development workshop at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico and a design workshop at MIT. At these events, Puerto Ricans, game designers, students, and others interested in counter-colonial game design shared their ideas and experiences, and created game concepts. After the workshops, Mikael and Rik continued developing and playtesting one of the concepts and in 2020, Graphic Novel artist Rosa Colón joined the team to work on illustrations and graphic design for the game Promesa. 



Promesa  is a cooperative board game for all ages about the debt crisis in Puerto Rico. One to six players take on the role of the local government in Puerto Rico with the task of getting rid of the debt before the archipelago succumbs to natural catastrophes. Players make strategic and tactical choices about investments in infrastructure, education, and social services while trying to keep the debt from spiraling out of control.

Schedule

Sign-ups are required to guarantee a spot at the table when playing with designers, but drop-ins will have opportunity to see the games in action or play games from our library!

Tuesday, May 28

12-1pm Lunch (limited to 20)

1-3:30pm Session 1
  Votes for Women
  John Company
  Cross-Bronx Expressway
  Promesa

3:30-6pm Session 2
  Votes for Women
  Molly House
  Everfair
  Promesa

Wednesday, May 29

10am-12:00pm Session 3
  Votes for Women
  John Company
  Cross-Bronx Expressway
  Promesa

12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch (limited to 20)

1:00-3:30pm Session 4
  Votes for Women
  Molly House
  Everfair
  Promesa

3:45-6:00pm Session 5
  Votes for Women
  Molly House
  Worker Placement
  Promesa

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Games Against Oppression

As computers continue to automate more routine tasks, AI education is a key enabler to future opportunities where success depends increasingly on intellect, creativity, empathy, and having the right skills and knowledge. Being digitally literate is no longer sufficient in the era of AI.

Join us at the Boston Marriott Cambridge as we explore creative ways to include AI education in the classroom in the hopes of making learning more effective. Our summit will feature expert speakers, an AI ‘Open House’, and presentations by our Global AI Hackathon challenge champions.

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MIT AI & Education Summit

2024 Kuggie Vallee Lectures

September 24-25, 2024

Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)

Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, Stanford University

Erin Schuman, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

In honor of the Foundation’s co-founder, Kuggie Vallee, and in order to inspire young women to continue a career in science, the Vallee Foundation has established a prestigious annual series of Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures. These Lectures are designed to highlight major successes made by women in the biomedical sciences and are given at institutions around the world where Vallee Visiting Professors and Young Investigator Awardees are affiliated. The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturer gives a public lecture about her own science and, over a period of several days, meets more informally or in workshops with other faculty at the host institute to talk about women in science and career building.

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Kuggie Vallee Lectures: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, Stanford University and Erin Schuman, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

Approved student-led conferences, competitions, and hackathons and applied for SLO conference funding will pitch to the funding committee. Committee includes staff from Student Life, Career Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion , Alumni Relations, Sloan Finance, and Media Relations offices. 
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Student-led Conference, Competition, Hackathon Funding Pitch Session

On behalf of the Sloan Program at Cornell University, we are pleased to announce that registration is open for the Third Annual Sloan Program in Health Administration Case Competition, co-sponsored this year by SSM Health. 

SSM Health is excited to invite the Top 8 Teams On-Site in St. Louis, Missouri for the Final Rounds on March 30th to 31st where teams have the opportunity to win up to $19,000. The event will be followed by an in-person networking reception where finalists will have the opportunity to connect with current and future healthcare leaders. Registration is FREE and open to Teams of 3 through February 7th, 2023 at 5 PM EST. Early registration is strongly encouraged, as spots will be limited to the first 40 registered teams. 

Eligibility

The Case Competition is open to Graduate Students in any year and includes the following U.S. programs:

·  Any accredited MHA/MSHA 
·  MBA
·  MPH
·  EMHA/EMBA
·  MS
·  MD/DO
·  PhD 

Important Dates

·  February 7th, 2023 at 5 PM EST | Registration Deadline (First 40 teams)
·  February 8th, 2023 at 5 PM EST | Virtual Welcome Ceremony and Q&A
·  February 9th at 5 PM EST | Virtual Case Release 
·  February 13th at 7 PM EST | Virtual Case Submission Deadline
·  February 17th at 12 PM-5 PM EST | Virtual Semi-Final Rounds (Top 16 teams)
·  March 30th and 31st | On-Site, In-Person Final Rounds in St. Louis, Missouri (Top 8 teams)