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The past two years have brought several changes to education that have also affected some of the programs at MIT. One program forced to move online was the annual Splash weekend, but this year students were able to roam the halls of the MIT campus again.

Yvonne Ng began her career at MIT in 2007, working in communications, outreach, fundraising, and stewardship to support open learning initiatives and programs. A Boston local, she attended Boston Latin School before graduating from Bowdoin where she studied Anthropology and Spanish.

Dishita Turakhia is currently a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the EECS dept. at MIT.

For MIT graduate and former educator Anurupa Ganguly, part of the STEM gap issue may lie in enhancing math concepts in a spatial context to encourage greater numbers of students to grasp and maintain essential concepts.

Raymond Han is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at MIT. His research interests include labor economics and the economics of education. Raymond first joined Blueprint Labs as a pre-doctoral fellow working for Professors Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak after graduating from the University of Chicago in 2018.

Apprenticeships have long provided workers with the skills and training to succeed in their chosen professions. In many European countries, apprenticeships are a common path to stable and financially-rewarding careers, bringing benefits to both apprentices and employers.

Sarah Davis, MITx Project Administrator, is passionate about supporting underserved student populations such as international students, first-generation students, minority students, and helping others achieve success within academic programs in post secondary institutions and undergraduate degree programs. 

Curt Newton earned electrical engineering degrees from Iowa State and Stanford Universities, which led him to spend 15 years as an optical network systems engineer for Bell Labs. After an industry crisis in the early 2000s, he migrated his career into a field he felt was more meaningful - education.

Amrutha Killada has experience in product development and management. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Science in Engineering and Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in IDM (Integrated Design and Management) program.

Lauren is a Learning Engineer on the Residential Education team at MIT Open Learning.