The MIT Science Bowl Club high school invitational returned to campus after two years of online events.
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As they were learning to take down their partners, they were also viscerally experiencing Newton’s laws of motion and other physics concepts.
Known on campus as “two-double-oh-nine,” the popular fall semester course challenges teams of undergraduates over three months to design, build, and draft a business plan for a product prototype, which they then demo and pitch in front of a live audience, on MIT’s largest stage.
The seminar is designed to provide a rare chance for first-years to develop their mathematical communication skills, including blackboard presentation and proof writing.
Traditionally, the first-gen identity has been viewed from a “deficit lens,” focusing on what a student lacks, rather than what a student has to offer. That needs to change.
“I want to leave this message for my family, for my employees and colleagues, for my partners and for my students: In matters of education, there is no point of saturation,” says lifelong learner Jesus Sotomayor.
“The main takeaway for 2.702 is to break away from the pure engineering aspect of shipbuilding and design, and start to focus on skills like team building, project management, cost estimates, and developing metrics,” says Captain Jeremy Leghorn.
Until now, it was believed that silent synapses were present only during early development, when they help the brain learn the new information that it’s exposed to early in life.
An MIT study finds that children from different socioeconomic backgrounds tend to have different brain patterns associated with reading difficulty.
What we’re trying to do is take the knowledge we create here and think about how we then use it to meet challenges in the world. To me that includes helping people around the world.” – Eric Grimson, MIT Vice President for Open Learning