For over a decade, Agbasi-Porter has welcomed groups of high school seniors to the lab, coordinating more than 20 programs. And she encourages underrepresented students including women, minorities and low-income families to apply.
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MIT Department of Mathematics launches a free math enrichment and research program for Ukrainian high school students and refugees.
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Meet Nilma Dominque, one of four honorees recently awarded an MLK Jr. Leadership Award. Dominque is an inspirational teacher at MIT where she draws upon culturally authentic teaching materials to connect students with the language they’re learning.
Currently working on her doctoral degree with an MIT master’s already in her toolkit, she is quick to attribute her academic success to MIT’s open educational resources. “I kept coming back to MIT-produced open source learning,” says Andrea Henshall, MIT PhD student.
At MIT, the DLL — which is composed of Digital Learning Scientists and Digital Learning Fellows who are content experts — plays a critical role in co-creating online courses and advancing digital learning initiatives with MIT faculty and departments.
“My day-to-day is forming relationships," says Chiamaka Agbasi-Porter, Lincoln Laboratory’s K–12 STEM outreach coordinator.
“Even in the face of extreme disruption, education and scholarship must continue, and MIT is committed to providing resources and safe forums for displaced scholars,” says MIT’s Richard Lester.
PEN’s training workshops focus on showing teachers what’s possible by exposing them to hands-on activities that require only locally available materials.