IDEAS Alum: The Practical Education Network featured in MIT News!
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try engaging students from low-resource schools in hands-on learning projects. She began…
Social Impact Internships: Vivian Shao (’25)
My name is Vivian Shao, and I am a freshman originally from Pittsburgh, PA and am pursuing a major in Computer Science & Engineering (Course 6-3). For the winter of…
Social Impact Internships: Eric Liu (’25)
Hi! My name is Eric Liu, a student in the Class of 2025. Over IAP 2022, I was fortunate enough to work with Ek Kadam Aur (EKA or “One Step…
Davis Projects for Peace Fellow: Ayomikun Ayodeji in MIT News!
Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, Ayomikun Ayodeji enjoyed the noisy hustle and bustle of his neighborhood. The cacophony included everything from vendors hawking water sachets and mini sausages, to commuters…
Social Impact Internships: Jason Lin (’23)
My Experience Interacting with Educational Inequity Ever since high school, educational inequity was something that I was never really comfortable talking about. It wasn’t that I was against providing underrepresented…
Social Impact Internships: Kailey Bridgeman (’24)
Hi! My name is Kailey, and I’m a rising sophomore from Rochester, Minnesota and Scranton, Pennsylvania! (Yes, like The Office) I’m pursuing a math major (Course 18), but I’m also…
PKG Social Impact Internships: Haylee Niemann (’21)
As the child of two teachers, I’ve always been drawn toward education. In the past, I’ve even worked as an educator, tutoring and teaching young children, but had never really…
