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…
IDEAS Alum: Safi Organics featured in MIT News!
“Safi [Organics] is decentralizing fertilizer production such that it can be carried out in rural villages for the first time,” Safi co-founder and chief technology officer Kevin Kung SM ’13,…
IDEAS Alum: Biobot Analytics in the Boston Globe!
Biobot Analytics, co-founded by MIT alumna Dr. Mariana Matus and former DUSP Research Fellow Neswha Ghaeli, was a 2017 IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge awardee. When talking with entrepreneurs Mariana Matus…
IDEAS Alum: Insightiv Wins HealthTech Hub Africa Challenge
Insightiv was a 2020 finalist of the PKG Center’s IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge and was awarded $16,000 that year for this outstanding proposal. Insightiv is an Intelligent and Distributed Diagnostics…
IDEAS Alum: Spoiler Alert featured in the Boston Globe
While students at MIT, Spoiler Alert co-founders participated in the PKG Center’s IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge. Spoiler Alert is a platform that aims to reduce food waste to increase access…
IDEAS Alumni: Charlene Xia (G), Sustainable Sea
Charlene Xia (G), IDEAS 2021 grantee, was featured by MIT News for her IDEAS project, Sustainable Sea. Xia proposed a machine learning-based aquaculture monitoring and response system that uses microbiome data…
PKG Fellowships: Ben Hoyle (G), Part IV
Read Part I, Part II and Part III of Ben’s Fellowship experience. Ben Hoyle completed his Master of Architecture at MIT in June of 2021. During the summer, he laid…
IDEAS Alumni Carbon BioEnergy awarded the Catalyst Grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
IDEAS 2019 Alumni Carbon BioEnergy (formerly InSanirator) has been awarded the Catalyst Grant of $65,000 from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. The grant funding will help them develop the next…
PKG Fellowships: Ben Hoyle (G), Part III
Click to read Part I and Part II of Ben’s PKG Fellowship experience. Ben Hoyle completed his Master of Architecture at MIT in June of 2021. During the summer, he…
PKG Fellowships: Ben Hoyle (G), Part II
Click here to read Part I of Ben’s PKG Fellowships experience. The most significant progress since my last post has been through correspondences with others working in the same sector…
