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From Fish to Finance: Impact through Cultural Understanding As I was going through my interview notes, I realized that the yellow pad had captured our experience in more than one…

Mallika Pajjuri is a current sophomore in Course 3A. During IAP, she completed a social impact internship at Reboot Rx as a biomedical scientist intern.  Finding the Good in Innovation…

My name is Katie Downey, and I am a course 7 senior with an interest in public health. This IAP, I had the opportunity to work with The Phoenix, a…

The Importance of User-Friendly Tech My name is Andrea, and I am a Junior studying Math with Computer Science with a minor in Womens’ and Gender Studies at MIT. This…

Building accessible technology My name is Katherine He – I’m a first year at MIT double majoring in computer science and management (Courses 6 and 15). This January during IAP,…

The Importance of Play in Education, Gaming the Pandemic Games, with its interactive components, can greatly aid people’s learning experience. Some people find it easier to understand concepts when they…

Tech for Good, Tech for Health: How Ariadne Labs is Confronting Accessibility Challenges in Healthcare This semester, I am working as an intern on the Better Evidence Team at Ariadne…

My name is Jackie Lin, and I am a freshman from New York City. I started coding three years ago, during my sophomore year of high school, and found that…

Octavio Vega (’22, Course 8) is a Crisis Relief Intern with NeedsList through the PKG Social Impact Internships program. NeedsList is an organization that builds solutions for a new era…

When I first started this internship, I was very motivated to socially impact my community. In the beginning, I wasn’t sure how my work would be useful but as I…