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The nationwide campaign is held annually on the first Tuesday in August.

The nationwide campaign is held annually on the first Tuesday in August.

 E-Mail Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MITs tallest academic building, a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus skyline. This radar dome -- or "radome" for short -- is a fiberglass shell that encases a large parabolic dish, shielding it from the elements while allowing radio waves to penetrate. First installed in 1966, it was used initially to pioneer weather radar research. As the years passed and tec...

Caption: The radar dome, or "radome," perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building was saved from demolition by the student-led MIT Radio Society, which had found creative new uses for it, like bouncing radio signals off the moon to communicate over further distances. Caption: The funds raised by the MIT Radio Society will go toward refurbishing the large radome, including installing a new fiberglass shell to protect it and mak...