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Undergraduates from 10 U.S. universities participated in the first MICRO Summit. The internship program, developed by the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, continues to grow, recently expanding to Northwestern University.

At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, faculty, instructors, and students shared how they’re leveraging technologies like generative AI in the classroom. Panelists stressed the importance of iteration and teaching students how to develop critical thinking skills.

Learners from 24 countries build technical and employment skills in a collaborative community through MIT Emerging Talent, part of the Jameel World Education Lab at MIT Open Learning.

Itz’at STEAM Academy uses an innovative pedagogical framework co-created by MIT pK-12, part of Open Learning. The school’s launch is the culmination of a three-year project between MIT and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology of Belize.

Senga Technologies CEO June Odongo uses MIT OpenCourseWare courses to make high-quality candidates job-ready. Cynthia Wacheke, the first person to complete the program, is now a software developer at Senga.

After learner Diogo da Silva Branco Magalhães completed the MITx MicroMasters program in Statistics and Data Science, he was able to pursue his master’s degree at Northwestern University.

Through a new internship program, two Empowr students worked remotely with MIT Digital Learning Lab scientists to create and improve online learning content, gaining hands-on professional experience — from learning what it’s like to work to learning principles of online content development.

Finding inspiration at MIT Bootcamps, innovators Nicky Agahari, Adonica Shaw, and Jitendra Chouksey seek solutions to empower patients and change their lives.

Dustin Liang, a 17-year-old high school senior, enrolled in MITx’s Calculus 1A: Differentiation online class after being diagnosed with cancer. He then estimated his blood cell counts by applying knowledge from the course and talking to doctors.

The new Venture Advancement Program from MIT Bootcamps brought experienced and emerging innovators to campus to learn from leading MIT academics and startup veterans how to scale their ventures.