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imo.im Hackathon

by Andrew Copp
Ever since doing my first Hackathon back in Fall '12, I have been seeking out where to do my next one. I was originally going to attend Penn Apps but teaching got in the way so I stayed on campus for the imo.im Hackathon. The rules were simple. We had to use the IMO API to build something in 22 hours. My team decided to interface with hardware and do a proof-of-concept...

KIPP Ascend Charter School

by Jake Bebar
KIPP Chicago is a network of public tuition-free, college preparatory schools. Their mission is to empower students with the knowledge, skills, and character traits to succeed in top-quality high schools and universities...

Starbucks Feature in "Pause" Magazine

by Elizabeth Luidens
These spreads were made in collaboration with Julia Tan, Hannah Ryou, and Claire Liburdi for "Pause" magazine, which was produced by my publication...

1000 Pitches Director

by Catherine Huang
Co-Director of the world’s largest student-run pitching competition. $1,000 if you can convince us that you’re the next Larry Page. Over 10,000...

MHacks and Ann Arbor Startup Weekend

6.270 Autonomous Lego Robotics Competition

by  Thuan Doan
Our task was to build and program an autonomous Lego robot that could compete in performing predefined tasks. For the competition, the field...

Giving Back

by Grace Hawkins
Community service has always been an inspiring and empowering part of my life. I spent four years of spring break building houses for...

Operabots

by  Cole Houston
As a member of the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media lab, I helped to manufacture and build fourteen robots designed to function...

Happy Egg Washer

by Jacky Lau
Product Engineering Process is a MIT senior product design course taken by most mechanical engineering seniors. The objective of the course is to utilize a $6500 budget and team of 16-20 people and develop a product from concept to an alpha-prototype. My team decided to build an egg washer designed for small to mid sized farms who currently wash their eggs by hand...