The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) pairs undergraduate students with faculty and instructors. Students can join established research projects or pursue their own ideas.
There are unique opportunites in Fall 2020 - ELOs - which are included in our UROP listings. To apply for one of the ELOs, please visit innovationone.mit.edu and click the “students” button. Login with touchstone and you will land in the dashboard. Once in the dashboard, “filter by DLC” and select “UTOP”.
Throughout the year, the Edgerton Center sponsors a variety of UROP positions ranging from electronics and design projects to teaching 4th to 8th graders.
Anti-Racism and Social Justice Content Creation
With instructor Elizabeth Cavicchi and other student participants, you will develop, trial, and research educational experiences that spark learners’ curiosity and awareness, together building new space for social justice in ourselves, our science education, and our surroundings.
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Teamwork Training Activities
Support the development of teamwork training activities for college groups and/or K-12 educators. Our methodology (www.teamingfortomorrow.org) is based on understandings of personality archetypes and self-assessments that have been used extens
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Edgerton K-12 Field Trips, Translating Hands-On to On-Line
Looking for 2 students to work with Edgerton Center Outreach Coordinator to translate some of our long-running hands-on field trip activities to this new learning style for K-12. Existing curriculum is a starting point, but new ideas are welcome for content and presentation. State fra
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Mentoring First-Years in Experiential Learning
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Technical Mentor for Student Building Projects
Mentor MIT first-year students on a “personal passion project” as typically done in the Edgerton Center fall advising seminar for first-year students. Serve as a remote consultant, assisting with design, parts, construction techniques, etc. This project also involves creating a framew
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Engineering Design Workshop for First-Years
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Media Database and Storytelling for Edgerton Programs
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Maker projects for Social Justice in K-12
Support the development of an online course that we have outlined:
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