Public Service Center
Since its founding in 1988, the MIT Public Service Center (PSC) has been far more than a typical student volunteer clearinghouse. Instead, it serves as a launch pad —
- Challenging students to apply their inventive and entrepreneurial talents to the design and operation of service activities;
- offering students opportunities for grants and fellowships;
- running the MIT IDEAS Competition, where students invent ways to help the less privileged; and
- integrating service into the curriculum.
Through the IDEAS Competition alone, recent student inventions for changing the lives of those less fortunate include:
- A telerobotic device for doing lung biopsies that improves upon the previous trial-and-error method of inserting a needle into a patient’s lung by hand;
- a pedal-powered washing machine designed for use in a rural area of Guatemala; and
- a backpack refrigerator that stores vaccines for transportation by foot to remote regions around the globe.
The PSC is committed to encouraging and challenging students to use their talents to make the world a better place. It also seeks to increase applied learning opportunities at MIT by further integrating public service activities into the MIT curriculum.
To make an impact on the MIT Public Service Center — which relies mostly on private sources for support — consider a gift to one of the funds below.
To discuss a special gift to the MIT Public Service Center, please contact Sally Susnowitz, assistant dean and director of the Center, at susnowit@mit.edu or 617.258.7344.
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