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Marian Muthui: The unstoppable force assembling Kenya’s first electric buses

Alum Marian Muthui is the New Product Introduction Programme Manager at BasiGo Kenya, where her team assembled Kenya's first electric buses.
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Lifelong Kindergarten and MIT CBA named in Boston Globe article on biggest MIT contributions

The contributions spotlighted aim to get kids excited about, and more proficient in, STEM.
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OctoStudio named to Notable Children's Digital Media list

The Notable Children’s Digital Media list recognizes real-time, dynamic, and interactive media content for children 14 years of age.
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Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
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CoCo and MIT RAISE among 2023-2024 Tools Competition winners

Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.
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Six Media Lab students receive MIT Presidential Fellowship awards

Congratulations to the six fellowship recipients!
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Meet the 2024 LEGO Papert Fellows

Congratulations to Kayla, Ila, and Ana on receiving this fellowship!
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Friday Five: Alexis Hope talks about sexual health, bacteria in design + more

For Design Milk’s Friday Five, Media Lab alum Alexis Hope shares the work of five of her favorite designers.
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Mobilizing creative learning with OctoStudio

A new coding app enables young people around the world to use mobile devices to express themselves creatively.
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Transforming screen time: Kids can use smartphones to enhance their creativity

Too many apps treat young people as passive consumers, not motivated makers. But there are alternatives.
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Research Group Overview: Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences.
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Faces of MIT: Abisola Okuk

Abisola Okuk, who began her career at MIT as an admin in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, talks to MIT News about finding her passion.
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📣 Announcing: PLIX Ambassador Program 2023-2024!

The PLIX Team at the MIT Media Lab invites US-based public library workers to apply for our 2023-2024 Creative Learning Ambassador Program.
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Four Media Lab students receive 2022 MIT Presidential Fellowship awards

Congratulations to four Media Lab students, who have received 2022 MIT Presidential Fellowship awards.
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Ann Berger Valente and Leo Burd awarded 2023 Education Innovation Grant

Ann Berger Valente and Leo Burd of the Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten group have been awarded an Education Innovation Grant.
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Five Media Lab students receive MIT Presidential Fellowship awards

Five Media Lab students–Ila Kumar, Kimaya Lecamwasam, Cecilé Sadler, Aastha Shah, and Raechel Walker–win MIT Presidential Fellowship awards.
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A decade into experiments with gamification, edtech rethinks how to motivate learners

Created by Media Lab PhD students Shruti Dhariwal and Manuj Dhariwal, CoCo is a digital learning platform that fosters collaboration.
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What Pringles and audio filters can teach us about our brains

In a study presented at CHI 2023, Media Lab alumni used Pringles & audio filters to explore the intersection of sound, flavor, & perception.
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Angela Davis: “We need to renew our commitments to struggle against racism”

Jaleesa Trapp was the graduate student speaker at MIT's 49th annual Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Studies at the intersection of equity, computing, and education

“The work I’m doing is deeply rooted in the belief that you can plant seeds in people,” says graduate student Cecilé Sadler.
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Encouraging imagination in others

“One of my central values as a person is that I strongly believe that — no matter what you do — you have a duty and an obligation to serve,”
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Cecilé Sadler honored during 2023 MIT Awards Convocation

Cecilé Sadler, a research assistant in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, received the Priscilla King Gray Award for Public Service.
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CoCo: A real-time co-creative learning platform for young people

Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments
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Two Remix Strategies for Sustainable Creative STEM Activities

Celebrate Earth Day 2023 with these sustainable remix strategies!
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Meet the 2023 LEGO Papert Fellows

Congratulations to Manaswi, Caitlin, and Jaleesa on receiving this fellowship!
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CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in Being. Creative. Together.
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Alexis Hope and Christine Sun Kim named 2023 USA Fellows

Congrats to former Labbers Alexis Hope and Christine Sun Kim for being named as 2023 USA Fellows!
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San Gabriel teen codes his way toward the future, heads to West Point Military Academy

Korbin Deary talks about his involvement with Scratch, a programming platform created by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the Lab
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Scratch hits a major milestone—100 million global users!

Scratch, a coding platform for children, was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Lab in 2007.
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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
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Meet the 2022 LEGO Papert Fellows

Congratulations to Yun, Chelsi, and Cecilé on receiving this fellowship!
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Who am I?—taking a dive within the self

The 'Who' that I live from is a choice that I make. This essay looks critically at this choice, by diving into the QUESTion "Who am I?"
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Waves of Kindness

Read a post by Mitch Resnick, who was inspired by an email exchange with Ukrainian educator Olesia Vlasii.
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Mitchel Resnick receives the 2021 LEGO® Prize Award

The LEGO Prize is presented to individuals or organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to the lives of children.
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This Toronto-based nonprofit provides creative education to over 2,000 children in rural India

Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.
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SXSW 2022 PanelPicker Proposals

Media Lab students, faculty, researchers, and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2022
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5 questions with MIT Media Lab’s Jaleesa Trapp

Code.org interviews Lifelong Kindergarten PhD student Jaleesa Trapp in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Career Girls Role Models: Alexis Hope

Alexis Hope talks about her work that focuses on broadening the participation of women in designing technology for women’s health.
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AoA Podcast Episode 2: A Conversation with Author & Scratch Developer Mitch Resnick

Engaging students on and off the screen and the magic of being a lifelong kindergartner.
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MLVoices: Alexis Hope

Watch the video, then read this post by Alexis Hope to learn more about her work at the Media Lab and her passions.
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The Playful Self —Reflective Illustrations to Explore Models of Self & Identity

In the What, Why, and How, we often forget the Who. These illustrations explore the simple but deeply transformative question of Who Am I?
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Career Girls Role Models

Watch the interviews conducted by Career Girls with Labbers Randi Williams, Jaleesa Trapp, Marian Muthui, and Alexis Hope.
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Career Girls Role Models: Marian Muthui

Marian Muthui talks about her career path, from mechanical engineering to design research.
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Overview of Members Week 2050 Lab Updates (Community Design + Ethics Group)

We are proud to welcome Community + Ethics to the MIT Media Lab! As you may recall, Community + Ethics joined the Media Lab.
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Career Girls Role Models: Jaleesa Trapp

Jaleesa Trapp talks about her career path, how technology encodes the values of its designers, and the importance of play.
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Meet the Labbers

Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.
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MIT Full STEAM Ahead offers scalable, hands-on remote learning for K-12

Website created as a rapid response to Covid-19 yields unexpected insights into what’s possible for reaching learners at a distance.
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Introducing a New Class of Creative Tools for Educators: Creative Learning Design Tools

How teaching as a form of creative work can be better empowered with creative tools.
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Cultivating Creativity and Community in a Design-based Online Course

How might we leverage digital collaboration tools to support teens in building community and engaging in open-ended, design-based work?
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Schools Learn Too

How might we make it feel less scary for schools to try new things, thoughtfully and inclusively?
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Episode 19: COVID-19 Update - Jaleesa Trapp - Flaws in Facial Recognition

Jaleesa Trapp talks to Brittney Gallagher about how she works to create equitable spaces for STEM learning experiences.
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Using a Way-Finding Lens: Sense Making in The Second Self ✭

What might a "creative operating system" look like? And how might that support creative thinking?
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Dystopian Engineering: Piloting a Remote High School Engineering Course

Using distance learning as an opportunity to bring engineering skills to life in out of school environments.
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Celebrating Teaching Assistants in MAS

During these uncertain times, we would like to thank the Teaching Assistants that helped make the transition to remote teaching.
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Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses

Bringing project-based work online in two very different contexts: a middle school robotics course and a university product design studio.
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The Learning Revolution

Mitch Resnick and other experts talk about designing an educational system fit for the future.
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Meet the 2020 LEGO Papert Fellows

The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
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Meet the 2018 LEGO Papert Fellows

2018 marks the second cohort of the LEGO Papert Fellowship program, which honors the legacy of educational-technology pioneer Seymour Papert
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Meet the 2017 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowship program was officially launched in 2017.