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Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Digital tools for social support amongst current and former foster-involved youth

Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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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 both physical and remote set…
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Scratch receives Innovative Learning Award 2025

Scratch Software, developed by Lifelong Kindergarten group, wins the Advanced Education Award in Tokyo.
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
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Media Lab alum Srishti Sethi receives Open Education Global Award 2025

Lifelong Kindergarten alumna Srishti Sethi recognized for advancing openness and equity in global education.
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Voice to Vision (V2V)

​Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Theme | Attention, Memory + Learning

Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
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OctoStudio

OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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NeuroChat

👉 Read the full paper here (open access).  NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-…
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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RAISE

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
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Community Biotechnology

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
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Mitchel Resnick honored with 2025 Stibitz-Wilson Award

Mitchel Resnick receives the 2025 Stibitz-Wilson Award for innovation in creative learning.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Connecting Through Comics: Co-creating creative digital tools for expressing complex emotions, with and for trauma-impacted youth

An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…
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AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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🎲 Little Language Models: Empowering Children to be Future AI Modelers

Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within the CoCo platform. It is especially de…
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HyperCubes: Learning computational concepts in Augmented Reality

HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, from…
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Architecture Machine Group
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Doodlebot - Creative AI learning

Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
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FRONTLINE Launches Youth Civic Voices Initiative

A new collab with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication empowers young people to shape the future of journalism and civic dialogue
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Zero Robotics

Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
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Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time

A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.
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Liberatory Computing for African American Students

The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
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Promoting Playful Learning With Technology

Mitchel Resnick—creator of Scratch and OctoStudio—shares how teachers can maximize students’ use of tech for creative purposes.
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Kids are learning how to make their own little language models

A new program aims to teach them how AI works, by getting hands-on.
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NeuraFutures

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures …
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Cynthia Breazeal named 2024 AAAS Fellow

She is recognized for her distinguished contributions in the field of artificial intelligence education.
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Brazilian Creative Learning Network / Aprendizagem Criativa no Brasil

The Brazilian Creative Learning Network (BCLN -- https://aprendizagemcriativa.org/) is a grassroots movement that promotes and supports the…
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Personal Robots research on front cover of Science Robotics March 2025 issue

The March 2025 cover story for Science Robotics highlights a recent study conducted by researchers in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group.
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Mitchel Resnick receives 2025 SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

This award honors an individual or group in recognition of a significant contribution to computer science education.
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Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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Theme | Attention, Memory & Learning

Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
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Code Next

Code Next : Cultural Resonation
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Foundations : Design of Codified Curricula in Coding, Design, Fabrication, Games, Music, Media, etc.

Foundations (2015 - 2016): The Year 1 MIT/Google collaboration program has Pilot Labs in NYC and Oakland. In the Labs, we introduce a cohor…
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Team Edge: Design of Codified Curricula in Coding, Design, Fabrication, Games, Engineering, etc.

Team Edge (2016 - 2017): The Year 2 MIT/Google Collaboration. For it, we design and author Curricula and Learning Activities in the followi…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…
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Data Activism Program

My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
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Alum Ben Fry receives digital technology award

He is among six MIT faculty and instructors who have received this award.
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Festival of Learning

An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
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Inner Child: The Role of VR Child Avatars in Improving Adult Language Learning

L. Xia, C. D. Vázquez, T. Aikawa and P. Maes, "Inner Child: The Role of VR Child Avatars in Improving Adult Language Learning," 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Bellevue, WA, USA, 2024, pp. 469-472, doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct64951.2024.00136.
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Social Robots for Social-Emotional Learning for Arabic Speakers

This project aimed at enhancing the social-emotional and educational experiences of Arabic-speaking refugee children. The project leverages…
How software can act as an assistant rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and proactively anticipating the user's needs
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Interactive Storybooks for Early AI Literacy

Children today are more digitally connected than ever before, with increasing exposure to tablets, social media, and smartphones. As techno…
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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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Raechel Walker receives 2024 ACM FAccT Award

Selected proposals seek to develop positive alternative visions for the future of algorithmic systems and their research communities.
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Generative AI-Enabled Context Personalization for Vocabulary Learning

Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
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Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.