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Hello and Welcome to the Beaver Works Summer Institute!
We're underway in all our courses! Keep checking here for updated links, recordings, and schedule updates.
We will be posting BWSI-wide announcement, updates and a few assignments here over the program.
Course specific announcements and assignments are always handled with the course forum (slack, discord...)
We are going to miss having all of you being here at MIT this summer and want to get to know you as you participate in BWSI virtually!
Information for BWSI participants
All students and parents/guardians received the Welcome package and Code of Conduct and Kickoff note
Here is the current version of our program guide and yearbook- please contact us with any corrections or updates
Kerberos ID (aka MIT email address)
All enrolled students will be receiving an MIT email ID, known as kerberos ID.
This account will allow you to join zoom meetings that require an MIT account authentication. It will be up to you to pick a username (be wise in your selection) and password that you will need when authenticating on zoom.
Your Kerberos account will be active for one year and is not renewable (well, unless you become an MIT student or employee ☺ ). The account set up is all handled remotely. If a student is asked to leave the program for any reason, their Kerberos account will be deactivated.
MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T) are responsible for managing the process and can be reached at support@mit.edu for questions on this process for MIT kerberos accounts.
BWSI Assignments for students
- Take a video of yourself opening up kits, packages or swag from our sponsors, if you post on social media, please include us @mitbwsi for Instagram and Twitter using #BWSI2020!
- Share your videos with us by uploading to this google folder, please use you name (as in lastname_firstname) in the name of the file!!
- Make a digital postcard about you! (Canva, Powerpoint, Illustrator- whatever) to tell us about yourself, keep it to ~5"x7" so we can use it in our 2020 Yearbook!
- Here's an example and have fun with this assignment!
| Video request | details | upload site |
|---|---|---|
| Video of opening kits, packages or swag from sponsors | 30sec video | folder |
| Postcard to BWSI to tell us about yourself | pdf file | folder |
| YOUR Video (Slides from MIT Video Productions) - No Later than July 20 | 2 min video | folder |
| Team videos (Final presentation on their projects) | 5 min video | folder |
| Moments of discovery (Individual or teams as they work together and reach goals) | 1-2 min video | folder |
| Team videos (Final presentation on their projects) | 5 min video | folder |
Surveys
Self reflection on your progress is important and helps us improve our courses - links for surveys will be posted here soon.
Four courses are participating in surveys from the BASB (Boston After School and Beyond) which will have additional short surveys to complete.
| Survey | Due | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-program | 7/09/20 | TBD |
| Mid-program | 7/20/20 | TBD |
| Post-program | 8/02/20 |
TBD |
Seminars during July, Tues, Wed, Thurs, 12:30-1:30 EDT
We have world class researchers and educators present lunchtime lectures to attending students. You will also be able to watch a livestream of these - check out our YouTube Channel !
2020 Schedule (so far!)
| Name | Date | Title | Organization | Rec |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Sertac Karaman, Dr. Bob Shin, BWSI staff | 7/6/20 | Day 1 Kickoff! Time: 10am EDT | MIT, MIT/LL | |
| Prof. Leslie Kaelbling | 7/7/20 | Doing for our Robots What Nature did for us | MIT CSAIL | Link |
| Prof. Daniela Rus (Note 12:00 EDT start time) | 7/8/20 | Unleashing Your Inner Maker | MIT CSAIL | Live only |
| 7/9/20 | Autonomous Intelligence: The AI You Don’t Know | BAE Systems | ||
| Prof. Amos Winter | 7/14/20 | Leveraging Technical and Socioeconomic Insights to Create Products for Developing and Global Markets | MIT MechE | |
| Chris Peterson | 7/15/19 | How to apply to MIT (and other colleges) as a Maker | MIT Admissions Office | Live only |
| Dr. Eric Evans | 7/16/19 | MIT Lincoln Laboratory Overview | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Live only |
| Major General Michael Schmidt and Raytheon speakers | 7/21/20 | Raytheon Technologies | ||
| TBD | 7/22/20 | |||
| Prof. Anant Agarwal | 7/23/20 | MIT Open Learning | ||
| TBD | 7/28/20 | |||
| Prof. Julie Shah | 7/29/20 | MIT AeroAstro | ||
| Dr. Fiona Murray | 7/30/20 | Becoming a Chief Technology Officer | MIT TLO | |
Final Event
We are still working on the details, teams will have a chance to not only make a video about their project, but will have a chance to discuss it live with panelists on July 31. We want to give our students a chance to show off their porojects that demonstrate innovative solutions and great work using what they've learned!
Internship Opportunities (to be updated as we have more information)
Our sponsors understand that the best and brightest are coming here for courses and offer internships to selected students attending BWSI for the following summer.
| Name | Application Link | Additional Info | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAE | TBD | N/A | TBD |
| Raytheon | TBD | N/A | TBD |
Program Links
| Name | Link |
|---|---|
| BWSI 2020 Brochure | Click Here |
| BWSI’19 Program Brochure | Click Here |
| BWSI’19 Final Event Brochure | Click Here |
Last Resort!
Email bwsi-admin with your questions if you do not see the answers you need on this page. BWX-help or BWinfo or BWwebmaster will only take longer to get an answer.
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