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Welcome to BWSI 2024!
Information for BWSI participants
All students and parents/guardians received the Welcome email - the Welcome letter, code of conduct and daily schedule is included in that email. A generic version can be found here.
Always check your course discord/slack channel for latest updates on daily schedule and syllabus
BWSI Assignments for students- we will post 'global' assignments that are separate from your individual courses here. Most upload links are dropbox folders which do not provide a confirmation email or allow you to check the file after, you will see "Finished uploading" message if you are successful.
For end of program certificates they will be sent out after the program. These take time to complete, once we have sent them out we will update this page with a date they went out.
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Share your videos with us by uploading to this dropbox folder, please use you name (as in coursename_lastname_firstname) in the name of the file!!
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Video Example
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In-Person courses: MIT's Map and link to seminar location (new location this year)
Final Event information! We are planning on having both in-person and virtual final events. In-person on Aug 3; Overall Final Event on Aug 4 online!
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Postcard to BWSI to tell us about yourself - Due 7/1(Please use coursename_lastname_firstname when you upload but don't worry about resubmitting if you have already)Here is Joel's example :-) |
pdf file |
Upload Link |
Essay contest on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM:Please submit a short essay of 500 words or less - choose one question to answer, we will select the top essays in each - this is an OPTIONAL assignment• What does racial, gender and cultural diversity mean to you? How does it manifest in your daily life? • How can we continue to spark interest in STEM programs like BWSI? What new programs or education initiatives could we adopt to help increase STEM awareness in diverse communities? • In what ways do you consider yourself diverse? What has led you to embrace it? How did it impact you and how you interact with others? DUE ON July 24 |
pdf/MS Word/text |
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YOUR personal video about you and your BWSI experience Video- this is a required assignmentDue on July 30 (revised due date)Please use Coursename_lastname_firstname when you upload We've gotten questions about this one- we do survey's about the technical content but this is a chance for us to hear you- Suggestions to talk about include - What makes you excited about learning and BWSI? Why did you say "yes" to the enrollment? What have you learned about yourself? Who have you made connections with? There's no formula to this and hope that this helps guide you. |
2 min video |
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Moments of discovery or failures! (Individual or teams as they work together and reach goals) |
1-2 min video |
Upload Link |
Team presentation videos for Final Event - Due Aug 1 at 5pm ET. This is a google drive folder if you need to collaborate or share to get help.Not required, but this is strongly encouraged, talk with your instructors about final presentations that are live presentations vs recorded presentation.Here's some suggestions from MIT Video ProductionsPlease make sure the Coursename_TeamName is in the filename! |
5 min video |
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Team Zoom Collage/Screenshot. (Updated link 8/3!)Please make sure the Coursename_TeamName is in the filename! |
jpg, zip, png |
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Surveys
Self-reflection on your progress is important and informing us helps us to improve our program - links are posted when they are open.
Survey |
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Pre-program |
7/8/23 |
Here |
Post-program |
8/6/24 |
Here |
The instructors and staff have a contest to see which course has the HIGHEST completion rate on the Post-program survey - SUPPORT YOUR COURSE Now!
Internship Opportunities (to be updated as we have more information)--
>> See After BWSI for on-going internships and will post new links from our sponsors soon.
Special Events - BWSI 2023
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MIT Summer Programs College Night! At MIT’s campus, in the Stata Center in room 32-123 5:45 PM–6 PM: High school attendees will begin to arrive and will be directed into the lecture hall. |
7/11/23 | IN-PERSON students only |
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Panel Seminar Panelists and Moderator short biographies |
7/12/23 12:30pm |
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Women's Network DinnerSpeaker List and bio'sIf you want to send the panelists additional questions:use this form |
7/26/23 6:00pm |
Attendence will be limited |
2023 Seminars during July, Monday - Friday,12:30-1:30 ET
Schedule and links to recorded videos- Download all the speaker bios and abstracts
Seminars that are livestreamed can be viewed on at MIT's webcast page, they will eventually be on our YouTube channel. Select title to view abstract when enabled
*YT indicates that it will livestreamed on our YouTube channel and available for recording afterwards.
Program Links
| Name | Link |
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| BWSI 2021 Brochure | Click Here |
| BWSI 2021 Seminar Series | Click Here |
| BWSI 2020 Brochure (7/30/20) | Click Here |
| BWSI 20200 Seminar Series | Click Here |
| BWSI’19 Program Brochure | Click Here |
| BWSI’19 Final Event Brochure | Click Here |
Kerberos ID (aka MIT email addresses)
All enrolled students will be receiving an MIT email ID, known as kerberos ID. We will always send program information to the email that you used in registration, the Kerberos ID is to authenticate for MIT-provided IT services, such as mit.zoom.us or the educational version of Minecraft. To check your MIT email, please use https://owa.exchange.mit.edu/, DUO authentication is not required. Students are not provided Microsoft 365 accounts and M365 accounts should not be needed to complete our summer program.
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.
For DUO/Touchstone questions and directions: https://duo.mit.edu/
Questions about what's available or how-to's can be search for on http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/home/The+Knowledge+Base. For specific information on resetting your MIT password, see: http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/BZI7
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.
