MIT Challenges
Every year, MIT offer the schools 3 challenges (one for each term). The challenges allow the students to be creative and scientific, with ideas that extend way beyond the curriculum. These challenges are always linked to scientific research that is happening right now by a scientist/engineer at MIT. The students have opportunities to ask the scientist questions and submit their work for them to see. These challenges can be done at any point, so even if the time has passed for feedback, they can still submit their ideas.
All information can be found on global campus, including submissions from other students across Nord Anglia.
Term 1 Challenge 1: Designing Solutions with AI.
Deadline for submissions on Global Campus: 8th November
Students have the opportunity to work with Professor Faez Ahmed, who is a mechanical engineer using machine learning, that helps human product designers build and improve their design.
His challenge to you is: how you could use AI to improve an existing product that you use in your daily life.
Our Year 12 students took on this challenge at the start of the term as part of their IB Collaborative Sciences Project. We saw some incredible designs, including the use of AI to assist with medicine administration and AI as an educational tool to teach Secondary Students about sustainability.
PARENT CHALLENGE: how would you approach this challenge? If you have any ideas or submissions, please email them to Georgina.roughley@bisad.ae
Abstracts
Abstracts is MIT’s monthly webinar series, featuring a wide range of fascinating themes.
September’s Abstract took us on an inspiring journey to icy Antarctica with Loïcka Baille, a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Programme. In this video, she explored the impact of climate change on emperor penguins, sharing how innovative tracking devices, cameras, and other technology allow scientists and engineers to monitor penguin behavior in one of the world’s most challenging environments.
Curiosity correspondents
Course: STEAM: Curiosity Correspondent Videos
Abby and Nolan, our MIT Curiosity Correspondents, love exploring the natural world and finding answers to your curious questions!
This series will consist of eight episodes, running monthly from September to April.
In the meantime, be sure to check out the previous series, Ask MIT, for further inspiration.
MIT Student trip
Every year, MIT hosts a competition for students to enter, offering them the opportunity to spend a week on campus, working in labs, attending lectures, and engaging in project work.
This month, I, along with two students, will be making the journey to Boston to participate!
Stay tuned for updates in November’s edition, where I’ll share how the trip went and provide more information on how to enter this year’s competition.
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