The Men’s Event is a black-tie fundraiser for Fenway Health that brings together a community of gay, transgender and bisexual men and their friends and supporters for a night of dinner and dancing. Tickets, silent auction, and sponsorship all benefit the life-changing programs at Fenway Health.
HackMIT is MIT’s headline hackathon, with over 1000 undergraduate attendees from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th, hackers collaborate and experiment on software and hardware projects. This is the weekend to meet other enthusiastic hackers, push your boundaries, and realize the projects of your dreams!
The Taste of Cambridge transforms University Park Common and Sidney Street into a Lush Haven for Gastronomical Exploration and Gustatory Indulgences of the highest order! Each year foodies descend upon the Taste of Cambridge to sample the delicious, creative, healthy and award-winning cuisine found in every square inch that comprises our fine and notable food-loving City! Our event is one of the great food sampling experiences in the region featuring 100+ local restaurants and local specialty butcher, cheese, honey, wine, beer, specialty drinks and coffee purveyors. Feel good for doing a great amount of good by buying a ticket to this benefit event and enjoy eat great foods in our gorgeous landscaped courtyard, featuring café seating, beer and wine gardens, celebrity DJ’s, live bands, and an opportunity to meet the non-profits who benefit directly from this exciting event. Each “Adult” ticket to the Taste of Cambridge includes four glasses of beer or wine from our beer gardens featuring Amstel, Harpoon, John Harvard’s Brew House, and a variety of other specially chosen beers and wines. The Taste of Cambridge (TOC), founded by the Cambridge License Advisory Board (CLAB), is produced by a dedicated CLAB volunteers. CLAB works year-round to prevent underage drinking and to educate and support liquor license holders in their efforts to prohibit sales to minors. The TOC, in addition to being an extraordinary gastronomic experience is also a charitable event! Our participating restaurants, sponsors, and volunteers present the best “Taste of” event to provide financial support to our beneficiaries!
Music | Art | Technology Together Boston is a week-long, city-wide convergence of music, art and technology. With daytime events celebrating emerging ideas, the latest gear and artistic innovation, the creative community then gives back at nighttime events that embrace aspects of all three fields. Featuring exhibits, Q&A with visiting artists and musicians plus a film component, Together contains a multitude of inclusive activities, putting the city and New England at the center of a new festival experience. The festival includes: * Night-time events schedule that showcases local, national and international electronic music talent *Daytime event schedule that includes discussion panels, technology demonstrations, art installations, a synth petting zoo, a STEAM disco, and a record fair
We are extremely grateful for the support of our Trek family. Join us June 24-26, 2016! 1, 2 & 3 day rides will be available. We'll also offer several shorter "family" ride distances. All participation supports ALS TDI's mission to end ALS. Please check www.tristatetrek.com for details.
Founded in 2011, MIT-CHIEF is a not-for-profit student group registered at MIT. Our mission is to promote intellectual exchange and collaboration between China and the U.S. in technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship. Our volunteers include passionate and dedicated individuals from both within and outside MIT. Our featured programs include China Trip, Business Plan Contest, and Annual Conference.
Our lab seeks to understand principles of brain organization, both those that are consistent across individuals and those that vary across people due to age, personality, and other dimensions of individuality. We examine brain-behavior relations across the life span, from children through the elderly.
This campaign recognizes those diagnosed with and affected by Lou Gehrig's disease before the age of 30. This group is supported by the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI), the world's largest and leading research center devoted to discovering and developing effective treatments and a cure for ALS.
Since 1999, the ALS Therapy Development Institute has been dedicated to research. Developed by a family member whose brother had ALS, the emphasis has been to work closely with patients and their families to raise valuable funds to help slow down and eventually cure ALS.
We are extremely grateful for the support of our Trek family. Join us June 24-26, 2016! 1, 2 & 3 day rides will be available. We'll also offer several shorter "family" ride distances. All participation supports ALS TDI's mission to end ALS. Please check www.tristatetrek.com for details.
The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT was launched in 2004 to empower this generation of creative scientists to transform medicine. The Broad Institute seeks to describe all the molecular components of life and their connections; discover the molecular basis of major human diseases; develop effective new approaches to diagnostics and therapeutics; and disseminate discoveries, tools, methods and data openly to the entire scientific community. Founded by MIT, Harvard and its affiliated hospitals, and the visionary Los Angeles philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad, the Broad Institute includes faculty, professional staff and students from throughout the MIT and Harvard biomedical research communities and beyond, with collaborations spanning over a hundred private and public institutions in more than 40 countries worldwide.
Event Details: Sunday, May 15, 2016 Technology Square Courtyard, Cambridge - 300-500 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 8:30am - Registration Opens 9:30am - Walkers and Wheelchair Riders take off 10:00am - 5K Road Race begins
Even though they often feel more like impossible challenges, the opportunities at MIT are endless. It’s on us to understand how to benefit from all MIT offers for ourselves and how to sustain this place for future students.
MIT Argentine Tango club is dedicated to promoting Argentine Tango to MIT Community, Boston Student community and in the Greater Boston Area in general. We offer classes, practice sessions (called "practicas"), introductory bootcamps, and workshop at prices discounted for MIT students and students in general.
Jerome H. Lemelson, one of U.S. history’s most prolific inventors, and his wife Dorothy founded the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. It is funded by The Lemelson Foundation and administered by the School of Engineering. The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives, by inspiring and enabling the next generation of inventors and invention based enterprises to promote economic growth in the US and social and economic progress for the poor in developing countries.
The MIT Assistive Technology Club is a community of people from MIT, the Boston area, and beyond that designs, develops, builds, and learns about assistive technology. We work collaboratively with people with disabilities in design and engineering courses, hackathons, and other events, with the goal of helping people live more independently or just be able to do something more easily.