Events
MIT Summer Bhangra – open lessons for all members of MIT and the Boston Community.
This year we will host 3 Free Open Lessons starting on the 11th of June.
*June 11th 8-10pm Lobdell on the 2nd floor of the MIT Student Center
*June 15th 2-4pm La Sala on the 2nd floor of the MIT Student Center
*June 18th 8-10pm Lobdell on the 2nd floor of the MIT Student Center
After that we will start practices on Wednesdays 8-10 pm and Sundays 2-4 pm. We will email specific locations for these practices. The summer will end with a performance at Indian Association of Greater Boston India Day on the 17th of August!
If you decide to stay with us this summer there will be a $15 dollar charge (to cover administrative fees) for the rest of the summers lessons and a small costume rental fee ( approx $10) for the Performance at the Hatch Shell.
If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me at sarika@mit.edu
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Opportunity to work in Mumbai this summer on 100K Competition Project – CircleCapital.
Funding available (quick turnaround) for Mumbai this summer to cover airfare and room/board to work on 100K project, CircleCapital, which came out of the Media Lab Developmental Entrepreneurship class in Fall 2007.
Regquirements: US Citizen (this is a requirement), Current MIT Grad Student (can be graduating), Willing to commit to 10 weeks (dates are flexible)
We will be building a new financial product for a microfinance organization in Mumbai that includes proving our concept, testing our marketing plan, and building an on-the-ground team to whom we can transfer the execution of the pilot project.
We are a 100K semifinalist team, and the organizations we'll be working with are Swadhaar FinAcess (www.swadhaar.org), and IIT Mumbai (likely the School of Management, http://www.som.iitb.ac.in/).
Interested students should contact me, Anjuli Gupta, at anjuli.gupta@sloan.mit.edu. Dates are June 23rd – August 29th (negotiable).
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Kissing Cousins Movie is coming to Boston!
SUNDAY, JUNE 8TH @ 6PM
Boston Int'l Film Fest
Session #11
AMC Loews Cinemas
175 Tremont St.
Boston Commons
www.bifilmfestival.com
Click Here to Buy Tix
or call: 1.866.468.7619
www.kissingcousinsmovie.com
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Unique summer job opportunity to work with one of India’s largest and most innovative microfinance institutions.
Company: SHARE Microfin (http://www.sharemicrofin.com/) is a leading microfinance institution in India, which serves 1.3 million rural poor women across 10 states. It has 2300+ staff and a total outstanding loan portfolio that exceeds US $148 million.
Position: SHARE is seeking two students with Management Information Systems (MIS) and connectivity expertise to work on streamlining and enhancing branch coordination and operations. Special consideration will be given to applicants with technological and financial experience.
Location: India
Duration: 6-8 weeks
Compensation: Based on qualifications
If interested, please send your CV and a cover letter to: share.microfin.internships@gmail.com
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MIT Students needed to help record math videos in Hindu/Urdu (or other languages) for a Non-Profit.
Hi,
I run a not-for-profit organization developing free educational content/software (khancademy.org). We've developed a fairly comprehensive collection of math/physics videos in English (http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy) which we are adding to regularly.
We have been approached by DIL (http://www.dil.org/DIL/html/index.htm) which runs several hundred schools in rural Pakistan to see if our content could be used by their students/teachers. It is difficult to find instructors with even basic math skills in many villages and the videos could be a scalable, economic way to teach both students and teachers. I would do the videos myself, but I cannot speak Hindi/Urdu without making people laugh (I am Bengali and was born in New Orleans so I deserve some credit for even being able to understand Hindi movies). We would make the videos freely available (on DVDs and YouTube) so they could be used anywhere.
I am contacting you all to see if there is any interest from MIT students to volunteer to help record math videos in Hindi/Urdu (or other languages). They would be done in the same style as our videos (http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy), just not in English. As a former SAAS co-president (1996-1997), I think this could be a very high impact way for students to give back to the subcontinent (and become minor celebrities). I even see the potential of starting a more general student group at MIT that does this in all languages (Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic are the next obvious languages).
Anyone interested can contact me directly.
Regards,
Salman Khan
(MIT Class of 1998)
sal@khancapital.com
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Amra Kojon
Amra Kojon (Meaning "a few of us" in Bengali) is a cultural group of around 200 music enthusiasts from Boston, MA, that will be presenting a unique blend of Bengali songs, and dances to celebrate is fifth anniversary along with Bengali New Year 1415.
Students from various institutions from the New England area such as Harvard, MIT, BU, UMass just to name a few, are taking part in this musical journey. Our show "Nostalgic Tunes from the Silver Screen", hosted by the Bangladesh Students Association-MIT is designed to honor the Bengali movie classics that our previous generations grew up cherishing. Please share our flyer, press release and ticket information with your students and join us in making a new musical history.
Date: Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Venue:
MIT, Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=W16
Accessible by public transportation. Ample street parking available.
Time:
Exhibition: 3:00pm – 5:45pm
Musical Show: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Tickets: $10.00
Pusha Karim
www.amrakojon.org
http://amrakojon.blogspot.com/
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Summer 2008 UROP at the Media Lab
Are you interested in BUSINESS? Are you interested in INDIA?
The Media Lab is looking for UROPs to work on a business development project this Summer. Please contact us for more details.
Pre-requisites:
- Experience or strong interest in market research, business development.
- Excellent analytical skills, creative ability, high degree of initiative and self-motivation.
- Familiarity with the Indian market is a plus.
Contact: Mihir Sarkar (mihir@media.mit.edu).
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IDI Fellowship – Summer 2008 – L-RAMP/Chennai, India
Fellowship Description
"Before innovations can touch lives, you have to breathe life into them"…such is the guiding philosophy of the Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Programme (L-RAMP) based in Chennai, India. L-RAMP brings together the technological expertise of IIT, Madras (IIT-M), and the business incubation expertise of Rural Innovations Network (RIN), with the support of The Lemelson Foundation, an American philanthropy that works with a vision to improve lives through invention.
The International Development Initiative (IDI) at MIT is forming a collaboration with L-RAMP centers in India, Peru and Indonesia. The first collaboration will be with the L-RAMP in Chennai (Madras), India. IDI is seeking an MIT student Fellow to develop this collaboration in Chennai and in rural areas of Tamil Nadu for four to ten weeks over the summer (timing is flexible). Specifically, the Fellow will:
1. Learn about the context of Chennai and Tamil Nadu, including economic situations, materials resources, funding opportunities, and market factors for rural innovations;
2. Research intellectual property rights, patents, and other legal issues in the US and India;
3. Work with RAMP staff on market positioning or other areas of interest to the RAMP center;
4. Investigate possible modes of dissemination of MIT and RAMP innovations;
5. Recommend areas for future collaborations between MIT students, RAMP, and local innovators (as well as other potential areas for further MIT collaboration);
Deliverables
§ Recommendations for future collaborations (shared with RAMP and IDI)
§ Presentation of findings to RAMP staff at the end of the fellowship
§ A short report (approximately 10 pages) to IDI on findings
Critical skills / qualification required
Strong analytical skills and interest in management. Demonstrated research experience and ability for independent work.
Language
English and Tamil (preferred, but not necessary)
Budget
Fellows will be funded for up to 400 hours work (any additional hours will be considered voluntary.) IDI will purchase or reimburse for an economically-priced plane ticket to India, plus a stipend of $10 an hour for the portions of the agreed work carried out at MIT and in India.
For further information, see: http://www.lramp.org and http://www.rinovations.org
Please submit your CV and a cover letter to Laura Sampath (IDI) lsampath@mit.edu describing your interest in the fellowship, qualifications and availability over the summer.
Deadline: Rolling until the position is filled (get your application in soon!)
Finalists will also have an interview with IDI staff.
Contact Laura Sampath (lsampath@mit.edu) with questions.
