The Public Interest Technology University Network reached out to students from the Social Impact Internships and Employment Program at MIT’s Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center, which connects undergraduate students with internships for challenging opportunities that yield significant community impact, to hear firsthand how students can engage PIT.
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Howard University graduate student fellow, Dana McCalla, reflects on her work generating case studies for pitcases.org amidst campus closures and a national quarantine and overcoming challenges convincing faculty that their course was in fact a PIT project.
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Impactful, a job board and community for social impact technology, founders discuss the results of its PIT student job landscape study and highlight key takeaways for PIT job seekers.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer science and biology student Mercy Oladipo explores why her interests keep leading her to a PIT path and discusses her latest project, Birth By Us, a platforme geared at helping Black women find safer birthing options.
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In 2019, Miami Dade College launched GISEC, a three-pronged approach to address underrepresentation in GIS and to enhance technological applications of public interest with an emphasis on environmental hazards awareness and community engagement in Miami-Dade County, a minority-majority urban area significantly impacted by, and at ongoing risk for, natural disasters.
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