tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/234199440 2008-07-21 17:46:57 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos <span>An introduction to Sacha Yaku and its work on the potable water system of an indigenous community in Ecuador. Sacha Yaku is now starting an "Art for Water" program to tell the story of Santa Ana in the United States and by selling traditional jewelry and pottery to raise money for the water system. The program was started by a pair of MIT undergraduates in 2006 (Froylan Sifuentes ChemE '09 and Kendra Johnson 1E '09). </span> 461 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/234171140 2008-07-16 10:18:09 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Tess Veuthy ('08) and Maria Luckyanova ('08) discuss their non-profit organization, Developing World Prosthetics, and their work in India with the Jaipur Foot Organization. Their team, Vac-Cast Prosthetics, now called Developing World Prosthetics, won the 2006-2007 MIT IDEAS Competition. 154 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/234117140 2008-07-09 16:38:48 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Kathleen Cui ('08) discusses her role in Team Treatment Buddies (TTB), a 2006-2007 IDEAS Competition winning team. 131 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/235082120 2008-07-15 16:03:23 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Daniel Mokrauer-Madden ('08) talks about participating in the annual CityDays, the MIT IDEAS Competition, winning the Priscilla King Gray Award, and more. 117 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/235053360 2008-07-09 16:42:00 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Laura Martini ('08) talks about service learning classes, 2.00B and 2.009, and her plans for the future. 116 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/235024940 2008-07-16 10:02:55 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Phi Ho ('08) discusses his work with The Global Child in Cambodia while on a Public Service Fellowship. 32 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/234991700 2008-12-29 11:51:32 -0500 MIT Public Service Center Videos A group of about 14 MIT students received a travel grant from the Public Service Center to help fund their trip to Louisiana during Spring Break of 2008. Through Habitat for Humanity they helped to build homes for the residents of Bogalusa who lost everything to Hurricane Katrina. 173 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/234957700 2009-01-22 14:33:32 -0500 MIT Public Service Center Videos The MIT Public Service Center enables students to collaborate with communities anywhere in the world, and to work on issues that affect the planet. From coral reef regeneration to energy resources to medical technologies to new science programs for schools, MIT students gain confidence, competence, knowledge, and experience that enables them to recognize their place as leaders of positive change. 215 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/234924520 2009-01-22 15:20:54 -0500 MIT Public Service Center Videos Honoring Priscilla King Gray, co-founder of the MIT Public Service Center. Commentary provided by President Hockfield, Priscilla and Paul Gray, and MIT faculty, administrators, and students. 526 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/234881880 2009-06-16 16:12:08 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Alia Whitney-Johnson ’09, participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program and Student Leaders in Service program, part of Americorps. Alia founded Emerge Global to help empower young girls and women through jewelry making, and provide them with the skills necessary to become confident, respected, self-reliant members of society in the wake of the tsunami in 2004 and general disrespect of women in Sri Lanka. Alia has received a Truman Scholarship and a Rhodes Scholarship. 127