tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185612220 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/185591320 2009-01-13 10:29:13 -0500 MIT Museum Visit the MIT Museum where historic robots, dazzling holograms and kinetic sculpture are showcased in an intimate museum setting. Meet the people behind the exhibits - curators and Museum Director John Durant. Learn about the new Innovation Gallery, the Cambridge Science Festival and all that draws people from around the world to this unique museum located on Massachusetts Avenue on the northern edge of the MIT campus. 512 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185563760 2009-06-16 16:13:54 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Mario Bollini ’09 Course 2 participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program, the MIT IDEAS Competition, and in the service learning class, SP. 784, Wheelchair Design for the Developing World. Mario helped design the Figure-Eight drive train, a multi-geared system for mobility-impaired handcycle users that allows them to switch between two gear ratios when traversing various types of terrain in Kenya. Mario was also part of the IDEAS Team, Leveraged Freedom Chair, which received the International Technology Award in 2008 for their design of a wheelchair that can be used indoors and then switched over to lever-powered mode for more efficiency over rugged terrain. 120 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185515340 2009-06-18 16:33:04 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Scot Frank ’09 participated in the Public Service Fellowship program, the MIT IDEAS Competition, and Student Leaders in Service. Scot was also part of the 2008 IDEAS Team, SolSource Project, which received the Yunus Challenge Award for their innovative design of a solar cooker intended to withstand high winds on the plateau of Western China while remaining light enough to be portable. In 2009, Scot was a member of two award winning IDEAS teams, Global Citizen Water Initiative and Heat Source Textiles. 166 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185493880 2009-07-08 16:17:22 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Zehra Ali (G Course 4) is a co-founder of Ghonsla, a developer, producer, and installer of renewable insulation for low-income housing in Northern Pakistan. Zehra and the rest of her Ghonsla team members, Emmanuel Arnaud, Mubarik Imam, and Monica Le, won an IDEAS Competition award in 2008 for their high quality and affordable housing insulation made from agricultural and urban waste. By improving home energy efficiency and thermal comfort, Ghonsla hopes to reduce indoor air pollution, prevent deforestation, and increase disposable income in poor communities. 92 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185473220 2009-07-09 12:31:05 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Tish Scolnik ('10 Course 2) is a co-inventor of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, a lever-powered wheelchair to assist in the ease of wheelchair travel in developing countries. Tish and her team of fellow inventors won a 2008 IDEAS Competition Award for their design of the Leveraged Freedom Chair. While taking the service learning course "Wheelchair Design for Developing Countries" in her freshman year, Tish was inspired to make a difference in the lives of the physically challenged. She has traveled to Tanzania several times after receiving Public Service Fellowships from the PSC to implement another one of her ideas of a small-business wheelchair, in which the physically disabled are given the opportunity to operate businesses from their wheelchair. In addition to her work on wheelchair design, she has received a Truman Scholarship, one of 60 juniors in the nation, to continue her work in public service. 58 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185449040 2009-07-10 11:01:07 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Scot Frank is a co-inventor of SolSource, a portable solar concentrator that can be used for heating the home, cooking and electricity generation. It was created to withstand the high winds of remote mountainous regions. Scot Frank and fellow teammates of SolSource Tibet received an IDEAS Award from the MIT IDEAS Competition in 2008 for their innovative design of the solar concentrator. In 2009, Scot found himself on two IDEAS teams, HeatSource and Global Citizen Water Initiative, in which both teams received awards to continue their work and implementation of their ideas. Scot has also received two other Public Service Fellowships that helped to inform his project work in solar and heat energy and water quality issues. 37 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185400220 2009-10-05 15:02:06 -0400 MIT News Office <p>Karina Pikhart '09 and classmates designed a machine to make braille labels.</p> <p>Video: Melanie Gonick<br>Still images: Karina Pikhart</p> 200 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185321040 2009-10-05 15:04:03 -0400 MIT News Office <p>Karina Pikhart, BS '09, demonstrates the 6-dot braille labelmaker.</p> <p>Video: Melanie Gonick</p> 0