tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/223617000 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/223596180 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/223576800 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/223557500 2009-06-16 16:12:52 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Katherine Clopeck SM '09 participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program. Kate followed-up on a project she began the summer of 2008 to bring safe drinking water to rural villages and also empower the women of the villages to take up an entrepreneurial role in selling clean water in Ghana. This past January, Independent Activities Period (IAP), Kate and her team assessed the success of their pilot project and investigated possibilities for expansion into new villages. 158 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/223530480 2009-06-17 10:00:10 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Yi Wang ’09 received an MIT Public Service Center Grant to work in a D-Lab team on improving the efficiency of the charcoal and briquette production in Lunsar, Sierra Leone and other rural villages. After numerous trials, she found that coconut shells produced the most charcoal, however, several factors need to be improved for their charcoal production to become more efficient. Yi also participated in the ReachOut program, a literacy tutoring program that matches MIT students with children at a local after school center. 92 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/223503020 2009-06-16 16:16:13 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Ting Shih SM '09 participated in the MIT Paul and Priscilla Gray Value-Added Internship program. Ting traveled to Botswana to implement the ClickDiagnostics telemedicine system she co-founded. The system connects community health workers to remote medical specialists for diagnosis and treatment advice. During the summer of 2009, she will be developing a series of new telemedicine applications on the Google Android G1 phone targeting HIV/AIDS staging and cervical cancer. The group will be setting up operations in Ghana and Uganda this summer. Find out more about Ting at http://www.clickdiagnostics.com/ 192 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/223482720 2009-06-16 16:14:47 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Sadik Antwi-Boampong ’09 participated in the MIT Public Service Fellowship program. Sadik established the Nsutaman Community Library, the only library in the town of Nsuta, Ghana. Sadik convinced Books for Africa to donate 7,000 books and two computers to the library. Next, he negotiated with a member of Parliament to donate and renovate a building to house the library. Sadik subsequently arranged for students at the nearby university to cover library shifts and build shelves. Sadik was anointed with the honorary title of Development Chief responsible for Student Affairs in January 2008 at the official opening of the library. 164 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/223460340 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/223440260 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 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/223421080 2009-06-16 16:15:25 -0400 MIT Public Service Center Videos Sherife Abdel Messih '09 founded SPARK!, which is an innovative youth leadership program whose aim is to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Egypt. The program is comprised of a leadership camp for top notch high school students and an entrepreneurship camp for advanced college students. 116