tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185572900 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/185516800 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/185496100 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/185464780 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/185443720 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/185398780 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/185376660 2009-04-21 11:54:19 -0400 New Media Literacies What tensions arise when a big game is played in a shared public space? 173 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/185354500 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/185334580 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/185295100 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