[Bioundgrd] Fwd: Public Service Fellowships opportunity

[Janice Chang]

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>MIT Public Service Fellows are PAID to work on great projects that 
>help under-served communities!
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>Hear what the 2004 Summer Fellows got up to over the break, and 
>learn about YOUR Fellowship opportunities for IAP. Come to the 
>Fellowship Presentations from 7:00-9:00 pm in room 4-231 
>(refreshments will be served).
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>September 15
>Working With Schools
>--David Bermejo established a college-visitation program for his 
>largely Hispanic high school in Illinois.
>--Kathy Lin worked to establish the newest charter school in Cambridge.
>--James Smith worked with an architect to research and design a 
>school and living quarters for Jamaican orphans.
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>September 22
>Building Organizations Overseas
>--Monica Lewis spent her summer in India helping students at an 
>Indian technical university establish a club that will enable them 
>to serve their local communities through their engineering skills.
>--Neil Ruiz and Johanna Klein established PESO, a business plan 
>competition designed to foster entrepreneurship to stimulate the 
>Philippine economy.
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>September 29
>Serving International Needs
>--Elizabeth Basha worked with a technical center in Honduras to help 
>develop an early flood-warning system.
>--Evan Freund worked with a Sri Lankan environmental organization to 
>develop better local understanding of the ways that tourism affects 
>the environment and techniques for mediating the impact
>--Andrea McCarty spent the summer at the Cinemathique Africaine in 
>Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Africa, working to preserve films that 
>represent Africa's cultural heritage.
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>October 6
>Developing Children's Programs
>--Monique Lowery developed a computer literacy program at the Harlem YMCA.
>--Kimberley Harrison taught kite flying and helped minority youth 
>experience other creative processes at the Cambridge Arts Center.
>--Asia Price helped to develop new literacy programs for the 
>Providence libraries.
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>What will YOU do?
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>Without the PSC Fellowship program, I would likely have worked in 
>corporate America for the summer, instead of having an eye-opening 
>experience of a lifetime. 2004 Summer Fellow
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>Dr. Alison Hynd
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>Public Service Fellowships Program,
>MIT room 7-133,
>77 Massachusetts Avenue,
>Cambridge, MA 02139
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>617 258 0691 ug