[Gsc-anno] getfit@mit, Lemelson-MIT Prize, UNICEF Internships (11DEC06)

[GSC Secretary]

************************** GSC ANNOUNCEMENTS *************************
more extensive annoucements online: http://gsc.mit.edu
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headlines (details below):

1. getfit at mit Fitness Challenge
Sign-up by last week of December

2. $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Application deadline Friday, January 12, 2007

3. UNICEF Summer Internships
Application deadline December 31, 2006

details:
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*getfit at mit Fitness Challenge*

We are writing to urge you to let the graduate students in your
departments and living groups know about getfit at mit, the Institute’s
annual fitness challenge that begins in January.

The central goal of getfit at mit is to foster a healthier MIT community.
Participants are urged to exercise at least 150 minutes during the first
week (equivalent to 30 minutes a day, five days a week), working up to
300 total minutes of exercise per week during the last few weeks of the
challenge. Everyone who registers gets a free tee-shirt, and all
participants will have opportunities to participate in special events
and win weekly team and individual prizes, including gift certificates
to sporting goods stores and restaurants and fitness-related prizes such
as pedometers, dance lessons, and passes to ski areas and skating rinks.
The grand prize will be awarded to a team drawn at random from among all
teams meeting a minimum exercise goal.

Starting at the end of December, teams of five to eight members can sign
up online at http://getfit.mit.edu. A kick-off event will be held in
Lobby 10 at noon on January 11, 2006, and the challenge will begin on
January 22.

Contact Lauren Rosano (rosa at med.mit.edu) or Katherine Wahl
(wahl at med.mit.edu) at MIT Medical.

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*$30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize*

The Lemelson-MIT Program is now accepting applications for the $30,000
Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. MIT graduate students and graduating seniors
who have created or improved a product or process, applied a technology
in a new way, redesigned a new system, or otherwise demonstrated
remarkable inventiveness are eligible.

The $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is designed to help burgeoning
inventors continue to pursue creative solutions to today’s problems and
innovative technologies for tomorrow.

Application deadline is Friday, January 12, 2007. Promising young
inventors at MIT can apply online at
http://mit.edu/invent/a-student.html.

Questions: Contact Ingrid Dudek, Lemelson-MIT Program Officer at
idudek at mit.edu or (617) 253-3490.

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*UNICEF Summer Internships*

UNICEF India Country Office invites applications for a full-time India
Internship programme from 4 June to 10 August 2007.

The internship offers an opportunity for analysis, research and
documentation (written and film) of field level interventions for
children in India across a variety of areas: child protection, health,
nutrition, education, HIV/AIDS, and water and sanitation. The assignment
will involve a combination of desk research and field work at the
district or village level, with interns being grouped into teams that
are based in state capitals and work under the supervision of selected
research institutions/non-governmental organisations.

Interested and eligible students should download application from 
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_forms.html (titled
“Application for offices outside New York”). Further details are
available on the UNICEF India website http://www.unicef.org/india and
the KCCI website http://www.kcci.in.

Completed applications should be sent to indiahr at unicef.org no later
than December 31, 2006.

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-- 
Obrad R. Scepanovic
GSC Secretary 2006-2007
gsc-secretary at mit.edu