Postdoc Mentors for MIT+K12 STEM Videos: Lunch on 1/7 at 1:00 in 1-214

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

forwarded from Rebecca Fearing:

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Dear Postdocs,

  I'd like to invite you to lunch on January 7th at 1:00 in 1-214 to 
discuss the MIT+K12 video project.  In 2012, an incredible group of your 
colleagues played an instrumental role in helping MIT in an online 
educational collaboration with the Khan Academy.  MIT graduate and 
undergraduate students are making hands-on, experimental videos to help 
inspire and educate K-12 students in Science, Technology, Engineering 
and Math (STEM) fields.  We are looking for some more post-docs to 
mentor teams of MIT students to ensure high quality, accurate content in 
their videos which are primarily geared towards a middle school 
audience.   To learn more about the project, please visit our website: 
http://k12videos.mit.edu/; our video collection has over 270,000 views.

We are accepting 20-30 more teams of students to make videos due in late 
January.  We will require the teams to have a meeting with their postdoc 
before they film with the intent of getting the technical content right 
the first time.  On Monday, January 7th at 1:00 in 1-214, I'd like to 
offer you lunch to discuss the program.  	

If you are interested in attending lunch, please RSVP using this URL: 
http://doodle.com/nceqv94g9rhkbg6c  	
If you are interested in volunteering, please let me know via this URL: 
http://tinyurl.com/cjc5586

We are incredibly thankful for the engagement of the post doctoral 
community in these efforts and look forward to seeing you next week.

Sincerely,
Becky

Rebecca Fearing
Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Initiatives, MIT School of 
Engineering
Executive Director, Transportation at MIT Initiative
fearing at mit.edu