MIT IDEAS Competition: Empowering Innovations for Public Service
MIT IDEAS Competition fosters innovations with a community service focus, catalyzing projects through feedback, grants, and mentorship. Students drive real impact globally and locally, guided by high expectations and collaboration. Conceptual flexibility ensures adaptive models for success.
MIT IDEAS Competition: Empowering Innovations for Public Service
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Public Service Center Offerings Individual volunteering Group volunteering Grants IDEAS Competition Fellowships Service Learning Service UROP Community Service Work-Study iHouse
Aims • Educational depth and breadth • Real public service
Annual Student Participation 2500 working on US projects 250 working on international projects
Approach • Challenge • Trust • Support • Resource
MIT IDEAS Competition Innovation Development Enterprise Action Service
IDEAS Competition • Innovations with a community service focus • A third of projects catalyzed by IDEAS • Monthly initial proposal rounds: feedback, development grants = opportunities to test, refine • Community collaborations • Workshops and mentoring • External judges: innovation, feasibility, community impact • Celebration • Winners’ retreat • Ongoing communication/advice
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Sample Principles • High, realistic expectations for success • Student-led, student-owned projects • Appropriate screening and support systems • Real learning, real service, increased community capacity • Community collaboration and supervision • Communication and collective decision-making • Multiple opportunities, types of support • Conceptual flexibility: willingness to develop new models
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