Friday, May 3, 5:00-7:00 pm - D-Lab, MIT N51 3rd floor
Students from the eight Spring 2019 MIT D-Lab classes and an independent project presented posters and prototypes developed during the semester. Project teams were available for questions and feedback from other teams of D-Lab students as well as from guests!
The evening kicked off with a brief welcome and overview from Academic Program Manager Libby Hsu.
D-Lab: Design
Addresses problems faced by underserved communities with a focus on design, experimentation, and prototyping processes. Instructors: Jerome Arul & Sorin Grama
BENIN: Green Keeper
- Partner: Green Keeper
- Students: Riley Ennis, Kedi Hu, Rachel O'Grady, John Michael Reyes, Max Drake
INDIA: Graviky
- Partner: Graviky
- Students: Leah Pettit, Mary Dahl, Varsha Sridhar, Wendy Wang, Christopher Kiel
INDIA: LoadLifter
- Partner: LoadLifter
- Students: Hamilton Forsythe, Gabriel Scimeme, Kiara Wahnschafft, Aiden Foucault Etheridge, Shweta Aprameya (Listener)
GLOBAL: SurgiBbox
- Partner: SurgiBox
- Students: Sandra Walter, Emily Larabee, Brittany Sacks, Vanessa YiRan Li
MEXICO:
- Partner: Prothesia
- Students: Isabella Chiurillo, Naomi Dereje, Alexandra Shade, Chris Sacha, Luisa Apolaya
UGANDA: Raising Gabdho "
- Partner: Raising Gabdho
- Students: Peter Sudermann, Nathan Hernandez, Olivia Yao, Phoebe Piercy
D-Lab: Education & Learning
Explores learning in the international development context and how innovative approaches and researched best practices can overcome challenges such as limited resources, language barriers, large class sizes, and entrenched pedagogy. Instructor: Lisa Nam
COLOMBIA: Business Basics for Coffee Farmers
- Partner: De Finca
- Students: Pilar Cuesta, Jazib Zahir, Anna Wan, Vida Solorio-Fielder
GHANA: Teacher's Guide for Kinesthetic STEM Learning
- Partner: Practical Education Network
- Students: Amy Zhou, Olutosin Akinyode, Christina Okezie
THAILAND: Engineering and Sustainability for Rural Thai Youth
- Partner: Bangkok DISIL FabLab
- Students: Lena Zhu, Alia Rizvi, JoAnn Jung, Claudia Cabral
D-Lab: Field Research
Combines hands-on practice in a variety of essential skills needed to conduct quality field research with exploration of a set of questions that challenge practitioners, donors, policymakers, and researchers in international development. Instructor: Elizabeth Hoffecker
KENYA: Give Directly
- Partner: Give Directly
- Student: Debo Odunlami
SRI LANKA: Samurdhi Community Growth Program
- Student: Varsha Sridhar
RWANDA: Seven United
- Partner: Seven United
- Student: Ivraj Seerha
GHANA: PEN (Practical Education Network)
- Partner: Practical Education Network
- Student: Sandra Walter
D-Lab: Inclusive Economies
Explores the ideas behind, and actions toward, alternative economic systems aimed at reclaiming the power to control and build inclusive local and regional economies; secure rights to food, water, land, and healthy environments; build resilience; restore value systems; and ultimately improve quality of life. Instructors: Libby McDonald, Kate Mytty, Joost Bonsen
BRAZIL: Mapping Wastes Pickers in Sao Paulo
- Partner: Cooper Glicério, Cooper Mare
- Student: Cynthia Deng
GHANA: NeXT: A transformational social venture incubator
- Partner: Ashesi University
- Student: Aida El Kohen
NICARAGUA: Adapting to Climate Change and Improving Livelihoods for Smallholder Coffee Farmers
Introduction to Energy in Global Development
Offers a hands-on, project-based approach that engages students in understanding and addressing the applications of alternative energy technology in developing countries where compact, robust, low-cost systems for generating power are required. Instructors: Amit Gandhi, Dan Sweeney, Anish Paul Antony, Eric Verploegen
NEPAL & INDIA: Himalayan homes
- Partner: Kathmandu University
- Students: Gabriela Alvarez Perez, Suji Balfe, Caroline Boone
UGANDA: Cookstove liners
- Partner: Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies (AEST)
- Students: John Bond, Benjamin Boutboul, Allison Shepard
UGANDA & INDIA: Air filtration
- Partner: Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies (AEST)
- Students: Arnav Patel, Seeta Patel, Geneva Werner
D-Lab: Smallholder Agriculture
Explores the scientific basis and environmental impacts of agriculture, the dynamics of smallholder farming, social, and business systems, and the experiences of farmers themselves. Instructors: Gwyn Jones & Bob Nanes
TANZANIA: Avocado oil preservation
- Students: Natalie Northrup, Robert Powell, Vivian Zhong
MOROCCO: Drip irrigation in Morocco
- Student: Kenza M'Haimdat
KENYA: Kijani Demo Farm
- Students: Ngina Kariuki, Avril Kenney, Jordan Browne
US: Mapping Agriculture at MIT
- Student: Peter Orler
NEPAL: Low cost greenhouses
- Student: Matthew Baldwin
D-Lab: Water Climate Change & Health
By 2025, more than half of the countries in the world could be experiencing water stress or scarcity. Water stress and scarcity are exacerbated by climate change. This class is about real-world answers to climate change as it relates to water. Instructors: Susan Murcott & Julie Simpson
NEPAL: Educational Materials for E.coli Test Kit in Nepal
- Partner: EpoConcern
- Student: Riwaj Thapaliya
POLAND: Planet Warrior
- Partner: N/A
- Student: Alex Kozera
NEW ENGLAND, US: Seabin in New England
US: Pop-up Green Infractructure
- Partner: Trust for Public Land
- Students: Sabrina Mazer and Ngina Kariuki
20 COUNTRIES: 1001 Stories on Water and Climate Change
- Partners: Anna Chung, Samia Bouzid
- Students: Devi Lockwood and Jeff DelViscio
Humanitarian Innovation: Design for Relief, Recovery, and Rebuilding
Explores the role innovation can and does play in how humanitarian aid is provided, and how it can change people, products, and processes. Instructors: Amy Smith & Martha Thompson
Four groups of students are organized around different conflicts - Mali, Uganda/South Sudan, Syria/Greece, Bangladesh/Rohingya and Yemen. Each conflict group will set up a display with a poster that includes:
- background about the humanitarian setting
- an updated stakeholder map
- background information on a design for a lighting project for the camp
BANGLADESH
- Students: Roohi Abdullah, Ashley Beckwith, Mariam Dogar, Kimaya Lecamwasam, Afeefah Khazi-Syed
GREECE/SYRIA
- Students: Sally Beiruti, Dana Dabbousi, Riley Ennis, Flora Klise
MALI
- Students: Fidelia Gaba, Shruthi Venkata, Sandra Walter
UGANDA/SOUTH SUDAN
- Students: Hanna Kherzai, Megan Ochalek
YEMEN
- Students: Faran Haider, Tooba Shahid
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MIT D-Lab Spring 2019 Student Showcase Program
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Libby Hsu, Academic Program Manager and Lecturer