MIT Seeding Public Service in Tech: MIT Social Impact Internships

The PKG Center’s Social Impact Internship program pairs highly-skilled MIT undergraduates with nonprofit and government agencies to bolster agencies’ technical capacities while immersing students in critical social issues. The MIT PKG Public Service Center’s Social Impact Internship program pairs highly-skilled MIT undergraduates with nonprofit and government agencies to build capacity and bolster the technical capabilities of these agencies while engaging students in challenging social impact issues in real-world settings. Thanks to a $90,000 grant from PIT-UN, we were able to strengthen the program’s focus on public interest technology by building partnerships with new social impact organizations and directly funding stipends for 16 undergraduate students to collaborate with those agencies on tech-centered projects. The funding also helped us to institutionalize the program at MIT and make the case for student demand for career development in social interest technology.
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Date:
2021-04
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Institution:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Funding Source:
Network Challenge Grant 2
Subjects:
public interest technology, PIT, Internship, justice social, nonprofit, Civic Technology, Curriculum, Internship, International, engineering, computer science education

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Industry Sector:
Public Interest Technology -- Cybersecurity -- Workforce
Occupation:
Computer and Mathematical Occupations (15-0000)

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academic year
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