three main areas of interest:

Category Breakdown

To help you get your creative juices flowing, the team gathered some problems brought up in last year's challenge below.

Live

• Physical spaces
  • Eco responsibility
    • Recycling
    • Power/resources consumption
  • Accessibility
  • Connecting Spaces (fight isolation)
  • Food
    • Food security
    • Food options
  • Safety
  • Organization
  • transportation
  • Social Spaces
  • Sharing space and scheduling
  • Quiet spaces and solace
• Navigating MIT/finding way around
• Connecting to spaces in boston
• Guides to living under different circumstances
  • ex. eating/cooking on a tight budget

Learn

• Scheduling
• Support services
  • Tutoring
  • Pset buddy finding / connections
  • Supplemental resources
• Majors and Requirements
• Information density
• Establishing relationships with faculty
• ASEs
• Organizational tools for material
  • archiving old subjects
• Creating/self-teaching
  • Maker spaces
  • Online course support
• Establishing relationship with alumni
  • Learning about non-traditional career paths

Connect

• Mental health Problem categories/awareness
  • Imposter Syndrome/Acclimating
  • Meeting new people
  • Depression
  • Peer pressure
  • Other external pressures?
  • Sexual Assault/Title 9
    • Survivors guilt
    • Destigmatizing
    • Rehabilitation and reintegration
• Virtual spaces
• Cyber Bullying/support
• Support for Social movements
• Identity formation and groups
• Meeting new and like minded people
• Meeting students around boston
• Connecting across groups in the MIT community
  • student/alumni
  • student/staff
  • staff/faculty etc.
• Connecting students to relevant jobs/service opportunities (impact + skill match)