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Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi finds inspiration while downhill biking at Highland Mountain Bike Park in New Hampshire.

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Tabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible

Undergraduate students from Tecnológico de Monterrey have been learning how to build low-cost fiber-extrusion devices alongside their MIT peers in an immersive practicum at MIT featuring desktop fiber-extrusion devices.

MIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School

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Chief Technology Officer, Cummins

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Nicholas Mabey

Enacting Change Through Policy

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T.K. Pillan

Founder of Veggie Grill

[ SB '90 ]

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Tabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible

MIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School

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