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

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Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

A team from MIT D-Lab, including contributions from Prof. Dan Frey, and Kenyan community partner Solar Freeze celebrate the completion of the first solar-powered iteration of the forced-air evaporative cooling chamber.

Mechanical engineering with a twist: Pursuing a passion for robotics with customized major

Sharmi Shah ’23 pursued Course 2-A/6, a customizable degree path that combines mechanical engineering with computer science and electrical engineering.