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This summer, the Personal Robots research group and MIT RAISE collaborated with the Cambridge Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP) to create a STEAM-focused learning site, bringing 11 local high schoolers to MIT to learn coding skills through the lens of Data Activism. Raechel Walker, a research assistant in the Personal Robots group who proposed the Data Activism curriculum, says, "I wanted students to feel empowered to incorporate their own expertise, talents, and interests into every activity. In order for students to fully embrace their academic abilities, they must remain comfortable with bringing their full selves into data activism.” Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2022/empowering-cambridge-youth-through-data-activism-0921 or link in profile. Photos by Katherine Ouellette Images: 1–2. Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui visits the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP) learning site at MIT while students worked on T-shirts that imagined how data science could be used to support marginalized communities. Left to right: Yusuf Solomon, Zeynep Yalcin, Olivia Dias, Raechel Walker, Cynthia Breazeal, Siddiqui, Jacob G., Jacob T., Lisa, Jesmin, Nina, Kiki, and Neko. 3. MSYEP instructor Raechel Walker (left) shares some student projects created using the Data Activism curriculum with Mayor Siddiqui and Professor Breazeal. 4. Student Jesmin talks to Mayor Siddiqui, while Jacob T. has a conversation with Professor Breazeal. 5–6. Left to right: Matt Taylor, Nina, Lisa, Jacob T., Jesmin, and Olivia Dias. The four Cambridge high school students consider where to add their own stamps to a group T-shirt. 7. Student Kiki, who wants to see more women pursue STEM fields for their careers, works on a rubber block stamp. 8. A rubber block stamp and printed T-shirt of former President Obama created by Cambridge Rindge and Latin School student Lisa.
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