MIT Terrascope and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University: Collaboration

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Collaboration

MIT and NMMU students are working on flooding and other water issues in informal settlements around the Missionvale campus of NMMU. Yesterday morning, before the debate, students from both schools worked on the projects together. Vicki McKenna tooks some pictures of the students working together.

All photographs are by Vicki McKenna.

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About Terrascope

Terrascope is a learning program for MIT freshmen that begins each year with a class (12.000 or Mission 20XX) devoted to understanding and proposing solutions to a complex problem related to Earth’s environment and sustainability. This year in Mission 2017 freshmen were challenged to develop a plan to ensure that all nations have access to clean fresh water. Students researched the problem in the fall semester and developed a series of possible solutions. Their ideas were presented in a public forum, and critiqued by a panel of experts. They also produced a website with comprehensive information on the plan. The field visit to South Africa enables students to extend their learning in Mission by gaining first hand experience with many of the issues they identified during the semester as critical to equitable access to sources of clean water. The boots on the ground view of the problem will be quite different from that in Cambridge, MA.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Collaboration

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