Boston Latin School students use MIT Splash as model for “Kaleidoscope”
When Emily Chang, a high school student at Boston Latin School, attended MIT's Splash last November, she asked Learning Unlimited CEO Dan Zaharopol how she could bring the program back to her high school to unite younger students.
"Too often, I think, we choose to self-segregate based on interest and background," Chang said. "Splash had the ability to break down barriers and get really different people talking and learning from each other."
Zaharopol connected her with three leaders from MIT Splash, who advised Chang and her classmates about recruiting volunteers, finding lunch sponsors, and acquiring cost-effective classroom materials.
"I loved seeing high school students take ownership of a program," said MIT Splash leader and adviser Michele Pratusevich. "They learned that it’s not so hard to run an effective program. They’re high school students, but they made a big difference."
Over 150 students from select middle schools attended Kaleidoscope last May; Chang and her classmates intend to host another program this spring.
LU Announces Parents' Programs Coming This Spring
- March 10, MIT Spark.
- April 21-22, Stanford Splash: Details will be posted in mid-March at www.learningu.org/parents
Daniel Ramirez-Raftree in The Globalization of Capoeira: How an Underground Martial Art Spread to the World, a class at the University of Chicago's Winter Cascade 2012. Photo by Seong-Ah Cho. Check out more photos from Splash programs on our Facebook page.
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Upcoming Programs
March 3 - Splash at Babson College, Wellesley, MA.
March 3 - STING (Splash for middle school students) at Granite Hills High School, El Cajon, CA. $10.
March 10 - Spark at MIT, Cambridge, MA. $30, fee waivers available.
March 10 - Splash at UMBC, Baltimore, MD. $10, fee waivers available.
March 24 - Splash at Yale University, New Haven, CT.
March 31 - Splash at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
April 1 - Splash at Boston College, Boston, MA.
April 21 - Splash at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
April 21-22 - Splash at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. $40, fee waivers available.
April 28 - cSplash at New York University, New York, NY.
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-- Asked in "How do people make decisions?" at Duke Splash, February 2011.
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