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Community involvement 2010 - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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Saturday Engineering and Enrichment<br />

discovery (SEEd) Academy<br />

the SeeD Academy is a seven-semester technical<br />

career-exploration program for promising but traditionally<br />

under-served high-school students in Boston, lawrence,<br />

and Cambridge. lincoln laboratory<br />

• Sponsored an aeronautics/astrophysics course<br />

• Provided presentations and tours of laboratory<br />

facilities<br />

<strong>MIT</strong> Science of Baseball Program (MSBP)<br />

this four-week summer program for 8th grade boys from<br />

Boston, lawrence, and Cambridge featured an integrated<br />

academic and athletic curriculum to channel the students’<br />

enthusiasm for baseball into a renewed excitement for and<br />

increased proficiency in the math, science, and culture behind<br />

the game. lincoln laboratory’s <strong>involvement</strong> in this program<br />

consisted of<br />

• Partial sponsorship of one local middle-school student<br />

• Presentations and tours of laboratory facilities<br />

• Challenging the students to a softball game<br />

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e D u C At i o n A l O U T R E A C H

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