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Event Highlights
Saturday, November 7 -- Marine Corps Museum
Thursday, November 12 -- Robert Urban, MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Monday, November 16 -- Embassy of Israel -- FULL
Second Tuesdays, October through March -- Seminar Series -- Hand-held Communicators: The Defining Technology for the Twenty-first Century
Save the Date
The events listed below will graduate to the "Event Highlights" section above when details are finalized and registration opens.
Wednesday, January 6 -- MIT Professor Ernie Moniz
Thursday, March 25 -- Annual Career Workshop
White House Tour -- We have requested another ever-popular White House tour. As soon as we have a firm date, we'll update this web page and send an e-mail to area alums. To ensure that you receive the e-mail announcement, you must be registered on the Infinite Connection. If you aren't you should register for the Infinite Connection. Or if your e-mail address has changed you should update your Infinite Connection account.
Speaker Presentations
Thursday, October 19 --
Bill Bonvillian (PPT 7 MB)
Thursday, September 10 -- Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (PPT
2 MB)
Online Registration / Check Payments
NOTE: Online registration may be available for some events. You can also register for any event using the registration coupon on the event page. Please review our cancellation policy before registering. When registering for multiple events, please write a separate check for each. Also write a separate check for your dues.
Don't Miss Events -- Update Your Email Address
The scheduling of some events does not allow enough lead time to publicize in our print newsletter. For these events, we rely on email and this website. Unfortunately, as of November 3, 2008, 27% of area alums and 7% percent of Club members had not registered an email address with the MIT.
If you have not already done so, register now or update your info. Don't miss out on any of our outstanding events!
Join or Renew Your Membership Now for 2009-2010!
Become a member of the MIT Club of Washington today, and receive all of these great benefits:
- Reduced admission rates for Club events
- Participate with other MIT Alums in a variety of Club activities
- Help your Club by joining at the Partner or Patron level. Receive recognition in each newsletter, priority for admission to all Club events, and the satisfaction of helping to support your Club's activities. As a special thank you, Partners receive free admission to almost all Club events in return for their tremendous generosity.
Tell Me More! Read about the benefits of membership. Print out the mail-in membership form.
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Volunteer Opportunity:
MIT Educational Council
Would you like to be part of MIT's admissions process? Members of the MIT Educational Council (EC) interview freshman applicants and act as the face of MIT to applicants and their parents. The Washington, DC Metropolitan Area EC is led by Darryl M. Fraser (DMFraser@alum.mit.edu) and Leslye M. Fraser (LMFraser@alum.mit.edu), Regional Co-Chairs, who are assisted by four Vice-Chairs.
The Washington area depends on a large and vigorous group of volunteers to serve on the EC, given the large number of applicants we typically have each year from this area. Each of the local counties needs new EC's. EC's generally are assigned to one or more schools based on where they reside. If you'd like to be part of this very important Institute program, please contact the EC Vice-Chair for the county or area in which you reside.
| Area | EC Vice-Chair |
|---|---|
| Washington, DC Metropolitan Area | Darryl & Leslye Fraser 240-499-8234 DMFraser@alum.mit.edu LMFraser@alum.mit.edu |
| Montgomery County | Jean Paskowitz 301-294-3114 jean.paskowitz@alum.mit.edu |
| Prince George's County | Deborah Amato 301-854-9922 debo@alum.mit.edu |
| Washington, DC | Dean Phillips 202-543-8345 ext. 248 Dean.Phillips@aristotle.com |
| Northern Virginia | Heather Cogdell 571-748-9101 hcogdell@verizon.net |
Volunteer Opportunity:
Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program
MIT's Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program is actively seeking employers, mentors, and seminar speakers. Learn how you can get involved now!
MIT Club of Washington Scholarship Fund
Thanks to all the members who have made contributions to the Club of Washington Scholarship Fund. You have another opportunity to do so with this year's dues payment, either by check or online via SmarTrans.
We have one of the highest scholarship funds of any MIT Club in the world. As of June 30, 2008 the book value of the Scholarship was $273,431--this is the actual amount given by the Club/members to this scholarship, and the market value was $735,108. Your scholarship donation helps MIT educate the best and the brightest from the Greater Washington DC area.
For 2008-2009, the fund is supporting two students.
Eletha J. Flores, Class of 20 I 0
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Springdale, MD
Eletha J. Flores continues as a MIT Club of Washington Scholar. Last Spring, she participated in a UROP in the Lab for Electromagnetics and Electronic Systems researching ultra capacitors and energy efficiency. During the summer, she took a position in Spain at Fatronik, where she worked on developing a robotic system to aid in post-stroke rehabilitation. At MIT, she is engaged in various community service groups, including a Latino cultural group, with which she traveled to Mexico for service at an orphanage. She resides in Spanish House and is involved with the living group, LuChA (La Union Chicana por Aztlan). Eletha's hobbies include robotics to advance healthcare, as well as teaching, traveling and learning new cultures. She is very interested in artificial intelligence and wants to further her skills in robotics to help the injured and elderly in rehabilitation. Her career objectives are to teach or to work in research and development.
Dai Minh H. Phan, Class of 2011
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Washington, DC
Dai Minh H. Phan continues as an MIT Club of Washington Scholar. During the past summer, he worked in the IT department of Asian American LEAD (Leadership, Empowerment and Development), a small non-profit in Washington DC. While a student at MIT last year, he participated in intramural hockey, basketball and football, and volunteers by reading to kids with Phi Sigma Kappa at Blackstone Elementary School. His hobbies include cycling and break-dancing. Dai Minh's career objective is to be a software programmer/engineer, and to own a business.
