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Welcome to MIT, First Years! We invite you to drop in this Thursday afternoon during First Year Explorations to experience the fun that is the Edgerton Center. We were a Makerspace before there were Makerspaces!

🪩 Join our collaborative mosaic with your own laser cut tile, and explore the tools, materials, and community available to you in our Student Project Lab 4-409
🎈 Freeze a balloon mid-pop with an Edgerton Center specialty: strobe photography!
🎨 Expand your spontaneity, pursue your curiosity, and seek new patterns through the art of marbling

🗓️ August 28th, 2025
⏰ Drop in any time between 1 PM - 4 PM
📍 Strobe Alley - 4th Floor, Building 4

#aroundMIT

Welcome to MIT, First Years! We invite you to drop in this Thursday afternoon during First Year Explorations to experience the fun that is the Edgerton Center. We were a Makerspace before there were Makerspaces!

🪩 Join our collaborative mosaic with your own laser cut tile, and explore the tools, materials, and community available to you in our Student Project Lab 4-409
🎈 Freeze a balloon mid-pop with an Edgerton Center specialty: strobe photography!
🎨 Expand your spontaneity, pursue your curiosity, and seek new patterns through the art of marbling

🗓️ August 28th, 2025
⏰ Drop in any time between 1 PM - 4 PM
📍 Strobe Alley - 4th Floor, Building 4

#aroundMIT

Welcome to MIT, First Years! We invite you to drop in this Thursday afternoon during First Year Explorations to experience the fun that is the Edgerton Center. We were a Makerspace before there were Makerspaces!

🪩 Join our collaborative mosaic with your own laser cut tile, and explore the tools, materials, and community available to you in our Student Project Lab 4-409
🎈 Freeze a balloon mid-pop with an Edgerton Center specialty: strobe photography!
🎨 Expand your spontaneity, pursue your curiosity, and seek new patterns through the art of marbling

🗓️ August 28th, 2025
⏰ Drop in any time between 1 PM - 4 PM
📍 Strobe Alley - 4th Floor, Building 4

#aroundMIT

Welcome to MIT, First Years! We invite you to drop in this Thursday afternoon during First Year Explorations to experience the fun that is the Edgerton Center. We were a Makerspace before there were Makerspaces!

🪩 Join our collaborative mosaic with your own laser cut tile, and explore the tools, materials, and community available to you in our Student Project Lab 4-409
🎈 Freeze a balloon mid-pop with an Edgerton Center specialty: strobe photography!
🎨 Expand your spontaneity, pursue your curiosity, and seek new patterns through the art of marbling

🗓️ August 28th, 2025
⏰ Drop in any time between 1 PM - 4 PM
📍 Strobe Alley - 4th Floor, Building 4

#aroundMIT

Welcome to MIT, First Years! We invite you to drop in this Thursday afternoon during First Year Explorations to experience the fun that is the Edgerton Center. We were a Makerspace before there were Makerspaces!

🪩 Join our collaborative mosaic with your own laser cut tile, and explore the tools, materials, and community available to you in our Student Project Lab 4-409
🎈 Freeze a balloon mid-pop with an Edgerton Center specialty: strobe photography!
🎨 Expand your spontaneity, pursue your curiosity, and seek new patterns through the art of marbling

🗓️ August 28th, 2025
⏰ Drop in any time between 1 PM - 4 PM
📍 Strobe Alley - 4th Floor, Building 4

#aroundMIT

“Across Edgerton, students are launching rockets, developing assistive technologies, and building sustainable engines. But they’re all driven by one powerful idea: learning by doing” - Kate Carpenter ‘27, MIT Motorsports Business Lead

Many thanks to the amazing student clubs & teams, speakers Kate Carpenter and Professor Vandiver, and all attendees for being part of another inspiring Edgerton Center Clubs & Teams Showcase! ✨

Sweet projects happen at the Edgerton Center! 🍪 Enjoy this intro to the Compassionate Cookie Dispenser built by Lewis Beauchamp in the 6C Student Shop, with the help of Technical Instructor Mark Belanger.

#aroundMIT

Egg drops? Been there. Egg races? Now we're talking. 🏁🥚
See how 4-409 mentor and graduating senior Jared Byars turned a simple idea into a Saturday night to remember.
Read all about it at the 🔗 in bio

Introducing Project Zephyrus: the latest student-designed rocket from @mitrocketteam 🚀 In their April test, it hit Mach 1.2 and 14,800 ft! The team used this launch to test advanced systems like active roll stabilization, airbrakes, and antenna tracking. Now they’re ready to tackle their next goal: a 100k+ ft launch in June. Good luck as you reach for new heights!

Introducing Project Zephyrus: the latest student-designed rocket from @mitrocketteam 🚀 In their April test, it hit Mach 1.2 and 14,800 ft! The team used this launch to test advanced systems like active roll stabilization, airbrakes, and antenna tracking. Now they’re ready to tackle their next goal: a 100k+ ft launch in June. Good luck as you reach for new heights!

Introducing Project Zephyrus: the latest student-designed rocket from @mitrocketteam 🚀 In their April test, it hit Mach 1.2 and 14,800 ft! The team used this launch to test advanced systems like active roll stabilization, airbrakes, and antenna tracking. Now they’re ready to tackle their next goal: a 100k+ ft launch in June. Good luck as you reach for new heights!

Introducing Project Zephyrus: the latest student-designed rocket from @mitrocketteam 🚀 In their April test, it hit Mach 1.2 and 14,800 ft! The team used this launch to test advanced systems like active roll stabilization, airbrakes, and antenna tracking. Now they’re ready to tackle their next goal: a 100k+ ft launch in June. Good luck as you reach for new heights!

Introducing Project Zephyrus: the latest student-designed rocket from @mitrocketteam 🚀 In their April test, it hit Mach 1.2 and 14,800 ft! The team used this launch to test advanced systems like active roll stabilization, airbrakes, and antenna tracking. Now they’re ready to tackle their next goal: a 100k+ ft launch in June. Good luck as you reach for new heights!

Introducing Project Zephyrus: the latest student-designed rocket from @mitrocketteam 🚀 In their April test, it hit Mach 1.2 and 14,800 ft! The team used this launch to test advanced systems like active roll stabilization, airbrakes, and antenna tracking. Now they’re ready to tackle their next goal: a 100k+ ft launch in June. Good luck as you reach for new heights!

Introducing Project Zephyrus: the latest student-designed rocket from @mitrocketteam 🚀 In their April test, it hit Mach 1.2 and 14,800 ft! The team used this launch to test advanced systems like active roll stabilization, airbrakes, and antenna tracking. Now they’re ready to tackle their next goal: a 100k+ ft launch in June. Good luck as you reach for new heights!

In a famous 1958 MIT hack, the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity used the body-length of then first-year pledge Oliver R. Smoot, Jr ’62 to measure the Harvard Bridge, painting markings along the way to get the full measurement: 364.4 Smoots (plus 1 ear). Those painted markings remain today. In an homage to Smoot, and to celebrate the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Klein ‘62, an MIT team recently rolled out a new unit of measurement: measuring the nearby Longfellow Bridge in units of Klein.

Dr. Klein, a member of the MIT Sea Grant Advisory Board and the MIT Museum Collections Committee, is known as the father of commercial side-scan sonar. His sonar technology has been used worldwide to help locate countless famous shipwrecks including the Titanic and the World War I ocean liner RMS Lusitania.

One Smoot is equal to 5ft 7in or 1.7018 meters. One Klein (4ft 9.5in) is equal to 0.85820896 Smoots.

CPW has arrived‼️ Come by our booths at the Engineering @ MIT Fair and Activities Midway to learn more about our club and mission. You’ll have the opportunity to challenge us to a game and get free food!

Meet MIT Spokes, a team of 7 students preparing to bike 4,000 miles across the country this summer and teach STEM along the way! @mitspokes mission is to expand access to STEM education and empower the leaders of tomorrow by hosting free Learning Festivals throughout the United States. They teach these workshops to schools, libraries, and summer camps, establishing strong connections between MIT and many different communities along the way.

Follow @mitspokes to keep up as they prepare for the journey and set off in June. Learn more about the team by visiting mitspokes.com and become part of the action (without riding your bike 4,000 miles) by supporting their crowdfund: crowdfund.mit.edu/story/Spokes-S26

The team from left to right in the first photo:
Carmen McCay ‘29, Course 10B (Chemical-Biological Engineering)
Angelica (Nunu) Zhuang ‘26, Course 4 (Architecture)
Drew Dowdy ‘29, Course 16 (Aerospace Engineering)
Tatiana Vassiliev ‘26, Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Course 15-3 (Finance)
Aarushi Mehrotra ‘26, Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering)
Caroline Huang ‘29, Course 11-6 (Urban Science and Planning with Computer Science)
Nathan Mustafa ‘25 ‘26, Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering) and Course 18 (Mathematics)

Meet MIT Spokes, a team of 7 students preparing to bike 4,000 miles across the country this summer and teach STEM along the way! @mitspokes mission is to expand access to STEM education and empower the leaders of tomorrow by hosting free Learning Festivals throughout the United States. They teach these workshops to schools, libraries, and summer camps, establishing strong connections between MIT and many different communities along the way.

Follow @mitspokes to keep up as they prepare for the journey and set off in June. Learn more about the team by visiting mitspokes.com and become part of the action (without riding your bike 4,000 miles) by supporting their crowdfund: crowdfund.mit.edu/story/Spokes-S26

The team from left to right in the first photo:
Carmen McCay ‘29, Course 10B (Chemical-Biological Engineering)
Angelica (Nunu) Zhuang ‘26, Course 4 (Architecture)
Drew Dowdy ‘29, Course 16 (Aerospace Engineering)
Tatiana Vassiliev ‘26, Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Course 15-3 (Finance)
Aarushi Mehrotra ‘26, Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering)
Caroline Huang ‘29, Course 11-6 (Urban Science and Planning with Computer Science)
Nathan Mustafa ‘25 ‘26, Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering) and Course 18 (Mathematics)

Meet MIT Spokes, a team of 7 students preparing to bike 4,000 miles across the country this summer and teach STEM along the way! @mitspokes mission is to expand access to STEM education and empower the leaders of tomorrow by hosting free Learning Festivals throughout the United States. They teach these workshops to schools, libraries, and summer camps, establishing strong connections between MIT and many different communities along the way.

Follow @mitspokes to keep up as they prepare for the journey and set off in June. Learn more about the team by visiting mitspokes.com and become part of the action (without riding your bike 4,000 miles) by supporting their crowdfund: crowdfund.mit.edu/story/Spokes-S26

The team from left to right in the first photo:
Carmen McCay ‘29, Course 10B (Chemical-Biological Engineering)
Angelica (Nunu) Zhuang ‘26, Course 4 (Architecture)
Drew Dowdy ‘29, Course 16 (Aerospace Engineering)
Tatiana Vassiliev ‘26, Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Course 15-3 (Finance)
Aarushi Mehrotra ‘26, Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering)
Caroline Huang ‘29, Course 11-6 (Urban Science and Planning with Computer Science)
Nathan Mustafa ‘25 ‘26, Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering) and Course 18 (Mathematics)

Meet MIT Spokes, a team of 7 students preparing to bike 4,000 miles across the country this summer and teach STEM along the way! @mitspokes mission is to expand access to STEM education and empower the leaders of tomorrow by hosting free Learning Festivals throughout the United States. They teach these workshops to schools, libraries, and summer camps, establishing strong connections between MIT and many different communities along the way.

Follow @mitspokes to keep up as they prepare for the journey and set off in June. Learn more about the team by visiting mitspokes.com and become part of the action (without riding your bike 4,000 miles) by supporting their crowdfund: crowdfund.mit.edu/story/Spokes-S26

The team from left to right in the first photo:
Carmen McCay ‘29, Course 10B (Chemical-Biological Engineering)
Angelica (Nunu) Zhuang ‘26, Course 4 (Architecture)
Drew Dowdy ‘29, Course 16 (Aerospace Engineering)
Tatiana Vassiliev ‘26, Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Course 15-3 (Finance)
Aarushi Mehrotra ‘26, Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering)
Caroline Huang ‘29, Course 11-6 (Urban Science and Planning with Computer Science)
Nathan Mustafa ‘25 ‘26, Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering) and Course 18 (Mathematics)

Meet MIT Spokes, a team of 7 students preparing to bike 4,000 miles across the country this summer and teach STEM along the way! @mitspokes mission is to expand access to STEM education and empower the leaders of tomorrow by hosting free Learning Festivals throughout the United States. They teach these workshops to schools, libraries, and summer camps, establishing strong connections between MIT and many different communities along the way.

Follow @mitspokes to keep up as they prepare for the journey and set off in June. Learn more about the team by visiting mitspokes.com and become part of the action (without riding your bike 4,000 miles) by supporting their crowdfund: crowdfund.mit.edu/story/Spokes-S26

The team from left to right in the first photo:
Carmen McCay ‘29, Course 10B (Chemical-Biological Engineering)
Angelica (Nunu) Zhuang ‘26, Course 4 (Architecture)
Drew Dowdy ‘29, Course 16 (Aerospace Engineering)
Tatiana Vassiliev ‘26, Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Course 15-3 (Finance)
Aarushi Mehrotra ‘26, Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering)
Caroline Huang ‘29, Course 11-6 (Urban Science and Planning with Computer Science)
Nathan Mustafa ‘25 ‘26, Course 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering) and Course 18 (Mathematics)

🏎️ Race cars 🤖 Battle bots ☀️ Solar vehicles 🚀 Rockets… Just another Tuesday at the Edgerton Center! Our Annual Clubs & Teams Showcase brought together 18 student teams who are engineering the future one extraordinary project at a time.

Read all about Lobby 13’s transformation into a spectacle of student innovation at edgerton.mit.edu/news

📸 Photos by Lien Nguyen

🏎️ Race cars 🤖 Battle bots ☀️ Solar vehicles 🚀 Rockets… Just another Tuesday at the Edgerton Center! Our Annual Clubs & Teams Showcase brought together 18 student teams who are engineering the future one extraordinary project at a time.

Read all about Lobby 13’s transformation into a spectacle of student innovation at edgerton.mit.edu/news

📸 Photos by Lien Nguyen

🏎️ Race cars 🤖 Battle bots ☀️ Solar vehicles 🚀 Rockets… Just another Tuesday at the Edgerton Center! Our Annual Clubs & Teams Showcase brought together 18 student teams who are engineering the future one extraordinary project at a time.

Read all about Lobby 13’s transformation into a spectacle of student innovation at edgerton.mit.edu/news

📸 Photos by Lien Nguyen

🏎️ Race cars 🤖 Battle bots ☀️ Solar vehicles 🚀 Rockets… Just another Tuesday at the Edgerton Center! Our Annual Clubs & Teams Showcase brought together 18 student teams who are engineering the future one extraordinary project at a time.

Read all about Lobby 13’s transformation into a spectacle of student innovation at edgerton.mit.edu/news

📸 Photos by Lien Nguyen

🏎️ Race cars 🤖 Battle bots ☀️ Solar vehicles 🚀 Rockets… Just another Tuesday at the Edgerton Center! Our Annual Clubs & Teams Showcase brought together 18 student teams who are engineering the future one extraordinary project at a time.

Read all about Lobby 13’s transformation into a spectacle of student innovation at edgerton.mit.edu/news

📸 Photos by Lien Nguyen

🏎️ Race cars 🤖 Battle bots ☀️ Solar vehicles 🚀 Rockets… Just another Tuesday at the Edgerton Center! Our Annual Clubs & Teams Showcase brought together 18 student teams who are engineering the future one extraordinary project at a time.

Read all about Lobby 13’s transformation into a spectacle of student innovation at edgerton.mit.edu/news

📸 Photos by Lien Nguyen

🏎️ Race cars 🤖 Battle bots ☀️ Solar vehicles 🚀 Rockets… Just another Tuesday at the Edgerton Center! Our Annual Clubs & Teams Showcase brought together 18 student teams who are engineering the future one extraordinary project at a time.

Read all about Lobby 13’s transformation into a spectacle of student innovation at edgerton.mit.edu/news

📸 Photos by Lien Nguyen

What does collaboration look like? According to the students at Bayan Gardens School, it looks like this! Discover how one week of hands-on learning with Edgerton Center mentors transformed the way students approach science, engineering, and working together at edgerton.mit.edu/news

What does collaboration look like? According to the students at Bayan Gardens School, it looks like this! Discover how one week of hands-on learning with Edgerton Center mentors transformed the way students approach science, engineering, and working together at edgerton.mit.edu/news

What does collaboration look like? According to the students at Bayan Gardens School, it looks like this! Discover how one week of hands-on learning with Edgerton Center mentors transformed the way students approach science, engineering, and working together at edgerton.mit.edu/news

🎈 POP! 🎉 Harold “Doc” Edgerton would’ve been 123 this week, so we’re celebrating with one of his iconic innovations: high-speed balloon pop photography! These precisely-timed pics capture not only a balloon mid-pop, but also a beautiful snapshot of human expression.

Thanks to Dr. James W. Bales, Chris Mayer, and @mitsap for these fabulous photos from a recent event at the @mitmedialab 📸

🎈 POP! 🎉 Harold “Doc” Edgerton would’ve been 123 this week, so we’re celebrating with one of his iconic innovations: high-speed balloon pop photography! These precisely-timed pics capture not only a balloon mid-pop, but also a beautiful snapshot of human expression.

Thanks to Dr. James W. Bales, Chris Mayer, and @mitsap for these fabulous photos from a recent event at the @mitmedialab 📸

🎈 POP! 🎉 Harold “Doc” Edgerton would’ve been 123 this week, so we’re celebrating with one of his iconic innovations: high-speed balloon pop photography! These precisely-timed pics capture not only a balloon mid-pop, but also a beautiful snapshot of human expression.

Thanks to Dr. James W. Bales, Chris Mayer, and @mitsap for these fabulous photos from a recent event at the @mitmedialab 📸

This Independent Activities Period, the Edgerton Center collaborated with MIT-Ukraine Program and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works, with support from Mission Innovation X, MathWorks, and MIT.nano to lead Build for Ukraine 2.0. During this four-week hackathon, students, researchers, and collaborators across seven time zones came together to tackle urgent technical challenges facing Ukraine as the full-scale war enters its fourth year. Find the full story at MIT News (🔗 in bio)