Fwd: Submit Projects for MIT Course by Friday Morning

[Sam King]

There is an MIT course where all students must do a social good programming project.  The details are below.  If you have any substantial projects that students could work on, this should be a very good opportunity.  Submit your project proposals to Jessica Lin (cced) by Friday morning.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jessica Lin <jes...@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:17 AM
Subject: Code the Change: Web Projects for MIT Course?
To: s...@codethechange.org

Hi Sam,

I'm a TA this semester for the course 6.170 at MIT. It's a software design course that also teaches web programming, and students are required to do a substantial final project that contributes to social good:

https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa12/6.170/courseMaterial/topics/topic3/project/text/text

Students will be in teams of 4, working for 5 weeks, for 12-20 hours per week each.

I'm wondering if you would have any projects that might be appropriate for our students to work on. If so, would you be able to put together a brief description of any project(s) you have and send them to me by Friday morning? (If there are any questions on our end, we'll have the weekend to discuss.) I'm planning to announce projects ideas to students on Monday.

To anticipate questions from students, it would be helpful if you included the following information for each idea:

- What is the problem? (briefly)

- Why is the problem compelling? (briefly)

- What is your current solution? What functionality do you need? (don't mind if this is not brief, specific is good)

- Who will benefit? (briefly)

Thanks,

Jess Lin

P.S. Just for your information, here are some dates for the final project:

• Sept 17 (this coming Monday): announce the project, and include a list of project proposals from external nonprofits
• Sept 21 (that Friday): have project teams formed
• Nov 12: first deliverable due. The students have several other programming assignments to complete between Sept 21 and Nov 12, though.
• Dec 9: final deliverable due.