Poverty Week- Calendar
Poverty Week- Calendar of Events
| Pre-Poverty Week Weekend | ||
|---|---|---|
| Friday, 7pm | Paine Hall, Harvard | STAND-UP & Take Action Against Poverty MIT community will meet at 77 Mass Ave at 6:15 to take the number 1 bus |
| Saturday, 2-4pm |
Z Center Lobby | Business As Unusual - What does it look like?: Interactive Poverty Arts Project Outdoor Fabric Sculpture in Kresge Lawn |
| Saturday, 5-7pm |
Lobby 13 | Global Fundraising Dinner: Eat So They Can |
| Sunday, 9pm |
Next House | Poverty-related dorm study break |
| Day 1 - Monday 10/20 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 7:30pm | 32-123 | Kickoff with Opening Keynote: Featuring Nicholas Negroponte- Founder of One Laptop per Child |
| 9pm | NW-35 (New Ashdown) | Poverty-related dorm study break |
| All Day | Lobby 10 | Featured Group - Amnesty International |
| Day 2 - Tuesday 10/21 | ||
|---|---|---|
| DOMESTIC POVERTY DISCUSSION CANCELLED | ||
| 1-3pm | TSMC Lobby, Stata Center | Business As Unusual - What does it look like?: Interactive Poverty Arts Project Bag and shirt making |
| 7pm | 6-120 | Speaker: Utkan Demirci Low-cost HIV detection |
| All Day | Lobby 10 | Featured Group - Millenium Campus Network |
| Day 3 - Wednesday 10/22 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2-4pm | Lobby 13 | Development Projects Midway: Student Projects at MIT |
| 5:30-7pm | 32-155 | Projects Workshop with Amy Smith |
| 9pm | McCormick Hall | Poverty-related dorm study break |
| All Day | Lobby 10 | Featured Group - Global Education Office & Global UR |
| Day 4 - Thursday 10/23 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1-3pm | TSMC Lobby, Stata Center | Business As Unusual - What does it look like?: Interactive Poverty Arts Project Bag and shirt making |
| 3:30-5pm | 34-101 | Speaker: Richard Tabors The future of energy for developing nations |
| 5-7pm | 7-338 | Spirituality and Poverty: A dinner dicussion with Professor Ananta Kumar Giri and Reverend Lallie Lloyd RSVP to Christina English at cenglish@mit.edu |
| 7pm | 56-154 | Model UN World Crisis Simulation RSVP to airmun-exec@mit.edu Click Here for information about the simulation |
| 7:30-9:30pm | R&D Pub, 4th floor Stata Center | Yunus Challenge Dinner: Join a team to create an energy storage system for those living in poverty RSVP to ideas-rsvp@mit.edu |
| 9pm | New House | Poverty-related dorm study break |
| 9pm | East Campus | Poverty-related dorm study break |
| All Day | Lobby 10 | Featured Group - Sustainability@MIT |
| Day 5 - Friday 10/24 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 5-9pm | Student Center steps | Video: Poverty Week in Review |
| 5pm | Weisner Art Gallery, 2nd floor Student Center | Student Art Association Display |
| All Day | Lobby 10 | Featured Group - Western Hemisphere Project and Sacha Yaku |
| Throughout Poverty Week | ||
|---|---|---|
| All Week | Week-long Action Challenge for everyone on campus - undergraduates, grad students, staff, & faculty - can you eliminate non-water beverages for the week and donate the money saved? | |
| All Week | Blogging and Discussion Forum: How should we approach the crisis of poverty? What can be done, and what can you do? | |
| All Week | Global Poverty Initiative at MIT and other featured groups in Lobby 10 | |
| All Week | Interactive Displays throughout campus (Student Center, Lobby 10, Lobby 13, Stata Center) | |