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Annual MIT Snow Sports Tour to Japan is now accepting reservations The third annual MIT Snow Sports Tour to Japan is now accepting reservations. We can accommodate 16 people. More information here: https://lnkd.in/erPiqdr9 The dates are February 21 to March 8 and includes skiing at Shiga Kogen and Happo One/Hakuba. Both resorts held Alpine ski events during the 1998 Winter Olympics. With a peak elevation of 2,307 meters, Shiga Kogen is Japan's highest-elevation resort. Because of the locations near the Sea of Japan, the ski resorts get huge amounts of snow. Hakuba/Happo One is reporting 4 feet of snow at the top lifts and a snow forecast of 70 inches in the next 10 days. The group will also stay in Takayama between the time at the resorts. In Takayama the narrow streets of its Sanmachi Suji historic district are lined with wooden merchants’ houses dating to the Edo Period, along with many small museums.

Divya, a sophomore at MIT, is raising money for the Brookline Senior Center in connection with this coming spring’s Boston Marathon. Learn more and donate to this worthy cause here: https://lnkd.in/e8RP7hmv

Massachusetts High School Students Build on MIT’s Legacy at Global Synthetic Biology Competition More here: https://lnkd.in/gxrcyeEa The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition began at MIT in 2003 during the Independent Activities Period and has since grown into the world’s largest synthetic biology competition. Now managed by the iGEM Foundation, an independent nonprofit based in Cambridge, MA, the competition has become a global stage for young scientists to tackle pressing challenges through biology and engineering.

Leadership Program for Women in STEM Register by December 5 More information here: https://lnkd.in/e3GMF8Ge This is an introductory leadership-competencies training program based on the MIT LEAPS course offered in the MIT Physics Department over the past five years. The MIT LEAPS Program was created by Drs. Rigos and Frebel in 2019 and includes two half semester courses. Dr. Rigos founded the nonprofit Epistimi, Inc. in order to offer her course “Developing Your Leadership Competencies” to women in STEMM globally.

Club Clam Boil on November 7 a Huge Success! The MIT Club of Boston's Clam Boil on November 7th was a huge success. It was held in Back Bay at First Church in Boston. This was a DIY event in which volunteers did all of the procurement, preparation, cooking, and cleanup. This followed an earlier, similar event of a Louisiana Crawfish Boil back in April 2024. More here: https://lnkd.in/eph3PaaG

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We're so excited for our upcoming talk on Wednesday, October 23, with Prof. Susan Solomon, National Medal of #Science #Laureate. She is internationally known for her work connecting #chlorofluorocarbon (#CFC) emissions to the #Antarctic #ozone #hole, one of the indisputable signs that human activities can seriously harm the #environment. She later co-led the team that developed the IPCC Group 1 (science) #climate report (2007), which shared the #Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore that year. Prof. Solomon’s talk will focus on how #scientific findings were transformed into #policy and are now saving the ozone layer.  She will describe how the work she has done at #MIT has led the effort to show that #humanity really did save the ozone layer, and what to expect in the #future. For more information and to register: https://lnkd.in/e2yDCQPG Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | EAPS MIT | MIT Alumni Association | MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative | MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering | MIT Energy Initiative | MIT Climate and Energy Prize | MIT Energy Conference | MIT - Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research | NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration #climatescience #science #research #MIT #atmosphere #atmospheric #chemistry #networking

Join us on Friday, October 18, for our next women and leadership networking event! This month, the meeting will be on Zoom during the lunch hour. Our focus for this networking event will be growing our superskills. To register: https://lnkd.in/eGJV773m

Please join the MIT Club of Boston and the Association of MIT Alumna (AMITA) for a program featuring MIT Professor Susan Solomon of the Earth and Planetary Science Department, author of the recent book Solvable: How We Healed the Earth and Can Do it Again. This event is online and in person (Cambridge MA), October 23, 6 pm. https://lnkd.in/e2yDCQPG