"I wasn't sure what to expect, but working with MIT has been amazing," Khalib Dottin tells MIT Technology Review.
"I've been hearing about this school my entire life."
The 18- to 24-year-old Cambridge, Mass., resident is one of dozens of young people who've completed a six-week course at MIT's Lemelson-MIT Program's Leaders Inventing the Future Together initiative, which aims to "bring inclusive invention and innovation into our community, especially for people who are traditionally kept out of these kinds of spaces," project facilitator Michelle Sullivan says in a press release.
Participants in the LIFT program were paid an hourly rate to work on a project for several hours a week while learning about invention, technology, and entrepreneurship, as well as mental health coaching.
"We're trying to bring inclusive invention and innovation into our community, especially for people who are traditionally kept out of these kinds of spaces," Sullivan says.
The program was born out of a collaboration between MBK Cambridge, a nonprofit that supports local youth, and the Lemelson-MIT Program, which works with high school students.
The program's goal is to "provide a springboard to the 21st-century economy," MBK Cambridge
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