Dream big
MIT is a community of creative people who use science and technology to solve the world's tough problems. Whether terrestrial (like building devices that can harvest clean water from desert air) or celestial (like designing architecture for outer space) MIT students are busy building a better world—together.
Explore a constellation of possibilities at MIT.
🚀 Building a drone for the first time, the MIT First Nations Launch team won the grand prize at the 2024 NASA First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition (complete with a smudging ceremony for their rocket before it launched).
💬 MIT’s mission to have a meaningful impact on the world includes protecting culture, history and heritage. Through the MIT Indigenous Languages Initiative (MITILI), designed for members of communities whose languages are threatened, we develop linguistic skills that will help them in efforts to keep their communities’ languages alive.
🌎 The MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellowship supports entrepreneurs and innovators developing solutions that build upon traditional knowledge and technology to meet the social, environmental, and economic goals of Indigenous communities.
💫 Meet Alvin Harvey, the Navajo Star Traveler, who uses the unique environment of microgravity to develop and demonstrate the centering of Indigenous pedagogies, knowledge, engineering, and science at the MIT Media Lab.
Interested? Check-out some resources below.
Community + support
MIT AISES
AISES is dedicated towards the advancement and representation of the native student body at MIT. They are a source of Indigenous culture, an advocate for native rights and causes, and a support network for students and allies.
Indigenous Living Community
It’s important that you feel at home at MIT which is why you get to pick where you live! Housing is ensured all four years and there are a variety of residential communities that exist within our halls—including our newest living community.
Intercultural Engagement
As community builders, Intercultural Engagement provides support, advocacy and education to MIT’s diverse student populations. They offer educational and social opportunities for students and 70+ cultural/identity based student organizations.
Indigenous Communities Initiatives (ICI)
Social impact and giving back is important at MIT and we have internships available for students to support the goals of Indigenous Communities Fellows through a partnership between MIT Solve and the PKG Center.
