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(Oh dear, starting this at 6 AM back at MIT. It’s been a while, but hopefully my memory serves me well!)  Day 9 meant… FINAL PROJECTS!! To make operations as smooth as possible, we had spent much of the day before reorganizing the classroom.  Two 3D printers accompanied by soldering irons sat towards the frontContinue reading “Day 9: January 16”

I wasn’t sure which day to put this in since it happened throughout the workshop. Something we tried this year was to incorporate an additional element of choice and “hard fun.” This is where Cubes in Space comes in! Over this past summer, I got the opportunity to witness a sounding rocket launch from WallopsContinue reading “Cubes in Space!”

Hello everyone! Sorry about the lack of updates for the last few days. The second week hit us like a giant wave and we are slowly catching up… Saturday (1/11) Going to the DMZ had been on our minds since the very beginning, given our situation of teaching North Korean refugees in South Korea. TheContinue reading “A trip to the DMZ”

Only just catching up with yesterday: In the morning we woke up with some toast and tangerines from Lotte Mart, then headed up the steep incline to Yeomyung. There was some hurried unpacking of suitcases and organizing of materials before the students started trickling in. I was relieved to see that the preserved frogs forContinue reading “1/6 Day 1”

It’s the night before our first day at Yeomyung! Just now we tested a gravity simulation using a trash bag, a plant saucer, a golf ball, and an apple (see what we did there?) for Lexi’s Aerospace day.  Seemed accurate enough. The idea was to show that massive objects bend spacetime, causing other objects toContinue reading “1/5: Tomorrow it starts!”

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! Sheila here, trying to get this blog up and running before we officially start teaching next week! I am joined by the lovely Lulu, Sarah, and Lexi—the YS Squad of 2020. We are four MIT undergraduate students—hailing from psychology, bioengineering, and planetary science backgrounds—joining together through MIT Global TeachingContinue reading “Preview…”