Life Sciences and Biotechnology

Thanks in large part to MIT's research, Greater Boston has emerged as a world center of biotech innovation. Learn the differences between your brain and your mind, engage with world-renowned cancer researchers in a hands-on activity, see an amazing exhibit in the DNAtrium, and tour our brand new Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

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• Scheduled Activities
• All Day Activities

10:00am - 11:00am	High tech show and tell presentations
11:00am - 3:00pm	Real-time voice transformation
11:00am - 3:00pm	Medicine, sustainability, and energy: all about materials science and engineering
11:00am - 2:00pm	Aircraft carrier deck operations — action planner demo
11:00am - 12:00pm	Flying parrot, unmanned aerial vehicles
11:00am - 1:00pm	The incredible water bear!
11:00am - 2:00pm	Speaker and language identification
11:00am - 1:30pm	Startup showcase
11:30am - 2:30pm	Got gunk on your DNA?
11:30am - 12:00pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat: demonstration and Q & A session
11:30am - 12:00pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with Sandy Pentland, author of "Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World"
12:00pm - 4:00pm	Brain and mind
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Living sunlight: how plants bring earth to life
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Tackling real-world challenges: ESD PhD poster session
1:00pm - 4:00pm	MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) video montage
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Language and the human mind
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Health Sciences & Technology (HST) student poster session
2:00pm - 2:30pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat: demonstration and Q & A session
2:00pm - 4:00pm	Earth science in the 21st century
2:45pm - 4:00pm	Gender, race, and the complexities of science and technology
3:00pm - 4:00pm	High tech show and tell presentations

11:00am - 4:00pm	A showcase of invention as public service at MIT
11:00am - 4:00pm	Bits, electrons, and robots
11:00am - 4:00pm	BLOSSOMS: building science, technology, engineering, and math STEM education worldwide
11:00am - 4:00pm	Celebrating discovery at MIT: an undergraduate research poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	Compton Gallery — MIT150 exhibition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Confronting the climate change challenge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Discover MIT's Department of Biology with videos of distinguished faculty and more
11:00am - 4:00pm	DNAtrium
11:00am - 4:00pm	Energy secrets of biofuels and the body
11:00am - 4:00pm	Hands-on activities with cancer researchers
11:00am - 4:00pm	Koch Institute Public Galleries
11:00am - 4:00pm	Meet spacesuit-testing robot, land on the moon, and more in the Man-Vehicle Lab demos
11:00am - 4:00pm	Microsystems in action
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Electronics Research Society (MITERS) Open House
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Museum inside out
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT OpenCourseWare: unlocking knowledge and empowering minds
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Portugal program video
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT150 welcome lounge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Mobile advanced command and control system display
11:00am - 4:00pm	Robotics, optical fibers, and high-definition illuminated pickles
11:00am - 4:00pm	TALARIS and Exoplanet Sat: how do Draper and MIT engineers get a spacecraft to hop or look at stars in space to discover planets?
11:00am - 4:00pm	The gravity-defying lapping of a house cat
11:00am - 4:00pm	Timeline of MIT engineering
11:00am - 4:00pm	What is the Engineering Systems Division (ESD)?