From: Student Life Date: February 14 Subject: MIT Sloan Student Life Newsletter February 14, 2024
February 14, 2024
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Student Life Events
The Yarn Tuesday, February 20th 7pm-10pm Wong Auditorium
Storytellers rule the world, so let's listen. Come watch your classmates unravel the yarn as we build community. The Yarn is a storytelling platform designed to connect the Sloan Community. Sloanies share personal stories that celebrate our diversity of values, perspectives, and experiences.
Sloan Pride C-f(x): Drag Show
Thursday, February 29th 8pm-11:55pm Middle East Downstairs
Come celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, specifically drag culture. Cheer on your classmates as they strut the runway and compete in a friendly competition showing off their alter egos, then dance the night away to some bangin' tunes. All proceeds will go to supporting LGBTQ+ charities! Tickets: $15+
Course XV Dinner
Wednesday, February 21st
6:30pm-8:30pm Course XV Dinners are an opportunity for 15 students from across programs to have a free, delicious, three course dinner at a local venue with a member of the Student Life and DEI Offices.
Wellness Days
Monday February 26th & Tuesday, February 27th
10am-6pm
Student Life Office (E52-101) RSVP for a free 20-minute chair massage, a free 60-minute acupuncture session, and/or a 30 minute sound healing session, to help reduce your overall stress and tension. Walk in appointments are also available days of. Free
SLO Focus Groups The mission of the Student Life Office (SLO) states: “we are here to help students navigate their MIT Sloan experience and the many resources at their disposal while supporting a diverse and caring student culture.” We live out this mission by promoting our 3 C’s: Caring, Contribution, and Community. Please join us for a focus group to help us understand how MIT Sloan students from all programs experience these core principles.
Push for Parity 2024 Event Series
Sloan Women in Management is excited to launch an empowering 3 weeks of Push for Parity 2024! Join them from Feb 20 - Mar 7 for a lineup of inspiring events aimed at promoting gender parity. From panels featuring FemTech leaders, Family Planning experts, insightful dinners with leaders like Arathi Mehrotra and Dana White, to a 90’s dance party at Icon Nightclub, there's something for everyone. Let's celebrate progress and champion equality together!
BBSA Black History Month Events BBSA has curated an exciting lineup of eventsto celebrate Black History Month! Events range from an AMA about the Black Sloan Experience, various alumni panels with topics including: Entrepreneurs and builders, Tech and product, Real estate, and Finance, and more!
MIT Sloan Asia Business Conference 2024
Saturday, February 24th 9am-6pm Building E14, 75 Amherst Street
Under the theme, Asia Unleashed: Shaping Business Beyond Boundaries, the 14th MIT Asia Business Conference brings you profound insights into trends of AI, Finance, Sustainability, DEI, and Entrepreneurship in Asia. $25 for MIT Students
Sloan Healthcare and BioInnovations Conference 2024
Friday, February 23rd
8am-5pm Building E14, 75 Amherst Street
This year’s SHBC is themed Breaking Barriers: Innovating for Healthcare Access. This year’s conference will feature four insightful panels, including topics like AI as a Catalyst for Care Delivery and Removing Financial Barriers to Care. $30 for MIT Students
MIT Sloan Fintech Conference
Friday, February 23rd 8am-6pm Samberg Conference Center
One of the landmark events at MIT Sloan, the conference brings together the world’s most prominent minds in fintech and 500+ innovators, investors, professionals, students, and professors. $45 for MIT Students
The MIT Sloan Product Conference
Friday, March 1st
8am-5pm Wong Auditorium
At this year's second annual product conference, cross- functional leaders will come together for engaging dialogue on the AI-powered products and the way AI is transforming product management roles. $45 for MIT Students
MIT CSAIL and the Howe Innovation Center are hosting #HackDisability: AI for Accessibility
MIT CSAIL and the Howe Innovation Center are hosting #HackDisability: AI for Accessibility February 23 to February 25, 2024, at CSAIL. Register and learn more here. This event will bring together diverse teams of software and hardware engineers, students, product managers, MBAs, designers, and people with the lived experience of having a disability, with the shared goal of developing innovative AI solutions to enhance accessibility for people with disabilities. Over the three-day event, each group will identify, design, build, test, and iterate on prototype solutions to known challenges facing the disability community.
Announcing the Climate Project at MIT
Last week, MIT President Sally Kornbluth announced the Climate Project at MIT, "Representing a compelling new strategy for accelerated, university-led innovation, the Climate Project at MIT will focus our community’s talent and resources on solving critical climate problems with all possible speed – and will connect us with a range of partners to deliver those technological, behavioral and policy solutions to the world."
The 2nd Annual MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition
The 2nd Annual MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition is now accepting applications until February 29th, 2024, for the event on Pi Day, March 14th, at Deutsche Bank Center in New York City. Teams with at least one female MIT-affiliated founder, less than $1M in ARR, and less than $10M in equity funding are eligible. The first-place winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize. The event includes a pitch competition, roundtables, and networking opportunities, with early bird tickets available and discounts for MIT and Sloan alumni. Sponsorship opportunities are also open, and last year's event saw over 200 attendees. This year’s leading sponsors are Deutsche Bank and Fox Rothschild. For more details, visit the MIT Female Founders website and follow them on social media.
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