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Outreach
Broadening Participation
Our programs seek to make the field of science more inclusive by sharing MIT’s intellectual wealth and cutting-edge resources.
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LEAH Knox Scholar
I started noticing that I have an interest in doing research. I had never been in a professional lab before. The lab at our school is nothing compared to an actual lab. Watching the news where people are showing how they test for COVID and develop vaccines, I thought, ‘I did something really similar.’