Join MIT Solve in this outdoor film screening to learn about Solve’s work and the brilliant innovators in their community. Free and open to the public, no registration required. In case of inclement weather, this event will take place in the MIT Welcome Center.
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Innovation starts with the spark of a big idea. If the idea gets traction, it can mean months and years of development, pitch meetings, tech revisions, and funding challenges. The pace is brutal but for a small group of people, it’s all worth it. These are the select few who are driven by forces so large that they will tolerate any hardship to see their idea succeed. These are the people who change the world.
“The Big Idea” features three innovators (‘Solver teams’) and their stories as they explore groundbreaking solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. These brilliant and bold innovators are united by their desire to use technology, science, and engineering to create radical, systemic change. From a solution to keep vaccine temperatures stable in remote places, to antiracist technology aimed at reducing the Black maternal mortality rates, to hands-on robot-building kits for Indigenous youth, these ideas are meant to shake up the status quo and ultimately, change the world.