Eleven years ago, MIT Lincoln Laboratory staff member Robert Shin was challenged by a colleague to find a way to extend the resources of Beaver Works ' a joint education and research center created by the MIT School of Engineering and the laboratory ' to some of the best and brightest engineering students around the country. A year later, in summer 2016, the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute (BWSI) was born. BWSI, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this summer, is a four-week program designed to offer high school students a transformational hands-on experience while teaching them skills to fuel their future studies and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). "As I look back at the last 10 years of BWSI, I am humbled and grateful to be a part of this amazing journey," says Shin, who has served as the founding director and then the STEM program director for BWSI since 2016. "What started as an idea has evolved into something much bigger and more...
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