In the high-pressure environment of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), students are conditioned to solve the world’s most complex technical problems with code, algorithms, and advanced mathematics. Yet, for Daphne Wang, a mechanical engineering student who spent her summer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the most vital lesson wasn’t found in a textbook or a compiler. […]
Bridging the Gap: How MIT’s Code.Tulsa Program is Humanizing Engineering Through Tribal Partnership
When Daphne Wang, a mechanical engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last summer for an internship with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Department of Health, she arrived with a specific expectation: she would be writing code. She anticipated long hours in front of a terminal, debugging software, and optimizing […]