Curriculum.
The Bridge Program features a 12 week curriculum spanning topics in science, technology, leadership, and community organizing and engagement.
Week 1
Leadership
Part 1: Introduction to Public Narrative
Using storytelling to share the “stories of self" that call us to leadership.
Abel Cano
(Arc of Change)
Week 2
Microbial Music
Making music from data generated about the trillions of micro-organisms that inhabit the human body.
David Sun Kong, Ph.D.
(MIT Media Lab)
Cas Smith
(Ginkgo Bioworks)
Week 3
Synthetic Biology Futures
Imagining futures where synthetic biology is reshaping how we make medicines, food, materials, energy, and more.
David Sun Kong, Ph.D. (MIT Media Lab)
Cas Smith
(Ginkgo Bioworks)
Week 4
Leadership
Part 2:
Team Building
Working in teams to define our team’s norms and shared purpose for how we will mobilize our communities.
Abel Cano
(Arc of Change)
Week 5
Civics & Computation
Using coding tools like Scratch to tell the stories of our communities.
Jaleesa Trapp
(Lifelong Kindergarten, MIT Media Lab)
Week 6
Artificial Intelligence & Creativity
Using artificial intelligence to augment humanity’s creative forms of expression from visual art to music and poetry.
Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola
(Personal Robots, MIT Media Lab)
Week 7
Blockchain & Digital Currency
Exploring how digital currency and blockchain technology can decentralize power and create new systems of value
Neha Narula, Ph.D., Shira Frank
(Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab)
Week 8
Leadership
Part 3:
Strategy & Tactics
Working in our teams to define the strategies and tactics for how we will implement our final project ideas.
Abel Cano
(Arc of Change)
Week 9
Space Exploration:
Part 1
Exploring the frontiers of space exploration, from the expanding universe to advanced optics.
Professor Dava Newman
(MIT Media Lab)
Ariel Ekblaw, Ph.D.
(MIT Media Lab)
Kenneth Harris
(NASA Goddard)
Week 10
Space Exploration:
Part 2
Working in teams to solve space missions close to Earth and throughout the galaxy.
Professor Danielle Wood
(Space Enabled, MIT Media Lab)
Kenneth Harris
(NASA Goddard)
Week 11
Final Project
Hack-a-Thon
Speaker:
Art, Engineering, & Creativity
Week 12