制造、系统设计和管理课程的负责人长久以来的传统，就是要对公共服务做出贡献，并把领导能力、管理能力和工作技能应用到课堂之外。研讨会通过可选的服务方案，为达到这个目标提供了途径。
The Leaders for Manufacturing and the System Design and Management Programs have a tradition of dedication towards public service and applying leadership, management, and service skills in arenas outside of the classroom. This Pro-Seminar provides one such avenue to achieve this goal through the optional service project.

这里是以前参加过研讨会的学生对他们做过的方案的简单描述，你们可以通过麻省理工学院公众服务中心(http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/ )进行访问。
Here are short descriptions of projects that many Pro-Seminar students have done in the past and are available through the MIT Public Service Center - http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/

麻省理工学院人类住房项目
MIT Habitat for Humanity

• 网址：http://habitat.mit.edu/
  http://habitat.mit.edu/
• 麻省理工学院人类住房项目，作为国际人类住房项目的校园部分， 是一个由学生领导的无派别团体。麻省理工学院住房项目致力于在麻省理工学院社区提高对贫困人群居住问题的认识，并鼓励大家参加服务项目。他们通过志愿劳动和筹集资金的方法支持当地的HFH联盟。
  MIT Habitat for Humanity, as a campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity International, is a non-denominational student-led group. MIT Habitat seeks to raise awareness in the MIT community about poverty housing issues, and to encourage participation in service events. MIT Habitat supports local HFH affiliates through volunteer labor and fundraising.
• 国际人类住房项目成立于1976年，是一个向大众提供普通屋的非营利性教会组织。HFHI致力于消除全世界贫困住房和无房可住的问题，并通过道德心和实际行动来提供优质住房。该组织邀请来自各处的人们和需要住房的人们一起盖房。
  Habitat for Humanity International, founded in 1976, is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people from all walks of life to work together in partnership to help build houses with families in need.
• 国际人类住房项目已经在全世界建造了超过70，000所房屋，在超过2，000个社区里为至少350，000人提供了安全、优质并且价格可以承受的住所。
  Habitat has built more than 70,000 houses around the world, providing over 350,000 people in more than 2,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.
  

"礼物之树"项目
The Giving Tree

• 网址：http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/givingtree/
  http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/givingtree/
• "礼物之树"项目为麻省理工学院的学生、职员和老师提供机会，为剑桥和波士顿地区的孩子提供礼物。他们通过与超过15个的当地组织合作，获得了多达1500个孩童的姓名、年龄、性别、对礼物的特定要求。他们将每个孩童和一个学生、职员或者老师配对。这种方法使得赠送礼物的过程更加人性化，对参与到其中的所有人来说也更有价值。
  The Giving Tree offers the opportunity for MIT students, faculty and staff to provide gifts to needy children in the Cambridge and Boston area. Working with over 15 local agencies that provide them with the names, ages, genders and specific gift requests of over 1500 children, they match each child with a student, faculty or staff member. This method makes the gift-giving process more personalized and rewarding for all those involved.

KEYS项目（授权年青人的关键）
KEYS (Keys to Empowering Youth)

• 网址：http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/keys/
  http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/keys/
• KEYS项目是针对11岁至13岁女孩的一个激励项目。该项目为她们提供机会与在科学及其他非传统领域内学习、工作并乐于分享她们想法和经验的女士进行交流。
  KEYS is a motivational program for 11 to 13 year old girls. It provides them with an opportunity to meet women studying and working in science and other "non-traditional'' fields, women who would like to share their experiences and ideas.
• KEYS是麻省理工学院公共服务中心的一个方案。它将麻省理工学院的学生、职员或者教师的才能与生活经验与大波士顿地区女孩的努力目标和梦想联系在了一起。
  KEYS is a project of the Public Service Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It brings together the talents and life experiences of MIT students, staff, and faculty and the developing goals and dreams of girls in the greater Boston area.
• KEYS项目得到麻省理工学院公共服务中心、麻省理工学院女学生志愿者和愿意送女儿到我们项目的父母们的配合。
  KEYS is possible through the work of the MIT Public Service Center, MIT women student volunteers, and the support of parents who send their children to our program.
  
  

LINKS项目
LINKS

• 网址：http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/links/
  http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/links/
• LINKS项目开始于1992年秋季，为"城市日"的持续项目之一。该项目促进麻省理工学院学生进入中小学校进行数学和科学教育。麻省理工学院学生志愿者每周花1－3小时和剑桥小学K8年级的学生在一起。这个以学期为单位的项目每年春季和秋季学期都会进行，由麻省理工学院学生在公共服务中心的支持下协调完成。
  LINKS was started in the fall of 1992 as one of the follow-through components of CityDays in an ongoing and cooperative effort bringing MIT students into the schools to supplement Math and Science education. MIT volunteers commit 1-3 hours a week to work in Cambridge elementary school classrooms with children grades K-8. The semester-long program takes place during the fall and spring semesters and is coordinated by MIT students with the support of the Public Service Center.
  

伸出援助之手项目
ReachOut

• 网址：http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/reachout/
  http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/reachout/
• 全国考试的阅读分数很清楚地表明，孩童正与阅读困难作斗争。根据2000年麻省阅读理解评估系统（MCAS）的测试分数，在波士顿的公立学校里只有6%的4年级学生被认为 "精通"阅读，而在剑桥的公立学校里面只有10％的4年级学生被认为"精通"阅读。1997年，一个全国范围的"美国阅读"项目在超过1000所大学和学院中开始实施。
  Looking at reading scores across the country, it is clear that kids are struggling with reading. In Boston Public Schools, only 6% of 4th graders were considered "proficient" readers and in Cambridge Public Schools, only 10% of 4th graders were considered "proficient" readers, according to the scores of the 2000 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test. A national AmericaReads program was implemented at over a thousand colleges and universities in 1997.
• "伸出援助之手"项目是上述项目的麻省理工学院分支，由麻省理工学院公共服务中心和麻省理工学院学生就业中心共同资助。该目招聘、训练辅导员，并分配这些辅导员去指导那些被鉴定在阅读方面需要帮助的孩童。
  ReachOut is the MIT branch of this program. Co-sponsored by the MIT Public Service Center and the MIT Student Employment Office, ReachOut recruits, trains, and matches tutors with children identified as needing help with reading.
  

CommuniTech项目
CommuniTech

• 网址：http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/comtech/
  http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/comtech/
• 由麻省理工学院发起的CommuniTech项目致力于在数码鸿沟上架设桥梁--即消除那些获得最新技术信息的人们与没有获得这些知识的人们之间的认知代沟。在项目开展初期，活动主要集中在收集旧电脑、重新组装它们并送给那些没有电脑的人们。当这部分内容完成的时候CommuniTech项目的人员发现他们的工作只完成了一半。如果要真正的通过技术将人们联系在一起并加强这种联系，简单地赠送电脑给人们是不够的。他们必须使这些人感到这些新电脑使用起来很方便。
  CommuniTech is an initiative at MIT that attempts to bridge the Digital Divide -- the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. When it began, CommuniTech's main focus was gathering old computers, refurbishing them, and giving them to people without access to computers. With that piece in place, CommuniTech found their job only half finished. To truly connect and empower people through technology they found that simply giving people computers was not enough. They also had to make people feel comfortable using their new computers as well.
• CommuniTech项目从3个方面--UCF（麻省理工学院二手电脑工厂）、FACT（家庭使用电脑技术）和CONNECT来解决第二个问题：
  CommuniTech approaches this second issue from three angles through UCF (MIT Used Computer Factory), FACT (Families Accessing Computer Technology) and CONNECT.
  • UCF是一个志愿者组织，他们将电脑硬件组装成新的电脑，并捐给当地需要它们的的家庭。
    UCF is a group of volunteers who refurbish computer hardware together for donation to local needy families.
  • FACT主要是为家庭演示电脑在他们生活中的作用。 他们为这些家庭演示电脑的基本功能和主流程序，譬如Microsoft的Word和Excel。每个家庭都会配备一个麻省理工学院学生，在半个学期内每周见面一次。在课程结束的时候，这些家庭会收到属于他们的利用旧电脑组装起来的新电脑。
    FACT shows families the functionality of the computer in their lives. It accomplishes this by walking families through the basics of a computer and mainstream programs, such as Microsoft Word and Excel. Each family is matched with one MIT student who meets with the family once a week for half a semester. At the end of the sessions, the families receive their own refurbished computer.
  • CONNECT是一个致力于激发孩童对电脑的兴趣的项目。 麻省理工学院学生在3个校外项目里教这些班级的学生发布网页和制图。孩子们可以做他们想做的网页。通过告诉孩子们如何利用电脑表达他们的兴趣和创造力，CONNECT希望他们可以形成对电脑的长时间的好奇和喜爱。
    CONNECT is a program that strives to excite children about computers. MIT students visit three after-school programs to teach classes covering Web Publishing and Graphics. Kids are given the opportunity to make a website devoted to whatever they like. By showing kids how to use the computer to express their interests and creativity, CONNECT hopes to nurture a lasting curiosity and love for computers.
    

麻省理工学院剑桥地区科学展览会
MIT Cambridge Science Expo

• 网址：http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/sciexpo/
  http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/programs/sciexpo/
• 这个科学探索活动不仅仅是一个科学活动。它给来自剑桥地区14所不同中学的7年级和8年级学生提供机会与来自麻省理工学院的学生志愿者见面、交谈和游戏。每年，约有200～300名剑桥地区中学的学生参观麻省理工学院校园，展示他们的科学方案，参观一些实验室，展览馆和院系。
  The Science Expo is much more than a science fair. It is an opportunity for 7th and 8th grade students from 14 different Cambridge schools to meet, talk to, and have fun with student volunteers from MIT. Each year, between two and three hundred Cambridge School kids visit the campus to showcase their science projects and explore some of MIT's laboratories, museums, and departments.
• 每年的科学探索活动有超过100名志愿者学生。学生们全天候和这些小科学家在一起，讨论他们的方案，参与他们的活动，激励他们对科学和教育的探索。通过这个活动，孩子们会发现学习科学和技术很有趣，学习过程也可以很有意思。
  Over 100 MIT students volunteer at the Science Expo each year. These students motivate young scientists in their exploration of science and education by discussing their projects with them and acting as role models throughout the day. Through the Expo, kids discover that the study of science and technology can be interesting and that learning can be fun.
  

正在调研的其他方案：
Additional Projects being investigated

• 当地高中的制造课程（Wayland）
  Manufacturing Class at local high school (Wayland)
• 当地托儿所温室建造项目
  Construction of greenhouses at local nursery
• http://www.matchelder.org/
• http://hospiceboston-brockton.com/
• 欢迎你的建议！
  Your ideas are welcome!
  

可以接受的其它方案：
Other Projects are acceptable too!

• 为饥饿而走/为治疗某种疾病而长跑活动的后勤和运作安排
  Walk For Hunger / Race For A Cure Logistics & Operations
• 等等
  Etc.

• 每个学生必须在春季学期结束时准备一页纸的关于服务方案体验的报告（项目的目标是什么、做了什么、收获了什么），并在秋季学期结束之前准备一个简短的中期报告。
  Each student is required to prepare a one-page report on the service project experience ("what the program goals were, what was done, what was learned") at the end of the spring semester with a short interim report at the end of the fall semester.
• 每个学生必须为他们的方案做一个5分钟的非正式口头报告，以此作为春季学期课程内容的一部分。
  Each student is asked to develop an informal 5 minute presentation on their project. We will use a session in the spring for this.
• 我们鼓励团队方案。
  Team projects are encouraged.

项目的目标必须形成文档留给后来的班级，指导他们在有价值的领域从事社区服务。这份总结必须包括做了什么，获得怎样的体验以及该组织的联系信息。
The goal should be a document we can pass on to the next class to guide them in valuable areas to do community service. The summary should include what they did, how rewarding was the experience, and contact information for the organization.