Activities and Clubs at MIT

Special Interest

• The MIT MIT/Draper Lab Bridge Club holds weekly duplicate bridge games on Tuesday nights, and intro ductory bridge lessons during IAP.
• The MIT Debate Team members partipate in weekly debate tournaments at colleges and universities across America and the world.
• The MIT Entrepreneurship Competition (the $50K) awards $50,000 in cash and in-kind services to MIT students with the best new venture ideas.
• The IAP Mystery Hunt
• The MIT Quiz Bowl Team participates in and runs both interscholastic and on-campus academic team trivia competitions.

• The MIT Electronic Research Society makes ride films, builds Animatrons, makes sculpture by 3-d scanning and printing. If it's weird, they like it. They help run the MIT Flea Market.
• The High Power Rocket Society is an a unofficial group which is working on resurrecting the old Rocket Society, with a slant toward High Power Rocketry.
• The New Horizons Club provides opportunities to pursue interests in areas not typically addressed in course curricula, and to increase student-faculty interactions. We have dinner meetings every 2 weeks, and also plan other events, such as our upcoming Forum on the Management of Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals.
• The Robotics and Electronics Cooperative is a group of students who design, build, and play with robotics and other electronic circuits and devices.
• The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team is a student team that designs, builds, and races solar and electric vehicles around the country and around the world.
• The MIT Students for the Exploration and Development of Space provides opportunities for students to get involved in the science, enginnering, education and policy aspects of our future in space.
• The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) caters to model railroaders, railfans, and hackers alike. Our activities involve all aspects of model railroading, including the application of computer technology and timetable passenger and card-order freight operation.
• The MIT Radio Society, W1MX, is America's oldest college amateur radio club.

• MIT Air Force ROTC
• MIT Army ROTC
• MIT Navy ROTC
• Pershing Rifles, Company C-12 is a military honor society open to ROTC cadets and civilians.

• The MIT Assassins' Guild runs a number of real-time, real-space, live-action role-playing games each year.
• The Strategic Games Society plays a variety of wargames, role-playing games, and general strategy games. You name it, we'll play it.

• The Ethics Center for Engineering and Science is a prototype of a web ethics center for engineering and sciences. It contains many resources for learning about ethical problems, including scenarios and cases.
• The MIT Chapter of Student Pugwash USA is an educational, student-run organization that "builds a commitment among young people to integrate social concerns into their lives through science and technology."
• The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT provides an innovative and flexible public forum for discussion of the mutual aspects of technological advance and social change, with due consideration of their ethical implications.

• The MIT Anime Club provides regular showings of Anime and an online library of Anime-related text and scanned pictures to its members and the MIT community.
• The Society for Creative Anachronism is an organization whose members enjoy researching and recreating aspects of medieval history.
• mitBEEF is the MIT society for increasing awareness and education of beef and other bovine products.
• The MIT Societo por Esperanto is an organization for people who want to learn Esperanto, improve their knowledge of the language, and inform others about its benefits.
• The Extropians are members of the MIT community who are passionate about a future where reasoned discourse, technological progress, economic bounty, political liberty, and artistic beauty dominate.
• The MIT Juggling Club has weekly informal meetings where we do juggling and related skills. No MIT affiliation required.
• The MIT S.A.V.E. is a group of students at MIT who are concerned about the environment.
• MITSFS, the MIT Science Fiction Society, has the largest open-shelf collection of science fiction in the world.
• The MIT Toastmasters Club meets roughly every other Friday, at 12:05, in E19-220.
• The MIT Vegetarian Group is a very informal organization interested in vegetarian issues. Membership is free, noncommittal and comes with NO requirements (being vegetarian is not a prerequisite).