Under the Dome: open house at MIT for the Institute’s 150th anniversary

Visitors watch a glass-blowing demonstration during a tour of the Glass Lab in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as part of the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Julia Goldstein helps children in a demonstrationg of Playtime Computing, a project by Media Lab master’s student David Robert, at the Media Lab during MIT’s Under the Dome open house. The technology demonstrates a blended-reality character that mixes robotics with animation in an immersive environment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA?.

Tim Politano, 2nd year grad student in Chemical Engineering, demonstrates non-newtonian liquid physics with corn starch and water to Gabe (left), 15, and Caleb Trotz, 10, of Acton, Massachusetts, during the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Visitors watch a demonstration of under water fabrication and cutting in the Fab Lab in the Media Lab during MIT’s Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

People put up a poster for the Language and the Human Mind event put on by the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy in the Stata Center as part of the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Middle school students in the Tenacity after-school program in East Boston build structures out of spaghetti and marshmallows as part of a demonstration by the Department of Mechanical Engineering during the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

People look at robotics demonstrations in the Stata Center during the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Children watch as Materials Science and Engineering students make ice cream using liquid nitrogen during the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Visitors gather in Killian Court outside building 10 during the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

People look at robotics demonstrations in the Stata Center during the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Young visitors look at bacteria in petri dishes in a microbiology demonstration by Steve Goldfless (left), 4th year grad student in Bio Engineering, during the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

People gather in Lobby 7 during the MIT Under the Dome open house before a flashmob at noon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Visitors watch a glass-blowing demonstration during a tour of the Glass Lab in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as part of the MIT Under the Dome open house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.