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SECOND FLOOR

Essential MIT
Local drinks from Small Change Brewing
Food from Pagu
Sets by DJ Nate Burner

Lee Family Exchange

Discover New England's Ocean Wilderness
6:45pm
Join Keith Ellenbogen, Visiting Artist at MIT Sea Grant, for an extraordinary journey beneath the waves as he unveils a window into the underwater world of our local waters through the art of photography.

Signs of Oceans and/or Life on Other Worlds
7:45pm
Catch a talk with MIT Professor Julien De Wit to learn about new ways we are identifying habitable or inhabited planets beyond the solar system.

Heide Maker Hub

Float Your Boat
6-9pm
Learn about legendary MIT naval engineer Nathanael Herreshoff as you design and build your own boat prototype. Then, compete with other guests to see who has the most efficient design!

Hullabaloo: Exploring Boats in Motion
6-9pm
Learn about the design principles that shaped Arcturus’s autonomous surface vehicle, Fish ’N Ships, and experiment with different catamaran constructions.

Learning Lab 1

The First Signs of Vision
6-9pm
Experience the dawn of sight — from the first light-sensitive cells to modern vision — as you journey through the ocean's history in an interactive exhibit presented by MIT's Camera Culture group.

Learning Lab 2

Design for Resilience in Coastal Ecosystems
6-9pm
Join MIT graduate student James Vincent Brice in a hands-on wave flume demonstration to learn about water wave mechanics and the way coastal ecosystems like mangrove forests, salt marshes, seagrass meadows and oyster reefs protect our shorelines in the face of global climate change.

Navigate a SeaPerch II ROV
6-9pm
Plunge into the world of robotics! Created at MIT in the early 2000s, the SeaPerch Program is an educational tool that today includes sensors, processors, and soft robotic elements. Join MIT Sea Grant and test your ROV operating skills.