In the spring semester, your Terrascope experience expands to
include hands-on original research and design work done under
the guidance of MIT faculty members. For the first part of the
semester, you and a small team of Terrascope classmates will
engage in projects that address or illuminate some aspect of the
problem you have been studying throughout your Terrascope year.
Much of your work may be done in the lab, shop or research area
of the faculty member advising your project; faculty advisors
are drawn from departments throughout the Institute, as
appropriate to the year’s Terrascope problem. As in all of
Terrascope, the focus is on working in teams to accomplish
challenging tasks, and you and your teammates may have great
freedom to determine the scope, emphasis and content of your
work. At the end of the semester, the teams join together in a
large, public space to create a unique Bazaar of Ideas, a
festive gathering in which you can show off the work you have
done, both to the MIT community at large a