TEACH FOR SPLASH!

Splash: Our largest, most exciting program

Teacher registration closes Thursday, October 25th

Over one weekend in November, over one thousand high school and middle school students converge on the MIT campus, where MIT students and affiliates teach them fun classes on just about anything you can think of. Splash weekend is an amazing, fun, and fulfilling experience. Last year, around 215 people taught 270 classes for Splash.

Who knew you could get so much out of a teaching experience in a single weekend? Splash is an enormous collection of classes taught on the Saturday and Sunday before Thanksgiving - 20 hours in total. As a teacher for Splash, you can test the waters with as little as one hour of instruction, or jump in head-first with several. You can teach the same topic in several different sessions to get exposure to the greatest number of students. You can teach several different subjects at separate times, too. You can also just help with the amazing experience that is Splash weekend without teaching anything - we’re always looking for administrators and volunteers to help us coordinate this large event.

We can’t even begin to explain the variety of subjects ESP teachers have presented during the Splash event. We’ve done lectures, seminars, workshops, anything under-the-sun. Last year, a group of students wrote, rehearsed and performed a short play during the weekend. In some sense, it’s similar to HSSP, except maybe a bit wackier and a whole lot more diverse. Come by the ESP office in the student center (W20-467 - we have really nice couches) and we could give you a course catalog; it’s a 30 page book! You can also look at the online archives. Course topics ranged from Duct Tape Design to Algebraic Number Theory, from 4-D hypercubes to Harry Potter.

If your class requires purchasing materials (playing cards, Rubik’s cubes, etc), ESP will reimburse you. You’ll have to buy/order the materials yourself and then fill out the reimbursement form which will be handed out to all teachers when they check in during Splash. You can spend up to $30 per class you teach, no questions asked. If you need to spend more, email splash-director@mit.edu with a list of what you want to buy and how much it will cost. Make sure to keep itemized receipts of everything you buy (the MIT Student Life Program will not reimburse receipts which aren’t itemized and they control our account so there’s nothing we can do).

You should Teach for Splash.