MIT Alumni Audio Scrapbook

Training MIT undergrads...

Storybuilders and the MIT Alumni Association collaborated on an exciting project over MIT's reunion weekend.

First, Storybuilders did a whirlwind training with four undergraduate students, teaching these students (quick studies, all of them!) how to use audio recording equipment and the basics of interviewing. Then, these newly-trained undergrads conducted nineteen interviews of alumni over reunion weekend, asking them to describe their memories of MIT, to discuss what they enjoy about reunion, and to speculate on the challenges that young people will face in the professional world.

Storybuilders pulled some of the best quotes out of the interviews, and combined these voices with photos from MIT's reunion weekend, creating the Alumni Association's first audio scrapbook -- check it out!

(Note: Also on the linked page is "The Redcoats are Coming," a story made by Nancy DuVergne Smith, of the Alumni Association, during a 3-day workshop in winter 2007.)