Execution, Systematizing Routes to Impact and Scale, Crafting Recommendations, Scaling up
Crafting a roadmap, scaling up, an organization that builds a platform to address a real problem where “others aren’t looking.” Present your conclusions.
In this level:
- You’ll learn how to share your innovation concept with others to put it to the test in the real world.
- You’ll practice delivering a genuine, meaningful presentation of your lab-to-market project all while inspiring next generations to solve problems with science, technology, and math.
- New concepts: build-to-kill plan, de-risking
Schedule
Week 11: A Platform to Address a Real Problem, Charting a Recommendation
Final one-on-ones with course faculty. Preparing a recommendation.
Level Up: The skills you learned, in hindsight
Week 12: Team Week
Catch up with content, move your project past speculating about “applications,” and start outlining key uncertainties to resolve.
- Report back: Interview data chart and new Problem Statement Checklist (PDF).
- Team milestones: Talk with 30 people outside MIT.
Week 13: Last Week: Final 360 Feedback
Mingling event. Practice sharing information about opportunity space. Final public presentation to middle schoolers.
Week 14: The Grand Finale: The Path You Built
The final class of iTeams is when we explain what happened, how it all worked, and why.iTeams is a mastery experience, so, in addition to the content you learn from us and the project you work on, there’s the experience we set up that you live through. It all becomes clear this week.
All final deliverables are due this week.
