PInT - Public Interest Technology at Olin

11/17/2021

PInT is fundraising until the end of November! We hope that you are able to help us fund future projects surrounding social good and host discussions and events about how we can use our role as engineers to better serve the public.
Thank you so much in advance ❤️

Join me and make a gift to Support Public Interest Tech (PInT)

11/18/2020

Congratulations to Sam Coleman ('22), Arla Sutton ('23), and Emma Pan ('21) from PInT, and Ivy Li from Impactful, for hosting an awesome workshop on Pathways into Public Interest Technology during the PIT-UN Convening!

Find impactful at .tech on Instagram, and on Twitter :)

11/13/2020

This Saturday, PInT will also be presenting at the IEEE ISTAS conference on public interest tech, at 11am. CONGRATS to Ruby Eisenbud, Sam Daitzman, Shreya Chowdhary, Emma Pan, and Erhardt Graeff for the acceptance of their paper, Care and Liberation in Creating a Student-Led Public Interest Technology Clinic! 🎉🎉🎉

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11/13/2020

This week is the Public Interest Technology University Network Convening! Catch us there!

PInT is collaborating with the nonprofit Impactful to give a workshop on Pathways into Public Interest Technology tomorrow, from 5-6pm.

Register for the convening here if interested:

Welcome to the PIT-UN 2020 Virtual Convening!

10/25/2020

tl;dr: PInT is seeking alumni mentors! If you're an alum, we'd love some help with sharing this post to reach other alumni.

PInT is a student-led team at Olin that focuses on learning and practicing public interest technology skills on projects with tangible impact. We are funded by a grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network, and have existed for just over a year. Our goal is to empower each other to create the changes we want to see in the world.

This semester, we are looking for alumni with experiences outside the Olin Bubble™ who would be interested in engaging with PInT! Some possible ways to participate are: contributing to a design review, teaching a skillshare, mentoring a team, speaking on a panel about public interest tech engagement after Olin, or sharing a project that PInT could work on in the future. We are also open to new ideas :)

Please fill out this form if you are interested, and we'll get back to you if there is a match:

PInT is a student-led team at Olin that focuses on learning and practicing public interest technology skills on projects with tangible impact. We are funded by a grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network, and have existed for just over a year. Our goal is to empower each other to....

06/04/2020

Brittany Bennett, Data Director for Sunrise Movement, will be holding the first meeting of "Progressive Data and Anti-Racism" on Thursday. Join to hear how you can take anti-racist action, collect data responsibly, and orient data work to fight for racial justice!

Join us to discuss how we as progressive data professionals can reorient our data programs to fight for racial justice

05/27/2020

This March, three PInT students (Shreya Chowdhary '22, Sam Daitzman '22, and Emma Pan '21) presented at the Public Interest Tech University Network Informatics Education Conference. We presented about how, through maximizing student autonomy and leadership, PInT has empowered all of us to authentically identify as public interest technologists, with the capacity to imagine and realize a more equitable vision for the future.

We're super excited to share the (slightly edited) audio of our presentation, the transcript, and our slides. Thank you to all of our faculty and team members who helped us develop the presentation--especially our wonderful advisors, Professor Erhardt Graeff and Professor Steve Matsumoto.

Link to audio: https://bit.ly/pint-audio
Link to transcript: https://bit.ly/pint-transcript
Link to presentation slides: https://bit.ly/pint-presentation

02/17/2020

In case you missed it, here's a recording of last week's Design No Harm presentation. Our team shared stories about how we made the decision to not do a project and then had a group discussion about our power and responsibility as engineers to say ‘no’ when we could cause more harm than good.

12/16/2019

Come check out the PInT exhibit at EXPO!