Nicholas Okafor, head online facilitator for the MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community (MOSTEC) program, records a video in advance of students’ arrival at MIT this month. Photo: Zachary Messick
In 2011, Nicholas Okafor was part of the first class of the MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community (MOSTEC) program, a free, six-month online program for rising high school seniors run by the MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (OEOP). Now in its sixth year, MOSTEC gives students an opportunity to take online project courses in STEM fields including robotics, neuroscience, and astrophysics, and to visit MIT’s campus for a weeklong conference filled with hands-on workshops and career seminars.