Get outside and play! Bananagrams, Connect Four, Hopscotch, Scrabble, Corn Hole, and more.Choose from a fun and varied selection of board games and lawn games, all free to borrow during your visit. Plenty of options available for adults, kids, small groups and pairs.Picnics, dogs, and groups are welcome! Just make sure to follow our guidelines.Free and open to all! Please note that this event is weather dependent.Special Play+ events in this series:7/22 - Free ice cream sandwiches while supplies last! 🍦7/29 - Rescheduled8/5 - The theme this week is Board Games!8/19 and 9/2 - Free lemonade while supplies last! 🍋10/14 Pet Rock Painting

Join us for a dynamic event that will gather an audience of investors, founders, students, and academics in conversation about advances in AI models and the implications for training, inference, and robotics.​You'll gain practical insights on overcoming operational hurdles and learn how investors evaluate data moats, compute costs, and go-to-market strategies to cut through the AI hype.A reception in the galleries will follow after the panels.​Panel 1: From Idea to Market: Scaling AI & Robotics Startups Moderator: Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab​Vaikkunth Mugunthan, Founder & CEO, Dynamo AI​Tim Kraska, MIT CSAIL; Co-founder, Einblick Analytics​Alexander Amini, Co-founder & CSO, Liquid AI​Panel 2: Investor Perspective: Funding AI-Native Startups Moderator: Diane Choi, investor, Samsung Next​Tuan Ho, Partner, Xfund​Ali Mahmoud, Principal, Glasswing Ventures​Boaz Fachler, Principal, Link Ventures

Time: 6:00 PMLocation: Cambridge, MA

2025 Mandala @ MITCo-sponsored by MIT Prajnopaya, Buddhist Student Club, Simmons Hall

The Breakfast Series is a regular series from the MIT Women's League. Women in the MIT community are invited to join us to hear from women faculty and administrators explore the role of women in the academy, sharing the pathways their professional lives have taken — the people and events that have influenced their direction. A full plated breakfast will be served, prepared by Chef Patrick Campbell. This event is open the MIT Community only.Bev Boisseau Stohl is a nonfiction writer with published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the MIT Press, Brevity Blog, Watertown Lit Squad Sampler, and other publications. She has interviewed with Current Affairs Magazine, Reddit (AMA), Open Source radio, CounterPunch, Green and RedPodcast, The Boston Globe, and other social media. Chomsky and Me: A Memoir (OR Books, 2023) is the story of her 24 years as Noam Chomsky’s MIT assistant. Bev, Noam, and her dog Roxy have been featured in graphic novels, and animated in Michel Gondry’s 2013 film, Is the Man who is Tall Happy? Chomsky and Me was long-listed for the 2024 Mass Book Awards. Bev has performed stand-up comedy, appeared on TV news shows talking backward, and has dabbled in ukulele, guitar, piano, dulcimer, and woodworking.Space is limited. Please email kbennett@mit.edu to RSVP, and let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.