MakeMIT 2023 will be completely in-person, occurring in rooms within the Stratton Student Center. The event will happen over one weekend on Feb 25-26, 2023.

We will be returning MakeMIT back into in-person! Teams will build their projects over the span of 24 hours (there will not be a separate design and build phase) using materials and equipment that will be provided at the venue. Projects will be judged in person on February 26th.

All undergraduate students worldwide are welcome.

While we aren’t accepting graduate students as makers, we would love to have graduate students as event volunteers! Contact us at [email protected] to get involved.

We can host MIT students in person, as well as students from nearby schools in the Boston-area who wish to travel to the MIT venue (Stratton Student Center).

We'll have mentors with "office hours" for you to ask questions throughout the process! We also have a beginners workshop at the beginning of the make-a-thon to teach participants introductory CADing!

Our theme this year is Recovery! Although students are not required to make a project based on the theme, we hope that the theme can provide some sort of guide or inspiration for your project!

​​ We will be offering cash prizes to the top teams as well as sponsored prizes, ranging from Wolfram One to an MSI Laptop! More specifics will be released closer to the day of the event.

​​​Admission is free for all makers and includes mentors, workshops, swag, resources, and a great experience!

Building materials and equipment will be provided free-of-charge to in-person participants at the venue.

The application can be found at this link and is due on Monday, January 30, 2023. Applications will be reviewed by our team using an internal grading rubric, and results will be released within a week.

Teams can have up to five members.

You can submit team member names on our application, and all team members must be accepted to the event in order to keep the team. If all team members are not accepted, you can join another team or create a new one with accepted participants. Teams can also be formed after the application closes and during the event.

As always, we will have a team formation event at the beginning of the make-a-thon so you can meet fellow college makers around the world! If possible, we recommend looking for team members that are physically located close to you so you have the option of meeting together in-person to make.

Feel free to email us at [email protected]! We will get back to you as soon as possible!