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GSF Board Deadlines

GSF Booklets and Evaluation Sheets must be emailed to your boards by TOMORROW, February 18^th. Please CC misti-gsf@mit.edu.

KB Requests

Is there something you think would be useful for us to include in the Knowledge Base? We are now soliciting recommendations!

I&E Resource Roundup

Join the comm team for this great tabling event on Wednesday 2/23 from 11:30 to 1:30 in E38. Talk to students who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Excellence Awards

Don’t forget to nominate students for the MISTI Excellence Awards! Nominations are due Friday, March 18. See guidelines and forms below.

International Festival

On May 25 from 5:30-7:30 pm, we will be hosting the first International Festival on Kendall green. We will be abandoning the food trucks for a tent and catering setup. Please share suggestions for:

• Student/community groups to perform
• Restaurants for catering (Cambridge preferred)
• Relevant Cambridge partners and groups

Salesforce Updates

• New Screencast available in the KB (‘Salesforce User Resources’): ‘How to Create & Export Salesforce Reports’
• Remember to add and update any IAP hosts in Salesforce
• Two new fields have been added to the organizations layout (screenshot attached):
  • A ‘Dept/Group/Center/Lab’ field in the top level org info, which is to be used to more specifically categorize the organization
  • An ‘Additional Internship Details” field is a text field where you can capture any info that does not fit neatly into the other internship fields

CIS Newsletter

As always, please share your lovely photos and news with Laura Kerwin. The community newsletter needs you!

Giving Day is Coming

Don’t forget, giving day is March 10 this year. More info to come in an upcoming staff meeting.

Excellence Awards

Time to nominate students for the MISTI Excellence Awards! Nominations are due Friday, March 18. See attached guidelines and forms.

Hackathons

The comm team will be present in E40 on Thursdays 2/10 and 2/24 from 11-1. Come brainstorm about your website and learn more about how to incorporate Program Cards. Primacy will also have a developer standing by to help with technical questions. Invites to come!

International Festival (slated 5/25)

We have been offered the opportunity to host our international celebration as an unofficial part of commencement week! We would like to have student performances, community partners, and food trucks. If you are interested in participating, put your thinking caps on now. I will reach out for ideas and information in the coming weeks.

Last Call for GSF printed booklets!

Please update this worksheet with your printed GSF booklet needs (if any) by Friday at 10 am.

Covid FAQ

We just updated the Covid FAQ on our website for reference.

I&E Resource Roundup

Join the comm team for this great tabling event on Wednesday 2/23 from 11:30 to 1:30 in E38. Talk to students who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Data:

AY21 Placed Students are now loaded into Filemaker. 

How MISTI staff access Salesforce has changed:

• Navigate to the updated the Salesforce url: https://misti.my.salesforce.com/ (Update your bookmarks!)
• Do not enter your username or password; instead scroll down to the button ‘MISTI Login’ (screenshot attached for reference)
• Click the ‘MISTI Login’ button and follow the prompts to use your MIT certificate and then to push out a notification to duo. After you’ve approved the duo notification, you should be automatically taken to your Salesforce landing page/dashboard.