MIT 24-Hour Challenge 2026 presents:
MIT D-Lab
Support MIT D-Lab in Designing for a More Equitable World
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About This Microchallenge
If 125 donors make a gift to the D-Lab, $21,500 will be unlocked from Ash Dyer ’06 and Deirdre Offenheiser; Julian Iragorri ’90; Akiko (Kodaka) Koh ’84, SM ’85; John B. Morrell PhD ’96 and Kjirste C. Morrell ’84, SM ’86, PhD ’93; Dom Ricci ’99; and James T. Tang SM ’74.
About MIT D-Lab
“D-Lab's mission, to me, is the pinnacle of what MIT stands for. It's about using our privilege, our creativity, and our intelligence to help.” - Sophia Chen ’24
From micro-irrigation systems in Afghanistan to insulation for informal dwellings in Argentina, MIT D-Lab students, staff, and local partners around the world continue to practice codesign with creativity, empathy, and rigor.
Why codesign? Because D-Lab understands that designing hand-in-hand with community members is critical to developing durable solutions to the complex, interconnected challenges of poverty, climate change, and social inequality.
In the past year alone, D-Lab worked on more than 50 projects in 23 countries with our staff and 250 students from 15 D-Lab classes. Our international community partners collaborated with us every step of the way to conduct research, design technologies, and host design summits and trainings.
While our commitment to this work remains strong, the climate for international development has grown challenging, with reductions in vital resources affecting millions of people and programs, including our own. On average, two-thirds of our budget comes from grants and gifts from donors. Your support directly funds student travel and fieldwork—for projects like clean energy solutions in Uganda, medical transports in Ghana and South Africa, assistive devices for children in Mexico, and so many more.
Please consider making a gift to the MIT D-Lab today. Together, we can continue to create technology that matters to the communities we collaborate with around the world!
D-Lab: Development students in Madagascar, January 2026, where they were working to implement a design for a closed-loop microagriculture system for drought-stricken regions.
Students from the D-Lab Humanitarian Innovation class and residents of the Imvepi and Rhino refugee settlements in Northern Uganda assembled for a Co-Creation Summit in spring of 2025.