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Imagine if the power of Pokémon Go could be harnessed to tackle issues of community livability, justice, and sustainability. Five MIMS students won the highly competitive CitizenAR augmented reality hackathon. They created an application for Tenderloin youth and community organizers to interact and connect with their peers and community through an augmented reality game design.

“Our team brings a deep appreciation of social science and comprehensive technical expertise. We believe that we truly can make a better world as long as we keep hacking for social impact.” –Berkeley I School team

The MIMS Class of 2019 comes from a wide range of backgrounds, with undergraduate majors in fields as diverse as journalism; economics; political philosophy; engineering science and ocean engineering; Arabic linguistics; and art.

The group includes 24 women and 26 men.

The new students come to Berkeley from eleven different countries: China, France, Greece, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Taiwan, Thailand, the U.K., Vietnam, and the U.S.