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MIT Students Use Their Coding Skills For Suicide Prevention

3/7/2016

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Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are using their coding skills for an important cause: lowering the suicide rate at their school.

In the past decade, there have been 12 suicides among MIT graduate and undergraduate students, according to the Boston Globe. While the university has instituted its own initiatives to support mental health, three students took it upon themselves to go a step further.
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Through an anonymous texting hotline called Lean On Me, anyone in the MIT community in need of support can reach out at anytime and connect with a peer — which can be just as important as getting help from a professional, says MIT sophomore Andy Trattner, one of the hotline's creators.

Read Full Article, By Allison Tate, NBC News

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