Captain America Shield on the Great Dome

Location: The Great Dome (Building 10)
Date: April 27, 2019

To honor the release of Avengers: Endgame, MIT hackers redecorated the Great Dome as Captain America's shield.

Raymond Huffman captured drone footage of the hack and posted it to YouTube:

The hack received national attention in the media, with writeups on the MIT Admissions Blogs, the Boston Globe, ABC7 News, the Hollywood Reporter, CNN, and Fox News. It also reached the attention of Chris Evans, who played Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and who acknowledged the hack on twitter:

In 2016, hackers decorated MIT's campus for the release of Captain America: Civil War.

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