Middlebury

Project on Creativity and Innovation

CA Liaison: Meghan Williamson '77
Phone: 802.443.5817
Email: meghan@middlebury.edu

Fact Sheets

MiddCORE Fact Sheet

This fact sheet provides an overview of the MiddCORE program, including MiddCOREplus and has new photos from Winter Term 2012. It is current as of March 2012.

PCI Fact Sheet readable
PCI Fact Sheet printable
 
The PCI fact sheet provides an overview of the Project on Creativity and Innovation and includes brief descriptions of the 11 major programs. It includes information on MiddCORE and the Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship. This is version to use if you are emailing it to someone. This is current as of May 2012.
 

Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship - Winter Edition

This fact sheet provides and overview of the Annual Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship and celebration of their first anniversary.  Current as of January 2013.
 
Project for Creativity and Innovation - Flow Chart
An indispensable high quality print-enabled map of the various programs under the PCI umbrella or related to PCI and how they work in concert. A great resource to understand the divisions of experiential learning at Middlebury. 
 
 
PCI Flow Chart - Summer 2012

Online Resources

Middlebury Magazine or Dispatch Article

"Students Make Pitch for Social Entrepreneurship Grants"—An audio slideshow that includes interviews with John Isham and students making proposals for additional funding for their imaginative socially conscious projects. (Spring 2012)

http://blogs.middlebury.edu/middmag/2012/05/08/students-make-pitch-for-social-entrepreneur-grants/

"A Beautiful Mind"—An article about Emma Kitchen who won MiddCORE's "the Next Big Idea" challenge with her online community ConcussionsSpeak. (Winter 2012)

http://blogs.middlebury.edu/middmag/2012/06/01/a-beautiful-mind/

"Espirit de CORE"—MiddCORE, an ultra-intensive, four-week, 9 to 5 (and beyond) course that has taken place every J-term since 2008, is open to 16 Middlebury students and 30 mentors who travel from across the country for this experience. (Spring 2011)

http://blogs.middlebury.edu/middmag/2011/05/23/esprit-de-core/

News Stories

"The Business of Bootcamps"—Wall Street Journal Online

This article about various programs attempting to impart business or entrepreneurial skills—and the benefits of such programs—mentions MiddCORE, both in the form of a college course and in its new iteration on the Sierra Nevada College campus.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324178904578340414133858572.html

"Site funds student entrepreneurs"—The Middlebury Campus' article on MiddSTART, created through the Project for Creativity and Innovation in the Liberal Arts, which funds students’ ideas and projects through online donations from members of the College community.

http://www.middleburycampus.com/2011/02/16/site-funds-student-entrepreneurs/

Other

List of Spring 2011 Old Stone Mill tenants—including their proposed plans for the space.

http://www.middlebury.edu/studentlife/innovation/OSM/tenants

MiddCORE Testimonial Video—A video (uploaded to youtube) of student testimonials about Middlebury's J-term class, MiddCORE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTozYP2orWE&feature=player_embedded#at=52

MiddCORE Mentor Testimonial Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3j3oqyo2U&feature=player_embedded

MiddCORE Promotional Video—A video made by students about MiddCORE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHC_YJekmkg&feature=related