Center for Creativity, Innovaton and Social Entrepreneurship

Have an idea for a project or business? Is there a problem you want to solve or an artistic piece you wish to create? Spend this summer taking your idea to the next level and get the funding to do it. MiddCHALLENGE is here to help you turn your idea into reality.

The Competition:
MiddCHALLENGE is accepting proposals in which you explain the inspiration and/or viability of your idea or business. The competition categories include: 1) Business and Technology 2) Social Impact 3) Arts 4) Sustainability

The CCI and Atwater Commons are Co-Sponsoring a LinkedIn Photoshoot. Stop by to put the good-looking back in preprofessional.

Join VCET and Middlebury College’s Innovation Hub to connect with Addison County’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: hear and share shameless plugs, tour the Old Stone Mill, engage with design thinking, and mingle with members of the Middlebury campus and community. RSVP to lscott@middlebury.edu.

MiddCORE is Middlebury’s mentor-driven leadership and innovation immersion program which builds skills and confidence through collaborative, experiential, impact-focused learning. Through daily, weekly, and month-long challenges, students gain experience in leadership, strategic thinking, idea creation, collaboration, persuasive communication, ethical decision making, cross-cultural understanding, conflict resolution, empathy, and crisis management. Students can apply to take MiddCORE in January on Middlebury’s Vermont campus or in the summer on the shores of Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Leadership, creative thought, and intellectual risk taking—these are the skills CCISE helps Middlebury students develop through a multitude of opportunities on and off campus. The center includes MiddCORE, social entrepreneurship programs, and creativity and innovation programs. These programs provide opportunities for students to try new things, develop creative ideas, and learn to engage our local community and the world.

Come celebrate 10 years of innovation programs at Middlebury! On Sunday of Homecoming Weekend, The Innovation Hub will be hosting brunch and an informal conversation about the future of innovation in higher education.

Join Brian Bethke, a successful Midd Alum and Alpine Ski racer. Come to hear his story of how he started two successful music businesses, Pigtronix and Supro, growing both into global masterpieces before selling them in 2020 and how he then became a member of the EO (Entrepreneur’s Organization). He brings his expertise and advice on how to successfully navigate this ever-changing world and his next big project…See you there!

Co-sponsored by the Innovation Hub, MiddVentures, Midd2Midd, CCI, and MiddMentors.

Workshop focused on showing international students how to find internship and work opportunities outside of the US. Hosted by the ISO and the CCI.

Participants in this zoom training session will learn about compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, and burnout. Participants are exposed to various self-care strategies including body awareness, mental imagery, self-understanding, self-talk, creative play, supervision and peer support, arrangement of the physical work space, and boundaries. This training includes reflective exercises, guided activities, and didactic material.