The Elizabeth Hackett Robinson ‘84 Innovation Hub works with students to bring their creative ideas to fruition. From tech, to the arts, to food entrepreneurship, the Hub is here to help—through funding, classes, workshops, mentoring, and dedicated workspaces for ideation and collaboration.
 
Students who come through the Hub have founded businesses that have continued past their time at Midd including Gnara, Skida, Illuminar Coffee Roasters, BiggaBed, Treeline Terrains, and more.

We Moved

Come on down to the Innovation Hub and check out the new digs. We are located at 132 Blinn Lane. Follow the path behind Ross. 

Innovation Hub Map 132 Blinn Lane

In Their Own Words

  • Henry Mound ‘20 MiddChallenge, MiddCORE, Launch VT Jump/Start Collegiate (outside program)

    I participated in Jump/Start Collegiate, where I worked with four other students from a variety of Vermont colleges and universities, each with their own product idea. During the nine weeks, I had access to tool training classes and the equipment necessary to refine my MiddCORE innovation idea and use my MiddChallenge grant to develop a prototype of LiquidLights—a wireless, multicolored lighting system.

    Henry Mound, class of 2020

    MiddChallenge, MiddCORE, Launch VT Jump/Start Collegiate (outside program)

  • Profile_Francoise Niyigena 21_MiddCORE Social Entrepreneurship fellowship

    While attending MiddCORE last summer, I designed an education reform project in Rwanda to help represent youth voices in the movement. With the support of the Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program, I led an enrichment program for children ages 7-12, where we spent two weeks exploring what it means to be a young changemaker in their communities.

    Francoise Niyigena, class of 2021

    MiddCORE and Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program

  • Ivy Geilker 19.5 Old Stone Mill The SpeakTEAsy teahouse

    Since its founding in 2017, Middlebury College Tea Club has grown to more than 100 student members. This is all thanks to the Old Stone Mill Annex, which has proved to be the perfect space for us to establish our student-run teahouse. Though we are constantly reshaping it—painting it, building, deconstructing, reimagining—to make it our own, we also appreciate the messy and mysterious history of this space we have come to love so much. 

    Ivy Geilker, class of 2019.5

    Old Stone Mill

  • Roni Lezama ‘22 Oratory Now Spencer Prize competition winner, Oratory Now Coach

    At the Innovation Hub, I started off being coached and prepped to participate in the annual Spencer Prize competition but eventually became a coach myself. I spend my time prepping and workshopping with students to hone their oratory skills. If I am not coaching a student at the Innovation Hub then you can find me preparing for another Oratory Now event like Parker Merrill.

    Roni Lezama, class of 2022

    Oratory Now Coach and Spencer Prize in Oratory winner

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Space

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A view of the front of the house at 132 Blinn Lane

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There are many programs at the Innovation Hub, and the best way to find the right fit for you is to meet with an advisor.

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