Steven Kasparek
PhD in clinical psychology at Harvard University
Bring your education, your passions, your purpose into the professional world
With MiddCORE’s mentor-powered summer program you’ll be immersed in the kinds of projects you’ll experience in life after college.
MiddCORE(x) Summer 2021
MiddCORE(x) is designed to work in conjunction with your summer experience! Do MiddCORE, your summer internship, and build connection and support with your peers. Over the course of eight sessions, meeting about once a week in the evenings you will: sharpen your professional skill set, expand your network, explore possibilities, and up-level your potential. Program runs May-July 2021 and is in collaboration with Center for Careers & Internships (CCI). See the full schedule.
This credit-bearing college program offers you:
From Our Alumni
Michelle Yang
Financial Planning & Analyst for Amazon
Winson Law
Talent team, Venture For America
Sophia Prud'homme
Middlebury College student
Becca Havian
Bates College student
MiddCORE(x) Summer 2021
MiddCORE(x) is designed to work in conjunction with your summer internship. Meeting about once a week in the evenings with your peers and learning from mentors you will gains skills that you can directly apply during your summer experience. Make an impression this summer. Program runs May-July 2021.
Learn MoreMiddCORE Winter Immersion
This is open to Middlebury undergraduates only and will be offered remotely for winter term 2021. Working with mentors for one month, students face daily, weekly, and month-long challenges designed to build the CORE strengths needed to become effective leaders and creative problem solvers.
Learn MoreMiddCORE Summer 2022 Immersion
This program is open to students from all colleges. You will have a combination of small group sessions with mentors, pre recorded sessions, podcasts, community building reflections, and collaborate with peers.
Up-level your potential:
Develop the confidence, skills, hands-on experience, and network you’ll need to make a positive impact—on the world and on your future.
Impact
- 94%
- of recent participants said that MiddCORE gave them the skills to be confident in the workplace
- 91%
- declared MiddCORE to be one of their most important undergraduate experiences
- 98%
- felt they could approach strategic challenges in new ways
Meet the MiddCORE Mentors
No textbook will teach you this kind of problem solving: Work, dine, and engage directly with industry experts giving first-hand insight into leadership, innovation, and persuasive communication.
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Megan Nesbeth is a designer, strategist, and doer who empowers people, places, and organizations to thrive using the tools of design research, complex systems, business strategy, and the social sciences. She is currently a strategist at frog, a global design, strategy, and innovation firm.
Megan Nesbeth
Strategist at Frog Design
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Simon is the Chief Operating Officer for Orvis. He is responsible for their customer facing teams, that include Marketing, Consumer Direct, IT, Merchandising & Product Development, Sourcing, and Merchandise Operations & Planning. In 2016, Simon developed an “in-house agency” for Orvis, and lead the development of Orvis’ brand storytelling.
Simon Perkins
COO at Orvis
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Jenna Arnold serial entrepreneur and author of Raising Our Hands. She is known as the co-founder of ORGANIZE and was a National Organizer for the Women’s March on Washington. Oprah has called Arnold one of the “100 Awakened Leaders who are using their voice and talent to elevate humanity”.
Jenna Arnold
Chief Impact Officer at Rethink
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Logan Randolph graduated from Midd in 2014, where he ski patrolled and played rugby. Following his time in Vermont, he moved to San Francisco and started a company providing a “digital personal assistant” which was later acquired. He later joined Quip in 2015 which later came under the Salesforce umbrella.
Logan Randolph
Sales & Marketing at Quip at Salesforce
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MiddCORE
118 South Main Street
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05753