Marlboro College Graduate Center, Brattleboro, VT

Press Release

June 24th, 2005: Graduation Projects Front and Center

Graduating members of the Class of 2005 were in the spotlight on Saturday, June 18th.

The event was the Graduate Center's annual Capstone Project Fair - a time for students to exhibit publicly their major accomplishments. Capstone Projects demand that students fuse the knowledge they have gained across the breadth of their studies at the Grad Center and then apply it in a new and creative fashion taking it to the "next level."

For many, Capstone Projects are actual, working developments that will be applied by the student's employer or will be used to launch a new business by the student.

The projects ranged from a suite of tools supporting and empowering non-profit companies, to a project facilitating collaboration between Classics scholars, to a redesign of a site for the Urban Collaborative - a public independent middle school for at risk students.

While the Fair gave the graduating students an opportunity to take a bow for all their work, the event provided another benefit for them as well. Keeping with tradition, alumni returned and critiqued the projects with their creators allowing the future graduates to gain objective, supportive feedback that will lead to further refinements as well as well-earned satisfaction.

Discussions and camaraderie continued through the day with a barbecue lunch, and a social evening hosted by the Brattleboro Museum and the Graduate Center.

Hats off the graduating students and to all who made this day memorable for them.

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