Partnering Opportunities
The Emergent Media Center works with large and small companies, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations in a variety of industries.
Become a Client
Bring your next media challenge to the Emergent Media Center at Champlain College!
The Emergent Media Center works with industries such as business, communication, digital humanities, education, entertainment, health & medicine, social justice, sustainability, and the arts. If you’re in need of creative, innovative problem-solving, let’s chat!
With a focus on applied research and experimentation, students conceptualize, prototype, and produce a wide range of media to solve challenges brought by community partners like you.
Our interactive studio provides a space to explore novel applications of emerging technologies, immersive media, and human-centered design processes to design creative solutions to some of your most vexing issues.
You’ll benefit from a range of talents across multiple disciplines to address issues directly related to your organization’s needs and interests. Business students lead student production teams and lend marketing skills; Education and Psychology students inform content creation for best learning practices; Game Studio, App Development, Computer Science, Graphic Design & Visual Communication, and Filmmaking students all develop media components for Center projects. If your project requires physical prototyping, you’ll also benefit from the talented students and array of tools in our affiliated Makerspace.
Interested in a possible partnership? We invite you to inquire about project sponsorship through the Emergent Media Center at Champlain College.
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Our services
With the ability to recruit students from across Champlain’s majors of study, our multi-disciplinary teams deliver diverse skillsets and backgrounds to solve your challenges.
- Create concepts and prototypes:
- Serious games and simulations
- Embodied systems and wearable technologies
- Mobile apps
- AR/VR/MR/XR
- Assistive and adaptive technologies
- Physical computing
- Design & strategy workshops:
Through implementing human-centered design processes, we can help you discover a myriad of approaches to help solve complicated problems.
- Create concepts and prototypes:
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Why partner with the EMC?
Our bright young people produce high-quality, out-of-the-box solutions, while our team of experienced professional staff and faculty provide assurance that student work is supported and set up for success.
- Students produce thoroughly-conceived ideas and relevant, innovative solutions that often extend beyond the potential of a partner’s in-house effort.
- Unique “beginners’ minds”
- Technical know-how
- Flesh out a proof of concept
- Provide a tipping point needed to secure project investment
And as a partner, you can uniquely contribute to the education and development of promising young professionals while also being tuned into post-graduation hiring prospects for your company.
EMC Partners
Join the growing list of our past and current partners by sponsoring an EMC project!
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Burlington International Airport
Center for Integration of Medical and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment
ECHO Lake Aquarium & Science Center
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Governor’s Institutes of Vermont
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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
Plastic Vision
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Science of Morality
Snelling Center for Government
South End Arts and Business Association (SEABA)
State of Vermont, Agency of Commerce and Community Development
Stern Center for Language and Learning
TimeToSocialEyes
UNESCO
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
Vermont International Film Festival
Emergent Media Center
Location
175 Lakeside Ave, Burlington, VT 05401
Office Hours
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM