The Global School

Supporting WPI through Effective and Equitable Teamwork

The SWEET Center is dedicated to Supporting WPI through Effective and Equitable Teamwork. Our goal is to ensure that every WPI student has at least one highly effective and equitable team experience before they graduate, and that they leave with skills and tools to increase their own ability to collaborate effectively in teams throughout their careers.  The Center provides support and consultation for the teamwork that is at the heart of WPI’s project-based curriculum. Individual students, student teams, and faculty and staff can bring questions and problems related to their teamwork to the SWEET Center and can get support and guidance from staff, faculty, and peer facilitators. Faculty can refer student teams for a consultation, or teams and individuals can seek assistance on their own.

Contact

Location: 
Salisbury Laboratories
Phone: 
508-831-4944
Fax: 
508-831-5485
sweetcenter@wpi.edu

As part of The Global School at WPI, the SWEET Center brings together experts on teamwork from across campus and beyond, creating space for partnerships with students, faculty, and staff that support high-quality teamwork experiences for all WPI students.

Through the SWEET Center, WPI students, faculty, and staff can:

  • Seek resources to propel their teams forward into deeper, more meaningful collaboration
  • Seek individual and team consultation
  • Obtain support for project advising to improve team performance

News

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Class photo for the SWEET Fellowship Training Course 2020-2021
WPI’s New SWEET Center
November 16, 2020
Geoff Pfeifer gives a presentation to attendees at WPI Seaport during HUBweek. There's a glass podium on one side of him, and a projection screen with a PowerPoint presentation on the other.
WPI Program to Deal with Bias in Project Teams Well Received at HUBweek
October 25, 2018
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WPI Calls Out Unconscious Biases in Project-based Teamwork
May 18, 2018

SWEET Fellowship Program

We are delighted to announce that we are currently recruiting students, faculty, staff, and alumni for the inaugural class of the SWEET Fellowship Program. Building on the work of the SWEET Initiative, we are gathering a dynamic class of faculty, staff, students, and alumni in Fall 2020 to help conduct individual and group consultations with teams in the 2020-2021 academic year. Interested in joining us?

Nominate a SWEET Fellow  


SWEET Fellowship Nomination Response Form

Meet the Team

Anne Ogilvie

Anne Ogilvie

Director for Team Learning
Integrative & Global Studies
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4944
 Projects are the reason I came to WPI. As a longtime experiential educator and true believer in the transformational power of hands-on learning, I was eager to engage with faculty and students as part of WPI’s project-based curriculum. ... View Profile