Worcester Community Project Center (Massachusetts) - IQP

Current Director(s)
Laura Roberts
Active Program Term(s)
C-Term during winter
D-Term during spring
E-Term during summer
Project Opportunities
Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP)
PROJECT CENTER WEBSITE GET STARTED

Founded in 2000, the Worcester Community Project Center develops projects both from the grass roots and from the public sector. This means that project teams work hand-in-hand with government agencies, local politicians and Worcester based organizations on important social and environmental issues that impact your Worcester neighbors. Students who choose the WCPC get to have diverse cultural experiences without leaving Worcester. Through community engagement students learn how such questions affect people with different incomes, races, ethnicities, and genders.

Past Worcester students have:

 - conducted an energy audit for a homeless shelter

- developed an outdoor engineering program for elementary school students

- developed a mobile website for an art museum

- designed a sensory garden for a pediatric medical center

- investigated a land use conflict for a State Senator

Media Coverage

Worcester Business Journal
Worcester, WPI partner on new civic projects

The university and the City of Worcester have launched the Academic Civic Collaborative, a new framework designed to strengthen coordination around community-centered, Worcester-based academic projects. Announced at the same event, the City of Worcester, WPI, and the Central Massachusetts Chapter of the American Institute of Architects also introduced the Design and Community Partnership, a separate design-focused partnership aligned with—and advancing the goals of—the broader Collaborative.

Additional Publications: The Worcester Guardian | Worcester Patch