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Students worked on a project for Benetton in April 2010. This is the first project administered by the CLC.
Student John Adams developed a project for VTech, the “Maitre-Smart Home Platform."
The JCB 3-CX backhoe, the result of a SCAD-JCB collaboration, will go into worldwide production this June.
SCAD undergraduate industrial design student Zarni Ko earned a Kids II $2,500 scholarship for his hippo.
Kids II hosted a toy design program and contest in collaboration with the SCAD industrial design department.
Fourteen students and two professors gathered at the VTech offices where they presented new design concepts.

Learn About the SCAD CLC

The Collaborative Learning Center at SCAD brings together top industry professionals with talented potential employees and faculty from one of the most respected and innovative art and design universities in the world.
Benefits for Partners

Organizations partner with the CLC to define projects that yield innovative strategies and creative solutions to their unique challenges through collaboration with SCADs talented students and renowned faculty.
Benefits for Students

Through collaboration on real projects with industry professionals, the CLC offers students real-world work experience to better prepare them for successful careers.

The CLC Makes it Real

"The design education collaboration has strengthened the students' understanding of the real-world process and bolstered their choice to pursue a design career."

Ryan Gunnigle, president
Kids II
"The JCB project is really where I grew the most during my time at SCAD. I was really excited about having the opportunity to work in a realistic environment and presenting to a real client."

Francis Fave, undergraduate,
industrial design
"If I had gone to a different university, I might not have become an architect. At SCAD, my imagination and drive were ignited by the study of architecture combined with other arts like interior design and fashion."

Sarah Rutland,
M.Arch., 2009
"SCAD students bring a certain passion and professionalism to their work, and they're able to hit the ground running when they graduate, putting them ahead of other design students."

David Waterman, senior design manager.,
VTech

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