PRESS & PAST PROJECTS

UniverCity Year Stoughton

Innovation Center Stoughton was selected as a Community Partner of the UniverCity Year program at UW-Madison from 2021-2023. This program connects students and classes with “real-world” projects to work on. The following are the final reports and presentations from the seven different classes and 70 students across the University that worked on projects for Innovation Center Stoughton/the Stoughton community.

Renovation Plan for Historic 1892 School Building
Civil & Environmental Engineering Senior Capstone Design
This project manual includes concepts, drawings, and written materials to guide the revitalization of the historic 1892 School Building in a way that could host the proposed Innovation Center Stoughton.

Exploring Cooperative Models for Stakeholders of Innovation Center Stoughton
Agriculture & Applied Economics Cooperatives Class
Students prepared recommendations and business plans for childcare, education, housing, and transportation cooperatives in Stoughton.

Envisioning Innovation Center Stoughton
Impact Consulting for Arts and Cultural Organizations
Using demographic research and community interviews, this student team offered three recommendations to best support Innovation Center Stoughton’s next steps in their community: 1) solidify a value proposition, 2) expand target audiences, and 3) connect community resources.

System Design for Innovation Center Stoughton
Industrial and Systems Engineering
This report outlines system design recommendations that track tool and equipment metrics, record user learning outcomes, and ensure the safety of all Innovation Center Stoughton users.

Intersecting Interests for Stoughton Employers and Innovation Center Stoughton
Interdisciplinary Engineering
Informed by a detailed analysis of similar centers, this report identifies important resources and programs that the Innovation Center Stoughton should include to strengthen the Stoughton community and local economy.

Finding Common Threads for Employees and Sustainable Workforce Development in Stoughton
Interdisciplinary Engineering
This report offers recommendations for the Innovation Center Stoughton to alleviate workforce frictions and aid in workforce development.

Exploring Downtown Redesign and Redevelopment Framework for Stoughton’s Depot Hill Area
Landscape Architecture Capstone Project
The final Depot Hill framework plan utilizes historic and cultural preservation strategies that promote historic and cultural tourism, connect new development to historical site uses, and create mixed use spaces which support the existing character.

Design Sprint for Innovation Center Stoughton
Design Thinking for Transformation Class
This class used the design thinking process – empathize (interviews with community members and other research), define the problem, ideate, prototype, and test potential solutions – to provide recommendations for Innovation Center Stoughton.