After a decade, the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry continues its goal to transform student and faculty experiences through immersive learning with a community focus.
A celebration will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Kitselman Center, 3149 W. University Ave., and will feature highlights of the projects completed by the semester-long seminar.
Joe Trimmer, director of the VBC, said in a statement that one of the best parts of the project is "seeing how talented our undergraduate students can be when given an opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary setting with other students."
The center recruits four faculty members who lead a group of 15 students to participate in the seminars each semester.
Successful productions that will be highlighted at the celebration include "State of Assault," an Emmy-winning documentary about sexual assault, and "Navigating Nature," a sustainability computer game.
In a survey conducted by the center, Trimmer said 97 percent of the students involved agreed that participating in the seminar was their most significant experience in college.
Melinda Messineo, associate professor of sociology, focused on cyber communities. She said her students researched and produced a play and graphic novel. Since her involvement, she has been involved with two other immersive projects.
Trimmer said Virginia Ball would be moved by the depth of the work and talents of the Ball State students. The VBC is funded because of the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Foundation.
Ball's goal was to forge creative and productive relationships between Ball State University and numerous community partners according to the Ball State website.
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