Learn outside the classroom and earn scholarship.

The Nice Center encourages students and faculty to be entrepreneurial. One way to do that is with The Nice Passport, which encourages attendance at events on and off campus related to creativity, entrepreneurship, learning and leadership, and community.

To get your passport and begin qualifying for a scholarship, all you have to do is attend an event. We will email you with a link to your passport, where you can track your progress. Attend four events, and you will be eligible to win a $500 Nice Passport scholarship!

The 2021 Nice Passport Events

Events are added throughout the year. If you have an event related to our core topic areas and can take attendance at the event, let us know. We will add your event to the passport. Also, new this year, you simply have to attend 4 Events total, not an event in each of the categories.

Creativity

• IDEAS Research Workshop | Marian Tupy ~ Friday, January 29th ~ Online ~ 2:30pm-3:30pm
• IDEAS Research Workshop | Ben Winchester ~ Friday, February 12th ~ Online ~ 2:30pm-3:30pm
• IDEAS Research Workshop | Greg Lukianoff ~ Friday, March 12th ~ Online ~ 2:30pm-3:30pm
• IDEAS Research Workshop | Adam Thierer ~ Friday, March 26th ~ Online ~ 2:30pm-3:30pm
• IDEAS Research Workshop | Maria Minniti ~ Friday, April 9th ~ Online ~ 2:30pm-3:30pm
• IDEAS Research Workshop | Patrick Wolf ~ Friday, April 23rd ~ Online ~ 2:30pm-3:30pm
• IDEAS Research Workshop | Marta Podemska-Mikluch ~ Friday, May 7th ~ Online ~ 2:30pm-3:30pm

Entrepreneurship

• Nice Alumni Conference – More info coming soon!
• Nice Idea – More info coming soon!

Learning and Leadership

• Menard Family Distinguished Speaker Series – J.D. Vance ~ Tuesday, January 19th ~ Online ~ 3:00pm-4:00pm
• Menard Family Distinguished Speaker Series – Emily Chamlee-Wright ~ Tuesday, February 23rd ~ Online ~ 3:00pm-4:00pm
• Menard Family Distinguished Speaker Series – Susan Schwab ~ Tuesday, March 25th ~ Online ~ 3:00pm-4:00pm
• Menard Family Distinguished Speaker Series – Robert Koopman ~ Tuesday, April 13th ~ Online ~ 3:00pm-4:00pm

Community

• Founders Only Town Hall ~ Zoom ~ Thursday, January 28th ~ 12:00pm-1:00pm
• 1 Million Cups ~ Every Wednesday (Starting February 10th) ~ Emerging Prairie Facebook Page ~ 9:15am-10:15am

**All dates are listed in Central Time

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Note that only those listed above count towards The Nice Passport.