Prizes and Scholarships
Be recognized for your passion for the arts through these prizes and opportunities.
Creative Arts Award
Presented to Graduating Senior(s) at Spring Awards Ceremony
The Creative Arts Award is given annually to a graduating senior who, during his or her years at Babson, has demonstrated significant contributions to the arts on campus. The recipient is nominated by faculty, staff, and peers and must have impacted the community through his or her dedication to the arts.
Creative Thinking Prize
Tell Us About Your Creative Thinking Process
Details: Creative Thinking Prize Poster 2012
Babson Creative Thinking Prize Entry Rules
What is your unique creative process? How did you create that innovative poem, new business model, unique dance choreography, or social entrepreneurship venture? The Babson Creative Thinking Prize honors all forms and intersections of creativity. The prize celebrates the process that innovators use to develop creative products in all fields. The Babson Creative Thinking Prize Contest entries include the submission of a single artifact that illustrates one’s creative thinking process, as well as the completion of a two-page entry essay describing the process in detail. The finalists are chosen based on how richly the essay narrative describes the influences that affect the decision making during the creative thinking process. Presentations are judged on how dynamically and inspirationally the artifact was introduced and how the creative thinking process was explained to the audience. As the prize’s name captures, one’s creative thinking process is as important—if not more so—than the submitted creative artifact.
About the Prize:
The first place prize is $2,500, second is $1,500, and third is $500.
Prize rules:
- Only undergraduate Babson students may enter and compete
- Finalists are required to make presentations to the Babson Community during an event celebrating creative thinking
- Review "Babson Creative Thinking Prize Complete Rules" available in the Spring
- Deadline for submissions: TBD
Contact TBD
Congratulations to our 2012 finalists!
- Bon Son, Class of 2014
- Elise Drakel, Class of 2013
- Alli Gul, Class of 2012
Sponsored by:
Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and the Undergraduate School Dean’s Office.
Martin Luther King Jr. Creativity Contest
Contact: TBD
Deadline: TBDDetails: MLK Contest Information (pdf)
In honor of this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Day keynote speaker, Rinku Sen, all students are invited to participate in a cretive arts contest. The theme for this year is The Quest for Equality: Empathy and Global Justice in a Divided World. Contestants will choose one of two topics and submit a short literary work (1,000 words or less) of poetry, short fiction, dramatic monologue or dialogue, or spoken word; visual art; video; screenplay; fashion design; song; or dance. Contestants may enter any one piece of work that they feel addresses an important aspect of Dr. King's life and legacy.
Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Contest
Contact: TBD
All Babson Graduate and Undergraduate Students are invited to write a speech on one of two topics addressing important aspects of Dr. King's life.There will be three prizes awarded: the first-place winner will receive a $500 prize and will deliver their speech at the Legacy Day Celebration. The second-place winner will receive a $250 prize. Speeches should be typed, double-spaced and should not exceed 1,000 words.
Rick and Sandy Sorenson Arts Scholarship
Merit Scholarship Upon Undergraduate Admission
The Sorenson Arts Scholarship Awarded to an incoming student who is interested in combining artistic pursuits with a management education while at Babson. This four-year scholarship is awarded to entering first-year students at Babson College. In order to be considered for this award, the student must demonstrate academic achievement and financial need. There is a 500-word essay about combining artistic interests and business management education with the admission application. The scholarship offers an annual award for up to four years of $5,000. Please label your essay "The Sorenson Arts Scholarship Application Essay” and submit it to Babson College with your application for admission.
Previous Recipients
- Dominic Esposito, Class of 2016
- Morgan Keith, Class of 2015
- Susanna Kroll, Class of 2014
- Megan Osinski, Class of 2013
Suopeng Gao, Class of 2011
Alexander Markovitz, Class of 2010
Rafael Balaguer, Class of 2009
Ty Cohne, Class of 2008
Lauren Green, Class of 2006
Sarah Healy, Class of 2006