The Minchin Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MCIE) builds on Pacifica’s liberal arts core curriculum by promoting active learning on real problems.  MCIE challenges students to become gifted problem solvers and leaders.  Our goal is to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of our students and help them develop skills, ideas, beliefs, and attitudes that foster creativity and innovation across disciplines while developing a foundational business acumen.  

Through challenging curriculum, courses, and co-curricular programs, MCIE exposes students to the business world with topics such as entrepreneurship, economics, finance, design thinking, and technology. The center will leverage the local business community as a real-world classroom.  In partnership with other schools, local business, and the thriving Silicon Beach technology community, MCIE provides students with hands-on, collaborative, project-based learning experiences.  The Center goes beyond teaching about business and also prepares students to be creative and collaborative problem solvers.