Tag: Event
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PorchFest
We are partnering with Historic Athens Porchfest, a community-driven event organized by the non-profit Historic Athens, which transforms front porches across seven neighborhoods into intimate concert stages. Porchfest celebrates local live music and strengthens community connection through accessible, walkable entertainment. Our focus is on improving the mobile-first experience for event attendees, ensuring they can easily…
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Jam in the Streets
People and organizations need a full understanding of what Jam for Cam is and why supporting this cause is important, fun, and beneficial to the community. Without streamlined, modern digital tools, the music festival risks confusion, lost ticket sales, and limited community partnerships for Jam in the Streets. Event goers need to be able to…
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Twilight 3.0
This marks the third year that the NMI is working with Athens Twilight, and it continues to be an honor to collaborate with such a well-known and impactful event in the Athens community. As the 50th anniversary of Athens Twilight approaches, this project focuses on building upon previous work by highlighting something that has been…
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Bites & Insights: A Lookback on Networking Lunches
This semester, we continued to expand our Professional Networking Luncheons, giving NMI students the opportunity to connect with professionals in highly sought-after industries over shared meals and meaningful conversation. This semester’s guests included Sarah Giarratana, Creative Lead with Airbnb, Aniyah Norman, Associate Software Engineer with the Walt Disney Company, and Jennifer Strickland, Social Media Strategist with the USDA. Guests participated in an informal…
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Spring Demo Day Takes Off
For the second semester, the NMI hosted Demo Day: a drop-in event welcoming the entire UGA community to see what the NMI is all about. Certificate students and tech-curious friends from around campus gathered at the Delta Innovation Hub where our Spring 2026 Capstone teams were ready to demo and discuss their projects. Teams set…
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Agentic Coding Spectacular: AI, Live and Unscripted
On February 25, Studio 225, home to UGA’s Entrepreneurship Program, turned into a real-time showcase for what creating with the latest AI tools actually looks like. At the Agentic Coding Spectacular, NMI faculty Chris Gerlach and John Weatherford went head-to-head before a live audience in a one-hour sprint to build a working student assignment tracker app. Using tools like…
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Coming Soon: Two New Ways to TED
Since 2013, TEDxUGA has been committed to creating meaningful ways for the world to engage with UGA’s best and brightest ideas. This year, we’re excited to introduce TWO new opportunities to do just that: 1️⃣ In partnership with WUGA, we’re launching a brand-new TEDxUGA podcast: The Idea Loop. Each episode will bring back a TEDxUGA presenter to…
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Small Talk, Big Insights
Small Talk 101 was a fantastic afternoon dedicated to helping undergraduate and graduate students strengthen one of the most important professional skills of all: the art of conversation. Students had the opportunity to network with an incredible group of alumni and industry guests, gaining real-world experience in introducing themselves, asking thoughtful questions, and navigating meaningful small…
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Thank You for an Amazing Birthday
We ended the semester with our Fall 2025 Silver Jubilee NMIXpo, celebrating 25 years of chasing big ideas, pushing limits, and making things work! It was a day of celebrating digital innovations with Emerging Media Capstone students debuting their project Betas at miniMerge, followed by New Media Capstone students showcasing their team projects at SLAM. We…