Tag: Tech
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The Innovation District
Established at the University of Georgia, the Innovation District’s goal is to encourage experienced-based learning, business executions, and a variety of programs. President Jere W. Morehead’s initiative is to not only help the Athens economy but to form a network between students and outsourcing clients. The Innovation District has created an online complimentary service where…
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Easy Chat
You know the feeling. You’ve invited some people over to your home to hang out, but everyone is on their phones. Do you start a board game? Do you pull out a deck of cards? Do you try to start a conversation, because that’s really what you wanted when you invited everyone over? We know…
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School Is In For Summer
This summer, we’re breaking records with more classes and students than ever before! In the last few years, we’ve steadily expanded our summer offerings so the trek to becoming technowledgable never has to stop. It all started with the first online section of New Media Production where students mastered the art of web dev from…
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Home Depot Happenings
We’re always looking for opportunities to collaborate with and learn from industry innovators, and a group of NMI Capstone students recently took a trip to Atlanta to do just that. The team traveled alongside NMI faculty members John Weatherford and Kyla Sterling to The Home Depot headquarters, where they met with top innovators and learned exclusive industry…
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Athens Access to Justice Initiative
One of our Fall 2019 Capstone teams recently earned a well-deserved moment in the spotlight. Many of our projects are dedicated to tackling real-world problems for clients, but it’s always a particularly sweet success story when a team can make a local impact. Last semester, a team of five students collaborated with the nonprofit, Athens…
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Making It Work (From Home)
While our classroom doors are closed and the fourth floor is quiet, the NMI hustle and bustle is powering forward as usual! Creating tech solutions for real-world problems is the name of the game here at the NMI, and we’re not letting social distancing slow us down! Over the past several years, the NMI has…
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Athens Justice League
Athens Justice League was developed for the non-profit organization, Athens Access to Justice Initiative, to streamline their efforts into a website that simplifies the legal system and provides appropriate resources to help people through the entire legal process. The website provides court information, supporting legal documents, events, and translates legal jargon to make the process…
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mARkit
Create your canvas. Paint your masterpiece. Share your creation with others. With mARkit, find a wall and claim it as your canvas. Your phone isn’t just some screen for you to draw on; it is your spray paint can. Shake it up and spray your paint across your new canvas. The closer, or farther, you…
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Major Matcher
The University of Georgia has many resources, but one tool they are missing is an easy way for students to pick a major that best fits them. Currently, all that UGA offers is a complicated website that displays all majors with little description of each. While this can be useful if needed, it is too…
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Revel
REVEL is an e-commerce link-saving website and Google Chrome extension. Our product allows for users to save links of e-commerce items while online shopping in a quick, easy manner via the Chrome extension. It also allows users to add descriptive tags so that they can easily compare items of the same variety to make the…