Tag: Tech
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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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Athens Farmers Market
The Athens Farmers Market wants to make healthy food a plausible reality for every citizen in Athens. This is possible through their weekly markets at Creature Comforts on Wednesday, as well as at Bishop Park on Saturdays. In the wake of COVID-19, the market has moved completely online, with vendors now selling their produce in…
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Forto Coffee
Forto Coffee began when the founder, Neel Premkumar, was looking for an on-the-go option for energy. While the company was founded in 2015, Forto Coffee has experienced fast growth. Within just the last 5 years, Forto products can be found in over 50,000 stores nationwide. The company produces 3 different drink sizes: 100MG caffeine drinks, 200MG…
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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…