Tag: Tech
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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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Lightform
Our team is organizing a projection-mapped stage design for the fall semester 2020 TEDxUGA event. Fitting with the event’s theme, Next Level, TEDxUGA is pushing the boundaries of stage design with the introduction of Lightform: a newly released projection mapping design software. Lightform creates illuminated augmented reality light projections that leave the audience with an…
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Onboard UGA
Onboard UGA was created through the New Media Institutes Capstone course. As the NMI’s final course, students are given a particular client and deliver a new product or make improvements to an existing project that will aid their designated client with an issue. Having UGA’s freshmen board as our official client was close to home…
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ORLT Drone Studies
Typical methods of gathering physical, on-site information for the sake of monitoring environmental conservation can be both tedious and time-consuming. By exploring the usage of drones, the ORLT Drone Studies Team aims to both streamline and enhance the process of gathering this data. In addition, the data gathered through drones can be used to enhance…
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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…