Tag: UGA
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TEDxUGA 2019: Amplify
A few weeks ago, TEDxUGA turned up the volume on UGA’s most powerful stories, research, and passions. Nine brave faculty, student, and alumni presenters along with the indie-rock band, Walden, took the stage to amplify their ideas and transform the status quo. As always, the evening featured a wide array of ideas. With each presenter…
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Fresh Face for 418
The fourth floor of the Journalism building, home to the NMI, is our favorite place on campus, and we’re pumped to announce it’s about to get better. Thanks to a grant from the UGA Student Technology Fund, one sad lab that has been underutilized for years is about to become a modern, tech-filled, active-learning hub…
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Thrive
Thrive is the app that connects high-level sports coaches and professionals at their convenience to improve their skill set and morale as they face challenges throughout the season. The purpose of this app is for sports professionals to learn, develop relationships, and grow every time they visit. By leveraging training and competition schedules along with…
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Android Union
This semester, our team was tasked with working with the Android technology to develop an app. The New Media Institute has never utilized this platform before, so our team was the first to delve into the exciting world of Android. At the brainstorming table, we knew that we wanted to create an app that would…
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UGArden
The UGArden Capstone team worked with UGArden, a student-run farm sponsored by the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, to help resolve record keeping issues with the goal of organic certification for the medicinal herb business that sells tea. UGArden’s medicinal herb program is currently funded through a grant, but the goal…
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Botanical Gardens
Gardens are meant to be enjoyed without technology, until you realize you don’t know what anything is or where you are going. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia challenged us to break the barrier between nature and technology and remove any possible frustration while their visitors enjoy their gardens. We created an interactive iOS app…
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A Tale of Three Institutes
Recently, the NMI was invited by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government to present to a visiting delegation from the Shanghai Administration Institute. Taking a three-week tour across our nation’s east coast, the visiting delegation was on a mission to investigate smart cities, which incorporate information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the quality and…
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Capstone Crossover
This semester, the NMI is pumped to partner with UGA’s Entrepreneurship Program to offer students from both certificate programs an even richer capstone experience. By combining the NMI’s digital product expertise and the Entrepreneurship Program’s business development talent, students will be able to create more robust capstone projects while also gaining experience working across disciplines, mirroring…
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UGA Sleep Study
Division I student-athletes at every university face the same problem: Their time is stretched too thin. From practice to academics to media coverage to study halls, everyone wants a piece of the pie. University surveys have shown that these time constraints are directly correlated with student-athlete sleep deprivation. That’s where we come in. Our team…
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The EM Masters Goes Online
The NMI is always on the lookout for new opportunities to advance our efforts in the classroom and engage with students in new and innovative ways. After all, “New” is in our name. Therefore, we were eager to be part of the Grady College’s application to the Online Course Innovation Grant sponsored by the UGA…