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Reynolds School partners with Reno Collective
01-26-2012
Reynolds School faculty, instructors and graduate students collaborate with members of the Reno Collective.
“We hope the energy and expertise of Reno Collective members compels us to be more innovative, engaging and entrepreneurial in our work,” Donica Mensing, associate professor and acting dean of the Reynolds School of Journalism, said.
All members of the 2012 Interactive Journalism Master's Program cohort will receive free semester-long memberships to collaborate with local designers, programmers and content creators.
The eight memberships represent a combined value of $800 per month, but the intrinsic value is priceless, according to Don Morrison, Reno Collective member.
“The grad students will have access to the workspace, hack on their projects and practice their thesis defenses,” Morrison said. “They'll gain some valuable insight on the apps, websites, games and materials they’ll be designing throughout the semester.”
Reno Collective adds a core of strategic communicators and journalists from the Reynolds School of Journalism to the group’s burgeoning member base.
The Collective will offer short courses and job-shadowing opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
Reno Collective hosted Hack4Reno, the city’s first 24-hour civic hackathon, last October, encouraging participants to develop websites or apps that collect and share information to promote civic engagement.
Reno Collective member Robert Mills, then a student in the Reynolds School’s Interactive Journalism Master’s Program, took first place in the Best Application of Government Data category for Council Watch—an interactive app he describes as a fun user interface—for city council agendas. When launched, the app will allow users to rank council agenda items by theme and personal importance (i.e., education, pubic safety, recreation, etc.) and encourages people to attend council meetings and offer public comments.
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