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April 25, 2018
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App makes museum experience more accessible
NTID is launching a mobile app to be used in its Dyer Arts Center that provides content in various forms, including video in American Sign Language, transcripts and audio and visual descriptions. -
April 20, 2018
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Esports team competes in national championships
A team of RIT students has become one of the best collegiate Dota 2 teams in North America, making it to the finals of two national championships. -
April 19, 2018
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Imagine RIT preview: Serious science in the sky
RIT’s Space Exploration program will launch the High Altitude Balloon during the Imagine RIT festival as part of a mission to map vegetation density and orientation in the Finger Lakes region. -
April 16, 2018
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Imagine RIT preview: Mixing VR, traditional gameplay
Compete against friends as either a virtual reality robot or as resistance fighters at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on April 28. -
April 13, 2018
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RIT students take top awards at Game Dev Challenge
Teams from RIT won first and second place in the student category of the second annual New York State Game Development Challenge, hosted by RIT’s MAGIC Center and sponsored by Empire State Development. -
April 11, 2018
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Students compete in Microsoft Puzzle Challenge
The annual Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge will pit RIT students against more than a thousand representatives from 27 other prestigious universities. Teams each have 10 hours to solve a packet of puzzles that might include anything from crosswords and logic problems to word play and cryptograms. -
April 10, 2018
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RIT experts help make computing accessible
RIT’s student and faculty researchers are working to make technology accessible for all by changing the culture of computing. -
April 5, 2018
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Student Spotlight: Smart apparel helps those with autism
Meet James McGee and Kerri Zalba, two members of a student start-up company that uses wearable technology to help children on the autism spectrum. -
April 5, 2018
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‘Cool’ alumni start-up featured in ‘Inc.’
Gaia, a company founded by RIT alumni, was featured in an Inc. article listing the top eight “Coolest College Startups” as named by the Student Startup Madness competition at South by Southwest. This company is almost entirely run by RIT students and alumni. -
March 27, 2018
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Grade school students Get Connected to computing
More than 50 Rochester-area grade school students are now dreaming of careers in computing after attending RIT’s Get Connected events this February and March. The free workshops gave 8th–10th grade students a taste of computing and highlighted different areas of the field. -
March 21, 2018
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RIT takes second at cyber defense competition
A team of RIT students took second place at the annual Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. The annual event is part of the nation’s largest college-level cyber defense competition, an extracurricular event that helps to train the next generation of cybersecurity experts. -
March 19, 2018
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RIT contingent heads to Game Developers Conference
With RIT boasting some of the top programs in the world in game design and development in 2018, more than 100 RIT students, faculty, alumni and staff will travel to San Francisco to participate in the Game Developers Conference 2018, the largest professional gaming industry event of the year.
