News by Topic: Experiential Learning
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November 20, 2018
MAGIC spells opportunity with new learning laboratory
RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios opened the doors to its new home this fall, inviting students, faculty and industry professionals to experience a digital media development and publishing learning laboratory never before seen in the Northeast. -
November 1, 2018
Student Spotlight: Park design chosen for KaBOOM! grant
Meet Madison Miller, Jim Chen and Stefani Schultz, third-year interior design students who designed a play area for the Sojourner Home at Wilson Commencement Park in Rochester. The project received a $63,000 grant to make the students’ design a reality. -
October 31, 2018
Student teams work with women’s group in Haiti
Haiti became a classroom for more than a dozen RIT students when they worked with 19 women leaders from a nonprofit group in Haiti on projects that could become future businesses. -
October 31, 2018
RIT team wins 2018 Paperboard Packaging Student Design Challenge
RIT’s “Packin’ Heat” student team was a spicy favorite at the 2018 Paperboard Packaging Student Design Challenge. The group of undergraduates took first place among 58 collegiate teams in the national design competition. -
October 30, 2018
Colleges face-off at national pentesting competition
Students from the nation’s best colleges will use their hacking skills for good in the largest offensive-based collegiate cybersecurity competition, to be held Nov. 2–4 at RIT. -
October 30, 2018
RIT opens new MAGIC Spell Studios building
Tours and hands-on experiences were the order of the day as RIT formally opened the newest building on campus—the 52,000-square-foot MAGIC Spell Studios. The RIT community is invited to an open house until 3 p.m. today. -
October 23, 2018
RIT hosts Entrepreneurship Conference on Friday
The Entrepreneurship Conference at RIT features informational networking sessions, the student Tiger Tank competition and a keynote address from Mark Gentile, founder of Odyssey Software. -
October 15, 2018
RIT/NTID hosts Career Fair
Representatives from more than 50 local and national corporations, federal agencies and nonprofit organizations looking to diversify their workforce will meet with hundreds of deaf and hard-of-hearing students—who are also prospective employees—at the 18th annual Career Fair on Oct. 17. -
October 1, 2018
RIT students prepare for career fair
More than 265 employing organizations and nearly 950 recruiter representatives are looking for RIT talent at the career fair today. -
September 13, 2018
RIT helps students take an entrepreneurial gap year
Brandon Hudson is the first student selected for the Gap Year Entrepreneurship Fellows Program, which allows students with an ongoing enterprise to take a year to focus their full attention on the venture. He will receive $15,000 in support and mentoring while also making progress on his RIT degree. -
September 11, 2018
MAGIC Center co-sponsors Rochester Game Festival
Forty tabletop and video game projects created by local college students, faculty and game developers from Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse will be available to play during the second annual Rochester Game Festival on Sept. 15. -
September 10, 2018
Cybersecurity lab named for partnership with Eaton Corp.
The Eaton Cybersecurity SAFE Lab performs penetration tests and vulnerability analysis on technology created by Eaton, a global power management company that offers an array of electrical products and services.