RJI Android Student Competition kicks off
The 4th Annual RJI Student Competition kicked off December 8th with Hearst Innovation's Matt McCue unveiling the company's eight projects to be solved before a room of over 50 MU students from across campus including journalism, computer science and business. McCue explained that this year's projects were focused on exploring mobile opportunities around Google's Android operating system.
This year's RJI Android Student Competition builds upon the prior year's competition that brought together Hearst Innovation with Adobe Systems to leverage Adobe's "Flash Catalyst" technology. This year's competition returns both Hearst Innovation and Adobe Systems, and welcome's two more exceptional technology partners: Sprint Nextel and Google.
The next event in this year's competition will be the selection of five finalist teams that will spend the winter semester building out real world applications specifically addressing the challenges put forth by Hearst Innovation.
Click here for more information on previous RJI Student Competitions.
Kelly Peery
Communications Coordinator
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
573-882-9650
About the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute engages media professionals, scholars and citizens in programs aimed at improving the practice and understanding of journalism. Part of the Missouri School of Journalism, RJI collaborates with citizens, news and technology companies, professional associations and foundations to generate and test innovative models and technologies for journalism and advertising. Six Donald W. Reynolds Fellows spend an academic year at RJI, working with Missouri faculty and students and RJI staff to develop new ways to gather, process and deliver news, information and advertising. RJI was launched in 2004 with an initial $31 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. In 2009, the Foundation awarded the Institute an additional $15 million for operating support.
About The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation is a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, it has committed more than $110 million to its National Journalism Initiative in the United States.
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