{"id":216348,"date":"2024-07-18T20:14:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T00:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=216348"},"modified":"2024-07-19T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:00:23","slug":"uconn-magazine-capstone-students-design-themselves-into-coveted-tech-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/07\/uconn-magazine-capstone-students-design-themselves-into-coveted-tech-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Capstone Students Design Themselves into Coveted Tech Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve compared cell-phone costs at a Spectrum\/Charter kiosk, played around on a display screen at a BMW dealer designing your own dream car, or compared features on a series of premium hot tubs, you\u2019ve likely experienced the work of Reality Interactive in Middletown. The high-tech firm creates customer-focused, digital display technology experiences for Fortune 500 and other multinational companies, including BMW, Nintendo, Titleist, Behr Paint Company, and P.C. Richard &amp; Son. \u201cWhat we accomplish here is breathtaking,\u201d says Jack Nork \u201991 (CLAS), the company\u2019s implementation director. \u201cWhen I see the finished product, it is actually cooler than I ever thought. We have smart, highly educated employees who love to learn new things and then apply them.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Last semester those employees included interns\u00a0Deepthi Pai Manoor \u201924 MS\u00a0and\u00a0Tharun Palla \u201924 MS,\u00a0two of 39 students who took part in a Reality Interactive\u2013sponsored Capstone project for the School of Business\u2019 master\u2019s in business analytics and project management. Nork suspected that the company could both offer graduate students a hands-on experience in the real world and, in turn, expose the company to a talent pipeline. CEO Jim Ligotti agreed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2024\/06\/26\/capstone-students-design-themselves-into-coveted-tech-jobs\/?utm_campaign=magazine_summer24&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;When I see the finished product, it is actually cooler than I ever thought&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":216349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1731,2196,1862,2235,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2105],"class_list":["post-216348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-entrepreneurship","category-middlesex-county","category-busn","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 21:28:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216351,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216348\/revisions\/216351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/216349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216348"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=216348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=216348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}