Read about MMC student’s experiences working internships and studying abroad!

So since this is my first blog, I thought I’d introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my internship with the Big Ten Network.

I’m Liz and I am currently a senior majoring in Business Marketing. It’s fun and keeps me busy, but graduation will be here before I know it!

So about my internship, it is located here in Columbus. There are 6 interns this year that work to cover events around campus for the network. We film highlight footage for various Ohio State men’s and women’s varsity sports to be aired on the network ranging from Big Ten Tonight, the Big Ten Women’s Show, Big ten Short Stories to championship events. We also film press conferences and one-on-one interviews, mainly with OSU football and men’s and women’s basketball.

Besides shooting footage of events to be showed on tv, we also stream events live on OhioStateBuckeyes.com and BigTenNetwork.com. These events are fun and we work with local radio groups to stream a voice with the video.

Recently we have been cutting 1-1.5 min highlight clips for the sports we stream to post with the press releases about the game on OhioStateBuckeyes.com.

This is my second year as an intern and I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve have the opportunity to experience things I never guessed I would have the opportunity to do. I’ve covered events ranging from OSU Photo Day for football, the Big Ten Rowing Championships, to almost all olympic sports.

One of the cool events that I have covered, was last year I worked with a production crew from Chicago that was airing live a men’s soccer game. I had the opportunity to go in the Indiana locker room during half time and film the coach’s speech. I then took the footage back to the truck and worked with the crew to get the right clips. I then was able to watch as the clips went from one side of the truck to the other and the producer sent them live. I was amazed at how quick it all happened and was fun to see something I shot on TV.

So that’s it for now. Next time I’ll see what fun event is going on that week and fill you in on some exciting things happening around campus.

Go Bucks!

It’s actually going to be a very laid back week in terms of how much work I need to do in the office.  I’ll be covering some hockey later in the week and helping out with men’s basketball media day as well.

I just got done updating stats for the baseball team and I’ll be heading over the press box at Ohio Stadium for the Friday afternoon press box setup. I’ll post links soon to the stories I’ve done for OhioStateBuckeyes.com

Oh how I love my boss!

As I sit at my desk, something tickles my brain. Why aren’t there cubicles? Cubicles are the pinnacle of any office space and mine is without. Maybe my boss wants my ideas to be able to expand further than a normal 8 square foot space? Whatever the reason I want my cubicle!

Hi, I’m JJ Obee. I began with this scholars group in 2005 when it was still CommTech (woot woot!). I spent my first year and a half pretending to go into art and visual communication, but then i ended up in Landscape Architecture – which is like a combination of design and environmentalism – perfect. So since I decided this at the end of my sophomore year, that meant that once I got in I had three more years (giving me a super senior year – yay football tickets). I was able to shave off a quarter, but then I added another year to my time when i landed a co-op (which starts in January). In the mean time i’m going to school and interning with the Neighborhood Design Center, which I’ll be writing about for now.

So that’s the one I’ll be writing about for now. The Neighborhood Design Center is a non-profit organization that does visioning in terms of architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. They are located on High Street across from the Wexner and next to Evolved if you’re ever interested to know.

I got the internship when a teacher recommended me to the executive director. He then called me in for an interview and I was hired on for summer and during the school year (to do as many hours as I could handle with my school work load)

My commute is pretty wonderful being that A. I only live a few streets away, and B. half the time I am able to do the work in Knowlton (where I pretty much live anyway).

Since I started working at NDC this past June, I have mainly focused on two projects. The first one was my main one throughout the summer. Newark (about an hour east of Columbus) has a great bike trail system but there’s a big gap right in the middle of the city, which is a really culturally charged place. The city hired us to study the current bike trail system and talk to the residents of the city to determine where the bike trail should connect, and to suggest possible future spokes of the bike trail withing the city. This task included public presentation, meetings with stakeholders, presentation design, current bike trail riding (which was awesome), and research of their Canal District. Some of the programs we used were ArcMap (GIS), Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Autocad.
Interspersed with the bike trail design days were all-office charettes. During these interns working on other projects would do a small briefing on what they were doing, then we would brainstorm to help them come up with some big ideas. We got donuts or pizza on those days. I was very happy.
Now that school has started I am working on my own little project with a company called Strategic Environment. They recently purchased a giant (and i mean like 9 ft high by 10 ft wide) display board for when they go to conventions. My job is to design their board. It’s been pretty fun working with them, and the pace of working on the project by myself has been nice with school going on and what not.
Pictures to come soon hopefully!

Here’s NDC’s link:

http://www.neighborhooddesign.org/FINAL/ABOUT%20NDC/WhoWeAre.html