Business administration, computer information systems, and television-radio (triple major)
When CNN, NPR, the Today Show, and Good Morning America keep phoning for interviews, you know something's really up. For recent graduate Mike Potter, it was the news that he had just won the first international CellFlix Festival competition for best movie filmed entirely on a cell phone. It was quite a day. "But really," he says, "that's just one of many great experiences I had at Ithaca."
For example, the Park School sent him to the Serious Games Summit in connection with his research -- funded by a National Science Foundation grant -- on creating virtual stroke patients for training medical personnel. And he copresented with a professor at a national conference on Internet games. "The faculty was so supportive of any project I wanted to do, whether or not it was associated with a class," Mike says. "The collaboration and friendship didn't stop after courses ended. They're really cool people."
Despite the heavy demands that came with being a triple major, Mike also found time to train dogs for Guiding Eyes for the Blind, and serve as coordinator of Megaphone Media Productions, a Park Scholar service group that creates pro bono television and radio spots for nonprofit and human service organizations. "Park students have very advanced skills," he says. "This continues to be a great opportunity to use them for things we really care about."
