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1. Sports Journalism Institute

   The Sports Journalism Institute is a nine-week training and internship program for college students interested in sports journalism careers. The bootcamp session is held at MU for a week every summer, and the founders of the Institute were recognized with a Missouri Honor Medal in 2015. The organizers want a fresh look for their website. The site is where applications are posted, the classes are named and details about the program are posted. They try to keep the site updated regularly, but it's not always consistent so they want to highlight what's featured on the site and make it easily accessible for applicants and alums of the program. They would also like a way to feature the work of their alums. Current site is http://sportsjournalisminstitute.org/ The contact for the project is Greg Lee with NBA.com.

2. Access Missouri

   The Access Missouri Project is funded by the Interdisciplinary Innovations Fund at the University Missouri. It was created by KBIA, Expressive Analytics, and the MU Informatics Institute. Partners include Missouri Digital News, the MU Department of Political Science, the Truman School of Public Affairs and the late David Valentine. Voters, politicians, journalists, and researchers can all benefit from the content available from Access Missouri, which includes learning about your state legislative process; explore interactive timelines of relevant events; review the voting history for a politician or bill; find detailed financial information about campaign committees; and gain perspective through advanced visualizations and graphs. Access Missouri is looking for a more user-friendly design. The team is working on visualizations and integrating more data. The current website is [www.accessmissouri.edu] (http://www.accessmissouri.org/index.php). The contact for the project is Kara Tabor.

3. Tiger Kickoff (Missourian)

   The Missourian sports department puts together a football preview section on the Friday before a home football game. The print edition gets a lot of attention from a designated designer and the assistant sports editor. However, the web presence is lacking. The Missourian would like a design to feature this special content on a weekly basis. This would be a subset of the Missourian's main site but can house its own navigation and logo. Here is the e-edition for the section in the fall. The contact for the project is Sean Morrison, a sports TA at the Missourian.

4. Homecoming (Missourian)

   The Missourian has developed its own special section that publishes in advance of Homecoming. It includes feature stories, some informational graphics and photos. In the fall, the online version was just a pdf. The Missourian would like a home for this that is accessible on all devices. You'll be able to work with content from the last semester to build out the framework for this section. This would be a subset of the Missourian's main site but can house its own navigation and logo. Here is [the pdf for the 2015 edition] (http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?m=37132&l=1#{). The contact for the project is Jeanne Abbott, Missourian managing editor, and Bryan Chester, director of advertising for the Missourian.

5. Fangirl

   Fangirl is a women's interest video game, comic, fan fiction and entertainment magazine that operates online at the moment. The site is Wordpress-run and served the needs when the staff just needed to get it online and begin sharing content, but they hope to make it more interactive and multimedia-friendly as well as use all that white space you can see on the sides of the page. It just looks too bare-bones at the moment. They would also like to be able to have multiple options for how to stack stories, both vertically and horizontally. Current site: http://www.fangirlthemag.com/. The contact for the project is Sean Morrison.