{"id":15878,"date":"2020-11-19T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=15878"},"modified":"2024-05-18T21:41:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T01:41:32","slug":"culture-of-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/culture-of-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
One Saturday morning in September, Wilson College of Textiles Dean David Hinks received an unusual phone call. The voice on the other end of the line belonged to NC State Athletics Director Boo Corrigan, who said, as Hinks recalls, \u201cI have an opportunity for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
Their conversation set into motion a unique collaborative project in support of social justice that ended up being showcased on national television.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cWolfpack student-athletes \u2014 led by football team captain and linebacker Isaiah Moore \u2014 took the lead in designing a patch for their uniforms with the \u2018Pack United\u2019 message and its three pillars of education, action and awareness,\u201d Hinks says. \u201cBoo asked if we could assist with the final patch design, production and sewing under a tight deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
How tight, exactly? One week.<\/p>\n\n\n
So Hinks made a flurry of calls to members of the Wilson College community, enlisting their help pulling off a small miracle in time for the Wolfpack\u2019s home opener the following Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n
One of those employees was Bailey Knight, a studio and lab technician in the Department of Textile Apparel, Technology and Management.<\/p>\n\n\n
She got to work quickly, enhancing the design provided by Athletics and manually digitizing the font and embroidery software so the letters would stitch properly. Multimedia Specialist Lynn Doby transformed the shape of the patch and added other design elements for clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n
Once the design was finalized, Knight tuned up the embroidery machines and recruited help from graduate students who work in her lab.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cLuckily, I didn’t have anything huge taking up my time that week, so I was able to spend most of it working on the project,\u201d she says. \u201cOur TAs also put in 20 to 30 hours of work, including one student who had been scheduled to train on the embroidery machine that week anyway. So it was a crash course for her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n