{"id":9788,"date":"2017-09-12T14:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:30:53","slug":"trial-run-mini-senior-design-challenge-rise-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/trial-run-mini-senior-design-challenge-rise-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial Run: Mini Senior Design Challenge With Rise Against Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
By Julie Watterson \u2013 Julie is a senior Textile Technology student and a writer for the Wilson College of Textiles Marketing and Communications office. This is part of our <\/em>Perspectives series. The goal of <\/em>Perspectives is to share stories from different groups within the College: students, faculty, staff and administration. We want to expand both the range of voices and the kinds of stories we tell.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n As I joined more than 90 other <\/span>Textile Technology<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Textile Engineering<\/span><\/a> students who entered the Senior Design Capstone Course, TE 401, work began right away on a mini Senior Design project. Groups were tasked with the rice bag challenge, making its appearance for the fourth year at the Wilson College of Textiles. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe first NC State Rice Bag contest took place in the Fall 2014; my daughter Molly Renaud was a senior in Textile Engineering then<\/span>,\u201d said Paul Renaud, director, Global Acquisitions at Rise Against Hunger.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2017, Stop Hunger Now became <\/span>Rise Against Hunger<\/span><\/a>. This organization continues its efforts to end world hunger through packaging nutritious meals that are distributed globally. Rise Against Hunger strives to achieve three goals of food, community, and sustainability. Through nourishing lives, providing crisis relief and empowering communities, Rise Against Hunger works to make a global impact.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo me, the purpose of this project is threefold. For students to 1) learn how to solve an open-ended problem with a hard deadline; 2) interact with their teammates to learn learn more about their own leadership style and better understand the team dynamics and 3) think creatively to solve a real world problem,\u201d said <\/span>Dr. Russell Gorga<\/span><\/a>, professor, who with Dr. Jesse Jur, associate professor, teaches the Senior Design Capstone course. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n