Mi Parque App Demo

Mi Parque – Little Village is a bilingual placemaking web application that helps residents of Little Village ensure that our new park is maintained as a vibrant safe, open and healthy green space for the community.

To learn more go to http://miparquelv.wordpress.com/

Open Youth Networks -

An outreach program at Columbia College Chicago’s Interactive Arts and Media Department

Through mentorship and hands-on training, Open Youth Networks puts young innovators in intergenerational collaboration with industry leaders, artists and designers to create innovative software applications, games, and interaction media that educate, engage and inform. Open Youth Networksworks to shrink the digital participation gap among females in the fields of social media, computer programming, software development and game design and prepare young women to successfully pursue college studies and careers in technology intensive fields. The program achieves this by creating innovative projects with a public purpose and by directly engaging students in a real life team-based experiences that apply technological solutions to real community and social challenges.

Development Team

The all women development team consists of five students from Columbia College’s Interactive Arts and Media Department, Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Illinois at Chicago. The young women are mentored by experienced women software engineers from Pearson Publishing, Orbitz, Hubbard One/Thomson Reuters and Motorola Solutions.

Student Development Team

Elisa Baker, Columbia College

Shauna Martin, IIT

Divya Muppa, UIC

Geena Sondy, Columbia College

Caitlin Wirth, Columbia College

Volunteer Development Team and Mentors

Pallavi Anderson, Senior Staff Research Engineer, Motorola Solutions

Emily Echevarria, Software Engineer, Orbitz

Mindy Faber, Academic Manager, Columbia College

Silvana Favaretto, Designer

Padmini Jyotishmati, Web Developer, Hubbard One/Thomson Reuters

Ji Lucas, Sr. Software Engineer, Pearson VUE

Sheila Miguez, Software Engineer, Orbitz

Lijuan Yang, Software Engineer, Orbitz

Additional Support Provided by:

Bill Guschwan, Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College

Janell Baxter, Associate Chair, Columbia College