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STAs: Student Technology Assistants

Who We Are
LAITS: IT and Facilities Director, Joe TenBarge initiated the Student Technology Assistant program in 2004. STAs are UT students who work on a variety of projects in collaboration with UT faculty and LAITS staff members. STAs assist College of Liberal Arts faculty members and administrative staff with print and web design. From building presentations, to creating audio/visual works, and producing online classes in the LAITS film studios, STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for multimedia projects that enhance their teaching and the students learning experience. By the end of their student careers, STAs have portfolios which demonstrate their accrued technical and design skills.

Prospective STAs:

Creative and technically inclined students are appointed as STAs for one year, with the possibility of being rehired as long as they study at the university. Applicants for the program are hired before both long semesters. Interested students may look for postings on Hire-A-Longhorn when positions are available. Positions will have Student Technology Assistant (illustrator or web designer) in the title of the job post.

Faculty and Staff:

Faculty & Staff with questions about services, please contact us.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/laits/contacts.php

  • Audio Services: Michael C Heidenreich, Director of Studio Operations & STA Program Coordinator
  • Video Services: Kelly Webster, Video Production Supervisor, Video STA Supervisor
  • Graphic Design & Web Design Services: Suloni Robertson, Art Director / Design & Coding STA Supervisor

Hashing routes

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Today, I changed the routing into a hash version, it is a main route, that leads to hash sections, according to its ids then display the corresponding section.

This way, the timeline section gets loaded while the user is in the home page.

Sanika’s Last Day Post

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The Last Day

Hey guys, it’s my last day as an STA for the 2018 Fall – 2019 Spring Semester. The LAITS STA program has been such an invaluable part of my freshman year. I saw the skills required in coding, in design, in general LAITS practices transfer into my school work as well. It was incredible to work with Suloni, I can’t imagine ever working for a boss who genuinely cares for us and pushes us to be better as Suloni does. The  LAITS staff were a pleasure to work with as well – Tim, Chris, Stacy, and countless others, thank you so much. The other STAs were gems as well, thank you to everyone that answered my slacks and pleas asking for help!! Y’all are incredible. At LAITS I strengthened my coding skills by building the UT Appstore and countless other websites for LAITS. I also gained a better experience in design by learning Photoshop and using those skills to do Photo IDs, flyer designs, and mockups. I can’t believe that I was trusted and given the opportunity to work on so many projects so near and dear to the university. As a freshman, nothing made me feel more at home at UT than did working as an STA.

 

This summer I’ll be taking some summer classes, spending time at home with my family, traveling around the United States and abroad to Dubai & India, and interning at a law firm! I also hope to take some time to improve my coding and design skills :’). I don’t know if I’ll be back next semester, but I can say that I’ve had the best time working for LAITS.

 

Thank you all!! And please do message me whenever :’)

– Sanika Bhave!!!

Duo Last Day post

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Last day post ✧⁺⸜(●˙▾˙●)⸝⁺✧

Hellwowow guys~ It has truly been a wonderful experience working as an STA, and I have really enjoyed my time here. Suloni has been such a great supervisor and a friend to me; thank you so much for helping me throughout my time here! I looked forward to work every day because of the great people and the friendly work environment I found here. Because of you all, VLabs has been a great experience for me. I will miss everyone here dearly, and I hope we can see each other again soon!

Moving forward, I will continue pursuing my career in design with Hypergiant this summer in Austin! Let me know if you guys want to hang out this summer because I will still be around~

Thank you guys for everything.

 

Cheers,

Duo

Rendering Two Views

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Data fetching was not solving the performance problem, since most of the execution time was committed when rendering the timeline component, so today we choose to define two components on the same route and set those on different route views, using css the second view will be hidden until the user decide to select this one. Here is the progress:

Defining two components for the same route:

Passing the components to each of the views:

The two views active, but the first one hidden with css: