{"id":20633,"date":"2015-04-17T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=20633"},"modified":"2015-04-17T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:49:52","slug":"design-senior-wins-2015-exhibitor-student-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/17\/design-senior-wins-2015-exhibitor-student-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Senior Wins 2015 EXHIBITOR Student Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew McLaughlin, a senior in Bemidji State University&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/technology_art_design\/\">Department of Technology, Art &amp; Design<\/a>, has received the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhibitoronline.com\/news\/article.asp?ID=14702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2015 EXHIBITOR Media Group Student Achievement Award<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a>, as selected by the university&rsquo;s art &amp; design faculty.<\/p>\n<p>For winning the award, McLaughlin received a pass to the EXHIBITOR2015 convention and expo for trade show and event marketers, held in early March at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, and a stipend to help cover his travel expenses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20634\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/student41415a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20634 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/student41415a.jpg\" alt=\"L to R: Dr. Bonnie Higgins, professor of technology, art &amp; design; Randal Acker, president &amp; COO of Exhibitor Media Group; Matthew McLaughlin, BSU student award winner; Steven Sundahl, associate professor of technology, art &amp; design; and Sachel Josefson, assistant professor of technology, art &amp; design. Photo courtesy EXHIBITOR.\" width=\"474\" height=\"319\" data-bp=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/student41415a.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/student41415a.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/student41415a-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/student41415a-226x152.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Dr. Bonnie Higgins, professor of technology, art &amp; design; Randal Acker, president &amp; COO of Exhibitor Media Group; Matthew McLaughlin, BSU student award winner; Steven Sundahl, associate professor of technology, art &amp; design; and Sachel Josefson, assistant professor of technology, art &amp; design. Photo courtesy EXHIBITOR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McLaughlin will graduate from BSU in May; afterward, he will join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevationexhibits.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Elevation Exhibits &amp;&nbsp;Events<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> in Shrewsbury, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Bemidji State University&rsquo;s Department of Technology, Art and Design is the only four-year undergraduate program in the country offering an focus in exhibit design as part of its digital and exhibit design emphasis. Its advisory board includes more than 50 design professionals from all across the nation, many of whom return to campus each spring for the program&rsquo;s intensive portfolio review sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><br>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/technology_art_design\/faculty_staff\/bhiggins\/\">Dr. Bonnie Higgins<\/a>, professor of technology, art and design<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/technology_art_design\/\">Department of Technology, Art &amp;&nbsp;Design<\/a><br>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhibitoronline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">EXHIBITOR<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><br>\n&bull;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevationexhibits.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Elevation Exhibits &amp;&nbsp;Events<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew McLaughlin, a senior in Bemidji State University\u2019s Department of Technology, Art &amp; Design, has received the 2015 EXHIBITOR Media Group Student Achievement Award, as selected by the university\u2019s art &amp; design faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[872,9,25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-news","category-people","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20643,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633\/revisions\/20643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}