42 students selected for new Carson Center cohort

Forty-two students have been selected to join the latest cohort of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Thirty-three of the 42 students hail from Nebraska.
Forty-two students have been selected to join the latest cohort of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Thirty-three of the 42 students hail from Nebraska.

42 students selected for new Carson Center cohort

calendar icon19 Aug 2021    

Lincoln, Neb.--Forty-two students, including 26 high school students and 16 transfer students, have been selected to join the latest cohort of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.

This is the third and largest cohort for the center, which opened in the fall of 2019.

“We continue to see an increase in the number of very qualified and creative applicants to the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts,” said Founding Director Megan Elliott. “I always say that we’re looking for the wizards and the pirates, and I think we have a very thorough and highly competitive application process to find the right students who will thrive in our program and become the next creative technology leaders.”

While 33 of the 42 students hail from Nebraska, this year’s cohort also includes students from Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Dakota.

The Carson Center is part of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. A key part of its curriculum is preparing students for hugely disruptive forces in artificial intelligence and data streaming that have changed the face of several industries, including film.

Applications for the fall 2022 cohort will open soon. Details will be posted at https://go.unl.edu/gyyi.

Following is a list of students selected to the 2021-2022 emerging media arts cohort by hometown with their high school listed in parenthesis.

Nebraska:
Alvo: Henry Ball (Lincoln Christian)
Bellevue: Ciara Stueve (Bellevue East)
Bladen: Anthony Niemeyer (Silver Lake)
Fremont: Jordan Schuetze (Fremont)
Grand Island: Emaline Brockoven (Grand Island)
Lincoln: Kathryn Fiala (Lincoln East); Richard Graham (Lincoln High/Arts and Humanities Focus Program); Kennady Hoyt (Lincoln Southwest/Arts and Humanities Focus Program); Romina Jeizan (Lincoln Northeast); Megan Kolbe (Lincoln East); Nyayaang Luak (Lincoln High); Alexander Malone (Pius X Central); Mason Morrow (Lincoln High/Arts and Humanities Focus Program); Aiden Ramey (Lincoln East); Hannah Romell (Lincoln Southeast); Michael Ryan (Home School); Grace Shepherd (Lincoln High)
Omaha: Nehemiah Barney (Omaha Central); Caden Bye (Millard West); Will Cook (Concordia Lutheran); Isaiah Griffith (Creighton Prep); Diego Paniagua (Omaha Bryan); Michael Pritza (Creighton Prep); Owen Strazdas (Omaha Central)
Papillion: Kylie Muller (Papillion-LaVista South); Xander Muniz (Papillion-LaVista South); Zoey Punteney (Papillion-LaVista); Skyler Sandoz (Papillion-La-Vista)
Pleasant Dale: Alayna Piening (Milford); Collin Piening (Milford)
Scottsbluff: Eric Wilson (Mitchell)
Seward: Andrew Alley (Seward)
South Sioux City: Angelia Sur (South Sioux City)

Elsewhere:
Erie, Colorado: Bridget Baker (Holy Family)
Ida Grove, Iowa: Marley Hewitt (OABCIG High School)
Spirit Lake, Iowa: Grace Birkland (Spirit Lake)
Hillsboro, Kansas: Charles Major (Hillsboro)
Leawood, Kansas: Mingwei Jeng (Blue Valley)
Olathe, Kansas: Carly Liggett (Blue Valley West)
Zanesville, Ohio: Joseph Clifford (John Glenn High School)
York, Pennsylvania: Abigail Trembly (Dallastown Area)
Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Daniel Ratzloff (O’Gorman)