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LOUD & CLEAR: BROAD RIPPLE’S MIKE JANSEN COMMANDS LUCAS OIL STADIUM Writer / Ray Compton

Broad Ripple Mike Jansen celebrates 18 years in the announcing booth for the Colts.

DEPARTMENTS 6 Back for Round Two 10 Fire By the Monon 14 Success Formulates at the Speak Easy

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BACK FOR ROUND TWO ASSISTANT CURATOR VALUES SHARED EXPERIENCES Writer / Joshua Deisler . Photographer / Brian Brosmer

On a balmy Saturday morning in June, Roseanne Winings was helping to ready the stage of the Tobias Theater at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). But she wasn’t organizing a performance; she was hosting a meal.

The special program Avant Brunch combined an exclusive five-course meal from a local chef with the listening of new music, offering its 50 participants a shared experience of taste and sound. The event was just one of Roseanne’s many responsibilities as Assistant Curator of Audience Experience and Performance at the IMA. Roseanne grew up on Indy’s northside, graduating from North Central High School. She attended two years of business school at IU in Bloomington but longed for the freedom to explore creatively.

“I am incredibly grateful for the experience in business, but I found myself gravitating more toward the art world,” says Roseanne, who grew up frequenting museums.

“IN MY CAREER, I’VE WORKED ON PROJECTS WITH GEOLOGISTS, HIP HOP ARTISTS, ENGINEERS, WHIRLING DERVISHES, CITY PLANNERS, FILM MAKERS, ARCHITECTS & FASHION & FURNITURE DESIGNERS, AMONG OTHERS. WHERE ELSE CAN SO MANY DIFFERENT MINDS COME TOGETHER TO CREATE SHARED EXPERIENCES?”

After switching her major to art history and graduating with her BA, Roseanne stayed for graduate school at IU and received her Master’s in Art History and Journalism. During her final year in graduate school, Roseanne worked for the School of Fine Arts Gallery at IU and began making the connections that would lead her back to Indianapolis.

taught in the honors department at Butler University. After the birth of her two children, Roseanne finally returned to the IMA in January 2014 as the Assistant Curator of Audience Experience and Performance.

As Roseanne’s work continued, her plans changed again. During a meeting, she found herself sitting next to her future boss. “We got to talking about the work I was doing, and a couple of months later, I was hired by the IMA,” says Roseanne.

Now as fall approaches, Roseanne prepares for two big events.

In September, the IMA will host the international MuseumNext Conference which focuses on the future of museums. In October, the Project IMA: Cutting Loose Fashion Show will feature a runway fashion competition. The IMA is currently accepting designs.

Roseanne and her team research, create and implement various programs at the IMA. Working with artists, food vendors and In 2005, Roseanne and her husband moved to Broad Ripple and musicians, Roseanne helps to organize events like the Solstice and then to Meridian Kessler, and she began working as Assistant Project Equinox celebrations and ArtPrize Pitch Night where five local Manager for Public Art Indianapolis, a city-funded art initiative. “That artists competed for $5,000 to execute their projects at the fall was my first real grownup job,” says Roseanne, who helped coordinate ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids. the public exhibition of bronze sculptures by Tom Otterness. Three sculptures still remain just outside the Indiana Convention Center.

Roseanne also just finished planning an open talk with IMA’s guest curator of Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas. Along “I was definitely part of a team,” says Roseanne, who worked with with Summer Nights on Fridays ( June through August), Roseanne structural engineers to reinforce sidewalks and the artist’s gallery to is also helping to plan an adult day camp featuring chefs, artists and manage the sculptures coming to Indy. musicians.

Roseanne began her career at the IMA coordinating programs for adults. By the end of her first tenure from 2005-2010, her title had changed to Manager of Exhibition and Collection Programs. In 2009 when the IMA opened the European Design Collection, Roseanne and her team worked to bring the 20 European designers to present on their art and conduct conversations with each other and the public.

In 2010, Roseanne stepped back from her position at the IMA and

“I feel really lucky that they had me back for round two,” says Roseanne, who values her everyday events and encounters. “In my career, I’ve worked on projects with geologists, hip hop artists, engineers, whirling dervishes, city planners, film makers, architects and fashion and furniture designers, among others. Where else can so many different minds come together to create shared experiences?”

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The Monon Located in a bright red converted house in Broad Ripple, Fire by the Monon has a casual vibe and offers a menu full of outstanding attention-getting food.

I’m glad my friends convinced me to give the place another chance. It was several years since I dined there. That was before current owner Joe Cominsky introduced some new menu items and tweaked some of the other recipes. My prior opinion of mediocre has changed to being wowed.

Smoky nuggets of the house-smoked pulled pork are combined with pasta and cheeses in the Dirty Mac and Cheese.

Rotini pasta is used, and it’s perfect for catching the rich, velvety, cheesy sauce, a combination of white and yellow cheddar, smoked Gouda and Monterey Jack. It’s filling enough to be an entrée.

My husband told his friend Greg that I was working on a review for Fire by the Monon. Greg just dined there and asked if I tried the Dirty Mac. He said it was some of the best mac and cheese he’s ever had – I agree.

A half-pound Angus beef steak is the base for the Inferno Burger. The perfectly grilled burger is topped with housesmoked shreds of pulled pork (the same pork that’s in the Dirty Mac), two big fat beer-battered onion rings and then chipotle-citrus BBQ sauce drizzled on top.

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Writer, Food Reviewer & Photographer / Angie Trusty

RESTAURANT REVIEW

I love Reubens, and I love grouper, so I had high expectations for the Greuben. I was not disappointed. Upland Brewing Company’s Champaign Velvet Pilsner is used in the batter and made for a delicately crisp texture after the grouper was flash-fried. Just like the familiar Reuben, it’s served on grilled marble rye bread with melted Swiss cheese.

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It’s then topped with a big scoop of vanilla bean ice cream which creates a luscious cream as it slowly melts over the warm bread pudding. The owner Joe and his wife Patricia are big fans of bread pudding and try it whenever they see it on a menu. Once after having a particularly good bread pudding, Patricia said, “I’ll bet this would be even better if they made it with fresh peaches.”

The rest is delicious history!

Angie Trusty is the creator of the food blog whiteriverkitchen.com, a realtor, mother of three girls and enjoys living on the White River with her husband.

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Much like marketing organizations engage a marketing agency to partner on or refresh their marketing strategy and content, Five years prior to the launch of App Press, co-founder Grant executives and Research & Development teams engage Glas worked in art direction. Intimately familiar with Photoshop InnovateMap to innovate on and refresh the marketability, value when the iPad was released, he was excited about the possibilities and usability of their software. In short, InnovateMap helps of an application on the iPad but found learning coding to be companies dream, design and deliver outstanding products that challenging. “I am the creative guy,” shares Glas. “I wanted to create delight their customers. an app where you don’t have to write any code.”

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elebrating over 118 years in business, the W.H. Bass Photo Company still resides in the same building since inception in 1897 along South New Jersey Street. The Bass Photo Building is now a historic landmark with its owners solidly rooted to the past but working towards the future.

William H. Bass was a local teacher at Shortridge High School who took up photography in 1887. By 1899, the company was operating as Bass and Woodworth. Woodworth sold his interest to Bass in 1904, officially creating the W.H. Bass Photo Company. Theodore (Ted) Abel became a Board member by 1936, and today his grandson, Gerry Abel, along with his wife, Kathy, run the company.

“My grandfather, Ted Abel, hung around Mr. Bass in the early

1900s as a kid. He was eventually given a broom and worked his way up," says Gerry, third generation Bass Photo Company owner. “Developer is in the blood. I grew up with a dark room at home and spent weekends at the shop.”

Gerry watched his father, grandfather and the technicians work, and he played hide and seek, enjoying the revolving doors on the dark room. “It’s an honor to be a third generation photographer with The Bass Photo Company,” shares Gerry.

“But what makes my experience so rewarding is working alongside my wife, Kathy.”

Perhaps Bass Photo is best known for its massive collection of historical photos taken of Indianapolis since 1899. “The photos of the street scenes were actually taken using extra sheets of film after a job,” shares Kathy. She explains, “The photographer would ride the trolley car along Virginia into downtown and snap shots of buildings and scenes of people in the streets with the extra photo paper leftover from their job.”

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These “extras” have served as the photographic history of Indianapolis, creating the notoriety that is associated with The Bass Photo Company. “We feel that these vintage photos are an integral part of recording the history of Indianapolis from 1897,” shares Kathy.

In 1987, the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) purchased the vast collection of over 200,000 negatives. These negatives are now preserved and cataloged at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick History Center, creating a massive archive accessible online or by request in the IHS library.

Susan Sutton, Director of Digitization at the IHS located at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick History Center, pieced together these beloved negatives in the book “Indianapolis: The Bass Photo Company Collection by Indiana Historical Society Press,” 2008.

“I was really excited to write the book about this fantastic body of work. Like so many other people, I love these photographs,” shares Sutton. “Researching the company itself gave me an even greater appreciation of the images. Everything I found pointed to people who consciously recorded the history of the city.

“From William H. Bass instructing photographers to shoot

interesting scenes with unused negatives when returning from assignments to Ted Abel sending people out to photograph endangered buildings, this company has a long history of SERVING Indianapolis – not just doing business. Their photographers were talented, and they left a beautiful record of a city as it grew and changed through the 20th century.”

Given the incredible history of The Bass Photo Company, what will the future hold? “Our present and future is strong,” shares Gerry. “We are continuing on.”

With clients like Eli Lilly who have used the talents of The Bass Photo Company for over 118 years, it’s hard to not maintain a successful working relationship with that type of track record.

“Mr. Lilly used to come over to look at the historic negatives with my grandfather,” says Gerry. “And what’s more, Lilly moved closer to us out of convenience.”

The Abels are grateful for all of their clients. “We are so blessed by our wonderful customers,” says Kathy. “Our business continues to grow and move forward.”

For more information, visit indianahistory.org and bassphoto.com.

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LOUD & CLEAR Broad Ripple’s MIKE JANSEN Commands Lucas Oil Stadium Writer / Ray Compton . Photographer / Brian Brosmer

In his first assignment as a PA announcer with a professional sports league almost two decades ago, Mike Jansen was chirping for a minor league hockey team in something called the International Hockey League where all 17 teams were located in the United States.

Though his voice crackled with appropriate tones of excitement, sincerity and dignity at most moments during the Indianapolis Ice games at the Fairgrounds Coliseum, Jansen was part of the almost vaudeville show employed by the organization’s front office. The team’s entertainment philosophy was simple: if it is not criminally illegal, it could be inserted into our game day lineup of zany promotions.

Who else unleashed the trio of chubby Elvis impersonators as their mascots? What other team would host the Village People at not one but two post-game concerts? What professional franchise would reveal a bawdy belching contest during an intermission on Men’s Night?

Yes, it was our city’s professional hockey franchise that once finished 17th among the 17-team IHL and was the only team not to qualify for that year’s playoffs.

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Mike showing off his Superbowl and AFC Championship rings with his daughter, Melanie.

Thus, Jansen was called upon by his superiors to juice up the PA. No handcuffs on the comments. Hockey purists may have been excused for roughing calls when they heard the rink announcer slip into the voice of Barney Fife on penalty acknowledgements, Pee Wee Herman to announce a goal scored by the opposing team or Arnold (the Terminator) Schwarzenegger at any time deemed almost appropriate.

“We wanted Mike to be part of our crazy approach to the game,” said Brad Beery, then game operations director for the Ice. “We hoped people would find his voices to be funny.”

It is assumed most fans appreciated Jansen on the microphone. The Ice averaged over 5,000 fans, a team attendance record.

“It was very hectic,” remembered Jansen. “The game was very fastpaced, and at first, I really didn’t understand the game.”

But Jansen did learn the game, and he quickly grabbed on to the secrets of being the voice at sporting events. This audition led him to a tryout to become the stadium announcer for another Indianapolis team in 1998. The job was for an NFL team and not a minor league hockey team.

“I really didn’t have any interest to try out, but I had friends call me at work asking me if I was going to try out,” Jansen recalled.

“So with their encouragement, I decided give it a try.”

The tryouts were held on a muggy, blistering hot July day, and Jansen called the RCA Dome a sweatbox as outdoor temperatures soared to almost 100 degrees. The air conditioning was off as almost 400 persons of both genders poured into the stadium for a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and that was just to audition for the position.

Three hours after his arrival, Jansen’s name was finally called. “I was considering leaving,” Jansen said. “But my name was called, and I went up and read a script.”

That was Round One. Jansen was invited back for Round Two when the marketing staff turned the event into a tournament bracket for the last 16 competitors. This competition sliced down the field to two voices – local voiceover talent Artie Widgery and Jansen.

The two were asked to announce one half of the pre-season game between Ryan Leaf and Peyton Manning.

The football experts gave Manning the nod in the battle of the top two draft picks. Jansen proved to be the last voice standing after the game.

“They asked me if I wanted to work with the Colts,” Jansen said. “I said yes, and the rest is history.”

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And what a history for the 52-year-old Bishop Chatard and Ball State radio and television graduate. Not only is he entering his 18th season in the announcing booth on Sunday afternoons, but he is deemed one of the top stadium announcers in the NFL with his accuracy, timing and electric voice work. Jansen is only the third PA announcer for the Colts in their Indianapolis history (Rick Miles and Dave “the King” Wilson were his predecessors).

“Jansen does great work because he has a passion for the job and the Colts,” said senior executive Pete Ward. “He’s a true homer who works hard to give us a home field advantage. The NFL is a sport where fans can participate and make a difference. Mike understands that thinking.”

the video to a longtime fan who battled cancer during the title run by his Bombers.

“The chapter was a compilation of his thoughts and the team’s comments on him,” Jansen said. “It was a powerful story.”

Jansen, a devoted Colts fan, fondly recalls that his biggest career highlight came when the Colts defeated New England in the AFC Championship Game at the RCA Dome in January 2007. The victory sent the Colts to the Super Bowl. Now, he awaits another career mountaintop.

“It would be fun to do character voices on an animated feature or cartoon series,” he said. “I want to be flourishing in the video Ward admits he sometimes has to lasso the creativity of Jansen, who publishing world or developing content for TV.” initiated the “first down” chant and has cracked his voice whip to motivate the home fans for third down defensive stands.

But he also realizes that he is living out a dream on August 22 (the first pre-season game at home against the Chicago Bears) when “Actually, my job is pretty surreal after all these years,” Jansen he strolls into the announcing booth at Lucas Oil Stadium as the admitted. “I hit a little button, and my voice goes out to the stadium stadium voice of the Colts. and becomes part of the game day experience. When the game is over, I leave Lucas Oil Stadium with the fans, and we all pour out Ray Compton is a former journalist and longtime sports marketing into the streets. Nobody has a clue that they had heard me for the person. last three hours.”

However, other sports officials have known about Jansen, who lives in Broad Ripple with his wife Bev, a magistrate in Marion County Juvenile Court, and their three children, Delaney, a sophomore at IU; Alec, a senior at Cathedral; and Melanie, a sixth grader at Immaculate Heart of Mary School. He has announced both the Big Ten football and basketball events in Lucas Oil Stadium and Bankers Life Fieldhouse; filled in for the Indianapolis Indians at Victory Field; and will announce the IHSAA football championships this November.

Jansen has partnered with the IHSAA on full time career video work. He has completed several video projects (12-15 minutes in length) that have impacted the state’s high school family. Those stories have included features on legendary announcer Tom Carnegie; the iconic Hatchet House in Washington; the volleyball history in Muncie; and the 1971 East Chicago Washington basketball team.

Jansen has also teamed up with former IUPUI coach Bob Lovell to produce championship DVDs for Carmel, Greensburg and other Hoosier high school football and basketball teams.

Jansen dives into these projects with the same passion he takes to the microphone. As part of the DVD on the Rensselaer Central Bombers football championship last fall, he devoted a chapter of

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he idea began with a simple observation. Parishioner Mike Semler noticed how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Joan of Arc The remainder of the Festival begins at 4 p.m. General admission hosted their own summer festivals, and he wondered why is free, but guests can purchase tickets for great food and Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) couldn’t host its own. drinks. With local vendors like 317 Burger, Fat Dan’s Deli, Mama Carolla’s, Brugge Brasserie and The Flying Cupcake, the “I felt there was a void in our neighborhood to do another Festival will also feature a beer garden for guests who purchase a festival,” says Mike, who envisioned a big party for the church and wristband. community. Now in its seventh year, Fall Kick-Off Fest will occur on the parking lot of IHM from 4-11 p.m. on Saturday, August 29.

The event will also offer plenty of activities for kids, including a All proceeds help support IHM, its operation and its mission.

Kids Zone with a cake walk, bounce houses and carnival games.

Depending on age, admission is either $10 or $15 and offers IHM will celebrate the Fall Kick-Off Fest amongst several other unlimited fun from 4-8 p.m. great northside festivals. Just a week before, St. Thomas Aquinas hosts SausageFest. The event will feature music, games and food Throughout the night, several musical acts will perform, including and takes place on Friday, August 21, from 6 p.m. to midnight Greta Speaks and The Dugan Brothers Band. and Saturday, August 22, from 5 p.m. to midnight. Also St. Joan of Arc will celebrate its 25th annual French Market Festival the “The gist of it is let’s have a big party for our church but more Saturday after Labor Day; the event takes place from 12-10 p.m. on specifically, let’s have a party for our neighborhood and September 12. community,” says Mike. The IHM Fall Kick-Off Fest along with SausageFest and French Market Festival are three great ways to Mike, who has chaired the IHM Fall Kick-Off Fest for its seven celebrate the beginning of fall. years, estimates that over 3,000 people attended the event in 2014 with the majority of them non-parishioners. “It allows everyone who lives in the neighborhood to enjoy a great early fall afternoon Joshua Deisler lives with his family in Broad Ripple. He teaches 7th grade language arts and enjoys running and writing stories. with great food, great beverages and great entertainment,” he says.

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ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION SHOWCASE

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Writer / Kara Reibel

Seventy-four startups, 70 pitches, one winner: pi lab’s Edwin the Duck steals another show in 2015. First they owned CES in Las Vegas and now The Innovation Showcase on their home turf.

“Edwin is no ordinary duck,” says cofounder Don Inmon, quoting Edwin’s tagline. “We couldn’t be happier. The support we’ve received from the City of Carmel and Mayor Brainard, Verge, Launch Fishers and TechPoint as well as the entire tech community has been truly humbling.”

Verge co-founder and frontman Matt Hunkler, the event’s MC for the pitch competition, shares, “This group of entrepreneurs is making things happen, and they’re doing it right here in the Midwest. It’s great to see how our tech and entrepreneurship community has grown to support and celebrate these innovative

companies. The talent, capital, education and inspiration are right here in Indiana.

You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to build a high-growth tech company.”

“Something magical happens when you pack a room with 1,000 people all focused on entrepreneurship and innovation,” says Launch Fishers founder John Wechsler. “I think we can definitively say in our seventh year, The Innovation Showcase is simply getting better with time!”

The guiding principle of the Venture Club of Indiana is based upon “creating an entrepreneurial, business-friendly environment attractive to investors” which they feel “is critical to the continued success of Indiana’s emerging companies and established businesses.” This intention is echoed throughout the entrepreneurial community.

The Venture Club of Indiana recognized the need for an investor/startup event, hosting the first Innovation Showcase in 2009. Like every great idea, support from the entrepreneurial community gained momentum over the last 16 years, creating even greater opportunities for partnerships by providing successful conditions for viable businesses to flourish.

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exemplary partnership of the Venture Club, Verge, VisionTech Partners, Launch Fishers and Launch Indiana. The collaboration indicates the significance of The Innovation Showcase as an excellent opportunity for networking and exploring why central Indiana is a hotbed of potentiality, featuring the best and brightest entrepreneurs. A rising tide raises all ships.

“What always impresses me are the entrepreneurs and their stories,” shares Todd Saxton, Associate Professor IU Kelley MBA and President of the Venture Club of Indiana. “Not just the ideas, but the creative and engaging ways they choose to share those ideas. The passion and commitment to solving a problem is inspirational.

Without entrepreneurs and the dreams they commit to pursuing, we would not have the vibrant venture community that exists here.”

Edwin’s creators, pi lab, were just one of 74 startups participating in this year’s Innovation Showcase. All may be viewed on the website, TheInnovationShowcase.com.

For further information, please visit: edwintheduck.com indycarfactory.com ventureclub.org vergehq.com launchfishers.com visiontech-partners.com

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n a visit to the library with his mom when he was 11 years old, Zack Baker borrowed a book that would immediately captivate his attention and energies for years to come. “‘Computer Programming for Dummies’ was what I checked out,” shares Zack, “and I was obsessed.”

“Since Zack was a little kid, he’s been fascinated by computers,” says Cynthia Baker, Zack’s mom and a professor at the IU McKinney School of Law. (Zack’s father is a federal magistrate downtown.)

Now a senior at Noblesville High School, Zack says, “I wanted to learn everything I could about computers and programming.”

Zack is certainly in the right school system. Noblesville Public Schools was one of the first districts embracing the digital age with the #MillerShift initiative, creating a 1:1 ratio of student to iPad in grades 5-12. This reliance on apps and technology inspired Zack to create an app digitizing hall passes.

Knowing that he needed help to bring this idea to fruition, Zack walked into Launch Fishers one day and introduced himself. He had

come to the right place. Baker was immediately connected to several people, including Mike Kelly with DeveloperTown and Eric White with ThinkMotile.com, a member of the Speakeasy in Broad Ripple.

“Zack’s a great kid, very bright and an excellent programmer,” shares White. “He has an intuitive gift at problem solving with coding, which is a key feature in a successful programmer.”

With the guidance of his mentors, PassWhiz became a reality.

“NHS had a need for a better method of tracking students moving around the building,” shares NHS Principal Jeff Bryant says. “We became Zack’s customer. I met with Zack and explained to him our needs, and he responded with PassWhiz. Throughout the process as the customer, he showed us updates to his product, and we offered feedback. He responded to this feedback to create the app that we are now using. Zack is a true entrepreneur.”

“We could have gone outside our walls to hire a developer to create this app, but there was no need when we have students like Zack who can create a first-class app.”

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Zack receives an average of one inquiry per week from schools interested in PassWhiz. For this interest, Baker credits social media.

“Word of mouth in any industry is the best advertising,” says Baker.

“This is also true for teachers, and that is where I believe my app is gaining awareness.”

Mentor Mike Kelly of DeveloperTown shares, “Zack has shown all the characteristics of a successful technology entrepreneur. He knows how to identify a real business problem. he then listens to customers to really understand their point of view and pain points, and he knows how to translate that into code. He’s not afraid to learn something new, try something and fail, and then do it again until he gets it right. He’s humble enough to know when to ask for help and gracious enough to say thank you in a way that makes you want to keep helping him.“ When the law firm Church, Church, Hittle & Antrim contacted a few

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“As a premiere school law firm representing 30+ school districts, we wanted to develop an app explaining the law and how they apply to school educators and administrators,” says attorney Ryan Liffrig.

“Zack submitted a proposal. We just launched the Android version this month.”

“INSchoolLaw was built for Church, Church, Hittle & Antrim to bring together state laws, federal statutes, select cases, client specific information and more – all together under one app,” says Zack. “It was a big project, but like the rest, fun. I couldn’t have done all of this without the support of my parents and my mentors. I am so grateful, and I owe them a lot.”

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