{"id":6650,"date":"2014-06-16T12:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/magazines\/vanderbilt-business\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:39:16","slug":"video-is-vital-for-project-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/video-is-vital-for-project-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"Video is &#8220;Vital&#8221; for Project Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/projectpyramid\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6601\" title=\"projectpyramid2_400x232\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/legacy\/i\/projectpyramid2_400x232.jpg\" alt=\"Check presentation Project Pyramid\" width=\"400\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A video made by students about <a title=\"Project Pyramid website\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/projectpyramid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Pyramid<\/a> spread across the Web and earned a second place award from Johnson &amp; Johnson in the company\u2019s \u201cBe Vital\u201d video contest.<\/p>\n<p>Project Pyramid, a Vanderbilt organization founded by Owen students and dedicated to ending global poverty through community partnerships, education and responsive action, received $5,000 to help with travel expenses for students\u2019 chosen projects. The video, created by students <strong>Rachel Taplinger<\/strong>, MBA\u201914, <strong>Kalen Stanton<\/strong>, MBA\u201913, <strong>Kramer Schmidt<\/strong>, MBA\u201914, and <strong>Hemant Nelaparthi<\/strong>, MBA\u201914, was posted on Johnson &amp; Johnson&#8217;s website in November.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6600\" title=\"Project-Pyramid_400x284\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/legacy\/i\/Project-Pyramid_400x284.jpg\" alt=\"Student in Project Pyramid tshirt\" width=\"200\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Videos were rated through a combination of public voting and judging by Johnson &amp; Johnson on the basis of return on investment, best out-of-the-box solution and greatest human impact. Project Pyramid\u2019s video was one of only two graduate school projects honored.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6602\" title=\"Project-Pyramid3_400x268\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/legacy\/i\/Project-Pyramid3_400x268.jpg\" alt=\"Project Pyramid logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s university relations team visited campus to present Project Pyramid members (right) with the $5,000 check held by faculty sponsor <strong>Bart Victor<\/strong>, the Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership, and Taplinger.<\/p>\n<p>See \u00a0their winning video at <a title=\"vu.edu\/2013bevital\" href=\"http:\/\/2013winners.bevitalchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">vu.edu\/2013bevital<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video made by students about Project Pyramid spread across the Web and earned a second place award from Johnson &amp; Johnson in the company\u2019s \u201cBe Vital\u201d video contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departments","category-owen-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8462,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions\/8462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}