Marquette University athletics recent episodes from our Marquette Stories series profile the dedicated, passionate, cult fans of Marquette Basketball.
It was great to tell stories about the culture and individuals that surround college basketball, and see that world firsthand. Marquette’s dedicated fan base, rich history and traditions created a best case scenario for us in finding unique stories that define the life of a diehard college basketball fan.
The documentary profiles were populated within social media and video sharing to raise awareness of this home opener celebration, and also primarily began building a larger story about the substance and passion of Marquette’s colorful basketball fan culture.
Wow, director Casey Suchan just did an amazing couple of pieces for Marquette.
They are both for the Marquette Engineering school, and both to send out to alumni as fund raising pieces.
The first is ROBOT CAMP. On June 16th 2008 Marquette University held a “Robot Camp” to build interest in engineering among gifted grade school students. This is where we meet Max, Robert and Simon. Hear their thoughts on cooking, cats, dogs, future technology, engineering and, of course… girls.
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The second is DENIM AND WHEAT, a profile of engineering alumni coming together to rebuild Milwaukee’s Marquette Interchange (no relation, really).
To launch our Marquette Stories series of videos for Marquette University, director Casey Suchan spent a week with a group of high school students doing a “Deep Dive” into engineering problems.
This four episode mini-series was produced as a series of fund raising pieces for the Engineering department, and was conceived as “Spellbound for Engineering students”.
Episode 1 of 4, “The Arrival”. Every year Marquette University’s College of Engineering hosts a hands on camp to show incoming freshmen how engineers can make a difference in the world. This ‘transformational’ program is designed to fundamentally change the way these students think about engineering. In this first episode we learn that nearly three children a minute die in Tanzania from lack of safe drinking. What solutions will these young students propose in the next three days?
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Episode 2 of 4, “A Focus on People”. What would engineering look like if we focused on people? On their first full day of “Deep Dive” these future engineers from Marquette University awkwardly get acquainted with each other through team building activities and interviews. Samson leads the students, telling them about his childhood in Tanzania… getting the students into the mindset of life in a place where many die every day from unclean water. It’s an exhausting day.
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Episode 3 of 4, “Asante San”. It’s day two and we follow the ‘enginerds’ as they use their minds to make a difference by finding practical engineering solutions to real problems in Tanzania. Time is running out, as tomorrow is the big day — after lunch the teams give their final presentations. But tonight the burning question is… where are their seats at the Brewer game?
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Episode 4 of 4, “Going Home”. It’s the big day and if the goal was ‘transformation’, than mission accomplished. These future engineers from Marquette University are confident and accomplished as they take us through the final day of Transformational Design. As their adventure ends, they have all made an entire new set of friends that they will probably have for the rest of their lives.
