Debate Watch- UMD debuts new technology at debate watch

Education Politics — 04 October 2012
By
Capital News Service


COLLEGE PARK- Hundreds turn out in College Park to both watch the presidential debate and take part in a new, immediate way of measuring audience response.

The University of Maryland debuted two Maryland-made forms of technology, including online voter registration for Maryland students and real-time polling where 2,000 students from across the country reacted to the debate and watched the trends live.

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Lyndsey Wallen is a broadcast journalism graduate student at the University of Maryland. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Delaware in with a bachelor's degree in mass communication in 2011. She currently works with the Journalism Center on Children and Families and was a U.S. representative in the 2012 Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. She has interned with WGAL News 8 and with Delaware Gov. Jack Markell's communication team. Follow Lyndsey on Twitter @LyndsNicole11