{"id":30109,"date":"2026-05-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=30109"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:00:42","slug":"cai-behind-the-scenes-lunch-join-the-women-in-it-community-of-practice-for-these-events-and-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/13\/cai-behind-the-scenes-lunch-join-the-women-in-it-community-of-practice-for-these-events-and-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"CAI Behind-the-Scenes + Lunch &#8211; Join the Women+ in IT Community of Practice for these events and activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-ccda7ad4 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/xr-initative-600x338.png ,https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/xr-initative-600x338.png 780w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/xr-initative-600x338.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/xr-initative-600x338.png\" alt=\"Woman wearing VR\/AR goggles, holding controllers.\" class=\"uag-image-15650\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" title=\"xr-initative-600x338\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019d love for you to join us for a <a href=\"https:\/\/women.it.umich.edu\/upcoming-events-meetings\">behind-the-scenes tour of the Center for Academic Innovation\u2019s production studios<\/a>, including the XR Studio, lecture studios, and podcast studio, where CAI creates immersive learning experiences for the University of Michigan community on&nbsp;<strong>Thursday, June 11, at 12 p.m<\/strong>. During the tour, we\u2019ll get to see projects ranging from a virtual climb to the top of Mount Everest to an interactive history of Black protest, along with other innovative digital learning experiences being developed by the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the tour, we\u2019ll stick around for a casual lunch and conversation with the CAI team. This is intended to be a low-stakes opportunity to connect with colleagues across IT, learn a little more about the work happening around campus, and build community and networking relationships in an informal setting. Come late or leave early.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please plan to bring your own lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019d love for you to join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Center for Academic Innovation\u2019s production studios, including the XR Studio, lecture studios, and podcast studio, where CAI creates immersive learning experiences for the University of Michigan community on&nbsp;Thursday, June 11, at 12 p.m. During the tour, we\u2019ll get to see projects ranging from a virtual\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/13\/cai-behind-the-scenes-lunch-join-the-women-in-it-community-of-practice-for-these-events-and-activities\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1067],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-30109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-cop"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"excerpt-thumbnail":false,"themonic-thumbnail":false,"ioslider-thumbnail":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"400x250-crop":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"We\u2019d love for you to join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Center for Academic Innovation\u2019s production studios, including the XR Studio, lecture studios, and podcast studio, where CAI creates immersive learning experiences for the University of Michigan community on&nbsp;Thursday, June 11, at 12 p.m. During the tour, we\u2019ll get to see projects ranging&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30112,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30109\/revisions\/30112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}