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On December 4 news broke that Apple bought Pop Up Archive, the Oakland-based startup that began as a MIMS Final Project in 2012. Pop Up Archive was co-founded by MIMS alumnae Bailey Smith and Anne Wootton and makes tools for transcribing, organizing and searching audio files.

“Without the Berkeley I School, Pop Up Archive would not have existed.” Anne Wootton told the I School on December 5, following the acquisition. “Not only did Bailey and I meet there, we spent the master’s program honing skills, building relationships, and prototyping a thesis that laid the foundation for all of our work over the past five years.”

A team from Berkeley, including two MIMS 2018 students, designed improvements to the Clipper Card to optimize public transit services for low-income families and students. Their design was awarded first place honors along with the People’s Choice Award at the competition, showing their design successfully responded to the problems of the communities they were intended to serve.