Joe Barnard is a third-year theatre and computer science student. His passion for lighting design and computers took him to Drake University, where he is working on his B. S. in Computer Science and B. F. A. in Theatre Design & Technology.
As a child, Joe was always interested in building LEGO sets, and taking his toys apart to understand how they worked. This eventually turned into learning about computers and programming.
But Joe's passion for lighting really took off during high school where he was already running lights for his high school's theatre productions. The combination of programming and making things look pretty really appealed to him, and so he spent the rest of high school learning as much as he could about lighting design & programming.
Throughout college, Joe continues to learn as much as he can and develop his design and programming sensibilities.
