{"id":59202,"date":"2014-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-alumnus-mat-franco-ready-to-wow-americas-got-talent-again\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"uri-alumnus-mat-franco-ready-to-wow-americas-got-talent-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/07\/uri-alumnus-mat-franco-ready-to-wow-americas-got-talent-again\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus Mat Franco ready to wow America\u2019s Got Talent again"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tHopes to impress Heidi, Howard, Howie and Mel B Tuesday, June 22<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 21, 2014 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus Mat Franco had the judges and audience jumping out of their seats with applause when he auditioned last month for America\u2019s Got Talent.<\/p>\n


\nThe Newport magician and 2010 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate will again try to win four yes votes from the judges when his second performance on America\u2019s Got Talent airs Tuesday, July 22 at 9 p.m. on WJAR, NBC 10.<\/p>\n


\nThis week\u2019s segments, part of \u201cJudgment Week\u201d and taped in New York City, will decide whether Mat and his fellow competitors will move on to the live rounds at Radio City Music Hall.<\/p>\n


\nDuring his last performance on June 17, Franco earned a standing ovation from judges Heidi Klum, Howard Stern, Howie Mandel and Mel B and thousands in the audience.<\/p>\n


\nCheck out Mat in the preview video<\/a> for Judgment Week.\t<\/p>\n


\nNamed 2013\u2019s Best Male Performer by Campus Activities Magazine, Franco has been astonishing freshman orientation audiences at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus since he was a student. Most shows end with standing ovations. Franco, who grew up in Johnston, completed a full slate of shows for this year\u2019s 溏心vlog免费B站 orientation program, which ran through the end of June.<\/p>\n


\nFranco, who majored in marketing at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Business Administration, began performing when he was 4 years old. <\/p>\n


\nFranco said without 溏心vlog免费B站, his career never would have developed.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t have even been a possibility without the business education I received at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d Franco said. \u201cI had to learn the business side of things to maintain my magic habit. When I started, people learned about me through word-of-mouth, and I handed out business cards. But the marketing program at 溏心vlog免费B站 was just fantastic, and it gave me a perspective on things and where I could go as an entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBut outside the classroom, he learned people skills. \u201cI was a 溏心vlog免费B站 freshman orientation leader for two years, and then as a junior I was a program assistant. Then, as a senior, I was a student co-coordinator for the entire program. This was the most rewarding experience where I learned a lot about other people and myself.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hopes to impress Heidi, Howard, Howie and Mel B Tuesday, June 22 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 21, 2014 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus Mat Franco had the judges and audience jumping out of their seats with applause when he auditioned last month for America\u2019s Got Talent. The Newport magician and 2010 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}