The Lewis' Family "If I Can't Fit It" Award ($500) - Backstreet Box
By Sarah Vanderpool, Tiffany Matheson, Rachel Fox, & Elizabeth Castro
The Backstreet Box project is to provide affordable transitional housing for single homeless women and transgender persons while they are in the process of securing permanent housing. The units will be constructed in alleyways, attaching to existing buildings. By having a small footprint, they can be centrally located, reducing the need for commuting to major metropolitan areas where jobs and services are more available. The system is designed to be electrically off-grid, with solar power providing enough energy to each unit for phone charging and other basic needs. The design includes a bike locker or additional storage space for each resident. The units will be given address assignments, allowing users to have a physical address for job applications and other necessary processes.
The Lewis' Family "If I Can't Fit It" Award ($500) - Veeo
By Trystan Kaes, Kelsey Ford, Lauren Hebert, & Will Fischer
What would you explore if the mundane or inconvenient aspects of learning were swept aside, clearing the path ahead? What might teams accomplish if learning were collaborative, and each member could easily glean insights from the entire team’s research? Could leadership take an organization farther by understanding its knowledge-base and strategically expanding its intellectual capital? Built for enterprise teams, Veeo is a knowledge acquisition and management tool that visually maps each user’s learning process. For individuals, it facilitates deep learning and augments memory. For organizations, Veeo empowers leaders to guide knowledge growth, and sparks innovation by connecting people through ideas.
People's Choice - Trailmark
By Jake Daly, Yearly Ochoa, Mark Hashman, & Joe Chamberlain
Trailmark is an RFID system that tracks the number of people on a ski mountain or trail system. The Trailmark system can be used to find lost or injured hikers and skiers. Users will simply can scan in and out (ultimately using NFC technology in a Mobile Phone to “check in/out”) at trail heads, ski lifts, and the like.
People's Choice Runner Up - Merry Seoul Thoughts 64 3D
By Vladislav Makarov, Quinn Owens, Fernando Guardado, Uriah Moeller, Mario Feghali, Jose Ortega, & Mohammad Hossain
Merry Seoul Thoughts 64 3D will be a re-playable “speedchallenge” game, which uses a bait-and-switch theme to initially fool the player into thinking they are playing something more casual, before sending them into a series of challenges. The first level will be Super Monkey Ball themed and with a main menu in the same art style. However, after completing the very first level, their game is immediately interrupted by some unknown figure who speaks through the user interface. After this, the player must now complete a randomly ordered set of game challenges, and a running timer starts. After completing the random set of challenges, the player will have to fight the figure who was speaking to the player throughout the rest of the game. Once this is complete, the timer stops and is recorded as the player’s score, and the player has successfully beat the game.
The Most Human-Centered Award - Vitamin A Project
By Jeremy Holder, Genessa Gutzait, & Taylor Hager
Vitamin A deficiency is a major problem in third-world countries and is co-morbid to a lot of other serious health problems (blindness, malaria mortality, HIV/AIDS mortality, brain development, etc.) It is possible, and harmful, to overdose on Vitamin A, so we cannot use supplements as a solution. The current testing process requires multiple days and expensive, sensitive lab equipment, and is therefore out of reach for most of the population in developing countries. Our challenge was to create a less expensive, faster Vitamin A deficiency test.
The Jaws Award - Smart Transit
By John DiBaggio, Cathalina Fontenelle, Bhavdeep "Nanu" Ahluwalia, & Andrew Babcock
With 80% of U.S. population growth occurring in urban areas, cities face a continuous and ever growing challenge having people travel using sustainable, eco-friendly methods while reducing city congestion. Smart Transit is building a cloud service, sold to transit agencies in partnering cities, along with mobile applications for commuters and travelers. Using real-time data, user customizations, and integration into smart-home technologies, we will be able to seamlessly integrate navigation into people’s daily lives and increase sustainable transportation use. Our data collected over time will allow us to provide valuable analytics to transit agencies and cities for future city development.
The Fusion Award - Biological 3D Printer
By Richard Wojcik
A biological 3D printer is used to print simple to complex structures using biological materials (bioink) as the medium. The printer I’ve developed consists of a modified, commercially available PLA 3D printer, a syringe pump and updated controllers. The syringe pump, along with silicone tubing, will replace the stock plastic filament. The syringe pump will be able to push the bioink through to the 3D printer nozzle. A standard Arduino controller will work with the syringe pump and stock 3D printing software to create simple to complex biological structures.
