Spring 2023

Green Internet of Things

Project Advisors: Braden Lee, Wen Hui Leng, Alyssa Robert

Description: Internet of Things (IoT) systems allow us to collect data wirelessly and transmit for processing. This team built a system with wireless sensors and microcontrollers to collect and process data for a novel environmental application.

Adept Gamers

Project Advisors: Thomas Canchola, Iris Li, Kate Stamper

Description: Using game and model theory, this team analyzed decision-making in board games and video games. Over the course of this experience, the students developed their own card game with unique strategies and twists.

Rolling Robots

Project Advisors: David Chan, Saanika Chauk

Description: There are many ways to automate our lives, whether it comes to calculating simple math problems to driving cars. But what other problems lie out there left to solve with robotics? In this project, the students built drones to solve a wide variety of problems.

The MightyChondrias

Project Advisors: Robby Famiglietti, Elizabeth Masyukova, Cadence O’Donnell

Description: From the bizarre creatures in the depths of the oceans to the bacteria inside our bodies, all life on Earth consists of cells. But we have only a very rough idea of how even the simplest of those cells function. This team stripped a cell down to its essential components and create a 3D digital cell simulation so that we can see what the first cells were like billions of years ago!

Hands on Coding

Project Advisors: Jay Madan, Iqui Balam Heredia Marin, Grace Oualline, Akintayo Salu

Description: The goal of this project was to get students from zero knowledge of coding to making a full mini game by the end of the class. In ten weeks, they will learned the basics of Python programming through CMU’s CS Academy, and used those skills to create a final project of their choice.

Food Science

Project Advisors: Carmen Hagerty, Lily Klucinec, Trish Nhan

Description: Every time you walk into a supermarket, new flavors of chips, soda, candy, juice, and much more are being sold on shelves across the world. However, there are many types of foods that unify different cultures. This project centered on one such food: dumplings. Each week, students prepared a type of dumpling from a specific culture and noted aspects of the recipe they enjoyed. For the final showcase, the students created their own dumpling using the skills, ingredients, and preparation methods they learned along the way.