The following projects were selected by a panel of judges from a pool of over 100 projects, representing the work of more than 300 UMSI students during the 2023-2024 academic year.
More information on the selection criteria and the judges can be found on this page.
Awards by Degree Area
BSI Capstone:
First prize: Toyota Trailer Hitching Guidance Application (access the video summary)
Zoe Zhang, Angel Huang, Jack Mintzer, Caira Blevins
SI 487: User Experience Final Project
Second prize: Clavis Sinica - Chinese Language Learning App
Ally Chang, Yuri Chen, Rebecca Mao, Sage Pei, Jingting Wang
SI 487: User Experience Final Project
Residential Master's Programs Final Projects:
First prize: Empowering Well Owners: Trusted Resources and Community Support for Safe Michigan Water (access the video summary)
Gabriela Holliman-Lopez, Jennifer Li, Samartha Okyne, Angelina Viana, Alexander Yang
SI 699: UX Research and Design Mastery Course
Second prize: Streamlining and Sustaining Data Management Systems
Avery Gleason
SI 699: Digital Curation Mastery Course
MADS Capstone:
First prize: YouTube Redefined: Personalized Viewing with AI Filtering (access the video summary)
Quoc-Huy Nguyen, Gabriel Alon, Krishan Chawla
SIADS 699: Masters in Applied Data Science Capstone
Second prize: Bridging Medication Interoperability: RxNorm Linkage from Free-Text Descriptions (access the video summary)
Karl Renius, Rich Tata
SIADS 699: Masters in Applied Data Science Capstone
Awards by Thematic Area
Entrepreneurship/Innovation:
First prize: Enhancing Laparoscopic Surgical Training and Feedback Framework at the UM-Medical School (access the video summary)
Siddhi Rajesh More, Yidi Lin, Rachana Gone, Jessica Cai
SI 582: Introduction to Interaction Design
Second prize: AI-Enhanced Mental Health Training (access the video summary)
Rashida Aluwihare, Cindy Ye, Hamza Naveed
Independent Project
Community/Civic:
First prize: Strengthening Social Cohesion at the Neighborhood Level (access the video summary)
Roger Barber, Helena Grobel, Imani Ahmad, Remi Goldfarb
SI 487: User Experience Final Project
Tie for second prize: Move United: Transforming Wheelchair Football Through Scoresheet Digitization (access the video summary)
Grace Garmo, Mia Inakage, Kushal Sanjeev, Jacob Weiskopf
SI 487: User Experience Final Project
Tie for second prize: Bridging Families & Toys Through Digital Lending (access the video summary)
Priya Varshika Ganji, Woojin Kang, Alan Yang, Stella Young
SI 487: User Experience Final Project
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion:
First prize: Dress for Success Washington D.C. – Career Development Website Redesign (access the video summary)
Zeinab Ghandour, Jack Sambursky, Joan Suh, Rishma Balakrishnan
SI 487: User Experience Final Project
Second prize: Do Black-owned Restaurants Matter?: Platform Visibility Amid a Racial Reckoning (access the video summary)
Cameron Moy
SI 491: Independent Study
UMSI Theme Year
Water Conservation and Access:
First prize: Where's the Water? Clean Water Access for the Homeless Community (access the video summary)
Student(s): Alexandra Balmaceda, Nina Chen
Second prize: Rain Garden VR Simulator (access the video summary)
Student(s): Faith Gowen
Course: SI 659: Developing AR/VR Experiences
Projects were judged using the following criteria:
Presentation of project (articulation, design, flow)
Presentation of poster (design, accessibility of language)
Alignment of project with category
Clearly defined problem
Outcome of project, accessibility of outcome for audience
Impact of project
Novelty of project
Projects were judged by representatives from the following organizations:
Adobe
Amazon
Archives of Michigan
Armanino LLP
Chain Reaction
Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research
& Michigan Sea Grant, University of Michigan
Deduce Designs
Ernst & Young
Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour
IBM
Information Technology Services, University of Michigan
Intel
Library of Congress
Lynn Feeney Consulting
M13
Open Raven
PayPal
Pictal Health
Pomona College
Qualtrics
Research at Work Consulting
Schoolcraft College
Spectrum Health
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
TIFIN
University of Michigan Library
Virta Health
Whirlpool Corporation
Zillow