6:30 - 7:00 PM Event Kick-off + Keynote Speaker, Lance Robinson
7:00 - 8:30 PM Trade show-style showcase of projects (with DOUX & industry guests)
8:45 - 9:00 PM Closing remarks + Certificate presentations
An interactive educational web platform for children in Grades 1-6, featuring gamified lessons, a sticker/reward system, a Premier Club subscription service, and QR code-based physical book integration
Chloe Becker
Malia Major
Hannah Plumlee
Jose Ramos
Marcella Roberts
Grayson Zrelak
A full-stack mobile and web application designed to promote sustainability, community engagement, and mindful purchasing. Users, referred to as EcoMaxers, earn points by scanning receipts from eco-friendly partner businesses. These points can be redeemed for rewards and used to unlock achievement-based badges.
Leandra Bodden
Gabriela Godfrey
Kina Polson
Max Rivera
Cadence Ross
A mobile app that helps users find restaurants matching their dietary needs, allergies, and preferences.
Megan Carberry
Colin Pontell
Lauren Taylor
Camila Villalobos
Abigail Yanos
An online learning platform that makes learning how to “adult” an engaging process that synthesizes essential information into one place. The web app will break down the challenges of adult life into easily digestible modules and lessons while also utilizing a point system to reward users with useful items such as promotional discounts on everyday essentials.
Maria Hernandez
Daphney Jean Baptiste
Mia Marquez
Alejandro Medina
Raine Ponce
A roommate chore app that will turn traditional chore charts into a more social, gamified experience in order to promote teamwork and harmony between roommates.
Brock Adams
Alyssa Allen
Christopher Cooper
Sarah Norman
Abigail Trebon
An immersive reading platform designed for young adults (ages 18–30) that integrates audio and music features into text-based storytelling.
Taylor Burdgess
Caroline Clark
Asiya Imtiaz
Victoriya Jean-Claude
A digital shelf to display collections with each item in a collection capturing a moment in time where that piece of the
collection acts as part of a larger narrative. We are committed to helping users tell that story.
Jenna Blubaugh
Carter Glidewell
Isaac Isaac
Amy Nguyen
Jenny Vo
A full-stack web application that helps users explore and compare different cities based on data and community input.
Caroline Abbey
Meera Bhola
Lorian Rodriguez
Tybee Stewart
Qinxin Wang
A social media website that allows users to find a tattoo artist based on style, location, availability, and artist reviews. Enabling tattoo artists on the site to market themselves to new clients and build connections with other artists.
Zakaria Azzouz
Tommy Fernandez
Danny Fonseca
Jason Granias
Brooke Lesniak
A full-stack cursive education system that combines a custom app with interactive activities for practicing cursive writing with a dedicated hardware device to practice on.
Iman Attar
Rachel Gottlieb
Aaliyah Idowu
Melanie Kenton
Hadassah Roberts
An immersive way for people to express their anger or frustration via harmless fun. By using physical props, we hope to accomplish something similar to a punching bag or rage room, albeit in a more controlled manner.
Ryan Ballentine
Chloe Becker
Nicole Esposito
Kyan Forbes
Max Rivera
An experience that brings people together by encouraging them to bond over shared sources of stress by letting users channel their frustrations into a literal, interactive action.
Ethan Alvarado
Megan Carberry
Ella Hesselbach
Nadia Lee
Gabriela Rodriguez
A fun location-based AR experience to educate people about fishing, different fish species, their environments, and conservation. It will also include actual fishing controls and tips to match real-life fishing.
Jeremiah Morris-Wyley
Abigail Trebon
Miguel Vallejo
A, AR Experience concept that adds a virtual interactive layer to a physical art gallery, focusing on a cohesive and immersive experience.
Shaira Jean Cayubit
Gabriela Godfrey
Alex Otero
Angelee Ramos
Lauren Walterson
The Downtown Orlando UX (DOUX) meetup will take place alongside the showcase, bringing together local designers, developers, and industry professionals.
The mission at Downtown Orlando UX is to create opportunities for anyone to learn, discuss, and share knowledge about the field of User Experience. The meetups are typically on the third Thursday of each month and the format alternates between talks, socials, article discussions, panels, and workshops.
Attendees are encouraged to connect, network, and engage with both student and professional work throughout the evening.
Learn more about DOUX: https://douxmeetup.com/
Lance Robinson is the CTO and Co-Founder of PointeOS, where he leads the technology vision behind solutions that help restaurants and small businesses streamline operations, serve their communities, and grow with confidence. With nearly 20 years of experience across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and product leadership, he brings a rare blend of technical expertise and practical business insight. Throughout his career, Lance has remained focused on building technology that is not only innovative, but useful, grounded, and human-centered. His perspective as a founder and technology leader is shaped by resilience, execution, and a deep belief that lasting success is built as much on character as it is on talent.
Lance Robinson shares a powerful message for graduates entering their next chapter: talent may open doors, but character is what keeps you in the room. This keynote offers a grounded perspective on trust, discipline, humility, and the kind of personal foundation that makes success last.