SMAD/CIS Capstone 2023
My senior capstone project team received first place in the 2023 capstone competition. During the last six weeks of my fall semester senior year, I teamed up with fellow SMAD students as well as Computer Information Systems students to design and develop an event planning website for our client and stakeholder. We presented in front of judges and professors against competing teams.
My awesome team – the “Web Wizards”
Web Wizards receiving our plaques
Capstone 2023 sponsored by KPMG
ACM/CHI Student Design Competition 2023
In the fall of 2022, I teamed up with three other classmates for a project for which we had to design an app with the intention of solving one of the 17 Sustainable Goals. We chose to tackle Quality Education and our brainstorming blossomed into “Buddy” – A customizable keychain that school-age children attach to their backpacks which contains a discrete button to alert school administration, parents and guardians when the student and/or child is in the midst of experiencing mild to intermediate harm within a specific radius of school grounds. Via Bluetooth, the keychain is connected to the “Buddy” app that is implemented into the school’s computers and parent’s personal devices. This allows adults to take action immediately. In April of 2023, my team and I had the opportunity to present this design at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer-Human Interface (CHI) conference in Hamburg, Germany.
From left to right: Alexandra Meyers, Ellen Palmiere, Ali McCaleb, Laura Bessellieu
Me with our poster presentation
The final four teams competed for first place
CHI ’23 sponsors
Urbino NOW 2022
In the summer of 2022, I had the opportunity to study abroad for four weeks in Urbino, Italy within the SMAD program. Over the span of four weeks, I immersed myself in the beautiful Italian culture while simultaneously gathering research in order to tell a story through multiple mediums about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the lives of University of Urbino students. I along with the many other students on the trip, was mentored on writing, photography and videography. At the end of the four weeks, our work was assembled together in both a hard copy magazine and a publication online. View my published article at the link below.
