We’re go for launch (projects)! Now in their final teams, students met with launch project sponsors to learn more about the projects they’ll work on in the final six months of the MSTI. This year, projects and challenge-areas span a wide variety of topics from T-Mobile @techexperience, @meta, @Microsoft, @NOAA, @WashDNR, @Starbucks, Teage, @marysplacewa, and the @uwmedicine Department of Neurology. ...

Students in the MS in Technology Innovation program recently participated in a two-day workshop on Web 3.0, a next generation of web technology built on blockchain.

Web 3.0 is a new technology aimed at making the internet even more distributed, open, and intelligent through data decentralization and shared ownership. The workshop provided students with hands-on experience through collaborative development of a server network of Raspberry Pis designed to withstand the failure of individual notes without data loss. “What excites me the most about Web 3.0 is the ability to truly collaborate across borders and the cool things that will emerge from this borderless collaboration,” said Chris Banbury, founder of Vision, a social network that decentralizes the innovation process. “Diverse viewpoints lead to outside the box thinking.”

“The workshop opened up a whole new set of possibilities,” said Manasa Sama, an MSTI student. “It changed how I think about using blockchain in our projects and what we can do with it.” ...

✅ And that's a wrap! Congrats to the MSTI students for showing off their tech solutions at the Hardware/Software Lab 2 final milestone presentation. ...

Working with project sponsors from industry, non-profit, and governmental organizations is one of the core experiences of the MSTI program. Project sponsors and students recently met to begin the Launch Project process that ultimately culminates in their final presentation before graduation in December. ⁠
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Admitted students visit day ✅ Thanks to all of those who joined us in-person at the Steve Ballmer Building and online from around the world. We're excited to have you join us again this fall! 🚀⁠
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😃 That winning feeling! MSTI students win the Americas region of the Microsoft Imagine Cup! A massive congratulations to the four teams from GIX who competed in the finals last week, with Team Melodic taking first place out of the 16 total teams. They are one of three global finalists who will compete at Microsoft HQ for the $100,000 grand prize and a mentoring session with Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella. They built a system that leverages the Azure cloud-computing platform to provide real-time analysis of mouth movements and sounds, and uses that information to provide breath, mouth, and sound training to children with hearing impairments. This increases access to speech therapy at a cost greatly reduced compared to traditional therapy options. Team Melodic is composed of Xiaoyang Qiu, Jinyao Ouyang, and Shuoxuan Wang.

The three other teams that competed in the finals were Team FOGCare, Team Lakit, and Team NutritionHelper:

Team FOGCare created a personal wearable assistant system that detects freezing of gait in people with Parkinson’s disease, which affects more than 10mm people worldwide. It provides rhythmic auditory stimulation treatment to help people get through the frozen gait. Team FOGCare is Xiaowei Wang, Yunhan Wang, Rui Huang, and Lu Yin

Lakit is a mobile app bundled with a wearable voice assistant that helps dementia caregivers sync daily schedules and maintain their own mental health. Team Lakit is Jingzhi Xu, Cheng-tin Tsai, Wenyu Wang, and Qiuyi Yang

Team NutritionHelper created a system that scans menu and food label text and projects food allergy warnings by leveraging the power of Azure computer vision. Team NutritionHelper is Saif Mustafa, Yumeng Li

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Hardware/software Lab Milestone 2 ✅
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