1: Learn to solder. 2: Make an RC car in 2 hours using a custom Labs-designed circuit board. 3: Race the cars! 🏁

Orientation for the 6th cohort of MSTI concluded with a fast-paced and competitive introduction to the GIX Prototyping Labs. Students had two hours to assemble a PCB stack designed by the Labs crew, modify the code for extra speed, build a strong chassis, and test in prep for the final race. Awards were given for the fastest and most creative! 🚀

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😃 We're proud to welcome cohort 6 to Bellevue for the start of their 18-month MSTI program! Orientation began Wednesday with team building, introductions, and a chance to meet the staff and faculty. On day two, the group travelled to campus for a tour, scavenger hunt, and dinner. This year's cohort is the largest in MSTI history, from nearly 10 countries, and over half women!

🚀 Welcome to the Global Innovation Exchange. We're excited to see what you Design, Build, and Launch with us.

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The MSTI is proud to be at the Grace Hopper Celebration this week in Miami! Created in 1994 and inspired by the legacy of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, the AnitaB.org flagship event Grace Hopper Celebration brings the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. This year's incoming class of #MSTI students is over half women, and we're proud to celebrate the diversity of our cohorts.

Are you at the GHC? Come talk to us (Booth 1254, across from Cisco) and learn how to launch your career in technology innovation.

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How do you use drones to more safely and reliable capture whale spray for health monitoring? How do you help communities better visualize transit enhancements through augmented reality? These and others are the questions being asked by students and project sponsors as they progress in their final Launch Project work, culminating in December. Stay tuned!

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What's inside your vintage tech? 🤔 In this week's Maker Monday, Kevin facilitated a Gameboy Color teardown and walkthrough looking at how it works, the design choices that were made, and how it all came together for a solid user experience. As part of the teardown, they replaced the original scratched screen with a new, clear one.
The group also opened up some original game cartridges and resoldered the expired battery (used to store local game saves before non-volatile memory became affordable enough to include in consoles!)

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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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