Design Day Photo Gallery Spring 2017
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The Design Day panel of judges ready to go.  | ||
Team Amazon. Jie Wan, Jason Liu, Tess Huelskamp, Ian Whalen, Ankit Luthra.  | Team Auto-Owners. Seth Schmitz, Josh Christ, Alex Besinger, Yunfei Peng.  | Team GE. Lucas Reynolds, Henok Alemayehu, Lama Aboubakr, Joshua Schwallier, Matt Sopata.  | 
Team GM. Rob Cobau, Brendan Carlson, Phyllis Jin, Vince Cogswell.  | Team Humana. Ayush Agrawal, Yaqeen Almahdi, Lisa Doan, Mike Hanlon.  | Team Meijer. Mike Mei, Matt Bender, Nancy Krutty, Mark Mangliers.  | 
Team Michigan State University. James Dodge, Tom Beaver, Cathy Dinsmoor, Jimmy Mkude, Charlie Ward.  | Team Microsoft. David Saksa, Lefan Zhang, Anh Nguyen, Nick Bunton, Ramon Niebla.  | Team Mozilla. Avalon Long, Ian Ferguson, Manotej Meka, Zack Herrick.  | 
Team MSUFCU. Ethan Boyd, Steven Jorgensen, Qiuning Ren, Kieran Hall, Will Rudnick.  | Team Rook. Roy Barnes, Chiyu Song, Mark Velez, Will McGee, Matthew Hammerly.  | Team Spectrum Health. Katie Foss, Hao Chen, Matt Hannan, Matt Lamb.  | 
Team TechSmith. Yang He, Ryan Cornillie, Alex Crimin, Zeke Zandbergen.  | Team TWO MEN AND A TRUCK. Kai Wang, Jordan Ng, Travis Nichols, Connor McDermott, Curtis Notarantonio.  | Team Union Pacific. Matthew Schleusener, Jon Wild, Kangjie Mi, Nick Summers.  | 
Team Urban Science. Hang Zhang, Anthony Orr, Yoseph Radding, Zach Heick.  | Team Whirlpool. Ryan Feldman, Domenic Belcastro, Mike Babiarz, Yuqi Xiao, Nico Vergara.  | Team Yello. Cody Helmling, Claury Mejia Rodriguez, Derek Li, Mike Lukowski.  | 
It's showtime for Team Amazon's award winning project video, “ACRA: Amazon Customer Review Analyzer ”.  | Proud Dad shares this great day with Tess Huelskamp of Team Amazon.  | After watching their project video,Team Amazon fields questions about the use of natural language processing in their award winning project “ACRA: Amazon Customer Review Analyzer ”.  | 
"What are the judges thinking?" wonder the members of Team Auto-Owners as they all watch their project video.  | Team Auto-Owners fields questions from the Design Day judges about the use of CakePHP in their “Location-Based Services Mobile App”.  | Mom and dad traveled from Saint Johns to celebrate Design Day with son Alex Besinger of Team Auto-Owners.  | 
Lama Aboubakr of Team GE explains GE's cloud-based Predix platform to a Design Day visitor.  | ||
Team GM proudly presents “GM Transportation Experience App”.  | A Design Day guest learns about Team GM's “GM Transportation Experience App” from team member Rob Cobau.  | |
Team Humana's corporate project sponsors watch their team's project video. Could one of them be a future Design Day judge? Maybe. But, which one?  | Yaqeen Almahdi explains the use of the Django framework in their Team Humana project “Humana Kids”.  | MSU capstone students from other programs learn about Team Humana's“Humana Kids” from Yaqeen Almahdi and Mike Hanlon.  | 
The project video about “MyMeijer: Crowdsource Shopping ” plays while Team Meijer watches and wonders what the judge's questions will be.  | Nancy Krutty of Team Meijer records the day with her proud mom and dad.  | Meijer project sponsors from Grand Rapids support their student Team Meijer throughout the semester and on Design Day.  | 
Members of Team Michigan State University view the video of their award winning project “CATAlyst: Mapping CATA Buses in Real-Time” with the Design Day judges.  | Charlie Ward clarifies the bus location interpolation algorithm used by Team Michigan State University's award winning project “CATAlyst: Mapping CATA Buses in Real-Time”.  | Cathy Dinsmore explains to a Design Day visitor how students can add their class schedule to Team Michigan State University's “CATAlyst: Mapping CATA Buses in Real-Time”.  | 
Team Microsoft's project video about their “Intune Company Portal Helper Bot” begins to roll for the Design Day judges.  | Visiting high school student and future Spartan engineer learns about Team Microsoft's “Intune Company Portal Helper Bot” from team member Nick Bunton.  | Ramon Niebla of Team Microsoft describes how their “Intune Company Portal Helper Bot” prioritzes search results based on user feedback.  | 
Team Mozilla acknowledges the help of Firefox fox in their video about their project “Improvements to Firefox's about:preferences”.  | A judge's question about the dynamic construction of the new preferences search feature is answered by Team Mozilla's Manotej Meka.  | Corporate project sponsor and CSE alumnus Jared Wein of Mozilla celebrates with Team Mozilla.  | 
A potentially disasterous date night is averted thanks to Team MSUFCU's “Banking with Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri”.  | Team MSUFCU's Kieran Hall describes the architeture of their PHP API used by their “Banking with Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri”.  | Is this a proud more or what? Just ask son Will Rudnick of Team MSUFCU. Mom travelled all the way from Chicago for Design Day.  | 
Team Rook nervously watches as the video about their project “Force Platform Ingestion Tool (PIT)” begins to roll for the Design Day judges.  | Team Rook's Matthew Hammerly demonstrates the use of their “Force Platform Ingestion Tool (PIT)”dashboard to Design Day visitors.  | Mark Velez of Team Rook explains how their “Force Platform Ingestion Tool (PIT)” warns about computer security threats by identifying anomolies in network traffic.  | 
The four members of Team Spectrum Health listen intently to a Design Day judge's question about their “Resident Physician Tracking”.  | Spectrum Health project sponsors from Grand Rapids are proud to mark the day with Team Spectrum Health.  | Professor Dean Knudsen of North Dakota State University learns about Team Spectrum Health's “Resident Physician Tracking” from team member Katie Foss.  | 
Complex physics concepts are much easier to teach using Team TechSmith's award winning“Teacher’s Virtual Toolbelt”.  | Team TechSmith's Ryan Cornillie answers Design Day judge E.J. Dyksen's question about the challenges with latency in streaming.  | A Design Day visitor tries out Team TechSmith's “Teacher’s Virtual Toolbelt” using the HoloLens.  | 
Team TWO MEN AND A TRUCK prepare to field the first question from the Design Day judges about their game “Mobile Mini Movers Who Care”.  | MSU Trustee Melanie Foster gets driving instructions for Team TWO MEN AND A TRUCK's game “Mobile Mini Movers Who Care” from Travis Nichols.  | Jordan Ng coaches an MSU student trying to avoid running red lights and move boxes to the goal using their game “Mobile Mini Movers Who Care”.  | 
Corporate project sponsors from Union Pacific congratulate their student Team Union Pacific on their award winning system “Learning New Train Routes”.  | Train engineers and conductors can learn new routes using Team Union Pacific's award winning system “Learning New Train Routes”.  | Team Union Pacific's Nick Summers explains how the image recognition works in their award winning system “Learning New Train Routes”.  | 
The Design Day judges form a few final questions while watching Team Urban Science's project video.  | Team Urban Science elucidates how recommendations are made in their “Real-Time Ad Campaign Management” system.  | A future Spartan is very proud of her daddy, Anthony Orr of Team Urban Science.  | 
Team Whirlpool's video illustrates how Whirlpool can monitor their trade partner's commercial laundry equipment using their new “Commercial Laundry Dashboard”.  | Nico Vergara of Team Whirlpool fields a question about the use of Cordova Iconic in their “Commercial Laundry Dashboard”.  | Team Whirlpool appreciates the support of their Whirlpool corporate project sponsors from Benton Harbor, Michigan.  | 
Project video number 18 spins up for the Design Day judges showcasing Team Yello's “YelloVision: Career Fair Augmented Reality App”.  | Team Yello responds to a Design Day judge's question about company logo recognition in their “YelloVision: Career Fair Augmented Reality App”.  | Mike Lukowski of Team Yello demonstrates their “YelloVision: Career Fair Augmented Reality App” for Design Day guests.  | 
Design Day Awards Ceremony keynote speaker Scott Wadsworth of Microsoft visits with Team Microsoft.  | Design Day judge E.J. Dyksen of Michigan State University test drives Team TechSmith\s “Teacher’s Virtual Toolbelt” using the HoloLens.  | |
Design Day judge Mark Welscott of Spectrum Health visits with Team Spectrum Health.  | MSU Professor Rich Enbody and Design Day Chief Justice talks with Team Michigan State University.  | |
Team Techsnith wins the Auto-Owners Exposition Award presented by Scott Lake.  | Team Union Pacific is presented with the MSU Federal Credit Union Praxis Award by Liam Petraska.  | Wendy Hamilton presents Team Amazon with the TechSmith Screencast Award.  | 
Team Michigan State University wins the Urban Science Sigma Award presented by Elizabeth Klee and Luke Mercier.  | 
