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Students: Adesuwa Aigbe, Joseph Brea, Colter Adams, Garrett Pettipiece
Colposcopes are essential for gynecological exams but can be intimidating and uncomfortable for patients. While portable models exist, they still rely on wired connections or stands, limiting mobility. Our solution for this is a fully wireless, compact colposcope that integrates with the speculum for stability, improving accessibility and reducing patient discomfort. Another major issue in colposcopy is glare, which can obscure diagnostic images. Our device tackles this by capturing four images in rapid succession, adjusting LED lighting in a controlled sequence to minimize glare and enhance visibility. Designed to fit inside a speculum, our colposcope will be lightweight, easy to use, and more affordable. This innovation aims to improve diagnostic accuracy, streamline physician workflow, and make cervical cancer screenings more comfortable and accessible. By addressing key challenges in colposcopy, our product has the potential to enhance women's healthcare worldwide.
Students: Jessica Torres, Colby Johnson Sukhreen Sandhu, Brandon Hubbell
The Buckle™ by Primitive Designs LLC is a revolutionary take on a personal safety device for protection from potential drink spiking. The first of its kind, it combines hardware and software into one adjustable cup cover to provide protection from contaminants and harmful substances. Unlike other cup covers currently in the market, The Buckle™, has an integrated system that alerts the user of potential tampering. Regular cup covers may be easily removed and replaced with no evidence of tampering whereas The Buckle™ may only be unlocked by an authorized user with their phone (compatible with Android and Apple devices). Even if the device is opened and relocked, if the user did not authorize it, The Buckle™ will automatically warn the user of potential tampering with a bright LED and a notification on their phone.
Students: Wallace Norris, Hamza Syed, Aiden Diaz, Tyler Burfield
Electronic dryer ball that will detect the humidity and temperature of the clothes within a dryer to determine how dry they are and how much longer they need to dry for.
Students: Pattra Gulbag, Megan Kershaw, Christopher Mengu, Soo Hong Shin
Magneta the Maglev Train is an educational toy magnetic-levitation train that can be utilized in K-12 classrooms to teach STEM based lessons. As the next generation of bright minds are growing up alongside the rapid evolution of technology, our product aims to engage children back into physical play, while still incorporating technology literacy, in a fun and unique way. The product features a levitating train cart, along with a magnetizing elliptical track to enable the cart to hover frictionlessly along the path. Additionally, to trace the activation of the magnetic field per track, LED lights will be triggered along each section that the train crosses over. For classroom implementation, the modular design of our product allows for variation in what concepts will be taught. For instance, based on the grade level of the lesson, educators can introduce concepts as simple as forces and motion, and add on complexity by integrating more detailed operations, such as electromagnetism concepts. Regardless of age level, all students will be able to experience an introduction to STEM in a unique and engaging way.
Students: Ethan Kalb, Hannah Siegel, Alex Colon, Rayder Alterman
SSLT is a simplified sign language translator capable of translating American sign language into each corresponding English letter, while also being able to form up to a dozen words/phrases.
Students: Lucas Shepard, Jacob Levin, Dominic Bacci, George Metropolous
Autonomized Home Environment And Defense (AHEAD) is a smart-home electrical system utilizing a multitude of sensors that detect environmental status. AHEAD focuses on air quality, pollen levels, carbon monoxide detection, humidity and temperature. Identified as our B10-pollutants, poor air quality and high levels of pollen will output warnings to a bluetooth LCD display unit via RGB diodes. This system will have an adjustable feature for user preference with certain features such as pollen level warning. AHEAD's current prototype focuses on display and warning emission. Utilizing the RGB diodes a significant change in unit level (ppm, HT%, ℃, CO level) will output various signals (colors) to alert users of the room's current environmental status.
Students: Miles Comstock, Ezra Sutedjo, Derrel Archellian, Eduardo Garcia
The quantized theremin is an instrument that is played without touching it. Like a regular theremin, it works by having two control antennas, one for pitch and one for volume. However, unlike a regular theremin, our instrument will utilize a microcontroller and DSP algorithms that make our theremin always play notes within a musical scale (C-major) rather than freely moving between all frequencies. Our theremin will also have the ability to harmonize with whatever note is being played to create a chord. Lastly, our theremin will contain DSP audio effect algorithms that add reverb and audio echo to the instrument's output.
Students: Jacob Gellman, John Clauson, Vanessa Kalenits, Canon Rank
PULSE is a modular system designed to enhance battlefield awareness and troop safety by integrating drone detection and real-time health monitoring. Utilizing radar detection and audio verification, the system identifies and tracks small aerial threats, helping troops respond more effectively to potential dangers. A detachable life-support module continuously monitors vital signs and GPS location, providing critical health data for quick medical intervention. Designed for portability, reliability, and adaptability, PULSE offers a scalable solution for evolving combat environments. By integrating multiple sensing technologies, PULSE provides a comprehensive approach to threat detection and soldier safety.
Students: Dimitri Brozowski, Joseph Villa, Chanceler Duncan, Todd Kuykendall
Problem: Consumers lack a portable, flexible, and adaptable display to improve their on the go multimedia experience. Importance: In the current world of smart wearables, there is a need for larger displays. Our device can make the user experience much more pleasant while also offering more functionality. By using a flexible display and increasing the size of the screen, larger text can be used or more information can be displayed. By using an e ink display, outdoor visual clarity can be achieved. Significance: Our device provides users with a significantly larger display that can contort to the shape of your arm, is easy to read in direct sunlight, and can display multiple lines of large text/multimedia. The device can be used independently, or with a paired phone/computer.
Students: Taylor Coad , Skyler Marsden, Prabhakar Shrestha, Steven Zummallen
The SoundScout provides a passive approach to autonomous drone detection. Through the use of readily available parts, an affordable, low power consumption option is available through SoundScout. Designed in a modular fashion for future remote capabilities, the SoundScout allows a bubble of detection from its microphone array, providing much needed time in response to the approaching drone.
Students: Henryk Sosnowski, Edgar Calderon Perez, Nathaniel Simpson, Jordin Carlon
Find My and Google Location Share are missing some of what our project brings to the table. Our goal for this project is to make a wall-mounted device that shares your family and friends' locations without a map. The goal is to make it easy to identify when people are at home, school, work and more without needing to know what a location on a map means. This wall mounted device and app will allow for you to see these locations and names displayed in an elegant fashion. Everything is shared through a secure Google cloud server to protect your privacy, making this a perfect adornment for a loved one's home. A more industrial unit can be used to keep track of which job sites your workers are at, expanding its uses beyond the home. For more come take a look.
Students: Patricia Paylor, Isabelle Amanuel, Fernando Quintero
In large crowds spotting someone in your group can become difficult, people walking left and right, limited cell service due to the large crowds and bandwidth limitations. The B-Bright Band is a locally contained bracelet providing a bright modifiable LED matrix that will allow group members to be spotted quickly and easily. To further assist with finding group members the B-Bright band will use Bluetooth to have bracelet to bracelet communication, Being self-contained and battery powered with no need to connect to external devices in use the B-Bright band will also implement a heart and temperature sensor that will intermittently take readings from the user. The readings being blood oxygen, heart rate and temperature, these readings will be compared to an established basis considered to be normal and if outside of the established range, the LED matrix will display a warning and a current reading.
Students: Sean Adams, Bryan Escatel Jimenez, Hunter Donaldson, Jayden Davis
Modern UAV technologies are being used in a vast variety of applications and utilize various different designs depending on the application. However, for applications requiring UAVs to maintain flight for an extended period of time the size, weight, and cost of UAVs increase which may prevent businesses and individuals from using UAVs. Since the cost of a UAV is linked to its size and complexity a potential solution would involve designing a small scale UAV that can fly for an extended duration without increasing the weight of the aircraft with a significantly larger battery. Our proposed solution is the Icarus UAV range extension system, a small-scale UAV equipped with an array of solar cells and a maximum power point tracker to extend its flight duration using solar energy. We believe successfully designing a solar-powered small-scale UAV will reduce the cost of endurance UAVs and open several new applications for UAVs.
Students: Adam Veuilleaux, Chanda Guy, Ronald Icely, Ivan Uy
The Lightweight Infrared Detection System project aims to create a cheaper and more readily available IR (infrared) detection system than those available in the market. The current products on the market are designed to be mounted onto airborne vehicles such as airplanes and helicopters, thus being bulky (65 pounds) and high powered (225W). By utilizing lower powered and lightweight components, the Lightweight Infrared Detection System will prototype a wireless, modular system that will have mounting compatibility for many different applications, such as on drones, helmets, walls and other surfaces. This product will be cheaper and more readily available for use among civilians for hobby projects, outdoor camping, and search and rescue operations. With the cheaper and lightweight design, our product can be more easily deployed onto multiple drones while trying to find a lost person in the wilderness, whereas using a helicopter equipped with a similar camera would be more expensive and not as easy to access.
