17th. Information Technology Review (ITR) Competition
Spring 2015

Master of Ceremony: Prof. Jill Klein

Photo Gallery (Coming Soon)

Saturday, December 5, 2015, 8:30 am - noon - Room: Kogod KSB #118
Last updated December 3, 2015

From the Katzen Arts Center garage: enter the Kogod building through the Massachusetts Ave. entrance.
Take the stairs to the second floor. The classrooms are right there.
From the Quad entrance main lobby: go right and follow the hallway to the

new building. Take the stairs to the second floor.

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Program
8:30 am Welcome, Coffee & Briefing Judges
9:00 am Competition Begins
11:00 am Deliberations (Judges) and Photos (Students)
11:30 am Awards

For further questions please contact: Prof. Joseph Mortati (mortati@american.edu)

 Topics and Competing Teams

Winners (Tied for 1st Place)

"Angee Home Security" [presentation] [article]
Alanoud Alhowaish, Cypress Lee, Isabel Terwindt, Nan Zhang
  

"Stripe & Instagram" [presentation] [article]
Winter Brooks, Maddie Hammond, Eamon Martin, Nicholas Welthy
  

Best Article

"BACtrack Vio"
Ernesto Btesh Haratz, Mingxuan Cao, Devan Chichester, Felipe Hurtado, Xinru Zhang
  

2nd Best Article

"Mid-Air Haptics/Oculus Rift"
Meruyert Shamshidenova, Alexandra Kokinchak, Rachel Cohen Paris Bazerman

Other Best-in-Class Teams

"Hydroelectric Desalination Technology" [presentation] [article]
Anastasia Tsimberlidis, Andy Hazelnis & Philip Tschepik
  

"Smart E-Pants" [presentation] [article]
Anna Khanzhina, Emilia Nurmukhametova, Justin Self, Kyle Zimmermann
  

"Differential Privacy" [presentation] [article]
Erik Andreasson, Yoona Bae, Andreas Elterich, Thomas Rafaraci
  

"Smart Shelves" [presentation] [article]
Tyler Williams, Sarah Orth, Sydney Ouellette, and AJ Ledesma
  

 

Judges
(left to right)

Melissa Bradley
AU’s Director of the Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative

Jennifer Cramer
IT Project Manager and Recruiter, Widelty

Alan Friedman, PhD
Technology Executive
Consultant to CEO of a mobile security tech spin-out

Laura Iaffaldano
KSB Alum, Advisory Consultant at EY
and co-founder of Unfused (a tech startup)

George Petasis
KSB MBA Alum, CIO at Georgetown Law School

Hanh-Linh Ho-Tran
KSB Alum, Business Systems Analyst at NCI

 

Bonnie Auslander
(Discussion Leader & Sponsor of Writing Competition)
Director, Kogod Center for Business Communications
American University

ITEC 200 Professors

Craig Brown, Kirill Lobachyov, Michael Matos & Joseph Mortati

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd Place