Bits On Our Minds (BOOM), the inaugural exhibition of cutting-edge digital technology projects by Cornell students, will feature digital creations including an AI memory aid, a video game set in a post-apocalyptic world and a stock trading app.
This year’s event, marking BOOM’s 26th anniversary, will be held in the Atrium of Duffield Hall on Thursday, April 18th from 4-6pm. It is free and open to the public, and middle school students and their teachers are especially welcome to attend.
Individuals and student teams from across the university will participate and present their projects to the community. This year’s projects span a variety of areas, including robotics, mobile phone apps, medical testing and programming assistance. Participants will be judged based on their presentation, project novelty, difficulty, social benefit and engineering quality. Selected teams will receive a commemorative trophy and a $1,000 prize.
The event is hosted by Cornell’s Ann S. Bowers School of Computing and Information Sciences and supported by Cisco, Infosys, LinkedIn, Sandia National Laboratories and Millennium Management, and students will have the opportunity to network with industry representatives during the showcase and at a post-event reception.
Patricia Waldron is a writer in the Ann S. Bowers School of Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell University.
