DeVry University Awards Students for Innovation and Creative Business Solutions in Senior Project Showdown
September 13 2016 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
DeVry University announced today the top winners of its annual
Senior Project Showdown, a national competition in which students
showcase their senior projects demonstrating their skills and
expertise from their fields of study to solve real-world business
challenges. The first-place team was awarded $10,000, second place
$5,000, and third place $2,500. The first-place team also received
a one-year Adobe Creative Cloud® membership. A total of 65 entries
were considered.
Senior Project Showdown, which is open to undergraduate and
graduate students in their final semesters, encourages classmates
to collaborate on innovative ideas and creative solutions for a
local business or startup.
The winners of the Senior Project Showdown projects are:
First Place — Electronic Posture
Regulator (EPR): A wearable indicator to correct
your posture. EPR helps you appear confident and younger, combat
stress, burn more calories and increase bone density all by
correcting your posture. This design includes six sensors that
support your back and abdominal muscles to correct your
posture.
- Students: Lucard Victor Edmond, Corwin
Austin, Kevin Hera, Joseph Laguerre
- Program of Study: Biomedical
Engineering Technology
- Campus: Midtown Manhattan
- Click to view the project video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlnLa6dEU-4
Second Place — The Watering
Cricket: An easy to use wireless node system that
assists customers with tending to their gardens by collecting an
array of soil data and uploading it to a user-friendly interface.
Using a three-part system; the field nodes, the hub and the user
interface, the Watering Cricket is designed to help bridge the gap
for organic gardening in the home and prepare gardeners for
success.
- Students: Peter Charuza, Andy Fisher,
Jamie Celeste Metts, Ben Huey
- Program of Study: Engineering
Technology - Electronics
- Campus: Online
- Click to view the project video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTGU14wvQJg
Third Place — Adrian’s
Caterers: Owners Winfield and Greg Catwell,
natives of Barbados, knew that their catering and restaurant
business needed a new look. This team developed the brand,
increased Adrian’s Caterers online presence and expanded the
catering restaurant business. By redesigning everything from the
logo to the uniforms, the team was able to give the owners a new
look for their company.
- Students: Jamell Daniels, Eric
Martinez, Christian Santiago, Paulette Hussey, Irma Lang
- Program of Study: Multimedia Design
& Development
- Campus: North Brunswick, NJ
- Click to view the project video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-VRJGDYTQ
“DeVry University empowers students to bring their ideas to life
to help solve a business need or problem. We prepare our students
for real-world scenarios that help them apply their learnings
outside of the classroom,” said Shantanu Bose, Ph.D., provost of
DeVry University. “The Senior Project Showdown is one way our
students can showcase how they are able to collaborate and create a
custom solution to a business need, or to help launch their own
innovation.”
The Senior Project Showdown can also have lasting effects. The
2014 first place winning team Upstge.com, a social media community
designed for aspiring musicians to display their talents and gain
exposure, pursued their own idea for their final senior project and
a year later they formed a viable business that still operates
today.
A panel of DeVry University faculty, staff and employer
partners, including, Google, Cisco, Microsoft and Adobe, narrowed
the entries from 65 to the top five projects. The five projects
were then voted on via social media to name the final three.
To learn more about DeVry University’s Senior Project Showdown,
visit: www.devry.edu/seniorprojects
About DeVry University
DeVry University is committed to helping students succeed in the
classroom and in their careers. Since 1931, DeVry has focused on
understanding and serving students and employers, meeting their
unique needs by designing education for growing career fields and
delivering it in new and compelling ways. Today, our students take
advantage of a variety of learning options — on campus, online or
in unique classrooms connected by immersive, interactive
technology. In all of these environments, DeVry students are taught
by faculty with real-world insights, while experiencing curricula
that is shaped by input from industry leaders to ensure they obtain
the critical knowledge and skills employers need.
DeVry University offers certificate, undergraduate and master’s
degree programs in business, technology and healthcare technology,
among others. The university is institutionally accredited by The
Higher Learning Commission (HLC, www.hlcommission.org) and is part
of DeVry Education Group (NYSE: DV), a global provider of
educational services. For more information, visit us at
newsroom.devry.edu.
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DeVry UniversityAnne Unger630-353-7009aunger@devry.edu
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