2018 SILS Project Fair Winners

The 4th Annual SILS Project Fair was held on April 13, 2018 in Manning Hall.  A diverse group of talented SILS students gathered in 307 Manning Hall with laptops, posters, and slide presentations to talk about some of the amazing projects they worked on during their time at UNC.  The participants described their projects to a crowd of attendees, including SILS faculty, students, alumni and friends.

At the close of the Project Fair, an awards committee composed of SILS faculty members named two exceptional projects as winners awards:

Best Project Award: Winner of $200 and a Certificate
Wanchen Zhao
Visual Query System to Help Users Refine Queries from High-Dimensional Data: A Case Study

Social Impact Award: Winner of $100 and a Certificate
Diane Rodden
Global Resource Allocation for Tuberculosis Control

In addition, the People’s Choice Award was given to the best project as voted on by all attendees of the Project Fair. This award was sponsored in 2018 for the first time by LAUNC-CH.  Thank you to LAUNC-CH for your support!

People’s Choice Award: Winner of $100 (sponsored by LAUNC-CH) and a Certificate
Kelsey Hammer, Tabitha Frahm, and Brittany Soder
Visualizing 3D Prints in Augmented Reality: A Makerspace Prototype for Collegiate Makers

Congratulations to all of the award winners, and to all Project Fair participants!