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For students majoring in Creative Technology and Design, the Capstone course sequence is the culmination of their undergraduate careers, asking them to draw from the full spectrum of their technical and design skills to conceive, plan and build a project that challenges them to reach outside their comfort zones and create. In many cases, it's the most complex and challenging work of their careers at CU Boulder.

In the presentations listed below, students are sharing their work with a wider audience for the first time. Each student presents for no more than 5 minutes, after which commentary is provided by the reviewers detailed below. You are invited to attend some or all of these presentations, which have been broken up into four sessions, all of which take place on Sunday, May 1.听

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See below for the complete schedule, including descriptions of this year's amazing student projects!

Session 1

Sunday, May 1, 9 鈥� 10:45 am MT

Reviewers:

Matt Bethancourt develops experimental games and interactions that explore the limits of what a game can be and how games create opportunities for reflection. He has taught audio production, sound synthesis, sound design, game design and development, web design, physical computing and installation/performance with Max/MSP. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons School for Design.

Nicky Britt used his passion for entertainment as a North Star, he entered gaming as a QA lead for Aspyr Media in Austin, Texas, managing teams on titles such as Star Wars: KOTOR, Bioshock Infinite, and Civilizations V. After cutting his teeth on project management at various tech companies, including the mobile-development firm Wunderman Thompson Mobile (leading teams that created apps for Ice Network and PGA tour, among others), he opened his own mobile game studio. Now entrenched in the local game scene, Nicky Britt is the sole producer at Sunblink Entertainment and firmly believes in process, fun, and honesty for team success.

Session 2

Sunday, May 1, 10:50 am - 12:35 pm MT

Reviewers:

Megan Gross has a wide range of interests and skills fueled by a strong desire to understand the world. She has a BFA in sculpture from the University of Colorado and has worked as a custom metal fabricator making architectural, ornamental and structural projects out of steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper and bronze. For the past five years, Megan has worked as a software engineer building projects for organizations and companies like the American Red Cross, FEMA, Google, Future Engineers, Roblox, and the Colorado State Government. She plays piano, a variety of other instruments, DJs, and fiddles with electronic music production. Megan is also interested in all things involving nature, from biology to adventuring in it.

Caleb Wright听graduated from CU Boulder with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a major in Creative Technologies and Design and is pursuing a master鈥檚 degree in electrical engineering. Caleb has a background in creative technologies and user-centered design, fabrication, and experimentation, as well as a broad knowledge of makerspace culture.

Sasha Novack, who hails from Brooklyn, New York, attended LaGuardia Arts High School where he studied cello performance. He then moved to Baltimore where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a minor in music from Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Conservatory. After spending six months working on a telescope array in the Atacama Desert in South America, Sasha is bringing his focus back down to Earth to work on affordable prosthetics and bioplastics with variable pressure resistivity.

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Session 3

Sunday, May 1, 12:40 - 2:25 pm MT

Reviewers:

Keren Megory-Cohen听works as a senior creative technologist at a digital agency helping to ideate and build immersive installations and events for companies, such as Google, Meta, Verizon, VMware and more. She has a strong background in web, and is always looking for the next creative challenge to mix and match digital and physical technologies in order to create something uniquely inspiring.

Casey Hunt is a second-year PhD student at the THING Lab in the ATLAS Institute. She creates networked tangible and embodied interaction systems to explore how we can better create and connect using systems that de-center/supplement screens. Her work focuses on engaging the wider community in designing 3D interfaces utilizing participatory design practices and toolkit design.

Session 4

Sunday, May 1, 1:30- 4:00 pm

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Karen Crofton is an active startup investor who is currently entrepreneur-in-residence at the College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU Boulder. She was previously a principal at the Rocky Mountain Institute dedicated to the transformation of energy systems. She spent 15 years at Air Products & Chemicals in roles from project management and product innovation to corporate new business development. She holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Bucknell University, an MBA from Rice University, and a master鈥檚 in Data Analytics from CU Boulder. Karen has also been a lecturer at the Leeds School of Business, was on the Board of Rice University (2014-2020) and was on the City of Boulder鈥檚 Environmental Advisory Board (2015-2020).

Erika Palmer is a medical device consultant and entrepreneur. She has worked in the medical device industry for over 17 years, with a focus in orthopedics and gastroenterology. Erika鈥檚 passion is in defining unmet clinical needs and developing solutions to meet these needs. Her current research focus is on polypharmacy in adults over 65. Erika received her master鈥檚 in mechanical engineering from the University of California and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from a joint program between the University of California and the University of California San Francisco. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford Byer鈥檚 Center for Biodesign.