Sponsors' Awards
Each sponsor will give one award based on broad criteria including novelty, execution, quality of engineering, performance, difficulty, social benefits, presentation, and usefulness. Each sponsor award will include a commemorative trophy and a $750 prize.
This year's sponsor award recipients are:
Goldman Sachs: Let's Hear It: Female Empowerment Platform
Maya Frai
Schlumberger: Blockchain Enabled Agro-Economic Credit Scoring
Shiang-Wan Chin, Kriezi Foteini, Yizhuo Yu, Shukla Mukul, Rylander Haley, and Xueyuan Wang
Vista Equity Partners: Paloma Analytics
Jack Pertschuk, Cole Theines
The Walt Disney Company: Ezra Box
Yi Hsin Wei, Sophia Deng, Andrei Kozyrev, Rishabh Sarup, Ally Yuan
Air Liquide: Avicaching
Anmol Kabra
Amazon: Apomden
Samuel Opoku-Agyemang, Sena Katako, Dennis Delasi Nyanyo
EY: Let's Hear It: Female Empowerment Platform
Maya Frai
Sandia National Laboratories: Fake News Detection
Linnea May, Kathy Byun, Danny Yang, Eric Sun, William Bekerman
Workday: UniVRsity
Nicolas Barone, Chad Fong, Rigolosio Domenic, Mutolo Jeremie
Faculty Choice Awards
The two Faculty Choice Awards are judged by Computing and Information Science and College of Engineering faculty and focus on the computing aspect of a project. Criteria may include novelty, elegance, simplicity, and appropriateness of algorithms and overall software engineering. The selected projects will receive $750
Apomden
Samuel Opoku-Agyemang, Sena Katako, Dennis Delasi Nyanyo
Flourish
Jeffrey Yao, Michael Xing, Wenjia Zhang, Demi Chang, Samuel Sorenson
Statistics Award
The Statistics Award is given to the most intriguing statistics project as judged by a panel of statistics faculty members. The selected project will receive $750.
Avicaching
Anmol Kabra
Legacy Teams Award
The Legacy Teams Award is a category designed to recognize projects that have a sustained presence at Cornell. It is judged by select faculty and BOOM staff. The selected team will receive $750.
CUAir (Cornell University Unmanned Air Systems)
Anna Fang, Sitar Harel, Chaska Yamane, Ben Sternklar-Davis, Jamie Gray
