AWARDS and PRIZES

Sponsors' Award Winners

The Sponsors' Award recipient(s) are selected by our Sponsors. The criteria for these awards are quite broad, and include novelty, execution (quality of engineering, performance, difficulty), presentation, and usefulness, especially social benefits.

"Where's the BOOM" Award

The "Where's the BOOM" award is judged by faculty from the Computer Science Department. The BOOM of "Where's the BOOM" means "Brains on our Machines", and it focuses on the computing aspects of the project (software algorithms, software engineering). Criteria for the "Where's the BOOM" award include novelty, elegance, simplicity, and appropriateness of algorithms, and overall software engineering. To be eligible for this award, the presenter must have displayed a brief (50 words or less) description of the computing aspects of the project, clearly labeled "Where's the BOOM".