Time to innovate!

Florida State University - DIGITECH

  • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30
    TURNBULL CONFERENCE CENTER

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Students innovating with technology

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016

FLORIDA STATE "TURNBULL" CONFERENCE CENTER - FIRST FLOOR (map)

 

ADMISSION IS FREE!

Back by popular demand, The FSU College of Music presents the Electronic Chamber Orchestra (EChO) 3:30

Audacious visionary, Seth Goldenberg from design studio, Epic Decade 12:30 and 4:00

$1000 Shark Tank Business Pitch Competition 1:30 - 3:30, Find out more!

Partnering with Tech Expo ALL DAY on 2nd floor! FREE for Students!

 

Features

  • Dozens of interactive, innovative student and department exhibits: robots, apps, artistic creations, engineering wonders, tech start-ups, all types of innovations
  • Participating students compete for the coveted crystal DIGITECH trophies
  • Special guest: Seth Goldenberg, audacious visionary from design studio, Epic Decade
  • Vendor exhibits upstairs at Tech Expo
  • By popular demand, the return of FSU's Electronic Chamber Orchestra (EChO)
  • $1000 Shark Tank business pitch competition
  • T-shirt and prize give-aways for all

 

Agenda

12:30-1:30PM Keynote Presentation by Seth Goldenberg, Epic Decade (register at http://tinyurl.com/epic-keynote).
1:30 - 3:30PM DIGITECH Exhibition - dozens of student and department innovative, interactive exhibits
3:30 - 4PM Performance: FSU Electronic Chamber Orchestra (EChO)
4 - 5PM DIGITECH Awards Ceremony, remarks by Seth Goldenberg
5 - 7PM After-event Meetup @ Brick Haus Pizza - Complimentary Pizza and Beverages

 

 

 

 

Massive T-shirt Give-away @ AWARDS CEREMONY

 

 

 

The Digitech Awards Ceremony

Wednesday, March 30, 3:30 - 5:00 • Florida State Conference Center

3:30 - 4:00 FSU's Electronic Chamber Orchestra

Back by popular demand! From FSU's College of Music, EChO is a completely electronic ensemble that consists of an electric string quintet, two electronic wind insturments (EWI), Malletkat and Yamaha DTX (Percussion MIDI Controllers) and a MIDI Keyboard whose sounds are processed and produced by computers in real-time and amplified in a hexaphonic surround sound system. An EChO performance is an innovative experience you won't forget!

4:00 - 4:30 Audacious visionary, Seth Goldenberg

Seth Goldenberg, founder and CEO of Epic Decade, is an audacious visionary, committed to raising the bar of excellence. His ability to attract and mobilize significant people has made the work of Epic Decade a highly social movement built for and by 21st century superheroes across diverse industries. Seth embodies an irreverent entrepreneurial spirit and is a thought leader in the space between Design, Business, and Culture.

 

 

 

Raffle Prize! + T-Shirt Give-Away!

 

 

Awards

The DIGITECH Awards Ceremony features FSU Deans and Dignitaries awarding students for innovating with technology in their discipline. Awards and prizes will be presented in several categories.

Many outstanding student projects are entered in DIGITECH and displayed in the DIGITECH online gallery. Of those entries, fifty finalists are selected to present their work at the DIGITECH event. A panel of judges select winners for four top honors:

Innovation Award

In the spirit of Vires, this award goes to the exhibit that best demonstrates strength and influence through the creation and use of novel technologies.

Expression Award

In the spirit of Artes, this award goes to the exhibit that best demonstrates the application of digital technologies skill towards a creative work.

Contribution Award

In the spirit of Mores, this award goes to the exhibit that best demonstrates strength of character by contributing to others.

Entrepreneur Award

Awarded for the best technology-based business service, product idea, plan, or start-up.

In addition to the four judged awards, there is one other which is voted on by attendees of the event:

Campus Choice Award

The most popular exhibit at FSU DIGITECH decided by votes cast by event attendees via text message.

Finalists may win only one award. Award winners receive a beautiful DIGITECH crystal trophy. All finalists receive a DIGITECH certificate and t-shirt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creative Coding

 

 

Our Sponsors

DIGITECH is made possible by the generous contributions of our sponsors:

 

 

FSU Colleges

 

 

Dell

 



 

 

Jim Moran Institute

 

 

 

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Creative Uses of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entrepreneurial Big Ideas!

 

 

 

Past Award Winners

Student exhibits to inspire!

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Agrosky (2015)

AGROSKY is a social innovative start up with a focus on social entrepreneurship and robotics for the local community. Our goal is to help small scale farms and farmers achieve their maximized growth yields through environmentally friendly commercial autonomous robotics with a triple bottom line.
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Entropy (2015)

This is an interactive sculpture installation that is meant to exhibit entropy. A light-emitting sculpture reacts to the movement of the observer. The light becomes more intense as you approach, then abruptly turns off when you get too close. Eventually you will find a point in the space in which you feel the calmest in relation to the sculpture.
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Smart Thinker (2015)

We propose to develop a suite of web applications, “Smart Thinker”, to cognitively engage the elderly while having fun playing the games. The games are designed to enhance mental health and core cognitive skills including Brain Speed, Memory, Attention and Judgement/Problem Solving skills.
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Fare (2015)

Fare is a mobile application that splits the total cost of a car ride and allows the driver to receive payments from each passenger. The total cost of a car ride is calculated using current local gas prices and the driver's vehicle fuel economy information.
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Chronos (2015)

Chronos is an anthology series, where every episode takes the point of view of a different character. The series is set in a world where time travels exists in the form of natural disasters aptly called, “time storms.”
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acuity (2014)

acuity is a vision software suite that allows the user to strengthen their vision through the patented and proven methods that the FSU athletic department uses for some of it's top athletes and was developed by students at The Mobile Lab at FSU.
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Boy with a Coin by Marissa Pilolli (2014)

Boy With A Coin is a short stop motion video created with cameras on an iPhone and standard mono black and white filter. The couch used as a prop wascreated and designed, and flattened into an SVG and cut out by the FABlab laser cutter onto the covers of several video game covers.
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Who We Play For by Sean Daniels (2014)

Who We Play For is a non-profit organization helping to save lives and inspire others. It's two missions are: 1) To prevent Sudden Cardiac Arrest in student athletes across the nation. 2) To inspire others to find out and discover "Who they play for". The website provides a great way to get others involved and help share their story.
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AstroQueue by Larry Weru (2014)

AstroQueue allows people to share and manage real-time waiting lists using any device, from anywhere. This patent-pending cloud-based app acts as a digital waiting list for any given Site (location). It is used in Sites that function in various ways to achieve the common goal of organizing client traffic.
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iVisit: Doctor in your Pocket (2014)

iVisit is a scheduling and meeting environment for patients and physicians so that they can quickly and easily perform routine check-ups and other minor appointments (e.g. checking on a cold, physicals, a sore throat, etc).
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Draconids by Joshua Keeling (2013)

Draconids is an interactive electroacoustic musical composition for soprano saxophone, bassoon, and computer which uses pitch tracking and real time processing to alter the instruments' live sound.
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Entree by Bryant Joseph and Connor Grady (2013)

Entree is web based restaurant Point of Sale system and tablet kiosk designed to increase efficiency, lower costs, and, most importantly, to create a better customer service experience.
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Habitat Tracker (2012)

Habitat Tracker offers a unique mix of online and mobile computing, where students use an iPad to record data about wildlife at the Museum, sharing their observations with each other online.
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LESS (Living Electronic SystemS) by Richardson, Terndrup, Hayes and Lamont (2012)

LESS provides a social energy platform that helps customers track hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly electricity consumption. Our platform will empower people to conserve energy, save money, share those savings socially, and compete with friends.
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Paintings by MANDEM (2012)

Beginning with digital art and painting techniques, these canvases evolve towards traditional art mediums and techniques; MANDEM's workflow moves jaggedly between computer and canvas, layering physical media over digital grounds or converting paints into digital textures and backgrounds.
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ABMapping Kit - Automated Building Mapping via a Quadcopter platform by Nigel Nye and Muye Liu (2013)

ABMapping Kitis uses a quadcopter and Kinect to generate accurate models of building interiors based on simultaneous localization and mapping.
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Robosub by Miller, Miller, Franco, Royal, Robertson, McGowan and Smith (2013)

Robosub implements a huge variety of robotic components, employing computer vision system capable of recognizing colors and shaped as well as a redesigned hull with a simple, maintainable design.
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SciLoc by Tricarico, Roberts and Learn (2013)

SciLoc was created to track and simulate the spread of diseases. By using multiple systems to gather location information of participants, SciLoc can then simulate the spread of any disease, actual or fictional, throughout a city or region.
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ZYMBiO by Axel Hadfeg (2013)

ZYMBiO is a complex macro organism consisting of both AI and organic composition. It is self sustainable, the electricity that powers its movements is generated by bacteria it harbors inside.
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We'll see you there!

 

 

 

Meet our team

DIGITECH is a grassroots collaborative effort of students, faculty and staff.

DIGITECH Co-founders

Ken Baldauf, Geo Miller

The DIGITECH 2016 Planning Team

Ken Armstrong, Ken Baldauf, Christy Chatmon, Mark Jowett, Geo Miller

 

 

 

You won't believe your ears!

 

 

 

Contact us

On campus:

PIC Offices
432 Diffenbaugh (map)

Phone:

850.645.8649

Email:

digitech.fsu@gmail.com

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