Over 400 students, parents, faculty, and industry partners attended the Design Showcase at Innovation Campus on Friday, April 21 to celebrate the conclusion of the 2016-17 Design Studio year. This year, 24 companies, non-profits, and researchers sponsored projects for 132 students, including 53 Raikes School students, who gained unparalleled real-world, project management and development experience through the Design Studio capstone.
The list of projects and award winners are below. Also check out the Design Studio Annual Report for detailed information about each project and to see a few more statistics about this impressive year.
Design Studio 2016-2017 | |
| Sponsor Name | Project Name |
| A Way Home America | Interactive Visualizations Raising Awareness for Homeless Youth |
| UNL Animal Science | Virtual Beef Carcass Anatomy Display |
| Buildertrend | Scaling Buildertrend's File Architecture |
| Firespring | Givespring |
| Fiserv | BioID |
| Flywheel | Site Review |
| Hudl | Hudl Lacrosse |
| Legal Aid of Nebraska | Legal Outcomes and Public Accountability Data Visualizer |
| Microsoft - Fargo | Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Mobile Expense Capture |
| Microsoft - Redmond | Learn Entity Framework Core |
| Mutual of Omaha | Medicare Supplement Decision Engine |
| MyRacePass | Racing App |
| Nebraska Environmental Trust | NET Grants Management |
| Nelnet | Communify |
| Sandhills Publishing | Video Marketing Platform |
| Spreetail | Warehouse Data Center & Customer Live Tracking |
| TD Ameritrade | Internal Transfers |
| UNL Technology Learning Academy | First Steps to Reading Fluency |
| UNL Electrical & Computer Engineering | Swindr |
| UNL NIMBUS Lab | Extensible UAV Interface |
| Water for Food | Online Agriculture Data Management System |
| Westside Community Schools | Student Management System |
| Wex Health - Edina | Enhancing a Mobile Application with Four Features |
| Wex Health - Omaha | COBRA & Direct Billing Application |
Award Winners
The Platinum, Gold and Aluminum projects are selected each year by Design Studio faculty and staff. The Platinum and Gold Project Awards go to the highest performing teams in terms of product produced, sponsor feedback, and overall team dynamics. The Platinum Project PM and DM are given the honor of presenting their project in the Innovation Campus Auditorium to kick off the Design Studio Showcase. The Aluminum Project Award was created, in true Raikes School fashion, to recognize the team that had a few hurdles to overcome but was able to learn and find humor in their less-than-smooth experience.
Rock Star awards are also selected by Design Studio faculty and staff. Rock Stars are selected for their outstanding work leading and contributing to the overall final product and growth of their team members.
All awards were announced at the Design Studio Internal Celebration, held on the Rule G rooftop in Lincoln's Railyard on Thursday, April 20. The Internal Celebration is a fun culmination to a year's worth of hard work for our students and coaches.
Platinum Project: Spreetail
Project Name: Warehouse Data Center & Customer Live Tracking
Students: Cameron Maciejewski (PM), Joshua Dunne (DM), James Drake, Maggie Witzenburg, Jakob Snyder, Rex Raetz, Matt Meacham (Freshmen Intern)
Coach: Timothy Braun (Nelnet)
Sponsors: Jake Heidelk, Jeff Rapp
Gold Project: WEX Health
Project Name: COBRA & Direct Billing System
Students: Samuel Lindvall (PM), Joel Mohrmann (DM), Levi Amen, Haokun Lin, Caleb Zatorski, Jacob Pribnow, Karl Shaffer (Freshmen Intern)
Coach: Leon Stewart (Fiserv)
Sponsors: Kelly Sopinski, Alex Rotella
Aluminum Projecct: Mutual of Omaha
Project Name: Medicare Supplement Decision Engine
Students: Hanna Rogoz (PM), Libby Gentry (DM), John Neil, Mary Candela, Will Preachuk
Coach: Mark Antonson (Fiserv)
Sponsors: Andrew Watson, Mary Arko
Rock Stars
(Left to right) Veronica Telega (Development Manager for Firespring team, Raikes School Cohort 2013); Marcus Pasell (Development Manager for Flywheel team, Raikes School Cohort 2013); Wyatt Goodin (Product Manager for Firespring team, Raikes School Cohort 2013); Daric Teske (Development Manager for A Way Home America team, Raikes School Cohort 2014)
Call for Coaches
If you are a professional interested in volunteering to coach a team next year, please visit http://raikes.unl.edu/design-studio-coach.
