DUM-E
Voice-commanded robotic arm that sees its workspace and acts on natural-language instructions.
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visible engineering depth
A genuinely hard technical problem is solved and shown, not just claimed.
18confirmed winners
19analyzed projects
3kinds of event
At student major league events
ROSS - Remote Operated Semantic Sketching
A robot that draws paintings onto a blind person's palm with warm and cold brushes, with narration.
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SpeakEasy
Behavioral-interview practice that scores what you say and how you say it from video.
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BASIC Web
A from-scratch BASIC compiler and runtime for building interactive web pages.
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At open source community events
agentgateway identity-aware control plane (contributions)
Nine substantial pull requests turning agentgateway from a model proxy into an identity-aware control plane for agents.
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MCP.STORE
A full e-commerce store used to demonstrate protocol-level MCP authentication and authorization that agents cannot bypass.
Kubernetes-native clinical MCP federation
Clinical AI agent platform that federates several MCP servers behind one endpoint to query MIMIC-IV securely.
Multi-cluster AI inventory controller
Kubernetes-native controller that inventories AI infrastructure across clusters, inspired by agentregistry.
At agency open data challenge events
2plant (NVS-knot)
Two weeks of daily planting windows per 100 m of field: is there enough moisture to germinate, and is the ground safe for machinery?
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HWO Exoplanet Characterization Platform (Asteroid Destroyer)
A 3D map of known exoplanets scored for habitability and detectability, to help the Habitable Worlds Observatory pick targets.
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Connected Earth Museum
Walk a 3D virtual museum where each painting opens a live NASA data visualization of how Earth's systems connect.
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42 QuakeHeroes
A U-Net deep network on decomposed seismic energy that finds the onset of moonquakes and marsquakes in noisy lander data.
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SkyShield (WMPGang)
A physically based 3D orrery that puts near-Earth objects and meteoroid streams in one view to show the overlooked hazard to satellites.
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Astro Sweepers
Orbital debris compliance and risk intelligence: automated Debris Assessment Software runs, ready-to-file disposal reports and a risk index for every object.
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Gaia+LEO
Optimization model that decides when and where orbital data centers beat terrestrial ones for AI and Earth-observation compute.
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PureFlow
A habitat layout tool that doubles as a survival simulator: model in 3D, compute crew needs live, and test the design against real solar-storm alerts.
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QUEÑARIS
Smart reforestation of Arequipa's queñua forests against water scarcity, combining NASA vegetation indices, drone mapping, AI and native microorganisms.
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Resonant Exoplanets
End-to-end pipeline that finds exoplanets in Kepler, TESS and JWST data and checks possible biosignatures against false positives.
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WOKI
Ask for help and coordinate rescues without internet, with remote visibility once the network returns.
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