Category: Events

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Daniel Brown, Jacob Latham, Caleb Lichtenstrahl, and Richard Mitchell from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Capture Dash,” and the main goal of this project was to design a better way to for SAIC examine and sort through federal requests for proposals. Their abstract explains “the capture dash system is an analysis and sorting system that analyses RFPs and tags it with certain attributes based on what kind of project it is.” Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Bentley Burgess, Mateo Gannod, Keadin Hull, Ryan MacGregor, Jordan Myers, and Carli Williams from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Breadcrumb Fraud Protection,” and the main goal of this project was to create “a data pipeline that accepts a dataset from an API, formats the incoming data, passes the new request to the fraud detection model, and returns a verdict based on the model’s results.” This provides fraud detection as a service feature for the company’s data pipeline. Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Amanda McGuire, Jacob Hill, Jonas Fornehed, Joseph Doonis, Robert McKay, and Timothy Kelley from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Predicting Potential Patient Issues,” and the main goal of this project was to create an application for NavSEA that “implements machine learning capabilities to predict critical patient events in the ICU.” The system would provide a patient’s medical data and predictions about their future status as well as assist trained medical personnel with decision making and resource allocation. Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Alex Quarles, Ben Austin, Bryan Davis, Daniel Steinmeyer, and Nathaniel Hynek from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “How to Create a Recommender System,” and the main goal of this project was to create a Recommender System for Cru that targets ways to find what the reader will find most appealing. The system “considers their current interests based off what they have read and finds similar topics within the database.” Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Jacob Gable, Jim Moroney, Justin Presley, Johnathon Rich, and Jacob Sweeten from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Logistics Visualization Map Suite,” and was under the direction of Dr. William Eberle with a valuable partnership with Averitt Express. The main goal of this project was to use Averitt’s software to “visualize logistics data to assist managers with diagnosing inefficiencies in routes” and “improve upon previous team’s work with two new map types and overall better code.” Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Jamison Boyd, Thomas leisure, Evan Sells, Jarett Tice, and Simon Winters from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Tennessee State Parks AR Integration,” with its main goal being to create an augmented reality application for the Tennessee State Parks.  The app they designed “allows visitors of the Frozen Head State Park to view a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that once stood in the park” and features a park map, FAQ, and a gallery. Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts our rural areas, and completing their Capstone successfully. To read the whole story, visit tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Billy Carico, Elijah Cunnigham, Peyton Johnson, Colin Lafever, Carlos Medrano, and Nicholas Vlahakos from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “Electronic Clinical Record,” and the group was tasked with creating a new electronic clinical records system to replace a current paper recordkeeping system. To do this, they adapted their base software, Bahmni, with the needs of Predisan Health Ministries, a Honduran non-profit medical organization, in mind. Congrats to this team for their hard work, which directly impacts these rural areas, and successfully completing their Capstone. To read the whole story, visit tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-csstudents-research.php. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Cameran Green, Conall Fisher, Andrew Al-Halawani, Lukas Motykowski, and Jacob Ford from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project titled “EduNet” was sponsored by Rural Reimagined’s Michael Aikens and Kinsey Simone. These students researched ways to directly transform rural education through the development of EduNet, a website that allows teachers in the Upper Cumberland area to post ideas, resources, and allow communication among educators about receiving said resources. This group of students partnered directly with Rural Reimagined and designed a great project. Congrats to all of them for completing their Capstone successfully. To read the whole story, visit https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/20220510-edunet.php. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined (RR) recognizes horticulture major Ethan Johnson for earning the Rural Reimagined award of $750, with an additional $500 in technical assistance from the Center for Rural Innovation at the 2022 Eagle Works competition for his idea of Johnson Farms. Johnson’s award-winning idea was an automated farm which could produce year-round produce for local markets. Johnson emphasized the potential impact of his idea: “This farming method helps solve the problem of feeding additional people. All organic and weekly picked produce will be able to give any plant the ability to be sold at the market year-round.” Regarding Eagle Works, Johnson states, “A professor showed me that anyone has the chance to win Eagle Works, and I hope that future competitors can also see that.” Congratulations, Ethan! For more information on how you can get involved with Eagle Works next year, contact Andrea Kruszka at akruszka@tntech.edu. Wings up!

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates students from the College of Interdisciplinary Studies on presenting their rural-related projects at Tennessee Tech’s 2022 Research and Creative Inquiry Day.  These students researched  ways to directly transform rural living through their projects, which included topics such as  planning educational woodland workshops, developing forest health curricula, researching needs for further STEM education, and providing the Bridgestone Nature Reserve at Chestnut Mountain with geographic information systems, wind power initiatives, solar power generation systems, and solar energy. In total, 23 undergraduate students participated as co-authors or collaborators on these projects and represented the schools of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Studies. View the full story here: https://www.tntech.edu/grand-challenge/news/articles/2022-interdisciplinarystudents-ruralresearch.php, or email Kinsey Simone at sw-kbsimone@tntech.edu for more information. Wings up!