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ROOTS Camp:  Uncovering Your Botanical History & Exploring Natural History Collections

For rising 8th graders and up.  Explore your family history, plants, and herbaria collections through this fun camp!  We will work with TTU faculty members and Hollister Herbarium staff to identify and preserve plant specimens that are important to our own personal histories.  If you are interested in plants, nature, or science – this is the place for you!  $50 fee.  We are accepting up to 15 campers.  Apply here:  https://forms.gle/jJx38oCPbmFz5cYb7

For more information, contact Shawn Krosnick (skrosnick@tntech.edu).  This program is being planned in conjunction with the Rooting Your Students in Their Botanical History project, Shawn Krosnick (Biology Department), PI.

Introductory Meeting:  Saturday, June 18th, 9:00 AM

Camp in Session:  June 20th – 24th, daily 8:30 AM – 4 PM

Rural Reimagined recognizes and congratulates Tavian Dodd, Chandler Hendrick, Brain Kemp, Bryce McDonald, and Grant Qualls from the Computer Science Program on presenting their Capstone project at Tennessee Tech’s Engineering Expo. Their project was titled “ORNL Weather Retrieval Tool,” and the main goal of this project was to make an application that can directly access the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archives and pull the requested data for the user. Their system would allow users “to download data from one or more weather stations” and solve the delay in weather data retrieval that ORNL is experiencing. 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 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!