Raspberry Pi Contest Finalists Wow Chapter Judges

The chapter played host to a "Raspberry Pi" contest in June that saw the final five student teams reaching for the gold. Each team was tasked to design an innovative idea by programming an open source microcomputer. The competition was staggering and included a robotic prosthetic hand; a thumbprint-operated lock system; an American Sign Language to brail translator; a smart traffic system; and educational word- and image-recognition software. The students worked exceedingly hard and engineered spectacular products. The judges deliberated long and hard to ensure they recognized the most deserving team. The runner-up teams included "Pi-Traffic," with Ridge Barney, Matthew Pollmiller and Scott Rustenhaven, and "Robotic Hand," with Ken Robinson, Mai Brown, Jose Feliciano and Chris Gray. Team "Talky Blocky" (Noah Bresler, Austin Brindowski and Julia Nakamoto) took home the bronze and three UE Boom 2 speakers. Second place went to Team "DATA" (David Miller, Amanda Agustin, Theresa Boulos, Andrew Agustin), along with four Samsung Gear S3 smart watches. The grand prize, including three Microsoft Surface Pro tablets with Kensington headphones, went to Team "FNGR (Fingerprint Network Graphic Repository)," which included Vincent Povilaitis, Tristan Bueler and Sam Donovan.

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