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Innovation From Day 1: Provost Challenge

Each semester, Provost Dr. Dave Bolman presents new students with a challenge their first week of college, hence the Provost Challenge.

The goal is to have new students show off their creativity and innovation by making something cool and complete. Yes, that project description is vague on purpose, in order to allow students the freedom to unleash their ideas, mix that with the technology we have and find out what their technology savvy minds can do!

This semester was particularly cool as three groups of students presents some really awesome projects.

 

New students get busy innovating at UAT
New students get busy innovating at UAT

 

Here are the groups and their projects.

Tower Jamz - this game showcases a colorful blend of light and sound to spruce up your boring stacker game.

Tower Jamz stacker game
Tower Jamz stacker game

 

Dungeon Troubles - a card game for 2-5 players. The goal is to race your friends and collect the most gold! The entire board game was created using technology and materials at UAT.

 

Dragon Troubles
Dragon Troubles

 

RP Character Creator - this project gave game artists an outlet in which to 3d print a visual representation of their character to export and print your hero!

 

Character Creator
Character Creator

 

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