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Fall 2025 Student Innovation Projects (SIPs) at University of Advancing Technology (UAT) in Tempe, Arizona showcased how students turn emerging technology concepts into real, working solutions. From Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cybersecurity to Game Design and Robotics, each project reflects UAT’s hands-on, industry-driven approach to technology education.

Student Innovation Projects are a core part of UAT’s project-based curriculum, giving students real experience building, testing, and presenting technology solutions before graduation. These projects help students develop portfolios, collaborate across disciplines, and prepare for careers in today’s tech-driven industries.

Below is a recap of the featured Fall 2025 SIPs, highlighting the innovation, skills, and impact behind each student-built project.

Game Design, Game Art & Animation, Game Programming and Virtual Reality 

Somnia, Baylee Balsimo Ketelhut BEST IN SHOW AWARD WINNER 

Somnia is an adventure game concept where you play as a travelling live-streamer exploring a new planet in search of unique content to entertain your simulated virtual audience.

Last Heart Tourney Brandon "Blu" LaVoy

Last Heart Tourney is a competitive board game system meant to create semi-cooperative gameplay. This is done by designing games that can have multiple winners/losers, and give ways to boost one another.

Project Outlook Chrstopher Echaniz

A game mechanic that gives the player the ability to take away aspects of their environment to help them solve puzzles and avoid enemies.

Spectrum Battle System Daniel Parker WORLD CHANGER AWARD WINNER 

A game simulator that aims to translate the Autism condition in a way that is both informative and interactive. 

Narrative-Conscious Persistence Through Reframing Save/Load as a Mechanically

Embedded, Systemically Causal, and Progression-Critical Player Action in Decision-

Responsive Game Worlds Jenson Searle INGENUITY PRIZE AWARD WINNER 

A new way of designing games, allowing players to save the game and not override a prior save but the game develops through the saves and adapts for future game play.

FIGHT CORE DESTROY Nathaniel Andert

FIGHT CORE DESTROY is a prototype 2D robot fighting game with limb damage mechanics. 

VR Sword Caleb Carroll

A system that enhances immersion in a VR melee combat by making weapons virtually age and degrade in real time. 

The Genesis Record YenLinh Nguyen

A simple and straightforward game utilizing the two main gimmicks of general gameplay use and player response. Players apply these two gimmicks in this minimalistic game to solve puzzles, engage world interaction and combat.  

Robotics & Embedded Systems (Robotics Engineering) & Digital Maker & Fabrication

Fruit Scorer Addon Module for Commercial Sectionizer Sean Johnson MOST MARKET VIABLE AWARD WINNER 

A simple add-on module to commercial fruit sectionizers allowing the customer to score the fruit wedges simultaneously with a chef's knife.

Find Beauty in Everything... Alexa Tuchtenhagen

Find Beauty in Everything... is a gentle robotic butterfly designed to bring comfort, ease anxiety, and create moments of peace for hospice patients and the families who love them.

S.W.A.V. (Self-Operating Waste Amoving Vehicle) Zachary Lewis

S.W.A.V. is an automated base for a trash bin that can take out the trash for you!

Coil Gun Project Eloy Fernandez

A magnetic coil based projectile propulsion device. 

Field Test 420 Matthew Winter 

A handheld 24VDC 4-20 mA Signal Generator.

Replica Rings Chelsea Krepps

A new innovative spin on the silicon ring industry. This project creates custom silicon rings that replicate the beauty of metal rings, rather than the simple, bulk produced silicon rings that are already on the market. 

Expandable Riot Shield Terrine Martin

A compact, telescoping, defensive system designed for fast, reliable deployment. 

Digital Marketing, Advertising Art, Digital Video (Digital Production) Business Technology

One Minute Hire SJ Campbell

One Minute Hire is a service that produces 60-second video resumes for entry-level jobseekers with little-to-no experience.

Cyber Culture on Canvas Emily Lovo

Cyber Culture on Canvas is an art-driven cybersecurity project that turns complex security concepts into original hand-painted canvases to educate, engage, and inspire audiences.

Voice-Coded Planner Lucia Reed

A voice-coded planning system that dynamically restructures task priorities based on user readiness, cognitive load, and moment specific capability rather than fixed chronological scheduling. 

ProSave Zoe McGowan

An incremental autosave plugin for adobe premiere pro.

V.E.H. (Video.Editing.Helper.) Gregory Strickland

V.E.H. is an application site that helps edit videos more effectively by scanning through your video, finding mistakes in it and highlighting them on a timeline for you to see, showing the severity, description of the issue, what the issue is and where it happened.

Advancing Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science & Human Computer Interaction

WWMogi Landon Yates

WWMogi is a webscraper that takes an API call requesting leaderboard information from a website, cleans the data and formats it to be displayed via an application.

GitGrub Jerome Reaux Jr. BEST SIP PITCH & VIEWERS CHOICE AWARD WINNER

An app that focuses on bringing late-night cafe back online!

NutriDetect Alexander Garcia Garnica 

Scan any food label and get instant allergen warnings.

OpenExonaut Sean Burchett

A game server for a particular game The Decade Deceased Project Exonaut. But also can be torn down and repurposed for similar games.

Interpaws Amari Bullard

Interpaws connects pet owners with the perfect veterinarian through simple, AI-powered conversations.

AstroTune Preston Chapman

AstroTune is a mobile app for android that allows users to control the music players Foobar2000 and DeaDBeeF running on a computer using their phone. 

Mystic Card Forge Jackelin Britton

A Web Application that lets players and creators design their own Magic the Gathering cards with authentic detail and style all in a simple, easy to use interface. 

Copy Clipboard Nathan Dalu

A smart translation assistant that lives in your system tray. Instead of a multi-step translation process, you can copy text, click the icon and get instant translation without ever leaving the application. 

ArtViseAI Sanyerlis Camacaro

An AI Art Application that runs locally on your computer with or without internet access. 

Network Security, Network Engineering & Technology Forensics 

Argus Net Protector Daniel Drljaca 

Argus Net Protector gives everyday people an easy way to assess and improve their own home network. 

CLIND Keegan Heaton

CLIND is an interactive social-media tracking and mindfulness app that helps users reset their minds after every scroll session.

Tailored Learning Melanie Owens

Tailored Learning is an email security plugin that helps spot phishing, impersonation, and malware by analyzing message headers, URLs, and text locally to a SQL database with an audit trail. 

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