University of Advancing Technology's Official Technology Blog

The Spring 2026 Student Innovation Project (SIP) Showcase at University of Advancing Technology (UAT) was a powerful celebration of creativity, collaboration and future-focused thinking. Students from across multiple technology disciplines came together to present the projects they’ve spent months designing, building and refining. From immersive games and intelligent systems to robotics, cybersecurity solutions and digital experiences, the showcase highlighted the innovation and determination that define the UAT community. Here’s a recap of the standout moments, inspiring ideas and student achievements that made this semester’s showcase one to remember.

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

Garden Share  - Ashley Kennedy - WORLD CHANGER + VIEWER'S CHOICE AWARD WINNER

A platform designed to reunite neighborhoods where neighbors grow and trade produce in an effort to alleviate dependence and the cost of shopping at grocery stores. The application includes a farmers market where you can post your produce as well as search what neighbors are trading, a recipe page where you can post and search for recipes, AI Plant identification and more. 

Origin Guess!! - Nichole Losh 

A game for people to learn about AI and AI literacy. It's an interactive and engaging game that teaches its players about AI using fun features like the ability to play at different levels, compete on a leaderboard and more. 

AI Buddy - Anthony Mercer

An AI solution, designed to transform how customers interact with a website. A personalized AI shopping assistant that creates a digital avatar to represent users online. It improves the shopping experience by offering tailored recommendations and real time help, making online shopping faster, easier and more human.

 Ant-AI - Magaly Valdez 

A website and application that can determine if an image is AI generated.

PreVis Street - Noah Walker - BEST IN SHOW AWARD WINNER 

A storyboarding tool that lets you plan shots using real world environments, rather than hand drawing each shot.

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

Fate Finder - Zyriah Stoker 

An AI powered application that helps users discover and research their belief systems through asking keep thought based questions. Designed for those who are searching, questioning, or unsure of their belief systems. 

5 Stars + Bot - Andrew Lucier 

A professional wrestling website and chat bot to help predict the outcome of professional wrestling matches.

 Iterum AI - John Arcagua

An AI application to preserve the personality of a deceased loved one. Designed to preserve memories, voice, personality and interaction. This app turns them into a digital bot that would allow loved ones to interact with their deceased loved one.

Network Security, Network Engineering, Technology Forensics

AI Network Anomaly Dashboard - Nasser Altaey

A real-time web based security monitoring tool that  uses AI to watch network traffic, detect threats, and show them in a way that anyone can understand and act on. 

IoT Armor - Christopher Woods

A tool intended to help users identify network security risks associated with smart devices. 

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

Scoot Alert - Marcus Frazier  

An automatic system for activating bike horns.

Shine N' Go - Jaylan McCoy - BEST SIP PITCH + VIEWER'S CHOICE AWARD WINNER

A smart shoe care cleaning system, designed to make cleaning faster, safer and hands free.

The Turtle Brush - Calvin Harding 

A robotic dishwashing brush designed to make handwashing dishes easier. 

Snapper -Andrew Headrick

A 2-factor clapper switch for your lights, this requires two triggers to turn the light on and off rather than the old school clapper which only triggered on audio queue. Snapper will trigger the lights with one audio and one motion que. 

NBED TV Mount - Stephan Hammonds - INGENUITY PRIZE WINNER

An electronically adjustable tv mound for the bedroom. Instead of constantly adjusting yourself or pillows to see the tv comfortably in bed. this mount will dynamically position the screen above the bed to allow the user to maintain and ergonomic position. 

Sky Factor Customized Mouse - Jonathan Coleman

A custom computer mouse designed to form fit to the users unique hand.

Marchy - James Patton - MOST MARKET VIABLE AWARD WINNER

A flexible interface that attaches the mouth piece of a brass intstrument to the body of the intstrument, allowing the mouth piece to flex, making it more comfortable for the user to play.

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

Exbloom - Natalie Caraway

A falling block puzzle game. Rather than the traditional game where blocks clear when 3 or more of the same color touch, in this new game the user will place the pieces until the timer hits 0. Then and explosion, where only the pieces that are not 3+ touching remain, and you continue to play the board until the next timer goes off. 

Long Time Tutorial Plugin - Mason Griffith

This application measures how long you have been away from a game for. If the days pass hits a threshold named by the developer, the plugin runs a refresher on the game for the user. 

Ventura - Benton Marcum

A language learning game, users learn language by playing an open world exploration experience game. The player helps the main character explore and reconnect with his rood, learning the language and culture withe the character. 

 Meditation Aura Visualizer - Brain DeNeffe 

An application that takes current mood and transforms it into light, colors and sound using simple math.

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