Engineering students have collaborated with The Central Coast Girl Scouts in order to make a lego robot. Reporter Ava Kershner has more on how this project came together.
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Cal Poly Fine Arts Seniors Showcase their Final Projects
For their final project, fine arts seniors have put together art pieces for a show called “Dearest,” showing at the University Art Gallery. Studio Art senior, Mac Wilkinson, is a painter and textile worker who has used the gallery to represent their understanding of gender. The gallery will be open until June 12, 2022.
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Cal Poly Awards Grants for Student Research Projects
Cal Poly awarded grants to support 33 student-led research projects through the university’s Baker and Koob endowments, according to a March 29 press release. The endowments, which support hands-on learning opportunities for students, will fund $108,000 for a variety of projects that are focused on issues ranging from a broad spectrum of topics, including space […]
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Watch: A look at the new structure in Architecture Graveyard
Architectural engineering graduate student Will Adam said he didn’t realize how impactful his senior project would be at first glance. However, Adam had a bold idea from the get-go: construct the first experimental structure in Poly Canyon in 20 years. Mustang News Reporter Angelina Salgado gives a look at what the structure is and how […]
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Construction management senior project improves CAED design shop accessibility
When the construction management department chair asked Nathan Horst and Steven Zheng to overhaul the College of Architectural and Environmental Design (CAED) support shop at the beginning of summer, Horst’s first thought was: “Wow, that is a big project to take on.” A majority of construction management senior projects are research-based, meaning a written paper […]
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Senior Project Spotlight: Comparing modern white complacency to the 1940s Nazi movement
English senior Alex Catlett is finishing out his college career with a research paper on the relevancies of Bertolt Brecht’s plays. Brecht was a playwright during the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, and used the play to criticize their movement. Catlett is writing about how systemic oppression in the United States mirrors what […]
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Senior Project Spotlight: A mental health app designed by college students, for college students
When computer engineering senior Alyssa Liu left for college, her little sister gave her a shoe box filled with letters. Each letter had instructions for when she was supposed to open it; one was for when she missed home, another for when she got her first bad grade. Whenever Liu was feeling down or overwhelmed, she turned to the shoebox for comfort.
That shoebox became the inspiration for Foveo, an app that Liu and her team are working on developing as their senior project to help college students who suffer from mental illness.
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Senior Project Spotlight: Designing a buoy to collect shark data
Computer engineering senior Kevin Dixson and computer science senior Tegan Fleishman are working with the California State University Long Beach Shark Lab for their senior project: Designing a buoy that will collect data from passing sharks and transmit it immediately to the lab.
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Underground Anthology: A creative writing journal created by and for BIPOC voices
As May 2020 rolled around and Cal Poly students Eddie Railsback and Juan Vergara began playing around with senior project ideas, one discussion led them to the importance of sharing intersectional experiences and the “unwritten barriers” in publishing for people of color. Thein their idea was born: a creative writing journal created by and for Black and Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC).
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Student-run Subaltern Magazine returns for a second volume
Two Cal Poly students have teamed up to produce a second volume of The Subaltern Magazine to give a platform for student stories that often go unheard.
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Students build a life-sized motorized advent calendar for the Cambria Christmas Market
On Nov. 29, the Cambria Christmas Market debuted a life-sized motorized advent calendar — a new feature designed, engineered and constructed by Cal Poly students. Mechanical engineering seniors Sigrid Derickson, Oma Skyrus, Danny Clifton and Tyler Koski took on the calendar as their senior design project in early January 2019. According to engineering professor Lee McFarland, the […]