In Seattle, many youth and young adults experiencing unstable housing rely on their case managers to help them through periods of adversity. However, the lack of a centralized platform for collaboration hinders this process for both sides. Milestone empowers youth and young adults to navigate the path toward stability by providing a single point of contact and cooperation with their case managers. By integrating messaging and the creation of goal plans into a single platform, youth and young adults can work with their case managers to achieve success, one milestone at a time.

MISO (Musical Instruments of the Seattle Opera) is a Microsoft Access database designed to track the Seattle Opera’s instrument collection. Before MISO, instruments were tracked using several spreadsheets that were inconsistent and difficult to update. The Seattle Opera realized it needed a better system when a cimbasso went missing. After a frantic search, it was discovered that the cimbasso was never missing - it had been in the Seattle Opera’s library all along. With MISO, all relevant instrument information, including location, current user and technical specifications are all combined into one location, ensuring that no instrument is lost.

Mito, derived from Latin for “giving with ease”, provides a social platform that lets users purchase products online to send to each other without exchanging physical addresses. Our solution offers a seamless process for buying goods for recipients while protecting users’ address information at all cost. A transaction on Mito no longer requires users to share their private address with one another.

With the need for teachers to focus on the common core there isn’t enough time in the day to plan multiple lessons to put these concepts into a real world context. In order to provide educator support I conducted teacher surveys to identify areas of STEAM curriculum where they need support. As a result I’ve created a Mobile Makerspace for Coupeville Elementary School. This Mobile Makerspace includes 30-45 minute STEAM lessons and all the materials needed to turn any classroom into a makerspace. This Mobile Makerspace not only supports the teachers but most importantly, it benefits the students.

This project is a multilingual taxonomy (currently English, German, and Japanese) of video game genres, including gameplay and narrative genres. It consists of a multilingual equivalency table, hierarchical schedules, and alphabetical schedules. The purpose of the taxonomy is to create an international standard for describing video game genres. This document aids in the indexing and searching of video game records designed with the Video Game Metadata Schema by providing a robust multilingual controlled vocabulary. This project was sponsored by the iSchool's GAMER Group and created with data from Germany's Computerspielemuseum and Japan's Ritsumeikan University Center for Game Studies.

My project is a business proposal for a non-profit children’s center named the Muse Museum. This museum would combine the skills of children’s museums, libraries, and art galleries in a whimsical and fun way. I would want this place to be interactive for children to explore literacy and art, make a mess, and begin to understand the true power of their emotions and of storytelling. Another key component of this project is to address the adverse effects of trauma, by having classes for parents and guardians on subjects like parenting best practices and mindfulness.

Although most scholars must ‘publish or perish,’ graduate students and junior faculty members often receive minimal guidance on the publication process beyond ad hoc support from advisors. To provide a formal channel through which researchers can gain confidence in approaching scholarly publishing, we developed a workshop series to provide guidance around publication of an article in an academic journal. Two complementary workshops, one focused on journal selection and the other on publishing agreements, introduce open access and authors’ rights concepts while addressing common concerns and offering practical advice for navigating the publishing process from start to finish.