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The Capstone event showcases the breadth of skills and expertise students develop in the program. In poster and oral presentations of the culminating projects, students demonstrate how they have been using information as a tool for transformation in their personal, academic and professional lives.

Capstone has been a part of the iSchool experience since 2002. Recent award winners include: 

2010

Commercial Potential Awards

  • Mike’s Hard Lemonade: Retail Business Intelligence by Nick Malone and Hong Wei
  • Click-and-Cross by Alex Jansen (Informatics)

Social Impact Awards

  • MirrorBoard: Type with One Hand by Peter Kamb (Informatics)
  • Fighting Invasive Species with Information Technology by Robert Bale, Erica Chao, Michael Visaya (MSIM) (Also won Audience Award)

Audience Awards

  • Social OneBusAway: Connecting Teens Using Social Technology and Public Transit by Chris Lam, Vanessa Ma, Tim Wibowo, KenWong (Informatics)

2011

Commercial Potential Awards

  • Qlick: Realtime Media Sharing Application Based on Event by Gavin Elster, Anton Grobman, Daniel Lee, Andrew Smirnov (Informatics)

Social Impact Awards

  • Electronic Whiteboard Project: One Screen Saves Lives by Shilpa Allimatti (MSIM)
  • Global Partnerships Business Intelligence by Thomas Wang, Ahsan Ali (MSIM) (Honorable Mention)

Audience Awards

  • The Next Fifty by Valentina Ferrari, Nika Hejazinia, Yi-Chin Kat Lai, Victoria Wolfe (Informatics)
  • Plug-It: The Plug-in Checker by Brendan Gardner-Young, Sam Walcott, Harrrison Weingard, Annika Wiesenbach (Informatics)
  • Electronic Visual Scorecard for Fluke’s Service Tools Factory by John Efta, Jason Phelps, Jason Robertson (MSIM)
  • Henry Hi!: Experience Art with a Touch by Jeroen Van Den Eijkhof, Ohyoon Kwon, Nishant Satanekar (MSIM)

2012

Commercial Potential Awards

  • Alvarium Hive by Gigi Gillie, Zach Griswold, Chris Mathews, Andrew McKenna (Informatics)
  • DealStream: Deals Made Easy by Ryan Malone, Haoyi Yang, Cheng Hao Cheung, Xaio Luo (Informatics) (Honorable Mention) 

Social Impact Awards

  • PocketChange: A Firefox Extension for Microdonations and Peer-to-Peer Philanthropy by Aaron Emde, Ryan Harrison, Colleen Salmi (Informatics)
  • Two-Goals iPhone Application: Maintaining Good Health without Being Overloaded by Information by Tien Nguyen (MSIM) (Honorable Mention)

Audience Awards

  • Mind Cloud by Ramji Enamuthu, Zarya Faraj, Ali Fathalian (MSIM)
  • Costco Android App by Priyanvada Barve, Sampanna Kulkarni, Rahul Mode (MSIM)
  • Competitive Advantage: An Educational Business Intelligence Game Concept by Joel Smith, Anna Leung (MSIM)
  • vTracker: Volunteer Record Management Made Easy by Bryan Dosono, Walton Huynh, Kenneth Liu, Wilson Lu (Informatics)

2013

Commercial Potential Awards

  • Allergy App by Alan Chi, Dylan Bussone, Vince Thomas, Omar Farajallah (Informatics)
  • Fovea by Sander Vinberg (MSIM) (Honorable Mention)

Social Impact Awards

  • The Neutropenia Clinical Dashboard by Nic Dobbins (MLIS)
  • Where to Turn for Teens by Kacie Grant, Ross Hattori, Dan Laush, Blake Levy, Melissa Parsons (Informatics) (Honorable Mention)

Audience Choice Awards

  • Bucket List by Tatsuya Matsubara, Ryan Samp, Ankar Sawir (Informatics)
  • From Immigration Detention to Unfamiliar Territory: Surviving Post-Release by Amanda Jasso, Anna Shelton (MLIS)
  • MED Project by Chaitrali Pimparkar, Mason Wrolstad, Jenna Tollefson, Steven Markham, Honping Lin (Informatics)
  • Why Search Twice by  Matt Garrett, Chris Gilbert, Tony Grosinger, Ansel Santosa, Tim Tan (Informatics)

2014

Commercial Potential Awards

  • Improve Your Odds: PEACOCKS and the Evolution of Skillset Matching created by Karen Dahmen, Amy Neely, Jacob A. Morris - MSIM
  • TravelMeet created by Adrian D’Sa, Lifeng Wang, Ruochen Ren, Katie Ho - MSIM (Honorable Mention)

Social Impact Awards

  • MIST – Cloud Infrastructure for Environmental Disaster Relief created by Evan Griffith, Ian Palmgren, Brennen Smith - Informatics
  • Big Data and Poverty Reduction: Adoption and Diffusion in Social Networks created by Anikate Singh, Chitra Raman, Yan Guo, Joshua Manoj Cherian, Devin Luco - Informatics (Honorable Mention)

Audience Awards

  • The Ghost Anatomy Project created by Ashish Chandwani, Ngoc Do, Connie Huang, Ted Tagami, Alyssa Trinh - Informatics
  • MIST – Cloud Infrastructure for Environmental Disaster Relief created by Evan Griffith, Ian Palmgren, Brennen Smith - Informatics
  • Waitless: Digital Dining Experience created by Alex Fredrickson, Christopher Jimenez, Alex Petrovich, Jeremy Sherman - Informatics
  • Fidgt created by Kartik Rishi, Phillip Pasqual, Katlyn Edwards, Kendall Morgan, Carlo Valentin - Informatics

Online Presentation Award

  • SeeYourChart Tutorial Project created by Annie Wescott - MLIS
  • Voices on the World Stage created by Tiffany Coulson - MLIS (Honorable Mention)

2015

Commercialization Potential Awards

  • Achilles, created by Amber Amin, Robby Brosman, Xavier Byrd, Staffan Hellman, Caleb Thorsteinson - Informatics
  • VROOM, created by Joze Gonzalez, Marissa Ho, David Phillips III, Stephen Ramirez - Informatics

Social Impact Awards

  • Never Forgotten, created by Eric Chee, Young Kim, Wendy Kung, Marco Vertucci - Informatics
  • Step Stone, created by Gino Clement, Cveton Damyanov, Daniel Nakamura, Nikki Nikkhoui - Informatics

Discovery Award

  • Wikitree, created by Alex Burner, James Prow, Christina Xiao - Informatics
  • Indigenizing the Digital Divide, created by Tess Wilder Cervantes, Karuik (MLIS) and Ross Braine, Apsaalooke (MSIM)

Audience Choice Awards

  • Bontology, created by Malavika Ravi, Krista Davis, Liang Huang, Ziquiang Shen - MSIM
  • Coursector, created by Colin Greene, Michael Kelly, Prerak Pradhan, Nishant Sinha - MSIM
  • Impuls, created by Matthew Hutcherson, Adam Moshcatel, Megan Rawley, Michael Slagle - Informatics
  • Track'd, created by Jenny Chen, Michelle Le, Gabby Nikolova, Shengyao Qian - Informatics

2016

Commercial Potential Awards 

  • Flymate, created by Rheanna Mistry, Vivian Woods, Joanna Koeff, Emilee Smalley - Informatics 
  • Proposing Research, created by Crystal Welliver - MLIS

Social Impact Awards 

  • SPSInteractive: Seeing Schools Differently, created by Alex Gingras, Michael Yslas, Jonothan Fuego, Jacob Leighty - Informatics 
  • ​aWear, created by Antony Zhong, Vincent Jonany, Jessic Peterson, Morgan Evans - Informatics 

Research Awards

  • Internet censorship in Thailand: User reactions, potential vulnerabilities, and necessary responses, created by Genevieve Gebhart - MLIS
  • Trellis: Supporting the Growth of Depressed College-Aged Students and Their Support Networks, created by Kristen Wei, Eden Ghirmai, Tamanh Nguyen, Christina Polyukh - Informatics 

Service Awards

  • Food in Motion, created by Kenny Raymond, Drew Khaw, Megh Vakharia - Informatics 
  • Youth Library: NAVOS Mental Health Solutions, created by Muriel Wheatley, Alexandra Cauley, Camila Jenkin - MLIS

Diversity Awards

  • Exposure: A 3D Interactive Narrative for Creating Empathy for People Experiencing Homelessness, created by Perry Meas, MemieHuang, David Han, Luc Johnson - Informatics
  • Soul of Seattle, created by Matthew Jackson, Domonique Meeks, Freddy Mora - MSIM

Innovation/Design Awards

  • Echo, created by Conrad Zimney, Dillon Byron, Robert Brooks, Bryan Gula - Informatics 
  • FoodBridge: Excess Food Redistribution System, created by Sandeep Bhat, Vignesh Sivakumar - MSIM

Best in Class Awards 

  • Building Community: The Social Justice and Libraries Open Conference, created by Marisa Petrich, Allison Reibel, Reed Garber-Pearson - MLIS
  • We, the People: Empowerment Through Design, created by Yogesh Sharma, Jyotsna Saxena, Suryaprakash Vijayaraghavan, Divya Kothari - MSIM
  • KNAQ, created by Austin Woehrle, Shijir Tsogo, Shrinivas Ramanath, Michael Dang - Informatics 

News

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22 Informatics students show their work at research symposium

Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Twenty-two Informatics students showcased their research at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium. Held on May 16, the event – titled “Take Flight!” -- featured five poster sessions, three oral presentation...
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MLIS Capstone showcases a lesser-known part of U.S. history

Friday, May 30, 2025
The words “concentration camp” bring about disturbing images and evoke an emotional response. When people think of concentration camps, their minds are likely to turn to the Nazi extermination camps of World War II. However, many...
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MLIS Last Chance Q&A

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Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion
Jun 10
 
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Shaping the Future with an MS in Information Management: Alumni Panel & Insights

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Jun 10
 
7:00-7:45PM

iSchool Read-Alongs Series: June

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