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Capstone 2024 Award Finalists

MLIS Awards

Design Award

Guitars For Libraries: Community Partnerships and Lifelong Music Education. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Seattle Girls' School Library Redesign. Thursday, 7:50 p.m.

The Misinformation Play Pack: Play-Based Educational Resources for Community Information Literacy. Thursday, 7:50 p.m.

IDEAS Award

Here in Perpetuity: Uplifting Tribal Sovereignty in Public Libraries. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

In Their Own Words: Reporting & Organizing Youth Testimonials of Censorship from Books Unbanned. Wednesday, 4:20 p.m.

Systemic Deconstruction: Addressing Information Equity Using Brian Deer’s Framework. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Innovation Award

Rethinking Dewey in the School Library. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

SIFF: Building Your Archive From The Ground Up. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Research Award

Improving Analytics, Search, and Content Operations: Metadata for Intel.com. Thursday, 7:10 p.m.

Seeing Change: Cultivating Trauma Informed Librarianship. Thursday, 7:50 p.m.

Social Justice & Social Impact Award

Archiving Materials on the University of Washington Gender Identity Clinic. Thursday, 7:10 p.m.

Building a Trauma-Informed Workplace to Support Library Staff. Wednesday, 4:20 p.m.

In Their Own Words: Reporting & Organizing Youth Testimonials of Censorship from Books Unbanned. Wednesday, 4:20 p.m.

MSIM Awards

Design Award

AMZL Digital Twin. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Last Mile Innovations: Leveraging Smart Solutions for Efficient Amazon Warehouse Audits. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Waza: Home-cooked Food Delivery. Thursday, 7:10 p.m.

IDEAS Award

A Web for All: Generative AI Powered Navigation for the Neurodiverse. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Workplace Equity: Optimizing Data-Smart, Equity-Centered Work Environments. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Innovation Award

A Web for All: Generative AI Powered Navigation for the Neurodiverse. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

ClearView Assist : Aiding the Visually Impaired in Navigating Cluttered Websites with Generative AI. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Lambda News Digest. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Research Award

Six degrees of Kevin Bacon: A Network-based Approach to Venture Capital. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Switching Your DEI-ET: A project to Standardize Diversity Reports. Thursday, 7:50 p.m.

Social Justice & Social Impact Award

AI Potential with Service Requests and Incidents. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Fortnite Harvest: A Quest for Zero Hunger. Thursday, 7:10 p.m.

Informatics Awards

Design Award

Kids Are Not Content. Thursday, 7:10 p.m.

Mass Delivery Integration for DoorDash. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Retirement Adequacy Project. Thursday, 7:10 p.m.

IDEAS Award

Blooming. Wednesday, 5:40 p.m.

Contigo Chatbot. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Psychiatric Care Allocation Disparity: King County, WA. Thursday, 7:50 p.m.

Innovation Award

HuskySync: Where tests become collaborative quests. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

inStroketor: Simplifying your stroke recovery. Thursday, 7:10 p.m.

Vedette: Streamlining Bug Report Deduplication For Google's Android Security. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Research Award

Psychiatric Care Allocation Disparity: King County, WA. Thursday, 7:50 p.m.

Vedette: Streamlining Bug Report Deduplication For Google's Android Security. Thursday, 6:30 p.m.

Social Justice & Social Impact Award

Contigo Chatbot. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Diversifying the Federal Workforce: A DEI Recruiting Tool for NOAA. Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Empowering Decision-Making for Legal Aid Nonprofit: Sound Legal Aid's Data-Driven Dashboard to Serve Marginalized Communities. Thursday, 7:50 p.m.

Capstone 2024

• Capstone Gala event overview
• Exhibition Hall
• Award Finalists
• Alphabetical list of participants

MAY 29 EVENT SCHEDULE

Virtual, via Zoom.

  • 4 p.m.: Opening remarks and announcement of award semi-finalists, Main Hall
  • 4:20 p.m.: Session A presentations
  • 4:50 p.m.: Break
  • 5 p.m.: Session B presentations
  • 5:30 p.m.: Break
  • 5:40 p.m.: Session C presentations
  • 6:10 p.m.: Break
  • 6:15 p.m.: Recap of the first night, second night preview, Main Hall

MAY 30 EVENT SCHEDULE

Husky Union Building, UW campus [directions & parking]

  • 6 p.m.: Welcome address, HUB North Ballroom
  • 6:30 p.m.: Session A presentations
  • 7 p.m.: Break
  • 7:10 p.m.: Session B presentations
  • 7:40 p.m.: Break
  • 7:50 p.m.: Session C presentations
  • 8:20 p.m.: Break
  • 8:30 p.m.: Session D presentations
  • 9:10 p.m.: Awards presentation and closing remarks, HUB North Ballroom and via livestream

AWARDS PRESENTATION & CLOSING REMARKS

HUB North Ballroom and via livestream

  • May 30, 9:10 p.m.:
    • MLIS awards
    • MSIM awards
    • Informatics awards

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