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- Julia Uhr, an ATLAS PhD student and researcher in the ACME Lab, has created a fun 3D visual programming language that empowers novice coders to create customized VR environments while inside those environments.
- T9Hacks partnered with STEMblazers to host Au{t9}umn Hacks, a hackathon designed to promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making in high school students who identify from groups underrepresented at mainstream hackathons.
- Aileen Pierce, associate director of undergraduate programs and teaching associate professor, and Jules Pierce, a software engineer at Facebook, share their perspective and experiences as women in tech spanning two generations.
- In virtual reality, when you reach out and try to touch a visible surface, it normally isn't there. Using a swarm of Rubik's Cube-sized, shape-changing robots, the illusion becomes physical.
- T9Hacks has partnered with STEMblazers to host Au{t9}umn Hacks, a hackathon designed to promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making in high school students who identify as female, non-binary or from other groups underrepresented at mainstream hackathons.
- Sasha de Koninck, a member of聽ATLAS Institute's聽Unstable Design Lab, presented her future heirloom project, The Research Lab of Ambiguous Futurology, at the "Making and Doing" exhibition at the 4S hybrid conference, held Oct. 6-9, both in Toronto and virtually.
- Andrea Fautheree M谩rquez's thesis project, "Chicana Light," explores the Chicano civil rights movement in Colorado. Fautheree M谩rquez used projection mapping to create the installation of three videos playing on their own loops.
- A team of three recent CU Boulder College of Engineering graduates recently took second place at Pinnacle, coined "The Olympics of Hackathons."
- Toward the top floor of the Roser ATLAS Center聽on main campus, those who take the north stairs are now greeted by a new artwork as they approach the third floor. Designed and installed by聽Sophie Adams聽(BS-TAM'21),聽"The Golden Rectangle" aims to capture the movement of old filmstrips, and pays homage to the golden ratios in cinema studies鈥攂oth in color and proportion of the shapes themselves.聽
- The 12 members of the CU Boulder community who contributed to the new $50-million Meow Wolf Denver location are all associated with the ATLAS Institute.