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- Laura Devendorf, director of the Unstable Design Lab in the ATLAS Institute and assistant professor of information science, will deliver a lecture entitled 鈥淒esigning Not Knowing鈥 on March 11 as part of Georgia Tech鈥檚 GVU Brown Bag Seminar Series.
- To honor and remember the lives lost in the past year, CU Boulder joined the state of Colorado remembrance March 5 with a magenta-colored light display from the tower of the Roser ATLAS building.
- LeeLee James, BTU's student assistant, is also the "Twirling Tech Goddess" on YouTube. Her show encourages radical diversity and inclusion by making learning tech more fun, accessible and relatable to people underrepresented in STEM.
- Wayne Seltzer, ATLAS Institute's technologist-in-residence, was featured as one of four MIT alumni who are 鈥榤aking鈥 their mark with a love for building and tinkering. As a maker mentor, Seltzer has worked with many students and the BTU community.
- ATLAS students will host the sixth annual T9Hacks the weekend of March 19-21, promoting interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making, among college women and others traditionally underrepresented in hackathons.
- Julia Uhr's game, "There are No Eyes Here," received the Best Remix award at the third annual Public Domain Game Jam. The painting-based puzzle utilizes elements of Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky paintings as levers, and players locate the elements they can manipulate to complete each stage.
- Two ATLAS PhD students, Sandra Bae and Fiona Bell, took home top awards from the 15th ACM International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) Student Design Challenge, which ran Feb. 14-19.
- Auto-reverse: Time Travel and Design[video:https://vimeo.com/522178069] How can designers and creative technologists effectively bridge technical and cultural divides in the world? Watch this talk from Forest Young, global chief
- As part of Boulder鈥檚 Computer Science Education Week (CSED), ATLAS PhD student Celeste Moreno will be teaching "Animate Your World," a workshop geared towards beginners and families. The workshop is part of Moreno鈥檚 graduate research in the Department of Information Science鈥檚 Creative Communities group, funded under an NSF award聽(NSF-2005702) titled, 鈥淭inkering and Making Strategies to Engage Children and Families in Creating with Code.鈥
- ATLAS PhD student Chris Hill's Whiskers project lets the wearer explore the world like a cat, augmenting a person's sensing of the natural world. The device translates input from custom-built flexible sensor whisker devices that receive tactile information from objects in the user's immediate environment.