COMMUNITY ACHIEVERS
Engineering honors
NORMAN — Students in the Gallogly College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma were recently recognized at conferences, seminars and competitions.
Preetha Thanunathan, a senior in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, was part of a team that won second place in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Innovation Challenge in Orlando, Florida. Thanunathan’s team produced an affordable small-size drone, Sky Findr, that helps locate a missing child within a crowd, such as at a theme park.
Two students in the Gallogly College of Engineering were recognized at the Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation 27th Annual Research Symposium. The alliance is a consortium of Oklahoma colleges and universities working together to develop programs aimed at increasing the number of students from under-represented populations who receive degrees in STEM disciplines.
Makya Stell, a senior in the School of Computer Science, won first place in Non-Life Sciences Poster Presentations at the symposium. Stell’s work focused on visual safety and security software, a proposed mitigation technique for visual privacy leaks on social media networks.
Lucia Torres,
a sophomore in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded first place at the symposium for her presentation titled “Puddle Detection with Computer Vision for Self-Driving Cars.”
Scholarships
Local students have earned scholarships at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio.
Lin Godsey, a graduate of Norman High School, earned a $19,000 Trustees’ Scholarship.
Jadyn Mobley, a graduate of Bethany High School majoring in voice performance, earned a $21,000 President’s Scholarship.
Baldwin Wallace’s merit scholarships are awarded to full-time students and are renewable up to four years with good academic and social standing.
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