About a week ago I wrote a blog post about my research poster for WSTS. Now I thought that I would share a little bit about this event. #WSTS2019 hosted by WiSys was an amazing experience as a young researcher with many large goals. It was amazing to see how this program sponsors the research of undergraduate students, challenges developing minds, and even helps students to complete a patenting process if applicable to their research and developments. Events in which these program qualities were largely evident are discussed below.
Keynote Speaker
Timm Boettcher spoke about innovation, education, and workforce development. Additionally he spoke about how Realityworks has become so successful and the role he played in the companies development.
Research Mashups
included the following speakers who's research has been supported by WiSys. These individuals gave great insight into many current problems throughout various fields and the potential solutions that are more cost effective, more efficient, healthier, etc.
Sam Alvarado (UW-River Falls), Paul Schweiger (UW-La Crosse), Casie Bass (UW-River Falls), Mohammad Rabbani (UW-Platteville), David E. Lewis (UW-Eau Claire), Dmitry Kadnikov (UW-Stout), James Boulter (UW-Eau Claire), and Whitney George Dregne (UW-La Crosse).
The Quick Pitch State Final
included the following students from the UW System striving to expertly explain their research or innovation in less than three minutes for a panel of judgments. I was particularly interested in this event because I am considering competing in the Quick Pitch competition at UW-Platteville this spring. Halee Behrens and Katlyn Tappy (UW-Green Bay), Hannah Bryson (UW-Eau Claire), Roy Cornett (UW-Eau Claire), Anthony Craig (UW-River Falls), Tabitha Echols (UW-Parkside), Lucas Frey (UW-Platteville), Emily Lehmann (UW-Stout), Opeyemi Omiwale (UW-Superior), Alexander Siebers (UW-Oshkosh), Salvatore Skare (UW-La Crosse).
The Poster Symposium and Innovation Showcase
was the most important part of the experience for me. This poster symposium consisted of a panel of judges that walked around and scored your poster, research, research pitch, professionalism, etc. Though judges were identified by a ribbon, certain judges were assigned to each poster, keeping your judges secret while presenting. Though I didn't win out of almost 70 projects, I learned a lot from this experience. I learned not only from presenting, making mistakes, and experiencing this event, but by observing my peers and the way they present themselves.
The Student Career Panel
allowed students to ask professionals of various fields, questions about graduate school, GRE preparation, future employment, mentor selection, lab selection, and many other questions regarding the future.
Student Researchers, Innovators and Entrepreneurs
was the last event which allowed students to share their undergraduate research projects and innovative business ideas. Colton Lysaker of UW-Platteville presented on his stem cell research. Emily Lautenschlager, Jenna Bares, and Thomas Mlodzik of UW-Green Bay presented on Scan Shield (a safe debit card for the elderly). Justin Prochaska of UW-Platteville presented on Slik, an app for arranging oil changes. Parker Schmidt, Jessica Tarter, and Macall Hill of UW-Oshkosh presented on a device to protect beehives from winter weather called Hive Central.
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