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Engineering's Got
Talent!
On
February 26 from 11 AM to 4 PM at Kunckle Lounge, students at Penn State are
encouraged to audition for the yearly Engineering's Got Talent show featuring
the prominent work studies and projects of Penn State's enterprising student
body enrolled in the College of Engineering. This year, the first prize for the
Performance portion of the event is an iPad Mini 16GB, second prize a Mini
Jambox Bluetooth Speaker, and with the third prize is a pair of urbeats
headphones. The prizes for the Exhibition portion of the event are first, a
$100 prepaid Visa card; second, a $50 prepaid Visa, and third, a $25 prepaid
Visa.
For
the Exhibition portion of the competition, viewers and judges alike are given
three tickets to cast their vote for their own three preferred artists out of the
lineup given. For the Performance portion, the prize recipients will be
determined by the graded analysis of the judge panel, with the score sheet's
ceiling being at the typical 100%: 25 for Originality and Creativity, 25 for
Entertainment Value, 20 for Audience Appeal, 20 for Skill Level, and 10 for
Aesthetic Appeal. Judges will also determine the winners based on superlatives
such as "Crowd Fever," "Most Creative," "Best Costume," and "Best Breakout."
Engineering's
Got Talent is also due for a "second season," so to speak, as a continuation of
the traditional talent shows seen on television. Season Two will take place for
the Exhibition portion on October 3rd from 10 AM to 3 PM at the HUB
Alumni Hall, and with the Performance portion of the show being shown from 7:30
PM to 9:30 PM at HUB Heritage Hall.
Top 10 Innovations
Contest
Across
the nation, however, the Engineering's Got Talent competition has been adopted
by many other universities, such as UCLA in California. But for non-engineering
students that want to flex their prowess, engineering zine The Scientist Magazine is featuring a panel for its own Top 10
Innovations Contest to be announced later this year.
Last
year's most noted participants included tools made for genome sequencing,
technologies to make the preparation for genetic regions for sequencing much
easier, as well as a processor that can withstand the bulk of data that results
from genome sequencing analyses. Other entries included a human liver model
that remained phenotypically stable for 40 days straight, as well as a
"literature-management tool" that made following the flow of scholarly papers
and scientific data reports as simple to manage and browse through as a social
media feed.
The
judges for that year's round were Miriam Bayes, an asset owner of life sciences
products at Thomson Reuters, Tara Rock, manager of the Genomics Core Facility
at New York University's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Eric Shadt,
director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Kim Kadar,
a managing partner at Domain Associates, and David Ecker, one of the cofounders
of Isis Pharmaceuticals and founder of Ibis Biosciences, now part of Abott.
The
first prize for that year's round went to the DRAGEN Bio-IT Processor by Edico
Genome, (which, according to Rock, "looks to be a promising solution for
processing data efficiently and quickly.") Second prize went to the MiSeqDx by
Illumina, (which, according to Kamdar, "the FDA clearance of MiSeqDx will
accelerate the use of genetic information for precision medicine.") Third prize
went to the HiSeq X Ten, also by Illumina (Ecker raves, "Illumina's footprint
on genomics is unsurpassed.") If any enterprising engineers want to get their
names known, one or both of these exciting competitions are great options for
making your mark on the science of engineering.
Engineering's
Got Talent!
Top
10 Innovations Contest
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