
Sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Georgia.
4 Projects
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DawgPath AI
DawgPath AI is an academic planning tool I built to explore how artificial intelligence could help students and academic advisors better understand degree requirements and plan their path through college.
Michael Crews
Risk Management & Insurance Major
3rd year

AI Semantic Scaffolding for Learner Comprehension
The primary objective of the system is to demonstrate what I call semantic scaffolding—a structured approach towards full comprehension by ascending a learning staircase in which each step adds additional meaning, nuance, and conceptual understanding.
Rex VanHorn
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Artificial Intelligence
3rd year PhD

UGA Nutrition App
Every day, over 40,000 UGA students walk into a dining hall. They scan the buffet lines, pile food onto trays, and sit down to
eat. But how many of them know whether that tray of food is moving them closer to their health goals, or further away?
Adil Shaik
University of Georgia
Computer Science
MA student

Orion
An LLM assistant, powered by Claude, and built on top of an explorable, semantic map of all of the classes offered at UGA, where classes that are closer together teach similar content
Cognitive Science Club
Cameron Halaby, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, MSAI, 1st Yyar Master’s
Joseph Yoon, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, Cognitive Science, 3rd year
Michelle Rowe, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, Cognitive Science, 2nd year
Venugopala Nikhil Kapalavai, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, Data Science, 1st year
Dang Hoang, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, Data Science, 1st year
Jeff Carreon, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences, Cognitive Science with minor in Computer Science, 4th year
4 Judges
Chandler Christoffel
Interim Head, Research & Instruction, and User Experience Librarian
Frederick Maier
Associate Director of UGA’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Aaron Meskin
Department Head of Philosophy and Professor
Chris Rhodes
Executive Director of the UGA Innovation District
full contest details
Credits
Contest co-coordinators: Lindsey Harding and Aaron Meskin
Digital showcase developed by Lindsey Harding