Competition Winners

Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad Competition: Cryptography
1st MVSU Cyclones - John Beverly, Ricky Dixon, Diane Smith, Tommie Whitehead
2nd WSSU Red Team - Larry Morris, Jazmyn Saunders, Joshua Young

Spelman College Computer Science Olympiad Competition: Hardware/Software
1st UDC Firebots - Aldrin Peralta, Nhu-Thuy Ton, Alexander Herron
2nd MVSU Record Breakers - Kara Carter, Victor, Quandarius Thornton, Shawn Warren

CyberSecurity Competition
1st: University of the District of Columbia
2nd: Hampton University

Undergraduate Oral Paper Winner
Jamellah Young - Hampton University

Graduate Oral Paper Winner
Claude Concolato - University of the District of Columbia

Undergraduate Poster Competition
1st Jazette Johnson - Spelman College
2nd Ricky Dixon - MVSU
3rd Omar Owens and Anthony Scott - WSSU

Graduate Poster Competition
1st Kimberly Gold - Tenn State U.
2nd Yohannes Alemu - FAMU
3rd Charles Scott - HU

Undergraduate Papers

Maya Smith
Winston-Salem State University
Isotopic Signatures of Rain and Snow in the Juneau Icefield Snowpack

Jameelah M. Young
Hampton University
Psychoacoustic Oriented Therapy: A Computational Approach

Graduate Papers

Gina Bullock
North Carolina A&T State University
A Multiagent and Workflow System for Structural Health Monitoring

Claude Concolato
The University of District of Columbia
Comparing Meta-Data Formats for Web-Based Image Retrieval

Blaize K. Srothers
Hampton University
Health Care Laws and Cyberspace: Examining Cyber Threats to HIPAA

Undergraduate Student Posters

Jamekka Chambers, Brian Cedillo
Winston-Salem State University
The Robot as a Medical Assistant

Ricky Dixon
Mississippi Valley State University
The Impacts of Seasonal Flooding on the Mississippi Delta and Future Adaptation Management Planning

Tayla S. Frizell, Nyjah Grant, Deanna Mallard
Mississippi Valley State University/Longwood University
Enhancing Parent Involvement in NC-CCSS for K-3 Mathematics

Keythe Gentry
Morehouse College
Creation of a Donation Drop Box Locator Application Using Google Maps API

Precious Gibson
Spelman College
Development of a Microcontroller Interface for a Physical Circuit of a Neuron

Tony Gibbs
Winston-Salem State University
Using Robotics to Improve Student Satisfaction and Engagement in an Introductory Computer Programming Course

Troy Hill
Winston-Salem State University
Teaching Programming with GameMaker Drag-and-Drop and Arduino Text-Based Code

Jerron Jamerson
Winston-Salem State University
Secured by yourself: The Impact Biometrics on Information Security

Sean Jenkins
Tennessee State University
ISAC

Britney L. Johnson
Hampton University
Development of System Maturation Team(SMT) Capability Roadmap Diagrams Using Milestones Software

Jazette Johnson
Spelman College
BEDXPLORER: Development of a Gyroscope Controlled Vehicle to Decrease anxiety and Fears of Bedridden and Hospitalized Children

Kalyx McDonald
Mississippi Valley State University
Using a MATLAB/Photoshop Interface to Enhance Image Processing in the Interpretation of Radar Imagery

Omar Owens, Anthony Scott
Winston-Salem State University
Satellite Imagery along the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Joshua C. Posey
Morehouse College
Sentiment Analysis and Visualization of Free-Response Survey Data.

Jamal Stevenson, Raveen McKenzie
Mississippi Valley State University
A Comparative Study to the 2011/2013 Water Quality Assessments in the Pasquotank Watershed in Northeastern North Carolina with a Sea Level Rise Component

Marcellus Williams
Hampton University
Cyber Security in the Military

Josh Young, Jazmyn Saunders
Winston-Salem State University
Military Robots

Michael Young, LeTasha McFarlane, LaVonne Manning
University of the District of Columbia
Analysis of Images to Aid in Human-Computer Interactions through Segmentation and Gesture Recognition

Graduate Student Posters

Kimberly Gold
Tennessee State University
A Test Bed for Modeling and Detecting Attacks on NFC Enabled Phones

Dominique Hubbard
Florida A&M University
A Practical Investigation of Culturally Sensitive Factors in Health

Shaquille Michael
Tennessee State University
Development of Collision Detection for Cyclic Coordinate Descent Algorithm

Kaila Perry
Norfolk State University
Using Apache SOLR to Manage Log Files

Charles Scott, Walid Younes
Hampton University, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Simulating Realistic Web Traffic Using NS-3