On behalf of the entire DCC staff, and especially our HDCC209 faculty, it is our tremendous joy and pleasure to announce the 2024 DCC Capstone Seed Grant winners! This is always a hopeful and happy time of year for us, as we gear up to cheer on our second-year students and their work. Here at the start of the semester, we are energized by the Nu class's ambition, creativity, and courage.
As always, determining these grants is a highly competitive process. We wish we could provide material support for everyone's projects. But, we are grateful that our program can extend its financial resources directly to some of the most impressive and inspirational proposals we encountered last fall. This year's winners crafted proposals that conveyed passion, thoughtfulness, thorough preparation, and extraordinary promise. We believe their work will showcase some of the very best that DCC has to offer—intellectually, creatively, and critically.
Please join us in congratulating this year's winners!
- 3D Quest, by Sumeya Kemal
- Accessible Selfie Drone, by Calvin Berlin
- Connecting Culture, by Sophie Alao
- Creativity (n.), by Dasi Feinkeng
- Fish FM, by Jamin Day
- Foos in College, by Jocelyn Lopez-Flores
- Making Space for Us, by Brielle Taubenblatt
- The Petal Project, by Gabrielle Hester and Faith Comising
- The Place Keeps Score: A Retelling of Queer Stories at UMD, by Roshida Herelle
- Sapphire, by Kaisha Snowden
- SewFun, by Gabrielle Cole
- Solar City Simulatory, by Nandini Ramachandran
If you'd like to see how these projects—and all of the work from our Nu class—evolve, please save-the-date for our annual DCC Capstone Fair, to be held this year on May 9, 2024, from 4-6pm in Prince Frederick Hall!