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App Jam 2023

Congratulations to the winners of CSUN App Jam 2023!

First Place: Loui's Team

Second Place: Emiliano

CSUN app jam 2023 submission by Emiliano Ramirez

View Emiliano's presentation slides.

Third Place: Del Mar

Revamping CSUN's Mobile App: A User-Centric Approach

View Del Mar's presentation slides.

CSUN App Jam 2023 

IT in collaboration with the University Library and Associated Students is happy to announce a new student competition – CSUN App Jam 2023. CSUN App Jam 2023 is an exciting event for students to reimagine, redesign, and refresh the CSUN Mobile app.  

This competition provides a platform where students can showcase their skills in design, development, and innovation to win prizes! Participating students will have access to creative resources and will be supported by experts to help them achieve their vision for the future of the CSUN Mobile app.

Competition Instructions

  1. Attend the Kickoff - Presenters from IT, Associated Students, and the Creative Maker Studio in the University Library will be there to help you find the tools you need to make your project the best it can be. 
  2. Plan your Project – CSUN App Jam involves some milestones that will be submitted throughout the competition, and learning resources will be provided by experts from on-campus and the industry. 
  3. Learn and Build - Use the resources in Canvas, and support from the community and experts to bring your design idea to life! If you’re not a programmer, you can absolutely still participate!Apps like PowerPoint andKeynote are often used to create app mockups, meaning you can redesign the app without writing any code. 
  4. Create a deliverable - Participants will submit a digital packet (a slide deck, video, PDF, etc.) in Canvas that defines how the redesign will meet the standards of the competition including a visual element that shows what the app redesign will look like. 
  5. Win!

Prizes 

Monetary prizes will be shared by the team. 

  • 1st place - $1,500 and the opportunity for one semester of employment with the CSUN Information Technology to work with the ApDevelopment team to help bring their CSUN App vision to life.

  • 2nd place$1,000 

  • 3rd place - $500 

Timeline

  • March 14th – Kickoff Event 1pm to 2pm in Nobbs Auditorium room SQ104. You can also join via Zoom, and be sure to download the CSUN App Jam 2023 Zoom background!
  • March 21st - Registration deadline in Canvas for teams and/or individuals interested in competing by 11:59pm
  • March 29th - App UX/UI Design Workshop, 3:00-4:30pm hosted by the University Library’s Creative Maker Studio (CMS). This workshop is open to all competitors and goes over how to create an App mockup graphic and even add commands to the buttons using Adobe XD. The workshop will be held via Zoom and registration is required. Sign up for the workshop!
  • April 14th – Submissions due in Canvas 
  • April 15th – 25th – Judges review submissions
  • Friday, April 28thWinners are announced at the Digital Equity Day event 

Resources

  • The Creative Maker Studio (CMS) is an exploratory space on the first floor of the University Library where students of any major can have access to hands-on multimedia design and production tools at no extra cost! The CMS provides all currently enrolled CSUN students with access to equipment for video production, computers with Adobe Creative Cloud and other software apps, and more. The CMS also offers workshop and support. 

  • LinkedIn Learning is an online platform that offers students access to thousands of courses on a wide range of topics. With expert instructors, high-quality video lessons, and interactive exercises, this platform is a great resource to enhance your project. 

Communication Access Services (CAS)

To request Communication Access Services (CAS) such as sign language interpreters or transcribers please contact the NCOD: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at ncod@csun.edu.

JEDI Jam 2022

JEDI Jam 2022

First Place Winner - CSUN, Go!

Second Place Winner - ArcFTC Pro

Social Butterflies - CSUN Connect

More Than Students

Studying Streamlined

 

A huge congratulations to the App-Jam 2021 winners!

First Place: Team Give - PartWith

Second Place: Team Abstract - ReKindle

Búme - Búme

Intelectual Bad A's - Tanda

App Jam 2021

CSUN AppJam 2021

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App-Jam 2021 is the latest in the CSUN student Jam competitions. App-Jam presented student teams with resources and tools to solve real-world challenges pertaining to the year’s challenge: to use a variety of technologies and tools to design, ideate, and demonstrate a custom web or mobile application to improve communication between friends, families, colleagues, and communities. Teams used tools and services to create a solution for communication issues. Students learned about app design concepts and had access to resources to compete against other student teams.

A huge congratulations to the App-Jam 2021 winners!

First Place: Team Give - PartWith

Second Place: Team Abstract - ReKindle

Búme - Búme

Intelectual Bad A's - Tanda

 

AI Jam 2019

The AI-Jam showcase took place from 2:30 to 4:00 on Monday, April 8th in the Ferman Presentation Room.

 

Congratulations to all AI-Jam 2019 participants!

This year saw some great competitors, and some really amazing projects! Special congratulations to Chill^N for taking both the Best Artificial Intelligence and Best Solution Concept prizes! Head over to the competition's Portfolium page to view all the teams' videos.

Compete as a team of 2 - 5 students, using AI and cloud technologies to solve real-world accessibility needs raised by fellow Matadors.

AI-Jam will present teams with real-world physical and digital accessibility needs. You and your team will use AI tools and services to create a solution for any one of the provided needs. Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services will provide support and resources regardless of your familiarity with AI. You will learn about AI concepts and have access to resources to compete against other student teams.

Here’s how it works:

  1. RSVP for the March 4th Kickoff event
  2. Join a team and enroll in the Canvas course by March 8th
  3. Pick from one of the accessibility needs
  4. Learn and Build
  5. Create a video by April 3rd
  6. Present at the showcase on April 8th
  7. Win!
The number 1.

RSVP for the March 4th Kickoff event

At least one team member is required to attend the kickoff, but that’s not the only reason to come! Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services will be there with experts who will be able to help you find the tools you need to make your project the best it can be. Spots go fast, so reserve as soon as possible!

2

Join a team and enroll in the Canvas course by March 8th

Teams need to be in groups of between two and five students in order to compete. AI-Jam involves some milestones that will be uploaded to Canvas, which will also act as a hub for all the learning resources provided by the top cloud providers, and by AI experts from across campus.

The number 3.

Pick from one of the accessibility needs

At the kickoff, you will learn about the challenges for AI-Jam: to address real-world accessibility needs identified by fellow Matadors. Pick one of these challenges and use AI tools to come up with an innovative solution!

The number 4.

Learn and Build

Use the resources in Canvas, and support from the community and AI experts to bring your idea to life. If you’re not a programmer, you can absolutely still participate! Many of the cloud tools can be operated in a web interface, and in conjunction with the resources in Canvas, you can piece together a feasible idea without having to write a line of code!

The number 5.

Create a video by April 3rd

Teams will also upload a 2 - 3 minute video explaining their project and showing how it could work. This video should highlight how your project addresses the accessibility need, and how you used AI to make it all work.

6

Present at the showcase on April 8th

AI-Jam culminates in a showcase 2:30pm - 4:00pm in the Ferman Presentation room, where judges will be on-hand to evaluate your project based on the practicality and creativity of your projects. There will even be AI experts on hand to look at how your project leverages the capabilities of the AI tools you use!

The number 7.

Win!

Winners will be announced at the showcase, where prizes and awards will be given to two winning teams: one for Best Artificial Intelligence, and one for Best Solution Concept. Winning teams will be granted automatic entry into the I-Corps Summer Accelerator Program, where past AI-Jam winners, such as Meebie, have taken their project to the next level! You can see all participants from AI-Jam 2018 on the AI-Jam 2018 Portfolium page.

AI Jam 2018

Artificial Intelligence Competition logo.

Latest Updates

The AI-Jam competition has completed! In this competition, students from all over campus solved a problem using artificial intelligence tools, learned about AI concepts and had access to resources to compete against peers for prizes and awards.

Winners

Congratulations to our six AI-Jam winners. Three teams from the Research track and three teams from the Innovation track were selected as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. See the diagram below for more information on the AI-Jam tracks. Thank you to all 12 teams who participated!

Research 

1st: KLab's Butterflies -  Artificial intelligence and a robot mimic a child with a behavioral or learning challenge to better teach and train students how to work with real children who may experience similar reactions. View the team's Portfolium entry to learn more.

2nd: AI-Adventurers - An innovative approach to food and healthy eating using artificial intelligence and image recognition to better help us portion control and lead more healthy lifestyles. View the team's Portfolium entry to learn more.

3rd: Helia Nutrition and Health - Increases accuracy of one's food log by using artificial intelligence and image recognition to track an individual's intake to improve health and increase health awareness. View the team's Portfolium entry to learn more.

Innovation

1st: AI-Amigos - A tool to help students excel their career by using a chatbot on facebook to answer any questions the student may have about the CSUN Career Center. View the team's Portfolium entry to learn more.

2nd: Deaf Connect - Using machine learning and natural language processing, this artificial intelligence project helps the deaf community to have more resources such as speech to text translation. View the team's Portfolium entry to learn more. 

3rd: AI-Caramba - This artificial intelligence project uses natural language processing to recognize voice commands through Alexa to help students find information about the career center in a more intuitive and friendly manner. View the team's Portfolium entry to learn more.

How AI-Jam Works

Students entered as teams and selected from one of two tracks: Innovation or Research.
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Track options for AI-JAM