===== CSFair 2015 Awards ===== ==== Project Awards ==== Each award includes a gift provided through courtesy of our sponsors. Projects are nominated by project supervisors at the end of the year and only the nominated projects are considered eligible. Evaluations are conducted by anonymous committees comprising faculty, innovation experts and angel investors. A particular team can only receive one of the below accolades. * **Sibel Özelçi Best Senior Design Project Award**: This award is for the project with best overall qualities, including its design, innovativeness, UI, documentation, and presentation. * **Innovation Award**: This award is for the project that is most innovative. * **Usability Award**: This award is for the project that is most usable. * **Marketability Award**: This award is for the project that has the most potential for commercialization. * **Demonstration Award**: This award is for the project that is presented the best through its web page and during the CSFair. This year's winners: * **Sibel Özelçi Best Senior Design Project Award**: [[http://playwithemotion.com|Emotion Engine]] * **Innovation Award**: [[http://www.mopital.com|Mopital]] * **Usability Award**: [[http://www.igarson.biz|iGarson]] * **Marketability Award**: [[http://geotune.net|GeoTune]] * **Demonstration Award**: [[http://ibeaconizer.herokuapp.com|iBeaconizer]] ==== Personal Awards ==== Any senior (who is listed as a 4th year student in STARS) is eligible for the personal awards. * **Hacker Award**: This award is given to the student who is best known for exceptional coding skills, showing playful cleverness in code, and solving coding problems in surprising and impressive ways. * **Team Worker Award**: This award is given to the student who is the best overall teammate, possessing great organization and coordination skills, as well as effectiveness in getting the job done technically. * **Entrepreneur Award**: This award is given to the student who has a good business vision, high potential for developing innovative technologies, and a promising path to lead a start-up company. * **Theorist Award**: This award is given to the student who is great at theory, having the ability to model and formalize a problem and apply analytical techniques to solve it. * **Visual Designer Award**: This award is given to the student with the highest ability to produce nice looking, smooth, user-friendly, and state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces. * **Gamer Award**: This award is given to the student who is best known for showing great passion for computer games, playing computer games in spare time to cool off, sometimes even excessively. * **Bookworm Award**: This award is given to the student who is an avid reader and shows the greatest interest in books. * **Art Buff Award**: This award is given to the student who has the greatest interest in works of art, as a practitioner or as a connoisseur. * **Sportsperson Award**: This award is given to the student who has the greatest interest in performing sport activities. * **Night Owl Award**: This award is given to the student who is most active at night, pulling off all-nighters to catch up with deadlines. * **Humorist Award**: This award is given to the student who has the most witty and fun sense of humor. This year's winners: * **Hacker Award**: Cihat Öge * **Team Worker Award**: Abdulkerim Oğuzhan Alkan * **Entrepreneur Award**: İhsan Cem Zararsız * **Theorist Award**: Serkan Vedat Beğar * **Visual Designer Award**: Berkay Yılmaz * **Gamer Award**: Abdullah Umut Öztürk * **Bookworm Award**: Ömer Alper Karakuş * **Art Buff Award**: Ozan Can Altıok * **Sportsperson Award**: Faruk Bahçecitapar * **Night Owl Award**: Nihan Karslıoğlu * **Humorist Award**: Kaan Kaya ==== Teaching Asistant Awards ==== Teaching Assistant awards are given based on the votes cast by the students. * **Fair TA Award**: This award is given to the teaching assistant who is the most fair in grading and evaluation. * **Helpful TA Award**: This award is given to the teaching assistant who is the most helpful in responding to students. This year's winners: * **Fair TA Award**: Gülsüm Ece Bıçakcı * **Helpful TA Award**: Devrim Şahin ~~NOTOC~~