===== CSFair 2017 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**: Given to the project with the best overall qualities, including its design, innovativeness, UI, documentation, and presentation. * **Innovation Award**: Given to the project that is the most innovative in its approach. * **Data Science Award:** Given to the project that analyzes data using state-of-the-art data science techniques. * **Wide Impact Award**: Given to the project that reaches the widest audience. * **Marketability Award**: Given to the project that has the highest potential for commercialization. * **Mobile Award**: Given to the project with the best mobile application. * **User Experience Award**: Given to the project that provides the best user experience. This year's winners: * **Sibel Özelçi Best Senior Design Project Award**: Explorator * **Innovation Award**: Pathy * **Data Science Award**: Jobbcheck * **Wide Impact Award**: Bulbul * **Marketability Award**: Plato-o-Tiempo * **Mobile Award**: DepthCube * **User Experience Award**: somed.io ==== 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. * **Early Adopter**: This award is given to the student who likes to try new technologies first. * **Traveller**: This award is given to the student who likes to travel a lot and visit new places. * **Musician**: This award is given to the student who has the greatest interest in playing musical instruments and/or singing. This year's winners: * **Hacker Award**: Furkan Usta * **Team Worker Award**: Mehmet Furkan Şahin * **Entrepreneur Award**: Ege Karaaslan * **Theorist Award**: Turan Kaan Elgin * **Visual Designer Award**: Gizem Çaylak * **Gamer Award**: Onatkut Dağtekin * **Bookworm Award**: Can Aykul * **Art Buff Award**: Ayşe Berceste Dinçer * **Sportsperson Award**: Hikmet Sami Peker * **Night Owl Award**: Buğrahan Kalkan * **Humorist Award**: Oğuz Demir * **Early Adopter**: Orçun Gümüş * **Traveller**: Tuğrulcan Elmas * **Musician**: Çagdaş Öztekin ==== Teaching Asistant Awards ==== Teaching Assistant awards are given based on the votes cast by the students. * **Outstanding TA Award**: This award is given to the best teaching assistants. This year's winners: * **Outstanding TA Award**: Can Fırtına, Ebubekir Karabuğa, Funda Atik ~~NOTOC~~