Sibel Özelçi Best Senior Design Project Award: This award is for the project with best overall qualities, including its design, innovativeness, user interface, documentation, and presentation.
Data Science Award: This award is for the project that analyzes data using the state-of-art data science approaches.
Innovation Award: This award is for the project that is most innovative.
Marketability Award: This award is for the project that has the most potential for commercialization.
Mobile Award: This award is for the best mobile application project.
Productivity Award: This award is for the project that best enhances productivity.
Social Impact Award: This award is for the project that excels in serving the social needs of the society.
User Experience Award: This award is for the project that provides a great use experience.
Wide Impact Award: This award is for the project that reaches the widest audience.
This year's winners:
Sibel Özelçi Best Senior Design Project Award: Interalyze
Innovation Award: Architexts
Data Science Award: Intelligene Search
Wide Impact Award: Presentsense
Social Impact Award: Köpük
User Experience Award: Plutos Equities
Marketability Award: Envisio
Mobile Award: Signify
Productivity Award: Reviewed
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 Award: This award is given to the student who likes to try new technologies first.
Traveler Award: This award is given to the student who likes to travel a lot and visit new places.
Musician Award: This award is given to the student who has the greatest interest in playing musical instruments and/or singing.
This year's winners:
Musician Award: Efe Kaan Fidancı
Traveller Award: Sarper Arda Bakır
Early Adopter Award: Serhat Yılmaz
Humorist Award: Ömer Fırat Bekiroğlu, Deniz Can Özdemir
Night Owl Award: Bilginer Oral
Sportsperson Award: Ahmet Memduh Tutuş
Art Buff Award: Ece Beyhan
Bookworm Award: Ömer Amir Akdağ
Gamer Award: Burak Oruk
Visual Designer Award: Aysema Kasap, Efe Tokar, Sarp Yıldırım
Theorist Award: Hasan Ege Tunç
Entrepreneur Award: Uygar Aras
Team Worker Award: Anıl Altuncu
Hacker Award: Alper Göçmen
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards: These awards are given based on the votes cast by the students and this award is given to the best teaching assistants.
This year's winners: Ahmet Arda Ceylan, Yiğit Ekin