2025 Showcase Winners
The Gold Award for Best Overall Project Sponsored by Citi:
- Sean-Robert Ntonya: EcoDetect – an IoT (Internet of Things) based environmental monitoring system that uses Raspberry Pi sensors and AWS services to track temperature, humidity, pressure, water usage, and vehicle usage, alerting exceeded thresholds and generating reports that offer AI-powered insights to help users optimise their energy usage and reduce their environmental impact and carbon footprint.
The Silver Award Sponsored by HSE
- Kyle White: Orrery – uses C#, JSON, Blender 4.0 and Unity Engine 6 to offer a 3D stellar system generator and editor, based on real world physics and observed exoplanet trends, for use as an education and design tool.
The Bronze Award Sponsored by Fidelity Investments
- Xiangze Zue: Smart Fitness Plan Generator – A tool that creates personalised fitness plans, including workouts, nutrition and progress tracking, using Java, Vue framework, JavaScript, Spring Boot, MySQL, and OpenAI API.
The NCI Ada Lovelace Award
- Eve Gibney: Warrior Tournaments - A tournament manager platform where users can register for tournaments, track their leaderboard standings, and climb the ranks by earning points from tournament wins. It also offers live streams of ongoing matches, delivering an all-in-one gaming experience, using Next.js, Node.js, tailwind css, Cloudinary, vercel, neon, postgreSQL, IDMB api, Twitch api and playwright.
For further information on our 2025 winners, then check our news article - Project Showcase 2025: invention, achievement and reward!
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