NSIC2024 Final Webinar Videos Available

Published on March 26, 2025

Our five NSIC teams for 2024 have presented their achievements! They have been working hard from August through January 2025, and they will continue striving toward their project goals. 

Check out their progress through the links below. Your feedback and questions would be incredibly valuable, so please feel free to reach out to the team leaders. Stay tuned for their next steps!

 

The projects and their respective leaders:

- Women’s Empowerment and Reproductive Health (RH) Awareness in Peace Building　 (Wyclife Ong'eta)
- Drawing from the Crowd: A Citizen Science Platform for Mapping Ukiyo-e Geography　(Stephanie Santschi)
- Gamifying Digital Ethics with Moral Morpheus: A Game-based Pedagogy Tool 　(Satyam Mohla)
- AI LiDAR FloodGuard: Advanced Prevention, Detection, and Modeling System　(Darkhan Nurzhakyp）
- Tarteeb Project : AI Educational Tool and Model for Educating Impoverished Children at Study Centers　(Elbek Normurodov)

 

 

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