Best Student Poster Awards

Awards are given to the best posters presented by students at the conference. These awards are based on the recommendations of the reviewers as well as voting done by conference attendees who visit the poster presentations.

We are proud to present the previous award recipients:

CCSCNE 2003 at Rhode Island College (44 posters were presented):
- First place: Chris Sotzing, Colby College, ME
  "The Effect of Genetic Algorithms on Maze-Solving Efficiency of a Simulated Robot"
  Advisor: Clare Bates Congdon
- Second place: Marc Attiyeh and Skyler Place, Colby College, ME
  "From Genes to Queens: A "Crafty" Approach to Genetically Evolve a Chess Engine"
  Advisor: Clare Bates Congdon
- Third place: Stanislav Miroshnikov, Manhattan College, NY and Jason Grigsby, Birmingham-Southern College
  "Parallel Computer Generated Holography"
  Advisors: David E. Maharray, Wabash College and Corey Kovacs,DePauw University
CCSCNE 2002 at Worcester State College coming soon
CCSCNE 2001 at Middlebury College (30 posters were presented):
- First place: Elif Tosun, Smith College, MA
  "Visualization of an Algorithm for Convexifying a Simple Planar Polygon with Rigid Motions",
  Advisor: Ileana Streinu
- Second place: Raymond Mazza, Colby College, ME
  "Building an Interactive, Three-Dimensional Virtual World"
  Advisor: Randy Jones
- Third place: Mark Harrington and Bryan McQuade, Middlebury College, VT
  "The MiddGo Project",
  Advisor: Tim Huang
- Fourth place: Fafa Paku and Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes, Middlebury College
  "Probabilistic Robot Exploration and Navigation using Visual Landmarks"
  Advisor: Amy Briggs and Daniel Scharstein
CCSCNE 2000 at Ramapo College of New Jersey (19 posters were presented):
- First place: Jamie S. Mazur , Trinity College, CT
  A Content-Driven Approach to Web Scripting Languages
  Advisor: Ralph Morelli
- Second place: Peter Aykroyd , Colby College. ME
  Growing Artificial Societies
  Advisor: Clare Bates Congdon