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The four winners.

The 2025 Skyward Showcase provided students and faculty in an opportunity to give 10-minute talks highlighting current research in a friendly and informal environment.

Hosted by the Smead Scholars, the event, formerly titled 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ópalooza, featured 31 undegraduate, masters, and PhD students presenting their research.

Congratulations to four students for receiving top honors at the event:

• Best Overall: Paraksh Vankawala (Advisor: Bob Marshall) "Computer Vision-Guided Analysis of Plasma Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere
• Best 1st year graduate: Mark Boyer (Advisor: Zach Sunberg) "Holistic, human-centered evaluations of explainable AI"
• Best undergraduate: Cai Kenemore "ACS3 Anomaly Characterization Using Ground Based Event Camera"
• Best Memes/Most Entertaining: Arvind Jayashankara Aradhya (Advisor: Kevin Gifford) "Real-time Geospatial Spectrum Sharing Between Earth Exploration Satellite Services and Communication Networks via Geofencing of co-operative 5G/6G transmitters".

Held Friday, Feb. 7, it also featured a keynote address by Smead Scholar alumnus Dylan Boone of NASA JPL on the Europa Clipper mission and a closing talk by 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó Professor Delores Knipp on the major solar storm in May 2024.

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