Kettering University

Ansh Suryavanshi '25 used the experience he gained at Kettering University to win the Hack Dearborn: Disrupt Reality hackathon event Oct. 21. Nearly 200 college students participated in teams of four during the 24-hour event.

Amanda Koziol, Jaydin Freeman and David Glover used the experience they gained at Kettering University to win the Sustainability-Climate Change Mitigation Hack, as well as the MSUFCU-Community Class Act Hack at Michigan State University's ninth annual student-run hackathon, SpartaHack 9. Over 600 student developers and designers gathered at Michigan State University in East Lansing on January 27th, 2024, with a unifying challenge: engineer innovative solutions to everyday problems - in just 24 hours. Hackers had to make their projects track-specific, as well as pitch their projects to judges, who used criteria including uniqueness, technical implementation, and practicality.

The students on Kettering's Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) team felt stressed ahead of the annual competition, but their hard work earned them a third-place finish. The team, which consisted of the undergraduate and graduate-level Introduction to Autonomous Driving (CE-451 and CE-651) classes, competed June 2-5 at the 30th Annual IGVC at Oakland University in Rochester. It finished third in the Self-Drive Challenge and Fourth in the Self-Drive Design/Presentation. Six teams participated in these challenges. To learn more, click here.