{"id":1972,"date":"2025-06-17T23:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/gci\/2025\/06\/17\/gci-showcase-spring-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:02:47","slug":"gci-showcase-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/gci\/2025\/06\/17\/gci-showcase-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"GCI Showcase: Spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Grand Challenges Initiative Showcase was a vibrant celebration of student innovation and collaboration. Student teams presented their final projects to guests and judges, sharing breakthroughs and competing for recognition. Overall, the showcase highlighted the hard work, creativity, and impact of the student teams&#8217; efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Here are our winners:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Flint Science Award (Grand Prize Winner) and Health Category Winner:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Filtering the Future: Sustainable Nanostructures in Medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">by Mirabella Romano, Hemi Shah, and Chloe Yoshiki<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1976\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1976 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/gci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/06\/GCI-Showcase-387-Small.jpg\" alt=\"GCI Showcase Winners\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GCI Showcase winners, left to right: Chloe Yoshiki, Hemi Shah, and Mirabella Romano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Health Category Runners-Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>CareTemp: Supporting Early Breast Cancer Detection and Awareness<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">by Callia Findley, Sarah Im, Kaylee Kang, Trevor Lussier, and Grace Swartz<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1978\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1978 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/gci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/06\/GCI-Showcase-352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health Category Runners Up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Environmental Category Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Shampocean<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">by Rhea John, Adara Siamwalla, Imara Zepeda, and Mari Marumoto<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Environmental Category Runners-Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Waste Reduction through Enhanced Composting<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">by Aly Pickett, Jikheem David, Hayden McKenna, Jake Heberle, and Dylan Luu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1979\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1979 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/gci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/06\/GCI-Showcase-347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Javier Espeleta and the Environmental Category Runners Up (left) and the Winners with Dr. Thomas Piechota (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Education \/ Technology Category Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AIdentify: Teaching AI Identification through repetition<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Noslen Cruz-Muniz, Jack Flanagan, Joshua McCarthy, Cristian Melgoza, Divi Newton, and Dylan Ravel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Education \/ Technology Category Runners-Up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Disaster Education and Preparedness<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">by Sammy Rokaw, Daniel Tsivkovski, Luke Wiljanen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1980\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1980 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/gci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/06\/GCI-Showcase-373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Javier Espeleta and the Technology \/ Education Category Winners (left) and the Runners-Up with Dr. Thomas Piechota (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Special Thank-You to our GCI Postdoctoral Fellows, Student Assistants and Staff!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1981\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1981 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/gci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/06\/GCI-Showcase-403.jpg\" alt=\"GCI Postdoctoral Fellows\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GCI Directors, Coordinator, and Postdoctoral Fellows, left to right: Dr. Javier Espeleta, Dr. Aracely Acevedo, Dr. Sayani Ghosh, Dr. Gabriela Shirkey, Dr. Cassandra Maya, Dr. Ana Belen Avilez Garcia, Dr. Lorenzo Leiva Araya, Dr. Rajeev Joshi, Alexandra Lewandowski, M. S., Dr. Daniel Cardenas Vasquez, Dr. Thomas Piechota<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1982\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1982 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/gci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/06\/GCI-Showcase-393.jpg\" alt=\"GCI Assistants\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GCI Directors, Coordinator and Student Assistants, left to right: Brandon Lee and Emma Garofalo (top), Dr. Thomas Piechota, Joshua Fisher, Micah Kim, Alexandra Lewandowski, and Dr. Javier Espeleta (bottom)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talented student teams demonstrate the skills and knowledge they gained in the GCI program!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5294,"featured_media":1985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"custom_author_name":"","chapman_pin_hero_slider":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grand-challenges-initiative","category-student-presentations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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