CGT Students Win Burton Morgan Competition

A group of CGT students received the top award in Purdue University's 20th annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. The former CGT 411 group known as onCurrent.com won the $15,000 prize in the Black (undergraduate) Division for a startup company that created an online calendar that helps promote arts and music and allows users to supply the information.

Immanuel Mullen and Christopher Thomas made the winning presentation at the BDM Competition. The onCurrent project is designed to strengthen networking communities across the United States. They represented a previous 411 best project winner group named Alpha Channel Graphics. After leaving 411 they reorganized their company and called it onCurrent.com Group members from the original group were Greg Hoenes, Immanuel mullen, Adam Partyka, Eric Salczynski and Chris Thomas. Adam made the trip from Pittsburgh, PA and some of the other group members were at the BDM presentation. Total winnings from the competition was $20,000.

SIGGRAPH Spring Show - April 19th, 2007

The student chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH at Purdue is hard at work planning this years annual Spring Show and Banquet....where students, alumni, and faculty come together to honor student work and special contributors to Siggraph and the field of computer graphics technology.

Siggraph would love to have you attend this great event! If you would like more information, please contact SIGGRAPH student president Stephen Woodall, CGT Professor Terry Burton, or simply visit the SIGGRAPH website.

Graduate Research Conference - Helen Kang

CGT graduate student Helen Kang was accepted to present her paper, Effectiveness of Images in Technology for Children with Attentional Difficulties, at the 1st Annual Graduate Research Conference at Purdue University Calumet. The conference will run from March 30th-31st, 2007.

Helen received a BS in Computer Graphics Technology, specialized in Animation, and an AS from Computer Informational Technology in 2004. At the present time she is expected to complete her MS in May, 2007. Helen’s research area includes the use of applied graphics in instructional technology for children and children with disabilities as it relates to learning, visual perception and cognitive psychology. She has been a graduate teaching assistant for CGT 112, Fundamental Sketching for Visualization and Communication for four consecutive semesters and she was also apart of the development in the Stuttering Foundation of America DVD, Stuttering for Kids by Kids.

Coming Soon: SIGGRAPH Portal

Set to launch in August of 2007, the SIGGRAPH-Portal will be a new destination on the internet for CGT students, faculty, alumni, as well as other industry professionals. The SIGGRAPH-Portal will focus on allowing students to network. This will encompass students networking with each other on projects for their classes in addition to networking with alumni for job opportunities. Design and development started in January 2007 for the project.

The system is module based to provide the ability to expand its capabilities in the future. On behalf of Purdue’s SIGGRAPH Web Team we look forward to working with alumni and having alumni interact with students through the Portal. “Our team is working hard to provide a quality product to ensure it will be around for several years,” stated Frank Garofalo, a Junior in CGT and the Purdue SIGGRAPH Web Director. The Portal will also provide tools to help track regular operations for the student organization.