2025 SIOY Winners Announced
Each year, BYU students work in teams to engineer cutting-edge technologies and products to submit to the annual Student Innovator of the Year competition. This year’s winners feature students from the electrical engineering, computer science and cybersecurity programs at BYU.
Seven teams presented to a live audience and panel of judges in the final competition. Notable projects included a device to track and prevent bedwetting accidents, a one-size-fits-all watchband, and ventilated car seat inserts to keep infants cool.
The first-place team, Varroa Tech, was led by Logan Cropper. The team devised technology capable of monitoring parasite levels within beehives, with hopes of subduing the threat of hive collapse due to Varroa Mite infestations.
BYU music students record single with Grammy winner Mark Lettieri
While in town to perform as a part of the BRAVO! series, five-time Grammy winner Mark Lettieri agreed to work with BYU commercial music students to write and record a new single.
Lettieri and five students spent three days in the BYU Music Building’s recording studio. Their efforts produced a song titled “Two Worlds, One City,”; a soulful pop melody that explores the emotional complexities and challenges that come with relationships.
ACA 2024 features Moody Lab students
The American Crystallographic Association hosts an annual conference that showcases student research and advancements in crystallography technology.
Four students from Dr. James Moody’s labs received honorable awards at the 2024 ACA convention. Congratulations to Wisdom Abiodun, Blake Averett, Kyle Ludlow and Alihi Keliiliki!