First Place Winner: Team Peregrine

Pualena Heather, who is studying economics and joined team Peregrine at the event, said that typically, her experience with teams consisted of accountants or people looking to get into investment banking.  “So I haven’t had the opportunity to really dabble too much into the technology development side,” she said. “This has been an awesome opportunity to work through bottom-to-top what that process looks like.”  

Second Place Team: Painters Tape 

Created a digital wallet to help credit card holders maximize their rewards. Features of the platform included the ability to intelligently notify users of opportunities to earn points based on their live location, balance tracking, and alerts when cardholders are approaching key milestones. Spencer Steadman, the team’s lead, said Marriott’s emphasis on the end-user was an eye-opener for him. “Marriott is definitely a brand that cares about its customers, and cares about students as well.” 

Header: Third Place:  Team Innovate

Developed a solution that combined the reach of travel influencers on social media with the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to build a personalized travel guide for customers. Soham Patil, who worked on the AI development, said the target audience was Gen Z. “We just thought about it from our own perspectives — how do we want to travel and what are our requirements?”