is an international contest where participants are challenged to produce a short film within two days. Teams face various obstacles, from creating a film from nothing and improvising based on randomly assigned tasks, such as genre, character, and dialogue. At the end of the competition, all films are screened at a local theater, and awards are presented in diverse categories, including Best Film and Best Actor. Winning films may advance to compete in international events like the Filmapalooza Festival and could even be screened at prestigious festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner.

Dana Washington, the Community-Engaged Learning and Research (CELR) Manager, reached out to Kris Flink and Kris Nordenstrom, producers of the Seattle 48-Hour Film Project, seeking an opportunity for BIS 162 students to gain practical experience. The goal of this collaboration was to offer undergraduates hands-on learning in media analysis while deepening their understanding of race, gender, and sexuality in film.

The film “” by Team Rain at Daybreak was selected by students as the recipient of the 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell Intersectionality in Film Award. The class praised the film’s memorable script and its thoughtful exploration of critical themes such as dependence and addiction, particularly across racial and gender lines, through a humorous satire of Seattle’s coffee culture. Students also appreciated the film’s nuanced portrayal of how personal and social issues affect individuals differently, depending on demographic variables and social positions.

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The topographic map was designed and constructed by Drake Monfregola, the Laser Cutting lead at the Collaboratory. All he used as a reference for the model was a single PDF of the levels of elevation of the park. With the skills he has in Adobe Illustrator, he designed each layer of the map one by one.

Afterwards, he moved to line up the trails, which posed a bigger challenge than the Collaboratory team initially thought. But after time, the map base was complete. Now all that was needed was to assemble the border and paint the bottom plate. Samantha Brown, a student staff member at the Collaboratory, was tasked with completing the EERC topographic map, leveraging her painting and woodshop skills. With the assistance of Giuliano Bussadori, she carried out the final steps, and the map was successfully finished.

EERC visitors can now visualize and navigate the park’s intricate terrain with this new map.

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3D Printed Head

One of our most interesting capstone projects for the Spring 2022 quarter was Simon Uincini’s lifesize talking head! This isn’t just any old plastic head either, it is a head modeled after the creator, Simon himself. After using one of the Collaboratory’s Shining 3D Scanners, Simmon digitized his entire face. And after a few more edits to the digital head, Simon decided to bring his creation to life.

With his design ready, Simmon preloaded his Life Size head model onto one of our most powerful 3D printers, the Ultimaker S5. The print took over six whole days to finish, making it our longest print ever in Collaboratory. After the prints completion, all that needed to be done was add a speaker device and a camera onto the model.

This capstone project was designed to not only take audio input but visual input as well. It can read faces and respond accordingly. All the dialogue spoken by the head is generated using DeepAI, to make all conversations different and unique.

Simon and his efforts to create this Capstone project really shows what happens when you mix dedication and advanced technology. Seeing what this man can do, it’s only a matter of time before we see the amazing creations he will construct for us in the future.

Team Abyssal

Another IMD capstone team, Team Abyssal, used the space regularly to work together, including filming the video portions for their project. They created pieces of their art installation project before they set it up publicly for their final presentations. ABYSSAL is an immersive, multi-sensory art installation that utilizes video projections, sound, and sculptures to create a unique experience of a deep sea habitat to foster curiosity and empathy for ocean ecosystems. .

Student team that created ABYSSAL: Katharina Brinschwitz, Josephine Hartono,
Justina Le, Kenneth Nguyen, and Brandon Mach.

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The Institute is designed to strengthen institutional capacity to achieve quality, equity, and student engagement goals through the design, implementation, and assessment of active teaching and learning practices widely known as “high-impact practices,” or HIPs. The Institute will be held virtually June 14–17.

“The AAC&U Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success provides an unparalleled opportunity for colleges and universities to become more intentional in serving all their students and to improve both completion rates and the quality of student learning,” said AAC&U President Lynn Pasquerella. “We look forward to partnering with the participating institutions and to supporting their student success efforts.”

Each participating institution will send a team to the Institute, where they will work with leading experts and practitioners on efforts to implement educational change and bring effective practices to scale in a time of limited resources and variations in modes of delivery. The Institute program will focus on designing equity-centered HIPs and developing action plans to guide campus-based efforts. Drawing on evidence that demonstrates a positive relationship between student participation in HIPs and improved student outcomes, teams will define and start to develop curricular and co-curricular practices to support student engagement, advance curricular coherence, and generate equitable outcomes. Utilizing as a guiding framework, participating teams will define and strengthen processes for directly assessing student achievement of learning outcomes as a result of participation in HIPs. These processes will help campus and system-level teams set and monitor progress toward equity goals to improve educational outcomes for all students.

“The Institute represents AAC&U’s continued partnership with leading experts on high-impact practices and student success to examine the latest research and to address the most pressing issues related to equity, quality, and assessment to design sustainable efforts that are responsive to students’ needs and values the diversity of students’ identities,” said Tia McNair, Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success and Executive Director for the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Centers.

The following institutions will participate in the 2022 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success:

• Ball State University
• Bellevue College
• Bristol Community College
• Central Washington University
• Colorado Mountain College
• Eastern Oregon University
• Elon University
• Grand Valley State University
• Iowa State University
• Irvine Valley College
• Lorain County Community College
• Marian University
• Massachusetts Bay Community College
• McDaniel College
• Mount Saint Mary's University, Los Angeles
• Muhlenberg College
• North Shore Community College
• Northeast Lakeview College
• Northern Essex Community College
• Ohio Wesleyan University
• Passaic County Community College
• Pima Community College
• Purdue University
• Saint Louis University
• Southern New Hampshire University
• Texas A&M University–Central Texas
• Texas A&M University–Kingsville
• The University of Tennessee Southern
• Tidewater Community College
• University of British Columbia Okanagan
• University of Central Florida
• University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
• University of New Mexico
• University of Saint Mary
• University of Utah
• 56³Ô¹ÏÍø
• Vanderbilt University
• Volunteer State Community College
• Waubonsee Community College
• Westfield State University
• West Valley College

on High-Impact Practices and Student Success.

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When students painted on the canvases they were prompted to paint something that made them feel peaceful, calm, and safe.

Then when students worked on stylizing a pennant banner, they were prompted to draw something on the pennant that represented what community meant to them. After all the pennants were finished, they were linked together to form a banner.

The origami station was a hands-on activity that was used to promote mindfulness. Students were prompted to write something motivational for themselves on a piece of origami paper, then they were tasked with folding it into one of the suggested origami shapes, like hearts and cute animal faces.

The wood magnets were created in advance by staff in the Collaboratory using the laser cutter. The prompt that the students were given was to paint something that made a major impact in their lives onto the magnet.

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Congratulations to the following faculty and staff who have received funding! The Connected Learning Excellence Award is intended to support 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell faculty and faculty led teams who provide high impact experiential learning opportunities for students. The hope is to continue supporting equitable opportunities for students to explore their passions, interests and careers paths through unique transformative learning projects within all schools.

For the 2021 Spring submission, there was a total of $60,200 awarded from the Worthington Teaching Endowment. Twelve proposals were received and all were funded.

The review panel was made up of six current student staff members from Connected Learning, ACT, Global Initiatives, Makerspace, Writing and Communication Center, and Career Services. Thank you to the students for their leadership and thoughtful contributions during the award review process. Congratulations to the awardees:

Multi-Disciplinary/ Multi-School

• Dr. Jody Early – SNHS; Dr. Pierre Mourad & Dr. David Socha – STEM;
  Project Title: Creating a Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Therapy for Patients With Upper Limb Amputations
• Gavin Doyle & Dr. Avery Shinneman – IAS; Dr. Charity Lovitt – STEM
  Project Title: HIPs for FYPPs: Connecting Pre-major Students to High Impact Practices
• Denise Hattwig & Penelope Wood – 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell/Cascadia College Library; Dr. Julie Shayne – IAS
  Project Title: Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest Zine made by the students in Dr. Julie Shayne’s “Rad Women in the Global South”
• Dr. Ben Gardner, Dr. Ron Krabill & Eva Navarijo – IAS; Natalia Dyba – Global Initiatives
  Project Title: 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell Global Scholars Program

School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

• Dr. Melanie Malone
  Project Title: Determining the Roots of Contamination in Urban Community Gardens
• Anida Yoeu Ali & Masahiro Sugano
  Project Title: Global Media Lab Course
• Dr. Ching-In Chen
  Project Title: BIPOC Story Circle Project
• Dr. Denise Vaughan
  Project Title: Speech and Debate
• Dr. Christian Anderson
  Project Title: Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute Proposal

School of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics

• Dr. Shima Abadi
  Project Title: Connected Learning Experience in Ocean Sciences
• Dr. Joey Shapiro Key
  Project Title: 56³Ô¹ÏÍø Bothell STEM Public Outreach Team
• Dr. Salwa Al-Noori
  Project Title: Mentorship of Student-Centered Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research and Creative Practice

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