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Sep 10, 2024

Summer 2024 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

This August we had two Capstone Showcase events: for the Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS) program and the Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program.

Capstone projects are the culmination of the MICS and MIDS students’ work in their respective I School programs. Over the course of their final semester, teams of students propose and select project ideas, conduct and communicate their work, receive and provide feedback, and deliver compelling presentations along with a web-based final deliverable.

Congratulations to our winners, and to all the students who completed Capstone this summer!


Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award, August 2024

The team behind Kosmos Global Access Proxy (GAP) created a free Android application designed to help users bypass arbitrary regional internet censorship. Their product disguises internet traffic to allow users to access the free and open internet.

Read a Q&A with the Kosmos GAP team.

MICS Capstone Video Award

Kosmos Global Access Proxy was also the winner of the MICS Capstone Video Award.


Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award, August 2024

Teachers often want to create personalized lessons for students but are limited by time and growing demands. EduCreate offers a solution: using generative AI to create engaging lesson plans in the form of comic strips.

Read a Q&A with the EduCreate team.

Last updated: September 10, 2024