IMSArt & Innovation Showcase

3D Printed Vases

Levi Raskin '20, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

I really like these vases. I think there is something fun about modifying an object that has appeared throughout all history and destroying its functionality: retaining aesthetics and removing functionality. These 3D printed vases cannot hold water, and nor can they survive for centuries like they’re historic inspirations. That interest in the disconnect between myself and history dictates that the making of my my designs to be near impossible, or at least extremely skillful, to do by hand or through casting.

Blabl Outreach Program

Kayson Ijisesan, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Blabl is a speech therapy company that focuses on helping and improving speech impairments found in its clients (most of them being youth). The main focus of the project was to help find potential customers for the business Blabl. To do this we had to look for speech pathologists and schools that were interested in using the apps for their kids with speech impairments.

Building the Coursestars Brand

Melena Braggs '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

The main purpose of this project was to build the brand of Course Stars, a small tutoring business based in Illinois. This brand building was done through Facebook and Instagram, and the project lasted from November 2019 to March 2020. In that time, the analytics from Facebook and Instagram were tracked and analyzed. While there was a slight increase in the amount of interactions from the sites combined, there’s still few followers on Instagram. Marketing on social media is generally helpful, but in this project it did not make a large difference.

Business Project Final Report

Elasia Rodriguez '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

The STEM Pathways Project Team and I work with the Center for Innovation and Inquiry (IN2) on implementing the College and Career Pathway Endorsements program (CCPE) through the Post-Secondary Workforce Readiness Act (PWRA or PWR act). I am the lead intern, Elasia Rodriguez, and the rest of the project team consists of Gloria Wang, Jaelynn Abdullah, and Aryan Gandhi under the advisory of Betty Hart. The focus of the project is to assess IMSA’s courses and offerings and how they can assist students in college-readiness and prepare students for the future of work.

Civicly Envolved Intership: Working on the Candidate Profile Screen

Patrick Hultquist '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Going into any situation, I think I’m always a little overconfident. This was no exception. I had previously made an (unimpressive) app, had talked to people before, and knew how to work with a team; so this would be all the same, right?

I thought going into this that I would probably do something around 80%working and 20% learning. The very first day I realized how wrong I was. I learned that in this internship, I was going to, well, learn.

DealerFox Data Visualization

Zoe Berthold '20, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Dealer Fox is a start-up that provides data visualization and consulting for advertisements of car dealerships online to help increase efficiency of sales. The business project was to streamline the process of data visualization, from collecting the data to presenting it using Infogram.

Developing an Accurate Method and Algorithm to Identify and Match Tutors with their Respective Students, According to Intellectual Level and Teaching Style

Vasanth Ramesh '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Course Stars, LLC is a quality tutoring service focused on helping high school college students excel in specific college courses, or standardized tests, through the help of experienced tutors (who have taken those specialized courses before). The unique aspect of Course Stars is that our tutors are all specialized in their own college courses and have their strengths in specific standardized testing aspects.

Easy-to-Use Augmented Reality in the Mobile Industry: an Internship Experience

Abhi Vinnakota, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

This report details the work and research I have completed over the past few months with BUNDLAR. This company is a startup located in startup incubator 1871. BUNDLAR is currently developing their augmented reality mobile app that will launch in the near future. Over my time with them, I helped with market research. My research was focused on the Augmented Reality industry and performing competitive analysis on other AR companies. With this research, I was able to provide BUNDLAR with valuable recommendations and insights that helped shape their development around the target audience and industry.

Internship Business Project Final Report

Elvin McLcLaughlin '20, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Blabl is a small startup company based in London, England. The goal of this startup is to provide readily available, affordable, and high quality speech pathology lessons to youth in need through the use of a digital app. As a result will improve the teaching methods of Speech language pathologists around the world. The focus of this business project has changed throughout the internship. In the early stages of the project the main objective was to create a working prototype of the app.

Marketing Internship

Alejandro Carrillo '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Qooley is a company focused on providing the best travel experience for tourists by connecting them with knowledgeable locals in the area they are visiting. The purpose of this business project was to help Qooley develop their marketing techniques and to increase the number of people that viewed their product. The business project included creating a pipeline of possible partners, finding out which categories are the most liked, creating social media content,and analyzing the Qooley website.

Marketing with SAT Analysis

Aryan Gandhi '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

As an intern at Coursetars, I was introduced into the tutoring industry. I had never received or given tutoring before, unless it was my little sister, so it was very informative to see how these companies worked. One thing that I worked on which is standard amongst most tutoring companies is recruitment for tutors. Coursestars was trying to expand more into tutoring college students, and to do so, I reached out to contacts at UIUC to spread the word and put up fliers.

Medical Billing Application Development Project

Ji Yoon Lee '20, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

The following report gives a detailed description of the internship carried out by Ji Yoon Lee throughout the duration of the 2019-2020 internship cohort at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. The final product created, the process followed in order to create the product, as well as the research and methods are explained. The report documents the limitations and constraints encountered throughout the project creation and development duration. An inclusion of values, skills, and information resulting from the internship experience are detailed below as well as recommendations on how to improve the results for both the business and for future interns.

My Internship with the State Representative: An Overview

Nathan Tamez '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

My name is Nathan Tamez, and I am a Junior (‘21) at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. I am currently thinking of going into Engineering (most likely Automotive or Mechanical). Honestly, I did not know what to expect when I signed up for the internship program, but what I heard from friends and the internship coordinators reassured me that there would be many opportunities to meet people with experience and to expand my network. Just as I expected, I was able to meet plenty of people, and even establish a connection with the Aurora Collective,a conjunction of businesses based in the Aurora area.

SAFESTART: Simplifying Technology for Seniors

Melissa Myint '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Our project is nonprofit and aims to help seniors understand how to use technology in their daily lives by creating videos that are simple and easy to follow.As in this day and age seniors are afraid to use their smart devices other than the basic call function which can prevent seniors from receiving the benefits associated with the use of apps that could track their medication, allow them to video call, and etc. These seniors are therefore being left out from the increasing digital society. In order to accomplish this goal, we are creating instructional videos on the uses of technology.

SAFESTART: Simplifying Technology for Seniors

Savannah Pagan, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Within our project, my partner and I aimed to fulfill the goal of simplifying technology usage for senior citizens. Seniors are often left behind in terms of technology, often because no one has taken the time to sit down with them and explain how to utilize their devices. There is a need to be technologically fit in today’s society, and by educating older generations on these topics, we can move them forward into this technological age.

Using Social Media as a Marketing Tool for Scholarships

Brooke Bolsinger '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Scholarship Assistance Fund is a nonprofit organization with the mission of supporting local students (Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mt. Prospect, Prospect Heights, and Wheeling) that aim to achieve a higher education. The focus of the business project involved a few different parts, primarily being social media management, but also included other graphic design projects, website management, and grant research.

Venture Capital and Marketing with K8 Ventures

Rosario Picone, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

K8 Ventures is a venture builder studio, with investments in a diverse range of industries. K8’sgreatest skill is developing companies in-house, starting at Stage 1, what they call “an idea written on a napkin,” to Stage 5, which is a successful business already established in the market. Because K8 is investing in early-stage companies, they typically are able to take a larger share of equity in their developing companies.

Venture Capital and Marketing with K8 Ventures

Simone-Nicole Angelov '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

I completed an internship with K8 Ventures, a Venture Builder Studio in Chicago.I had the opportunity to work on projects for K8 as well as P3rceive, one of their major portfolio companies. My time with the company has allowed me to learn about a variety of business procedures, techniques, and terminology, in addition to what it takes to develop a company.

Web Developing with Block Bins

Rajan Savani, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Block Bins is a compost collection company based in Chicago that creates food scrap drop off points using shared bins, providing an inexpensive solution to people who want to compost their food scrap. This service is enabled with a website, automation, and data collection & analysis, which were developed and improved over the course of this internship. The goal of this project was to improve the current website with an updated front-end that uses modern web frameworks and a revised back-end that is better tailored to the Block Bins use-case.

WeSolv: Business Project Final Report

Doreen Xiao '20, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

WeSolv is an innovative technology platform with a driven mission to advance equity in the career hiring field. WeSolv works with companies from Salesforce to Pinterest, to identify key skills companies prioritize for certain positions to create personalized Case Challenges for MBA students. These Case Challenges measure presentations, deliverables, and teamwork to see how students would actually perform in the job to ultimately reduce bias in the hiring process.

WeSolv: MBA Job Analysis

Xiaofan Li '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

WeSolv is a startup that focuses on bringing the most qualified candidates to prospective hiring companies by designing and utilizing case challenges to accurately assess the candidates’ skill sets. The case challenges consist of several activities (presentations, research, etc.) that the candidates must execute, which measure their fit for potential jobs. For the past academic year, the company has provided information on how to obtain insight on their system metrics and to better understand the process of choosing their assessing skills.

Lunar Modern Dance

Shruti Shakthivel '20, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

This video was created during the 2020 IMSA Lunar New Year culture show.

Senior Sunrise

Kevin Broy, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Hieu Nguyen '17, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Renzo Ledesma '19, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Chandra Gangavarapu '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Ahana Narayanan '21, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

This video was two months in the making. The song was made by two former ISP Students class of 2017 and 2019 plus two current students who are in the class of 2021.The song itself is original and took two months. I also had help from my upcoming ISP board with photos. This video represents IMSA and that last sunset and sunrise.

The Bubble

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

In this intersession, you will learn all of the basics of movie-making from learning how to work a video camera to putting it all together in Adobe Premiere. Students will have the opportunity to choose a smaller group to focus on, such as videography, editing, acting, and more! By the end of the week, students will be able to showcase their short movie and walk away with a basic-intermediate knowledge of the Ins and Outs of Movie-making.