Congratulations to all who participated in this years WISE competition, the winners are:
1st Place (tie) |
U.S. Naval Academy Team A: DDG Tie Down Redesign
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3rd Place |
U.S. Military Academy Team C: Molecular Countermeasures Project (Drug Discovery) |
Honorable Mentions |
U.S. Coast Guard Academy Team B: Climate change in the Bering Sea: using an open-source machine learning tool to predict the future distribution of commercial fishing vesselsU.S. Merchant Marine Academy Team A: Maritime Applications of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing |
On April, 27, 2022, competing projects presented their projects to our WISE Challenge panel of judges. Projects were evaluated and scored on four weighted categories:
Innovation, which counted for 20% and consisted of: creativity of the approach, potential to provide or enable an innovative solution for the Warfighter and vision of how work could be continued.
Technical, which counted for 35% and consisted of the soundness of the technical approach.
Impact, which counted for 35%, consisted of the degree/breadth of future operational impact and alignment to service challenge stated by the competitor.
Communication, which counted for 10%, consisted of how well the project’s objective, background, approach and outcomes were communicated to the audience.