Presenters:
Joshua Baldelomar (Film & Media Studies)
"Brainwaves Turned Signals: Cybernetic Brains and Robotic Tortoises"
Cooper Bedin (Linguistics)
"Perception and Queer Speech: Beyond the "Gay Accent""
Karen Cepeda (Theater & Dance)
"Trauma and Memory as Collective Mobilizer"
Soodeh Mansouri (Religious Studies)
"The Middle East & Women's Socio-Political Role"
Tiffany Ta (Music)
"Pretty Savage: Blackpink is the (Feminist) Revolution"
Albert Ventayol-Boada (Linguistics)
"Decoding linguistic diversity with machine learning"
Yanlu Zhong (Linguistics)
"Brain and Language"
Judges:
Our esteemed judges for this round are:
Lisa Berry (Senior Instructional Consultant in Instructional Development)
Jazz Elaiza Nario (Undergraduate Student in Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology and Intern with the Center for Science & Engineering Partnerships)
Laura Romo (Professor of Education)
Laura Sacks (Manager, Investment Management, Yardi)
Vaishali Surianarayanan (Graduate Student in Computer Science and 2023 Grad Slam Finalist)
Emcee: TBD
For each of the preliminary rounds, we will give out over $1,500 in prize money:
- $1,000 for 1st place and advancement to the Final Round on April 5
- $500 for the runner up
- $25 gift cards for raffled off for all other presenters