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Last week Georgia Tech held its Spring 2024 Computer Science Junior Design Capstone Expo. As I have written previously, the expo<\/a> showcases projects completed by students in the CS Tech Comm Junior Design course sequence<\/a>, a series of classes taught collaboratively by Tech Comm faculty in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) and CS instructors in the College of Computing.<\/p>\n Quite a lot has changed with the expo since it launched in Spring 2018. The expo shifted to a virtual format<\/a> due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and then shifted back to an in-person format in Fall 2021<\/a>. In Spring 2023<\/a> the event moved from its initial venue–the Klaus Advanced Computing Building atrium–to Georgia Tech\u2019s shiny new Exhibition Hall<\/a>–a move from a space familiar to computing students to one specifically designed to showcase institute-level events to the public.\u00a0 Award categories for presenting teams have been created and updated, along with processes for judging (and even for recruiting judges<\/a>).<\/p>\n Another change: in Fall 2022 the academic unit housing the CS instructors for the Junior Design course series (as well as the course series full-time coordinator) was elevated from a division to a school<\/a>. This gave the former Division of Computing Instruction, now the School of Computing Instruction<\/a> (SCI), its own chair, additional administrative staff, and better funding. SCI also has its own communications officer, my excellent colleague Emily Smith<\/a>, who now makes a point of both promoting and documenting the expo. Check out her coverage of the past three expos (and the winning student teams and projects):<\/p>\n Spring 2024 recap and winners: App to Inform Students on Curriculum Threads Wins Capstone Expo<\/a><\/p>\n Fall 2023 recap and winners: Team Wins First Place for Pet Finder Website at Capstone Expo<\/a><\/p>\n\n