On the third floor of Charles Library lies an open-access space with assorted equipment a glue gun, a typewriter, laser cutters, 3D printers and sewing machines.This area known as the makerspace is where MFA sculpture student Ollie Goss spent two weeks building a critical piece of their final project through a new program.Thanks to the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio’s
Earning the $3,000 first prize this year is Daniel Lekan-Salami, age 17, of George Stevens Academy, who designed and coded an app to enable and expedite group-based problem solving in a chat-like interface. Daniel impressed the judges with his creativity, passion and tenacity to learn new code languages and his ability to solve challenges along the way.