Drum Roll, Please... Meet your 2018 EUREKA! Line-up!
Year/Program:Â Sophomore, Graphic Design
Favorite Food:Â Blueberry Muffins!
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Environmental/Natural resources
I want experience, the more the better, I want to try new things, learn new techniques, push outside of my comfort zone, meet and collaborate with new people, and have fun! Some special skills I will contribute to the Design Blitz team are my photography skills, keen eye for aesthetically pleasing designs, my close attention to detail, my slightly obsessive need to get things done in a timely manner, and my overall friendly disposition.  Â
Year/Program: Junior, Graphic Design
From: San Francisco, California
Favorite Food: Pumpkin Bread!
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Environmental/Natural resources
I want to participate in EUREKA! because the experience working closely with a group of other students for a good cause is an extremely valuable experience that I want to have while I'm here in the School of Design. Add individual feedback. Some skills that I will bring to the table include illustration, typography, color theory, After Effects, HTML among others.
Year/Program: Sophomore, Graphic Design
From:Â Westminster, Maryland
Favorite Food: Street Tacos
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Poverty
I enjoy being caring and uplifting. I would use these traits to help motivate my team to unite and focus on the task at hand. I am eager to collaborate with others who have diverse backgrounds and experiences. I love combining different minds and ideas to solve problems and create something unique. Service has always played an important role in my life and I am excited to participate and give back. I believe design can influence change on both a local and global scale. I look forward to bringing my creative passion to help improve the lives of refugees.Â
Year/Program: Sophmore, Graphic Design
From:Â Canandaigua, New York
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Health
I think it would be a great experience working with others to solve real-life problems and make a change in our community. I am excited to use my design and problem-solving skills to be a productive member of the team.
Year/Program:Â Senior, Graphic Design
From:Â Boyertown, Pennsylvania
Favorite Food: Twice-baked Potato
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Education
I’m excited about working with new and different people, although also somewhat wary since past group project experiences have not always been positive in terms of equal contribution and clear communication when it comes to other group members. One thing I will bring to the table is my clear communication skills. I'm passionate about telling stories and solving problems through design, and I believe design shouldn't be used just for personal gain but to benefit society as a whole in any way possible.
Year/Program: Sophomore, New Media Design
From: Wayne, Pennsylvania
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Health and LGBTQ Health
I feel that more minds are better than one because we can enhance each other's ideas and be very thorough. I enjoy thinking and working collaboratively. I work primarily digitally and with design but I do not want to be limited to only those experiences in college. I have had an interest in working in an interdisciplinary manner all my life. I enjoy learning about genetics, biology, and various cancers. In high school, I did a lot of LGBTQ advocacy work and enjoyed helping other people. I want to participate in the SOD Blitz because I want to explore what I can do to help other people while working with other diverse students. While my main interests lie within the health field, I would like to explore other areas as well.Â
Year/Program: Senior, Graphic Design
From:Â Originally from Myanmar, but raised in Buffalo, New York
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Environmental/Natural Resources
The Design Blitz is a great opportunity to apply my skills outside of the classroom as well as interact with students from other disciplines. I’m eager to meet and work with other students.
Year/Program:Â Junior, Graphic Design
From: Pittsford, New York
Favorite Food: Anything with fish or eggs
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Education
I love design, and am always looking for new opportunities to get involved with the community. I am a graphic designer at CAD, and have a lot of interest in helping others and utilizing design to do so. I’m excited and committed to contributing my skills to the design blitz.
Year/Program: Sophomore, Industrial Design
From:Â Oconomowoc, WisconsinÂ
Favorite Food:Â My Mom's Cucumber Salad
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Poverty
I want to impact the world by helping to close the gap between people with access to technology and resources, and people without them. My time spent living in Texas, and my time spent abroad volunteering gave me a deep connection, a want and a need to help people like the ones I met, the ones that even with nothing they were still giving to us, to me. Â I believe I can achieve this through my work as an industrial designer, by widening the user profile of different technology devices. Eureka empowers students and brings different designer together to widen the user profile of things and places that are right in our own backyard. Improving the world around us through design.
Year/Program:Â Senior, Graphic Design
From: Hopedale, Massachusetts
Favorite Food:Â Mac & Cheese
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Employment
I have always been an energetic worker. Throughout my life- this energy has shown itself in my upbeat attitude and ability to keep myself busy. Work has always been about more than a to-do list for me. I strive to take initiative to help on special projects and day-to-day tasks to ensure tasks get done. I would like to participate in the School of Design Blitz to gain some additional team building and design skills.  Also, I want to be able to step outside my comfort zone and try something new.
Year/Program:Â Sophomore, New Media Design
Favorite Food: Korean Stew
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Poverty
I want to learn more about the process and experience of service design. I’ve been interested in design for social good ever since I chose my major. This would be combining two things I love, helping people and design, into one. I usually love working in groups of people with diverse backgrounds and interests. I am looking to improve my collaborative skills in the design field.
Year/Program:Â Freshman, Industrial Design
From:Â New Orleans, Louisiana
Favorite Food:Â Definitely crepes
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Education
I want to help others as much as I can and learn more about the design process.  I would like to gain hands-on experience while serving the greater good. I'm imaginative, hardworking, enthusiastic, and ambitious. I also love working with others on a team and like to tackle a problem from as many different angles as possible.Â
Year/Program: Sophmore, Industrial Design
Favorite Food: Peruvian Food
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Education
I am passionate about the mission to design for a social change. My mission as a designer is to always be responsible for the reality I am designing for. Therefore, I aim for my design to address all the elements forming the situation I am targeting, in order to produce a sustainable solution. My work attitude allows me to adapt to any situation. I have the initiative, discipline, and effort to excel and react at any given moment. I am motivated to learn from my team members and support my team.
Year/Program:Â Sophomore, Graphic Design
From: West Hartford, New York
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Poverty
I want to have an experience like EUREKA! to improve my skills and to grow as a designer, and I love teamwork. I consider myself outgoing and responsible and I plan to contribute my intuitive and out of the box ideas.
Year/Program:Â 3rd-Year Student taking 2nd-year level Graphic Design courses, Graphic Design
From:Â Wayne, Pennsylvania
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Environmental/Natural Resources
I feel very motivated and passionate when it comes to political issues in the current climate. Â I think it is really important to stand with refugees, and I believe my stance and motivation to improve the positions of other's coming into our country is valuable. I am also motivated to learn more about how to put design to good use. Â In figuring out what exactly I want to do post-grad, I think it's really useful and important to learn how to integrate meaningful activism into my design work.
Year/Program: Senior, Mechanical Engineering
From:Â San Francisco, California
Favorite Food: Mozzarella Sticks
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Transportation
I believe participating in Eureka will allow me to push myself in what I do or design as an engineer while getting to work with others in different disciplines. The teamwork will guide me to broaden my horizons while also learning how to approach problems from a different perspective. To me, problem solving and collaboration is a core part of being an engineer so why not participate in an event designed for that?
Year/Program: Sophomore, Graphic Design
From: Niagara Falls, New York
Favorite Food: Gnocchi (potato-based pasta with tomato sauce)
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Poverty
All I want to do is make a difference while utilizing what I love to do, which is making art/designing. I plan to contribute my reliability, creativity, and knowledge of design principles.
Year/Program:Â Senior, Industrial Design
From: Boston, Massachusetts
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Environmental/Natural Resources
I want to get more interdisciplinary and teamwork experience. I would also like to help the displaced refugees. I’m interested in understanding perspectives other than my own. Skills I bring to the table are critical thinking, rapid prototyping, a sense of humor, and supportive leadership.
Year/Program: Sophomore, Graphic Design
From:Â Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
Favorite Food:Â Empanadas, Swedish Meatballs with Lingonberry Jam
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Health
I enjoy working with people. Anything I don't know how to do already I'm motivated to learn. I’m helpful and motivated and EUREKA! seems like a good opportunity to experience doing group design work for a legitimate project.
Year/Program: Graduate Student, Visual Communication Design
From:Â Shantou, Guangdong, China
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Food
I’m excited to participate in EUREKA! It will be a good and special experience for me and I like interacting with people.
Year/Program: Sophomore, New Media Design
Favorite Food:Â Pizza & Wings
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Environmental/Natural Resources
This is a great cause that I would love to be able to help out with as well as have the ability to say I was a part of it. I plan to contribute my understanding of the basic elements of design as well as my flexibility, open-mindedness, and additional creative direction to the team.
Year/Program: Graduate Student, Visual Communication Design
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Health
I hope I could help people and design product for people. I am excited to contribute my vitality, energy, knowledge of user interface design, and active mind to the team.
Year/Major: Sophomore, Graphic Design
From: Â Oxford, Connecticut
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Environmental/Natural Resources
Every day I strive to make a difference and be different. I want to collaborate and help others. I want to be apart of something real and take my skills I have acquired thus far at RIT to make a change to people outside of my everyday life. I like to believe every interaction you have in the world should have a lesson and an impact on yourself as well as others. I am extremely passionate about everything and anything I do, especially with design. To me, design is exciting, captivating, and can be obsessive. I love to give as much feedback to anything thrown at me as well as receive any feedback on anything I create. Everyone sees the world through different eyes and every new perspective matters.
Year/Major: Sophomore, Industrial Design
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Poverty
I am excited to participate in Eureka! because of the opportunity to understand the different societal causes that industrial design can support and in what ways.
Year/Major: Junior, Industrial Design
Favorite Food: Scalloped Potatoes
A Passion or Cause That’s Close to My Heart: Working with the Aging Population
I believe form follows function and that every person should be considered when designing. Eureka is a wonderful opportunity to practice these and impact our community in a positive manner. It is also a great opportunity to work with other students that we may not get the chance to otherwise which is great practice for the real world.
