2022 Panel of Judges
Award badge We asked a group of esteemed colleagues to chose three projects that they felt deserved special mention. Many told us that this was very difficult since there were so many great projects.

If you visit the campus now, you'll see star "stickers" on many of the windows. These indicate awarded projects. A white star means that that project received three or more votes. Bright yellow is two votes and a duller yellow star is one vote.

The top projects are
Space Palette ☆☆☆☆☆☆
Pyera ☆☆☆☆
Hacking Nature's Musicians ☆☆☆☆
Tatami Band ☆☆☆
La Machine Sonore Infernale ☆☆☆
Resonance in Light ☆☆☆
Laikabot laikamaker ☆☆☆
RhythmScope ☆☆
Resin Records ☆☆
The Pencilina ☆☆
Marbles of Misfortune ☆☆
Musical Boxing Gloves ☆☆
Floral Buzz 1000 ☆☆

Plus more ☆ winners. Please visit the campus to see all of the selections.
Tom Fox
Hackoustic
Nick Normal
Director of the Queens College Makespace
AnnMarie Thomas
Director of the Playful Learning Lab at the University of St. Thomas
Dan Wempa
Producer, advisor and strategic operative
Kathy Ceceri
STEAM educator, author of Musical Inventions, Making Simple Robots, BOTS, homeschool expert.
Gareth Branwyn
Author, maker, regular contributor to Boing Boing and Adafruit
Marc de Vinck
Founder, Unexpected Labs
Synthia Payne
Musician, vocalist, JackTrip expert
Zeynep Ozcan
Electronic music composer, educator
Jesse Simpson
Musician and designer
Meilily Li
Community Manager at Seeed Studio & Chaihuo x.factory (aka. Chaihuo Makerspace)
Ross Portugeis
Maker advocate
Laureano Cantarutti
Musician, Circuit Bender, Maker, Multi instrumentalist, Podcaster and Music Producer
Thomas Santosusso
Product developer and investor
John Jaeger
Advertising and marketing professional
Steve Kemiji
Associate
2021 Panel of Judges
Award badge The top projects for 2021 are
flairdrum ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Porcapizza ☆☆☆☆☆☆
Sonic Circuit Sculptures ☆☆☆☆☆
Les Boîtes Mécaniques ☆☆☆☆
Chordal Distance ☆☆☆☆
...U... ☆☆☆
A Room Full of Unique Musical Instruments ☆☆☆
Music Derby ☆☆☆
Serinette ☆☆☆

Plus many ☆☆ and ☆ winners. Please visit the campus to see all of the selections.

Allie Weber
#MythBustersJr • MAKER • @theSTEM_Squad Co-Founder • TeenVogue #21Under21 • 3M #YoungScientist Finalist
AnnMarie Thomas
Professor, mechanical engineer, author, blogger, maker, mother and advocate for early engineering education
Dan Wempa
Producer, advisor and strategic operative
Dan Konopka
Musician, producer and OK Go principal member
Diana Eng
Fashion Designer & STEM Chat Co-Creator
Douglas Repetto
Artist and teacher
Elecia & Chris White
Hosts of Embedded.fm, a podcast about making, art, music, and engineering
Elijah
I'm Elijah, the "Green" MythBuster from #MythBustersJr.
Gareth Branwyn
Author, maker, regular contributor to Boing Boing and Adafruit
Hannah Davis
Generative composer and independent researcher based in NYC.
Jeremy Meleard Soller
Maker and musician
James Simpson
Founder of SteamHead makerspace.
Jesse Simpson
Musician and designer
JM Meleard
Maker and musician
John Edgar Park
I’m a maker. I build things and share them — I’m a lifelong proponent of show and tell. I create video content for Adafruit Industries, write for Make: magazine , Boing Boing, and Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools. I hosted the Emmy-nominated Make: television show on Public Television.
John Jaeger
Advertising and marketing professional
John "Parts" Taylor
Co-founder of LumiGeek
Kitty Yeung
Quantum computing physicist and creative technologist
Lauri Wuolio
Musician, sound artist
Lenore Edman
Co-Founder, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Louise Glasgow
Event producer
Marc de Vinck
Product Designer, Entrepreneur, Author, and breaker of things.
Mark Frauenfelder
Editor, Boing Boing
Martin Porter
Music production journalist, author and historian
Maywa Denki
Nonsenese Machine Artist
Natalie Zee Drieu
Designer, Technology Author & STEM Chat Co-Creator
Nick Normal
Director of the Queens College Makespace
Nick Yulman
Creative Sound + Editorial
Ross Portugeis
Maker Activist
Sara Valentine
Director, HONK NYC, www.honknyc.com
Scotland Symons
Artist & Musician (Multinational Synth Corp) www.leveltwentythree.com
Theo Kubovy- Weiss
Arts & Entertainment Writer