2025-2026

Sponsor: Amazon Robotics
Faculty Advisor: Amon Millner
Amazon Robotics
Amazon Robotics is engaging SCOPE students in exploring the space of classifying living and non-living beings, locating them, and understanding the vectors they鈥檙e heading using commercial-grade and consumer-grade sensing systems.
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Sponsor: Boston Scientific
Faculty Advisor: Jessica Townsend
Endoscope Tip Rotation
This year鈥檚 Boston Scientific SCOPE team will design and fabricate a mechanism to provide enhanced access of tools and visualization at the tip of a duodenoscope without causing unintended scope movement.聽
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Sponsor: Boston University Wheelock Institute for the Science of Education
Faculty Advisor: Amon Millner
Enhancing Early Literacy-Building Apps with Improved Audio Understanding
This year鈥檚 SCOPE team, like the 2024-2025 team will join a large interdisciplinary research team and contribute key components to proof-of-concept instructional聽games for K-3rd聽grade students developing reading skills.
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Sponsor: New Balance
Faculty Advisor: Amon Millner
Push Test- Continued Automation
As part of New Balance鈥檚 continual work to improve associates' work experience while maintaining high-quality standards, the SCOPE students will build from last year's SCOPE team to develop a highly-automated solution, creating tooling that reduces the manual tests and improves the consistency of the quality check.
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Sponsor: Santos Family Foundation/Volpe National Transportation Center
Faculty Advisor: Scott Hersey
Crosswalk Safety Automation
This team will be exploring opportunities to automatically identify the presence of pedestrians and activate safety measures to improve pedestrian safety.
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Sponsor: Tender Food
Faculty Advisor: Scott Hersey
Fiber Sheet Drying System
This year's SCOPE team is working to develop a method and system to dry thin, delicate sheets of fibers in a way that is both time and energy efficient. By researching different methods and prototyping and testing systems, we hope to implement the findings from this project in our pilot line to increase our product throughput and usability.
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