Professionals from businesses, universities, medical practices and nonprofits mentor small teams of students as they are provided with the tools to establish a project in less than three days. Advisers from computer technology giant Dell and Accenture, Nvidia, Intel and Unity are also on site to answer questions and offer advice as teams selected need statement prompts and formed their ideas.
Team Member Justin McGinnity, a junior mechanical engineering student, explained that he and Cody Piercey, a junior industrial distribution engineering student, were busy designing the marketing plan for the project, while Vazhapilly and graduate student Ninad Sapate worked with developing the user interface on Saturday afternoon.
The prize for winning the competition today, which will be judged by Dell and Accenture staff, as well as an A&M professor, will be either free laptops or hundreds of dollars in cash, based on the degree of victory. But for Full Immersion, the goodies received wouldn't be the real takeaway.