Design & Innovate
Design and Innovate brings together communication, technology, and AI in creative, solution-focused projects. Through hackathons, app development, and community projects, you can apply your skills to authentic challenges, often in collaboration with academic departments and industry partners.
These projects lead to tangible outcomes and often open the door to longer-term partnerships or further development. They are a good fit if you want to make, test, and improve ideas in a practical setting.
Utilizing AI for Workplace Communication
Take control of your professional voice and use AI strategically, persuasively, and ethically.
Vibe Coding A Personalized Learning Tool
Experiment with vibe coding and build your own web learning app in this interactive session.
Utilizing AI for Your Job Search
This high-impact session empowers you to explore cutting-edge AI skills and techniques tailored to the authentic challenges of modern career building, and to create your own AI-powered job search starter kit along the way.
Utilizing AI for Academic Writing & Speaking
This interactive session will guide you through gamified prompt engineering challenges designed specifically for complex academic communication, and guide you to create a personalized, custom AI assistant to solve a communication challenge.
Welcome to “Emoji-nation”: Let’s Decode Chinese Humor!
This workshop explores Chinese-style humor through memes, stickers, chat bubbles, and literary works. From self-mocking jokes and understated sarcasm to the wit of “lie-flat” culture, we will uncover how humor entertains, critiques, and connects.
Utilizing AI for Scholarly Research
Finding quality academic sources doesn't have to be overwhelming. While general AI chatbots can provide quick answers, they may also generate inaccurate information, misleading summaries, or even fabricated references.
AI for Language Education: Micro-Hackathon 2026
Supercharge your language skills with our gamified 3‑session short course in prompt engineering. Across three highly interactive sessions, you’ll unlock the secrets of crafting clear, powerful prompts that get the results you want for English communication.