From an automated beer-brewing system to video games and apps not yet on the market, Cornell students will unveil their best work in cutting-edge digital technologies at BOOM 2015 – “Bits On Our Minds” – March 25 from 4-6 p.m. in the Duffield Hall Atrium. The 17th annual event is hosted by Computing and Information Science in partnership with Cornell Engineering, but projects come from many disciplines across the campus.

This year’s projects include 3-D images you can see without glasses; Eatery – an app and social network providing easy access to menus and hours for all dining locations on campus; an autonomous aircraft capable of takeoff and landing, waypoint navigation and surveillance or reconnaissance; an autonomous underwater vehicle that completes difficult tasks on its own; an interactive visual representation of the overlapping geological, geographical, sociological, economic, policy, and legal dimensions of laws related to fracking; and as always, an array of new video games.

As part of BOOM’s K-12 outreach program, local middle schoolers will participate in a challenge in which teams will attempt to build the tallest free-standing structure using only a bucket of LEGOs. Teams will have an opportunity to try to blow down rival structures using only their breath.

Ithaca High School’s Code Red Robotics team also will showcase its work.

BOOM 2015 is sponsored by Bloomberg, Capital One, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Google and Intel.