These are the projects student teams presented at demo day on November 6, 2026. Each team spent ten days defining a real Temple problem, designing a solution, and building a working prototype with today’s AI tools. Projects are listed by team number, and the three winning teams are highlighted.
Winners: 1st Place, Team 29 · 2nd Place, Team 1 · 3rd Place, Team 21
2nd Place
TemplePulse
Real-time, AI-powered campus discovery connecting students to events, food, and community
Campus events, food, and club activities are spread across flyers, emails, websites, and social media, which leaves commuters and first-year students out of the loop. TemplePulse is an interactive campus map with live activity “pulses” that show workshops, food popups, and gatherings in real time, with updates reported by students and approved by club organizers. The team proposes a pilot with Fox student organizations in Alter Hall before expanding campus-wide.
Team members: Elizabet Uritsky, Katie Huynh, John Henderson, Roman Carr
TU Credential Explorer
Maximize your time at Temple University by discovering what else you could achieve
Students may be only a few courses away from a minor, certificate, or second major without knowing it, because requirements are scattered across the Bulletin and program pages. TU Credential Explorer compares a student’s completed, current, and planned courses with credential requirements and ranks the closest matches. Results are preliminary and meant to start a conversation with an advisor, who verifies program rules.
Team members: Abey John, Lauren Sherwood, Linh Nguyen, Peace Onebunne, Shine Lin
Temple Student Hub
One place to discover everything Temple has to offer, personalized to every student
Students struggle to find organizations, events, and resources because information is scattered across many channels, and 71% of students in the team’s survey did not know where to look. Temple Student Hub is an AI-powered platform with a personalized campus feed, AI-assisted search, events, groups, and a space to find collaborators for student projects. It aims to help new students connect early and stay at Temple.
Team members: Thiago Resende, Ashley Garofolo
Cherry Commons
Owls Virtual Hub · A gamified spatial collaboration layer for Temple University
Video meetings remove spontaneous interaction, while in-person events exclude commuters, working students, and out-of-region employers. Cherry Commons creates a virtual campus where students move as avatars between career booths, tutoring tables, and advising lounges, layered on top of Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet. AI suggests relevant booths and study tables, matches peers, and estimates queue times.
Team members: Sheikh Sharaf-Uddin, Sayan Das, Nour Alkhuffash
TU Research Connect
From Siloed Data to Seamless Discovery
Temple’s research information is spread across many databases and departments, which makes it hard to find experts, related projects, and collaborators. TU Research Connect brings together public records on more than 2,800 researchers, 2,600 publications, 700 grants, and 600 clinical trials, and lets users search them in plain language with cited sources. Students can find mentors, faculty can find collaborators across disciplines, and research staff can find funding information.
Team members: Natalia Ramirez-Urena, Berekt Tilahun, Jawaria Ashraf, Jefferson Long
OwlReuse
Good finds. New beginnings.
Every May, usable furniture and kitchenware end up on North Philadelphia curbs while other students pay full price for books and essentials. OwlReuse is a marketplace open only to @temple.edu accounts, where students buy, sell, or give away items by campus, school, and course. AI matches a pasted syllabus to available textbooks and turns a few words into a complete listing, and a donation flag keeps unclaimed items out of the trash.
Team members: Raihan Nazim Chowdhury, Zakariya Wyatt, Johnny Ibrahim, Eileen Callaghan
Owl Impact
Students look for volunteering opportunities to build their résumés, earn MIS Pro points, and help the community, but these opportunities are hard to find. Owl Impact connects Temple students and faculty with community organizations that need volunteers. Organizations post projects and community challenges and find interested students, while students get recommended projects and request to join.
Team members: Salma Abounasra, Judith Rios, Sam Trudell
OwlsNav
Charting the smartest path across campus
New students often lose time between classes because they do not know where buildings, offices, and food options are. OwlsNav turns a pasted class schedule and a to-do list, such as visiting office hours or the Financial Aid Office, into a plan for the day. Claude proposes the plan, and code checks it against real walking times and opening hours, explaining every stop.
Team members: Khani Valasa, Ashley Montilla Alvarado, Jackson Carpenter
MobiPet
Hospital patients, especially older adults and transplant recipients, lose strength quickly when they spend most of their stay in bed. MobiPet is a bedside tablet app with a virtual pet that encourages patients to reach the mobility goals their nurses set, and it gives nurses, therapists, and aides a unit board and a worklist. Safety checks run before any AI response, and the team proposes a pilot on Temple’s lung transplant step-down unit.
Team members: Jake Bradley, Queenie Qiu, Brett Serafini
OwlPath
One campus. One starting point.
New freshmen and transfer students struggle to find classrooms, safety resources, and TU Portal essentials such as registration and billing. OwlPath brings campus maps, schedule-based directions, TU Portal tutorials, and safety resources into one starting point. An AI guide answers questions in plain language and links to verified Temple resources.
Team members: Angelina Ooi, De-Hua Chen, Serena Pendharkar
Temple Housing Navigator
Curated housing guidance for the entire student life cycle
Housing rules, deadlines, and more than 1,100 off-campus listings are spread across many sites, and mistakes are costly, especially for international students and students without family support. Temple Housing Navigator matches students to housing options through a short quiz, guides them through Temple’s dates one step at a time, and answers questions from 227 sourced Temple facts. Questions about visas, leases, guarantors, and money go to a person, and the team proposes a pilot with the Fall 2027 first-year class.
Team members: Jacob Trump, Zakareia Alkharusi, Nelson Garcia, Anelya Askarova
Ask SFS
Students lose time and money because help from Student Financial Services is hard to reach, with long hold times, slow email replies, and a website with 130 links. Ask SFS lets students ask questions in their own words, in five languages, and answers from official SFS and Bursar pages with the source linked. When a student needs a person, the app prepares the case, and a staff inbox sorts questions and drafts replies for a counselor to approve.
Team members: Taylor Edney, The Hien Duong, Scott Lipscomb
OwlPath
One place for everything a student juggles
Nearly one in four Temple first-year students did not return this fall, often because of academic, financial, and time pressures. OwlPath brings course planning, academic support, career planning, a weekly planner, and finances into one place, with Bufi, an AI guide, pointing students to their next step. It works as a front door to Temple tools students already have, such as Navigate360 and Handshake.
Team members: Elisa Nikola Mata, Mrudula Ghute
DidUKnow
Free, cheap, and nearby, in one place
Student discounts, free resources, and campus perks exist, but they are scattered across incomplete lists, outdated pages, and word of mouth. DidUKnow brings them into one place, with a campus map of resources and live activity, a student forum for sharing free food and giveaways, a feed of university-sponsored events, and more than 340 digital perks refreshed daily. AI agents read messy source pages into clean, sourced entries and answer students’ questions in plain language.
Team members: Xavier Lopez, Abrar Islam, Lucas Cooke
Buddy
An AI-powered college companion helping first-generation students navigate Temple with clarity, confidence, and connection
First-generation students face invisible barriers, including limited guidance, unfamiliar processes, and unequal access to resources. Buddy explains jargon like FAFSA and degree audits, suggests personalized next steps, and connects students with advisors, services, and campus communities. It offers multilingual support and a read-aloud function, and it can also help international, transfer, and commuter students.
Team members: Moa Al Balushi, Harshita Parmar, Binisha Shrestha, John Kroll
Perch
See every route to fund your work. Students first, researchers next.
Temple students miss scholarships and fellowships they qualify for because awards are listed across hundreds of pages, often without amounts or deadlines. Perch reads a student’s CV, ranks more than 300 Temple awards and fellowships by fit, checks eligibility rules with code, and explains with citations why each award fits. A researcher version reads a faculty member’s papers to suggest federal, Temple, and industry funding leads.
Team members: Dakshitha Abeygunewardane, Siena Dougherty, Owen Waltermyer
Course Selection Tool
The stress-free, simplified planner
Course registration at Temple is spread across several disconnected resources, and in the team’s survey of 26 students, the biggest problems were finding alternatives for full courses, sequencing courses, and understanding prerequisites. The Course Selection Tool lets students browse courses with their prerequisites, build a four-year plan that checks course sequencing, and get suggested alternatives when a section closes. The team built and tested it on a structured dataset of the MIS department’s 2026–2027 catalog.
Team members: Rafiat Amir, Romeo Koffi, Anthony Allegra, Cheyenne Harris
Temple ReimburseAI
From hours of Concur paperwork to a 15-minute review
Faculty spend two to four hours on each travel expense report, retyping receipts and often missing Temple’s 60-day filing deadline. Temple ReimburseAI reads receipts, hotel folios, and emails in any format and turns them into clean report data. Rules then calculate per diem, currency conversion, and policy checks exactly, so travelers only need to review the result.
Team members: Guangwen Kong, Hien Ngo, Hind Hamed, Mira Rabinovich
3rd Place
JST Credit Review
Turning Military Experience into Academic Opportunity
Short descriptions on military Joint Services Transcripts can hide real learning, so student veterans may not receive credit for training that matches university courses. JST Credit Review reads a transcript, restates each competency in catalog language, shortlists candidate Temple courses, and returns the best match with the overlapping competencies and its limitations. University evaluators review, approve, or reject every recommendation, and the same approach could help evaluate transfer and graduate coursework.
Team members: Kumail Hassan, Ashley Shobari
GenEd Compass
Pick Temple GenEds by the skills you want to build
Students choose GenEd courses without a clear map, cross-checking the Bulletin, the class schedule, and DARS to fill eleven GenEd slots. GenEd Compass lets students weight the skills they want to build, such as presenting, data, or design, pick their major, and compare real course options with seats, sections, restrictions, and official sources. It uses public data only, with no login, and explains why each course ranks where it does.
Team members: Vedat Ulas, Ethan Hauger, Abby Alex, Shareef Warasneh
LeaseCheck
Many Temple students sign their first off-campus lease with no one reviewing it, which can lead to unfair repair clauses, illegal fees, and withheld deposits. LeaseCheck reviews a lease in seconds, flags questionable clauses, and explains them in plain English based on Pennsylvania and Philadelphia tenant law. Each flag points students to the Tenant Rights Help Desk, run in partnership with the Beasley School of Law, for a human review.
Team members: Arnaldo Jara, Esther Moronta Peralta, Diya Monpara, Megan Joy Calixtro
HootRoute
Find your place on campus
Students often learn about good places to study, eat, and relax only through friends, and it is hard to know which spaces are quiet, crowded, or good for studying. HootRoute lets students filter campus spaces by noise level, group size, and amenities such as whiteboards, outlets, and seating, and AI recommends locations based on their choices. Live student reports on crowd levels and noise keep the information current.
Team members: Nathan Ngau, Valeria Albarouki, Arya Gohel, Neha John, Jaiden Smith
Cherry Pantry, Made Visible
Helping Temple students see what is in stock, and what is new
Many students do not know what the Cherry Pantry has in stock, or even that the service exists, and restocks come as a surprise. This mobile-friendly web app shows live inventory with point costs and upcoming restocks, and shoppers generate a QR code of their list that updates inventory when it is scanned at checkout. AI turns anonymous student requests into demand insights and forecasts, so staff can restock before items run out.
Team members: Kevin Bang, Asna Akram, Rehan Choudry, Jana Rao
OwlCast
See the storm before it hits
Each syllabus looks manageable on its own, so students often do not see their hardest week coming until they are in it. OwlCast reads all of a student’s syllabi, lists every graded item, and rates each week as Clear, Busy, or Storm, with suggested start dates for big assignments. AI only reads the syllabi, students confirm uncertain items, and tested code makes every calculation, with nothing stored about the student.
Team members: Matthew Eranackal, Miguel Luistro, Drake Wu, Akanksa Ganesh, Siri Gambhiraopet
OwlBites
15 minutes. Where’s the food?
Food truck hours and locations live on Instagram pages and handwritten signs, and 58% of surveyed students had gotten wrong hours or locations. OwlBites brings 17 food trucks near campus into one place, with menus, prices, hours, payment types, and locations, searchable by cuisine and budget. It also shares stories from truck owners, and an AI assistant recommends food using only the team’s collected data.
Team members: Kanwal Ahmed, Fangting Hu, Matthew Anfiteatro, Abdel Downey
1st Place
Agentic Academic Advisor
Students and advisors spend hours building schedules that work around prerequisites, course availability, interests, and time constraints across more than 650 programs and 6,000 sections a semester. The Agentic Academic Advisor uses ten AI agents working with real Temple data to produce three conflict-free schedule options in seconds. An AI model reads the rules and student preferences, a solver guarantees there are no conflicts, and students and advisors make the final decisions.
Team members: Celina Sawizki, Abel Mathews, Ekene Nwafor, To Yeung Ho
Owl Planner
Students cross-check DARS and the Temple Bulletin to plan their courses, working through 124 credits and more than 100 prerequisite rules, and one mistake can delay graduation. Owl Planner turns degree requirements into an understandable plan, with a dashboard that tracks degree progress and a weekly schedule. Code, not AI, checks every prerequisite, no names, IDs, or grades are sent to AI, and every plan reminds students to review it with an advisor.
Team members: Rani Bhalala, Marik Apol-Murphy, Ezzedeena Baryoh, Parnika Kushwaha
OwlPath
A student journey planner
Students need a path to graduation that fits degree requirements, their interests, and their workload. Built by the Kyoto team at Temple Japan, OwlPath runs a planning engine on public Temple curriculum data to check degree rules, sequence courses, and offer three pathways that are fastest, balanced, or interest-based for review with an advisor. AI explains plans on request but never makes decisions, and new majors can be added with a data file and no new code.
Team members: Hamid Reza Shahbazkia, Miyabi Alessio, Milan Subotic
NextStep
One hint at a time
Getting an answer from AI is easy, but a copied answer does little to prepare students for the next question. NextStep is a Chrome extension that sits beside a student’s homework, spots mistakes, and offers hints without giving away the solution. When the student reaches the correct answer, it identifies weak topics from their errors and offers to generate study notes.
Team members: Amirkhon Djuraev, Ahmed Muwete Mohammed, Fangyan Fu, Nitin Saravanakumar, Dhaval Chauhan