Technigala, Fall 2024: Dartmouth’s Showcase of Student Innovation
Technigala is a highly anticipated end-of-term event that spotlights the incredible work of students from the DALI Lab and the departments of computer science and engineering at Dartmouth College. It’s an exhilarating evening where the latest technology, digital arts, and engineering projects take center stage, revealing the creativity and innovation cultivated throughout the term. This fall, the event will be held on November 19, 2024, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM at the state-of-the-art Engineering and Computer Science Center (ECSC).
Since its inception in 2013, Technigala has blossomed into Dartmouth’s premier tech and design showcase, providing an opportunity for students to demonstrate projects in UI/UX design, full-stack web development, AR/VR, modeling, and engineering to an enthusiastic public audience. Each term, the showcase has expanded, bringing in a growing number of attendees eager to experience cutting-edge student work firsthand. DALI Lab director and co-founder Tim Tregubov describes the event as a vibrant alternative to exams and reports, offering students the chance to showcase their work and receive valuable feedback from faculty, peers, community members, and even potential investors.
Preview a few DALI Lab projects
Benchify, co-founded by DALI alum Juan Castaño and Dartmouth alum Max von Hippel, is a Y Combinator-backed automatic code review tool integrated with Github pull requests that rigorously tests code changes and pinpoints real bugs in the codebase. Demonstrating significant improvements in error detection compared to popular LLM models, Benchify enables engineers to focus on writing new code while ensuring reliability by automating and streamlining the debugging process. Benchify leverages a mathematical property-based testing approach, characterizing the logical relationships between the inputs and outputs of the code and generating counterexamples to provide actionable feedback, performance analyses, and tested patches to developers. DALI is proud to partner with Benchify to expand the language compatibility of this tool and reimagine its user interface on Github and beyond.
Survival Story aims to reduce the stigma surrounding opioid use disorder (OUD) and provide harm reduction education through an artistic approach that blends storytelling with essential public health education and training. The DALI team is designing and implementing interactive features that encourage users to engage meaningfully with Survival Story’s educational and narrative content, inspiring reflection. In the future, Survival Story will be offered as a continuing medical education course, aiming to reach millions of healthcare professionals nationwide to educate and shift perspectives on OUD.
DALI Lab has partnered with the National Park Service (NPS) to develop BarnacleVision and AlgaeVision, two machine-learning tools that automate the analysis of coastal ecosystem images, reducing the need for manual classification. Through a streamlined pipeline, users can upload pictures of barnacles, receive automated counts from the model, and make any necessary corrections to the data. AlgaeVision, built upon UC San Diego’s CoralNet algorithms, similarly takes uploaded images and assesses species coverage in the community plot. Tidepool offers DALI students hands-on experience in applying machine learning to real-world environmental challenges, equipping them with essential skills to navigate complex, realistic obstacles and empowering them to make meaningful contributions to conservation while strengthening their technical and collaborative abilities.
The value of the event
The event is held in the West End, a hub for engineering, design, and entrepreneurial programs, reflecting Dartmouth’s commitment to interdisciplinary learning, where students from various fields come together. Projects at Technigala often go beyond traditional coursework, sparking new ideas and collaborations that continue long after the event ends. This event is an invaluable platform for students to share their creations and engage with an audience of peers, tech enthusiasts, budding entrepreneurs, and supportive community members. Technigala embodies the excitement and innovation at the heart of Dartmouth, inviting everyone to witness how student projects are poised to impact local and global communities. For more information, check out Technigala's official page — don’t miss the opportunity to see what Dartmouth students are building next!
