Final Project Showcase
This page lists final projects from Spring 2026’s offering of DSC 106. Projects are listed with the permission of the student teams.
There were two kinds of awards given to student submissions:
- The Best Project Award was given to the top 4 submissions out of 69 (top 6%) based on overall project quality, as determined by the instructor and course staff.
- The Honorable Mention Award was given to the next 3 submissions, bringing the recognized group to the top 7 submissions (top 10%).
Exploring Pedestrian Safety and Walkability in Downtown San Diego
Team: Colin Tran, Christian Kimayong, Maxime Chung, Brian Sun
Best Project
Strike or Ball? Could You Call the Zone?
Team: Pratham Aggarwal, Brandon Nieto, Kyle Duong
Honorable Mention
The NBA Identity Crisis: How 30 Years of Revolution Changed Basketball Forever
Team: Shivam Sharma, Luis-Fernando Corona, Manning Karahashi, Jimbo Cai
Same 24 Hours, Different Lives
Team: Ishaan Tibdewal, Mihir Vad, Michael Petersen, Diego Inostroza
Charting a Century of Asteroid Near Misses
Team: Waleed Alshakhshir, Jocelyn Ng, Brandon Lum, Brian Liu
The Streamlined Era: How Popular Music Changed in the Age of Streaming
Team: Rose Park, Chengyun Xu, Raymond Wang
Climate Change is Global, Response is Not
Team: Nainika Neerukonda, Aaditya Aswadhati, Ryan Atienza
Challenging the Call: MLB's ABS Revolution
Team: Andrew Zaletski, Lucien Hsiao, Daniel Huang
Shot Quality vs. Shot Volume: An Interactive Exploration of College Basketball Offenses
Team: Karthik Sankaran, Yaqub Mir, Madhav Pudukottai Krishnaraj, Owen McFadden
Beyond the State Average
Team: Baoyi Wan, Zihan Zhang, Yadushan Thillainathan, Kangxin Peng
San Diego Climate, 1925-now-2100
Team: Palina Volskaya, Hieu Nguyen, Calvin Chen, Moniriddh Bunyay
What does a genre sound like?
Team: Edward Zhang, Alexander Takamoto, Antony Munkhchuluun, Samson Wan
The Vanishing Arctic
Team: Summer Garvais, Joseph Calderon, Lyn Mansfield, Adam Walters
"When do Climate Futures begin to diverge?"
Team: Even Wu, Eric Mei, Junle Li, Bobby Zhou
Sierra Nevada Snowmelt in a Warming Climate
Team: Aaron Marasco, Qicheng Zou, Nate Nero, Ani Boppana
Choose Your Future: How Today's Emissions Decide Tomorrow's Climate
Team: Sonya Schloss, Chidiebere Agunanne, Abigail McLeod
Can Your Dream Vacation Destination Survive Climate Change?
Team: Triton Stewart, Jiya Sreejesh, Kala Nguyen, Harshini Kanakala
El Nino Rewires the Pacific
Team: Gilad Segal, Sancho Martin Syquia, Matthew Paoletta, Thomas Deitel
The World Is Getting Greener — But Momentum Is Uneven.
Team: Jared Wang, Hoang Pham, Shaun Israni
Human Climate Choices and Their Impact on the Storms of Our Future
Team: Nikitha Kerudi, Nicholas Chan, Wanhan Sun, Sweekrit Bhatnagar
Moving on the Metro: NYC Public Transportation
Team: Natalie Huynh, Irina Vardapetyan, Nikita Jain
Team Christian R
Team: Christian Ramirez, Gabriel Borjas-Perez, Dylan Craver, Jared Parra
Warming Planet: An Explorable Explanation of CMIP6 Climate Projections
Team: Isabella Jiang, Beliz Akbulut, Caroline McClung
Lightning Doesn't Light Most U.S. Wildfires
Team: Vipra Bindal, Anwesha Mohanty, Dylan Cheng
When Siberia Warms, So Does the Sahara, Why?
Team: Sreekar Vemula, Risa Schloyer, Roman Respicio