BoosterChallenge 2025: These are this year's winners from FIT

The BoosterChallenge summer student project competition was held for the sixth time this year. The event originated at FIT VUT, but gradually gained the support of other VUT faculties and is now being held for the second year under the auspices of VUT contriBUTe.

In the first half of September, 13 successful projects were announced, and their authors received financial rewards. FIT students were very successful in the competition again this year: four teams were composed exclusively of students from our faculty. Projects with a significant or exclusive FIT contribution included:

• cyrcID is a software platform designed to support the implementation of a digital product passport that provides information about the manufacturing process, materials used, and environmental impact. Our faculty was represented in the team by Tobiáš Frajka and Adam Pastierik.
• Dominik Honza created a fully functional application called RUFFE – Revíry, which is built on a modern technological structure, is sustainable in the long term, and is actively used by the fishing community.
• Adriana Buchmei's Poseify project has moved into the functional application phase with an implemented machine learning model for recognizing yoga poses.
• The SOFOS project addresses minor but, in practice, fundamental problems associated with service in catering establishments. Students Jan Lindovský and Marcel Mravec have created a detailed, technically well-thought-out functional prototype.
• Alex Marinica's VitalMap project is unique in terms of the scope of work that one student has accomplished over the summer. What's more, it operates in the difficult field of biomedical engineering. The goal is ambitious: to create a mobile application for diagnosing mild concussions using pupil response (changes in the size of the pupil).

We congratulate all the winners and thank them for the energy they put into their projects.