Booster Challenge 2025: Student competition announces its winners

The 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. BoosterChallenge gives students a unique opportunity to bring their ideas closer to realization and practical application.

This year's student project competition selected 19 student projects covering a wide range of topics. To name just a few: an indoor drone, a system for bicycles that automatically regulates tire pressure, a modern fitness app, an interactive map of fishing grounds... Last week, 13 successful projects were announced, and their creators received financial rewards.

The evaluation committee, which was composed of representatives of BUT and the JIC innovation agency, evaluated the projects primarily from the perspective of innovation, quality of technical and technological solutions, commercial potential, and social benefits.

FIT students were very successful in the competition again this year, with four teams composed exclusively of students from our faculty. Projects with a significant or exclusive contribution from our students 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. It focuses primarily on small and medium-sized enterprises in the fashion industry. The team included students from various Brno universities: Šimon Pekař (Faculty of Business and Management, Brno University of Technology), Tobiáš Frajka and Adam Pastierik (Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology), Adéla Kočičková (Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology), and Jakub Jamný (Masaryk University). The technical solution is almost complete and ready for testing in a real environment. The project consultant was Ing. Jiří Hynek, Ph.D.

Dominik Honza created a fully functional application called RUFFE – Revíry, which is based on a modern technological structure, is sustainable in the long term, and is actively used by the fishing community, which regularly provides feedback. The application has already been downloaded more than a thousand times. The project consultant was Ing. Jan Pluskal, Ph.D.

Adriana Buchmei's Poseify project has moved into the functional application phase with an implemented machine learning model for recognizing yoga poses. The author is building on her earlier work, with development proceeding in a systematic and user-oriented manner. The application is available in a test version on Google Play, and although it is still an early MVP, it shows considerable potential. The consultant was Prof. Ing. Adam Herout, Ph.D.

The SOFOS project addresses minor but, in practice, fundamental problems associated with service in catering establishments. It combines elements familiar from major players such as Wolt and Foodora, expanding them with features tailored specifically for restaurants, which may be exactly what businesses need. Students Jan Lindovský and Marcel Mravec have created a technically sophisticated and functional prototype. The consultant was Ing. Martin Hrubý, Ph.D.

Alex Marinica's VitalMap project is specific in the scope of work that one student completed during the summer. Moreover, it operates in the difficult field of biomedical engineering. The goal is ambitious: it should be a mobile application for eye diagnostics using pupillary response (changes in the size of the pupil, most often reflex constriction when exposed to light or dilation when there is a lack of light). Measuring the pupillary reflex helps to detect the danger of mild concussion in time, when the patient is at risk of serious brain injury if a similar injury recurs. In terms of content, this is an extensive task that is in its initial phase.

"Opening the competition to all BUT faculties and institutes has connected students not only across BUT, but also between Brno universities, and has provided students with valuable feedback from experts in various fields at BUT," says Vítězslav Beran from FIT BUT, guarantor and coordinator of the competition, who positively evaluates the expansion of the program across the entire university.

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

We would also like to thank the experts from FIT who supported the faculty teams and/or participated in the review process or the activities of the program committee.

More information about the award-winning projects can be found here.

The original report published on the VUT website can be found here.