Student IT Architecture Competition

Past Events

SITAC 2024

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SITAC 2023

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The 2023 SITAC competition successfully culminated with a the online grand finale on 5/21/2023.

SITAC 2022

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The 2022 SITAC competition successfully culminated with the grand finale on 5/15/2022. Twenty teams representing a mix of graduate students from University of Washington, Seattle University, Minnesota State University and Carnegie Mellon University participated in this year's competition. Thirteen made it to the final presentations. Just like the 2021 competition, the entire 2022 competition was conducted in an online format due to COVID restrictions, yet the event saw the same enthusiasm and dedication from students, mentors and everybody else involved. 

Problem Statement: Driving personal sustainability for environmental change

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The competition marathon started in Dec 2021 and ended in May 2022. The solution architecture was built through the following deliverables:


Each student team worked with a mentor from the industry. Here's the list of the mentors for 2022 competition.

SITAC - 2021

The teams participating in the 2021 SITAC represented a mix of graduate and under graduate students from University of Washington, Seattle University, University of California Riverside, Minnesota State and Lewis and Clarke College. The entire competition as well as the final rounds were conducted in an online format. The grand finale of SITAC 2021 concluded on 5/8/2021. 

Problem Statement: Digital Minimalism

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Guest Speaker

SITAC - 2020

We concluded the 5th year of the competition successfully in spite of the pandemic conditions. The competing student teams and mentors put in a committed effort and completed the solution deliverables on time. The competition commenced on November 14, 2019 with 101 students from 9 campuses and the teams completed their deliverables by March 25, 2020. We had to move the finale to completely online. The final event was a collaboration of over 75 people presenting from different locations in and outside the United States! A heartfelt thank you for the amazing collaboration and participation of judges, evaluators, panelists, keynote speaker and most importantly, the students and mentors!


Problem Statement: Learning management system

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SITAC - 2019

The fourth Student IT Architecture Competition (2018-2019) was conducted from November 2018 through April 2019. We had 51 teams registered comprising of  146 students from 10 schools, of which 24 teams reached the finals. Each team had an industry practitioner as a mentor. There were 41 mentors from 20 different organizations.  The final event featured 3 judges and 17 speakers.

Problem Statement: Anti Bullying Report and Support System

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Keynote Speaker 

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