LANSING TECH STUDIO

STUDENT DEMO DAY

EVENT PROGRAM

SHOWCASING STUDENT INNOVATION

  • CODE
  • CREATE
  • COLLABORATE
  • IMPACT
MAY 7, 2026
TECHSMITH HQ 14 Crescent Rd East Lansing, MI 48823
  • TOUR 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
  • DINNER & QUESTIONS 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
  • PRESENTATIONS 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

OUR STUDENTS’ LEARNING JOURNEY

From January through April, our students met each Thursday evening to grow their skills in technology, creativity, and project development.

What you see today is the result of months of coding, debugging, perseverance, and bold creative thinking.

  1. 1
    TECH FUNDAMENTALSTech Project Brainstorming
  2. 2
    JAVASCRIPT BASICSTech Project Brainstorming
  3. 3
    DRAW IT FIRSTPeer Feedback on Ideas
  4. 4
    INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMINGProject Drawing Share
  5. 5
    GAME ENGINE TOOLS (GODOT)
  6. 6
    PYTHON INTRODUCTIONPeer Feedback on Projects
  7. 7
    DIGITAL ANIMATION
  8. 8
    AI PLAYGROUND FOR KIDS (GOOGLE AI STUDIO)Contextual Inquiries & Demos
  9. 9
    SOUND DESIGN (FOLEY)
  10. 10
    ADVANCED PYTHONMarket Research
  11. 11
    GAME DESIGN (GODOT)Logo Design
  12. 12
    VIDEO PRODUCTIONStoryboard Presentation
  13. 13
    PROJECT SPRINTFinish projects “Open Spaces” event with Lansing Codes
  14. 14
    PROJECT SPRINTFinish presentations
  15. 15
    PROJECT SPRINTPractice demos, thank you cards, retrospective

ASK THE STUDENTS

Spark conversation. Inspire innovation.

Use these questions to dive deeper, challenge ideas, and celebrate our young innovators!

START WITH PURPOSE

Dig Into Their Purpose

  • Why did you choose your project idea to create?
  • During the “Draw It First” phase, was this the original idea you had, or did it evolve into something different?
  • If you changed your idea, why did it change?
  • What is your favorite part of your project that you created?
  • How does your project make life more fun or easier for the person using it?
  • What problem were you most excited to solve, and why?
  • What was a moment when your idea didn’t work—and what did you learn from that?
  • If you had to start over, what would you do differently and why?
  • What trade-offs did you have to make in your design?

DESIGN FOR REAL PEOPLE

Understand Their Impact

  • Is there a specific moment or feeling you want people to walk away with after they try your demo?
  • What kind of feedback challenged your thinking the most?
  • What market research did you do to help put together your project?
  • How did you differentiate your project from other existing games or apps?
  • Who do you think would benefit most from your project and why?
  • What surprised you most while talking to others about your idea?

SOLVE, TEST, MAKE BETTER

Explore Their Process

  • What was the biggest “bug” you ran into during your process, and how did you fix it?
  • If you had one more week to “refine and debug,” what is the first thing you would change about the technical side of this project?
  • How did you test or track progress?
  • If this project went viral tomorrow, what’s one feature you’d add to make it even better for a huge audience?
  • What part of the process are you most proud of and why?

THINK AHEAD, DREAM BIG

Imagine What’s Next

  • What would you change if you had one more week?
  • What would version 2.0 of your project look like?
  • If you had to turn this into a business, what would you sell?
  • Where could this idea go in the next year?
  • What’s one thing you want to learn next to level up?

Your questions can spark big ideas
and brighter futures!

PRESENTATION LINEUP

5 MINUTE PRESENTATIONS 2 MINUTES FOR QUESTIONS
STUDENT NAME PROJECT TITLE PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Xavier Way History Under the Waves A fun way to learn about shipwrecks. A multi-level game focused on exploring underwater shipwrecks.
William Asbenson 2D Commando Play as a 2D clone commando battling droids and surviving levels to reach the end.
Tucker Green Lab Crawl Battle mutant bosses and explore deeper chambers in a broken laboratory.
Joshua Wagner Bot Bash Arena Championship Fight robots in 2D and 3D arenas, upgrade your bots with new weapons, chassis and wheels, manage finances through investing in tech stocks and writing to virtual companies for sponsorships that give you money and extra abilities. Use your own customized music with MP3 upload and YouTube URLs.
Noah Thiede Hammerhead Hero Stop the darkness and save the world as a sword-wielding shark in a world of goblins fight your way to the abyssal maw to defeat the darkness.
Gabe Rice Cyber Guard Keep you and your family safe online. A way to keep you and your loved ones safe online as well as your info with air tight safety systems.
Liam Smith Save the Moon Base Protect your base from the aliens. Aliens have started attacking your base! Fight them off to protect your base and to prevent them from becoming the Super Boss!
Albert Hardy Vegetable Land Defy gravity, save the sun. An action packed, gravity defying quest to subdue the nefarious vegetables and return the sun to the sky.
Edmund Krzyminski All Da Games’ A game for everyone. All da Games’ is a family friendly app that influences good behaviors through its adventurous games.
Dexter Krzyminski Chromatic Dawn Bringing color to your life. A game of leisure where you must restore color to a prehistoric world.
JJ Gardener Petrified Orangutan A very fun scary baboon type game.
Louie Dearman Worm Dig Eat Dirt. Dig Deep. Control a worm burrowing through an underground world where dirt is currency. Collect, survive, and upgrade as you battle enemies and bosses. Build, explore, and customize your worm in an endless sandbox adventure.

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