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This project involves applying data science techniques to analyze financial market data, specifically focusing on stock market trends. The primary objective is to utilize historical stock data available through the Yahoo Finance API to answer key exploratory questions. Learners will calculate the variance of selected stocks to understand their volatility. Additionally, they will explore the use of moving averages to identify potential profitable trading opportunities. Variances Moving averages Trading Ranges Opening/Closing candlestick patterns The project aims to bridge theoretical knowledge from the classroom with practical data analysis skills, enabling learners to gain insights into financial market behaviors. By the end of the project, students will have a deeper understanding of how data-driven strategies can be applied to real-world financial scenarios.

FreeFuse has a diverse user base that includes creators, educators, enterprise clients, and innovation partners. This project will help develop a CRM strategy blueprint that identifies key user segments, maps out lifecycle stages, and outlines communication cadences. Students will create a data-driven CRM engagement plan that addresses how to manage creators differently from enterprise contacts, and how to transition engaged leads into partner-level relationships. The focus will be on enabling FreeFuse to scale engagement without losing personalization.

The Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) has developed a research-backed web app called ChatBoy , designed to help users recognize and respond to manipulative communication. The app includes over 1,700 scenario-based questions and responses, each carefully crafted and approved by psychologists using a behavioral trait scoring system built over years of research. Right now, ChatBoy functions like a quiz—it’s effective, but static. This project invites a student to help us build the next-gen MVP by transforming those same questions and characters into interactive, personality-driven AI agents using generative AI tools. We’re not looking for a polished or commercial product—just something functional that demonstrates how ChatBoy could evolve. We’ll provide all the structured content: character personalities, speech patterns, and behavioral logic. Your job is to plug that into an AI architecture (like LangChain, GPT Agents, or something similar) to produce 16 dynamic character bots that users can talk to. You’ll take our data, add some flair, and create an MVP that shows what’s possible when real-world behavioral insights meet modern AI.

Students in the Master of Education program specialize in areas of Learning and Instruction; Learning Experience Design and Technology; Special Education; or Higher Ed Administration . In their Capstone course they are expected to integrate their knowledge in the following areas through a real-world project: Specialized Knowledge Explain the major theories, research methods and approaches to inquiry and schools of practice in the field of education, articulate their sources and illustrate both their applications and their relationships to allied fields of study. Broad and Integrative Knowledge Design and execute an applied, investigative or creative work that draws on the perspectives and methods within the sub-fields of education and assess the resulting advantages and challenges of including these perspectives and methods. Applied and Collaborative Learning Design and implement a project or performance in an out-of-class setting that requires the application of advanced knowledge gained in the field of education to a practical challenge, articulate in writing or another medium the insights gained from this experience, and assess approaches, scholarly debates or standards for professional performance applicable to the challenge. Civic, Global, Intercultural Learning Assess and develop a position on a public policy question with significance in the field of education taking into account both scholarship and published or electronically posted positions and narratives of relevant interest groups. Experiential Learning Integrate education-specific best practices and tools into experiential learning opportunities offered in the program.

Students participating in this program are part of an early college and work-based learning initiative called REALWork , offered through the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) . REALWork is an acronym for " R acial E quity and A ccess L ab for our Workf orce". SEZP REALWork Program is a collaborative portfolio of college partners and work-based learning opportunities designed to function as a “ laboratory ecosystem ” that supports employability development within Springfield, Massachusetts schools. The ecosystem includes colleges, industry partners, and community-based organizations to provide a suite of college degree pathways, micro-internships, industry credentialing, mentoring opportunities, advising, and applied career learning. The “lab” environment ensures participating students access essential experiences that address the filtration systems Black, Latinx, multilingual, and exceptional learners in Springfield face in regional employment markets REALWork's mission is to build on the critical work of Early College, first and foremost eradicating the barriers to higher education in the lucrative regional fields like advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and computer sciences, but goes farther to ensure employment access in these fields. 80% of employment opportunities in the workforce are forged through networks. These networks provide opportunities for new workers to build skill and familiarity in the industry, while accessing salaries at the living wage. This cohort consists of up to 8-10 high school students , each of whom will dedicate 30 hours to a hands-on project as part of their learning experience. Students in this cohort are pursuing a degree pathway in Advanced Manufacturing and Technology , with a focus on one of the following areas: Cybersecurity Optics and photonics Mechanical engineering Computer systems engineers Programmers Digital media and graphic arts Low voltage systems NOTE: REALWork SEZP  students are new to or are acquiring foundational skills in the subject area of the project. You will be assigned a team of 2-3 students for your project and the outcomes/deliverables should achievable within 30 hours per student.