The Microtransit Innovation Challenge is a campus-wide technical competition that invites students to design and implement solutions for real-time vehicle tracking and microtransit visualization.

This year, seven interdisciplinary student teams competed across three challenge areas:

1. Hardware assembly for vehicle location tracking
2. User interface (website) design
3. Data management and system integration

Winners received prizes of $700 for first place, $200 for second place and $100 for third place.

2026 Microtransit Innovation Challenge winners

• First Place: Team Transit4All – Steffen Ullmann and Joshua Gottus
• Second Place: Team OmegaY – Alec Brenes
• Third Place: Team Dumpling – Sirish Gurung

Challenge evaluators: Dr. Edward Kim, Dr. Caleb Xu and Dr. Onur Toker

For more information, contact Dr. Edward Kim.