Blog Posts by Westmont

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  • Alumni Profiles: Alexa Gatiss

    January 10, 2025

    Here at CATLab, we’re so proud of our graduates! Many of the students who came through CATLab during their time at Westmont have leveraged the skills they learned in the program into exciting roles in the technology and software industries. We recently sat down with Alexa Gatiss ’23, who participated in CATLab in 2021 and 2022, to hear more about her current work and her advice for future CATLab students.

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  • Creating a Strong AI Foundation

    November 6, 2024

    Ryan Magnuson and Nice Teta Hirwa reflect on the challenges they faced while creating new AI tools for Westmont's admissions department.

    We started without a clue about what we were doing.

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  • Committed to Excellence Behind the Scenes

    October 26, 2024

    Garrett Buchanan and Narindra Rafidimalala explain the different projects that the Business Analyst CATLab team undertook during 2024 to improve Westmont's underlying processes and data.

    Our journey this summer has been a testament to the power of collaboration, continuous improvement, and the drive for excellence. Read on to find out more about each of our projects!

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  • Answering New Questions Through AI

    October 16, 2024

    In this blog, Curtis Barnhart and David Oyebade explain how they used AI to monitor Westmont's energy usage and give more information to the community.

    Our energy AI project predicts Westmont’s future energy use based on historical data and sends peak alert emails to pertinent Westmont parties when predicted energy usage rates near a monthly high.

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