{"id":748,"date":"2026-04-21T13:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/?p=748"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:16:39","slug":"congratulations-datafest-2026-vassar-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/2026\/04\/21\/congratulations-datafest-2026-vassar-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations DataFest 2026 @ Vassar participants!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/files\/2026\/04\/DataFest2026Vassar-2-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/files\/2026\/04\/DataFest2026Vassar-2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/files\/2026\/04\/DataFest2026Vassar-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/files\/2026\/04\/DataFest2026Vassar-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/files\/2026\/04\/DataFest2026Vassar-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/files\/2026\/04\/DataFest2026Vassar-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/files\/2026\/04\/DataFest2026Vassar-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DataFest 2026 @ Vassar Group Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you and congratulations to all who participated in this year\u2019s DataFest! This year, we welcomed students from Vassar College as well as Bard College, Dutchess Community College, SUNY New Paltz!  Students, you should be proud of the perseverance and creativity that you demonstrated this weekend that resulted in some insightful presentations. As always, our judges had a challenging task, but awarded prizes to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mind Over Metrics (Ashley Barmore, Catherine Chen, Kangning Luo, and Frances Zehner) for <em>Best Overall Analysis<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JT Queen (Kungpeng Wu and Yuqei Zhang) for <em>Best Visualization<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Team A (Wyatt Nault and Chelsea Qiu) for <em>Best Use of Outside Data\/Information\/Research<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Precision Peregrines (Nick Bennett, Oscar Blanco, Jessica Sundeen) for <em>Best Narrative<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We also thank all of our consultants, judges, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/sponsors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sponsors<\/a>\u00a0for helping to make the weekend happen. We look forward to welcoming everyone back for DataFest 2027 @ Vassar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you and congratulations to all who participated in this year\u2019s DataFest! This year, we welcomed students from Vassar College as well as Bard College, Dutchess Community College, SUNY New Paltz! Students, you should be proud of the perseverance and creativity that you demonstrated this weekend that resulted in some insightful presentations. As always, our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/2026\/04\/21\/congratulations-datafest-2026-vassar-participants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations DataFest 2026 @ Vassar participants!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/datafest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}