Computer science idea, but no funding? This Khoury College alum can help.
Mon 03.07.22 / Tracy Miller Geary
Computer science idea, but no funding? This Khoury College alum can help.
Mon 03.07.22 / Tracy Miller Geary
Mon 03.07.22 / Tracy Miller Geary
Mon 03.07.22 / Tracy Miller Geary
Computer science idea, but no funding? This Khoury College alum can help.
Mon 03.07.22 / Tracy Miller Geary
Computer science idea, but no funding? This Khoury College alum can help.
Mon 03.07.22 / Tracy Miller Geary
Mon 03.07.22 / Tracy Miller Geary
Mon 03.07.22 / Tracy Miller Geary
Photo provided by Chris Jelly.With this need in mind, Jelly created the Jelly Incubation Fund for Khoury College in 2017 with a $25,000 donation. He has characterized the fund’s purpose as “no-strings-attached cash grants to students with unique, self-directed ideas that are related to computer science in some way.” He views the fund as a conduit for compelling student ideas and projects.
Back when he was an undergraduate, Northeastern had funding opportunities for students outside of the classroom, such as IDEA and the Provost’s Award, but nothing that worked specifically the way the Jelly Fund works. “Lots of students want to build their own product or conduct research, so I wanted to create a fund that would be all-encompassing,” Jelly explained.
The fund is open to full-time Khoury College undergraduate students. In their proposals, which are assessed on the scope of the proposed idea and its relevance to both the college and the student applicants, they provide an outline of their project, including a budget, timeline, and a defined goal. Expenses typically covered by the fund include supplies, equipment, lab space, labor costs, or personal remuneration.
Collaborations with the Khoury College major gifts team and central university advancement, along with donations from parents, staff, and alumni of Northeastern, helped the Jelly Fund to award over $20,000 in project money in 2020 alone. Jelly also reached out and developed a partnership with Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) so that each grantee automatically receives an additional $5,000 in AWS credits via AWS Activate. These credits can be used for web services from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things.
Jelly is involved in the selection of recipients of the Jelly Fund, and he serves on the selection committee along with faculty, staff, and alumni. He credits Doreen Hodgkin, former associate dean of Khoury College, with the idea of having students apply to the fund instead of him personally selecting specific projects.
A showcase of funded student projects
One of the many fund recipients is Code4Community, a student-run organization dedicated to providing custom software solutions to local non-profits at no cost to them. The club partners with organizations needing software to increase their efficiency, scope, and ultimately their impact. (To learn more about Code4Community, go to c4cneu.com.)
Club president, data science major Floris Dobber, reported that Code4Community is immensely grateful for the financial support they’ve received. “The Jelly Fund donation has made it possible for us to provide our services to our partners at no cost. Their donation, and the associated AWS credits, covers all our development costs and allows us to use industry standard development environments,” he said.
Preston Rakovsky, a computer science and business major and another Jelly Fund recipient, has created an iOS app called “Food Flock,” which seeks to solve the age-old problem of where to go out to eat. “Users can swipe through a collection of these cards with their partner, until all individuals swipe right, or ‘match’, on the same restaurant,” Rakovsky explained. “Because of the Jelly Fund, we were able to host our app on cloud resources, purchase design assets and, once we go live, we will be able to use the remaining funding to market and advertise our app on various social media platforms.”
Full details on their project can be found at https://prestonr.xyz/papers/foodflock
Along with collaborators David Malakh and Daniel Guddemi, another recipient, Zachary Galeaz, explained that, while still a work-in-progress, his project CodeSprout is, at its core, an interactive e-catalog of programming projects. The design is full of specialized features and integrations that make it easy to engage and spark collaboration with peers in software development.
Galeaz, a computer science major, stressed that the support of the Jelly Fund has been essential to CodeSprout’s development. “We’ve used some of the AWS credits we were given to test out various platform configurations that we would have never been able to use as third-year college students, giving us experience with enterprise-level applications that you definitely wouldn’t get in a college class,” he said.
Positive effect on experiential learning
Student recipients of the funding are unanimously grateful to Chris Jelly and the Jelly Fund team. Khoury College leadership is grateful, too, for how the grants help bring student ideas to life.
“The Jelly Fund has made it possible to fuel our students’ entrepreneurial spirit and creativity while supporting their experiential learning goals and preparing them for the world of work. Khoury College and the students are grateful for Chris Jelly’s generosity and his ongoing support of our students,” said Ben Hescott, Khoury College teaching professor and associate dean of undergraduate education and experience.
There are plans to expand the fund and make more grants available to more students. Last year, Chris Jelly and Marina Moskowitz, who graduated from Northeastern in 2019 with a BS in computer science and entrepreneurship, created special Giving Day challenges: for every 100 gifts Khoury College received, Moskowitz made a $1,000 gift to the Khoury Dean’s Fund. Additionally, for every 250 gifts the college received, Jelly made a $5,000 gift to the Jelly Incubation Fund.
As significant as the Jelly Fund is with regards to financial support, the fund goes a long way as a positive motivator at a critical time in new project’s development. Galeaz stressed, “Just the simple fact that someone looked at our idea and decided it was good enough to fund has caused us to stick with the project.”
Photo provided by Chris Jelly.With this need in mind, Jelly created the Jelly Incubation Fund for Khoury College in 2017 with a $25,000 donation. He has characterized the fund’s purpose as “no-strings-attached cash grants to students with unique, self-directed ideas that are related to computer science in some way.” He views the fund as a conduit for compelling student ideas and projects.
Back when he was an undergraduate, Northeastern had funding opportunities for students outside of the classroom, such as IDEA and the Provost’s Award, but nothing that worked specifically the way the Jelly Fund works. “Lots of students want to build their own product or conduct research, so I wanted to create a fund that would be all-encompassing,” Jelly explained.
The fund is open to full-time Khoury College undergraduate students. In their proposals, which are assessed on the scope of the proposed idea and its relevance to both the college and the student applicants, they provide an outline of their project, including a budget, timeline, and a defined goal. Expenses typically covered by the fund include supplies, equipment, lab space, labor costs, or personal remuneration.
Collaborations with the Khoury College major gifts team and central university advancement, along with donations from parents, staff, and alumni of Northeastern, helped the Jelly Fund to award over $20,000 in project money in 2020 alone. Jelly also reached out and developed a partnership with Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) so that each grantee automatically receives an additional $5,000 in AWS credits via AWS Activate. These credits can be used for web services from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things.
Jelly is involved in the selection of recipients of the Jelly Fund, and he serves on the selection committee along with faculty, staff, and alumni. He credits Doreen Hodgkin, former associate dean of Khoury College, with the idea of having students apply to the fund instead of him personally selecting specific projects.
A showcase of funded student projects
One of the many fund recipients is Code4Community, a student-run organization dedicated to providing custom software solutions to local non-profits at no cost to them. The club partners with organizations needing software to increase their efficiency, scope, and ultimately their impact. (To learn more about Code4Community, go to c4cneu.com.)
Club president, data science major Floris Dobber, reported that Code4Community is immensely grateful for the financial support they’ve received. “The Jelly Fund donation has made it possible for us to provide our services to our partners at no cost. Their donation, and the associated AWS credits, covers all our development costs and allows us to use industry standard development environments,” he said.
Preston Rakovsky, a computer science and business major and another Jelly Fund recipient, has created an iOS app called “Food Flock,” which seeks to solve the age-old problem of where to go out to eat. “Users can swipe through a collection of these cards with their partner, until all individuals swipe right, or ‘match’, on the same restaurant,” Rakovsky explained. “Because of the Jelly Fund, we were able to host our app on cloud resources, purchase design assets and, once we go live, we will be able to use the remaining funding to market and advertise our app on various social media platforms.”
Full details on their project can be found at https://prestonr.xyz/papers/foodflock
Along with collaborators David Malakh and Daniel Guddemi, another recipient, Zachary Galeaz, explained that, while still a work-in-progress, his project CodeSprout is, at its core, an interactive e-catalog of programming projects. The design is full of specialized features and integrations that make it easy to engage and spark collaboration with peers in software development.
Galeaz, a computer science major, stressed that the support of the Jelly Fund has been essential to CodeSprout’s development. “We’ve used some of the AWS credits we were given to test out various platform configurations that we would have never been able to use as third-year college students, giving us experience with enterprise-level applications that you definitely wouldn’t get in a college class,” he said.
Positive effect on experiential learning
Student recipients of the funding are unanimously grateful to Chris Jelly and the Jelly Fund team. Khoury College leadership is grateful, too, for how the grants help bring student ideas to life.
“The Jelly Fund has made it possible to fuel our students’ entrepreneurial spirit and creativity while supporting their experiential learning goals and preparing them for the world of work. Khoury College and the students are grateful for Chris Jelly’s generosity and his ongoing support of our students,” said Ben Hescott, Khoury College teaching professor and associate dean of undergraduate education and experience.
There are plans to expand the fund and make more grants available to more students. Last year, Chris Jelly and Marina Moskowitz, who graduated from Northeastern in 2019 with a BS in computer science and entrepreneurship, created special Giving Day challenges: for every 100 gifts Khoury College received, Moskowitz made a $1,000 gift to the Khoury Dean’s Fund. Additionally, for every 250 gifts the college received, Jelly made a $5,000 gift to the Jelly Incubation Fund.
As significant as the Jelly Fund is with regards to financial support, the fund goes a long way as a positive motivator at a critical time in new project’s development. Galeaz stressed, “Just the simple fact that someone looked at our idea and decided it was good enough to fund has caused us to stick with the project.”
Photo provided by Chris Jelly.With this need in mind, Jelly created the Jelly Incubation Fund for Khoury College in 2017 with a $25,000 donation. He has characterized the fund’s purpose as “no-strings-attached cash grants to students with unique, self-directed ideas that are related to computer science in some way.” He views the fund as a conduit for compelling student ideas and projects.
Back when he was an undergraduate, Northeastern had funding opportunities for students outside of the classroom, such as IDEA and the Provost’s Award, but nothing that worked specifically the way the Jelly Fund works. “Lots of students want to build their own product or conduct research, so I wanted to create a fund that would be all-encompassing,” Jelly explained.
The fund is open to full-time Khoury College undergraduate students. In their proposals, which are assessed on the scope of the proposed idea and its relevance to both the college and the student applicants, they provide an outline of their project, including a budget, timeline, and a defined goal. Expenses typically covered by the fund include supplies, equipment, lab space, labor costs, or personal remuneration.
Collaborations with the Khoury College major gifts team and central university advancement, along with donations from parents, staff, and alumni of Northeastern, helped the Jelly Fund to award over $20,000 in project money in 2020 alone. Jelly also reached out and developed a partnership with Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) so that each grantee automatically receives an additional $5,000 in AWS credits via AWS Activate. These credits can be used for web services from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things.
Jelly is involved in the selection of recipients of the Jelly Fund, and he serves on the selection committee along with faculty, staff, and alumni. He credits Doreen Hodgkin, former associate dean of Khoury College, with the idea of having students apply to the fund instead of him personally selecting specific projects.
A showcase of funded student projects
One of the many fund recipients is Code4Community, a student-run organization dedicated to providing custom software solutions to local non-profits at no cost to them. The club partners with organizations needing software to increase their efficiency, scope, and ultimately their impact. (To learn more about Code4Community, go to c4cneu.com.)
Club president, data science major Floris Dobber, reported that Code4Community is immensely grateful for the financial support they’ve received. “The Jelly Fund donation has made it possible for us to provide our services to our partners at no cost. Their donation, and the associated AWS credits, covers all our development costs and allows us to use industry standard development environments,” he said.
Preston Rakovsky, a computer science and business major and another Jelly Fund recipient, has created an iOS app called “Food Flock,” which seeks to solve the age-old problem of where to go out to eat. “Users can swipe through a collection of these cards with their partner, until all individuals swipe right, or ‘match’, on the same restaurant,” Rakovsky explained. “Because of the Jelly Fund, we were able to host our app on cloud resources, purchase design assets and, once we go live, we will be able to use the remaining funding to market and advertise our app on various social media platforms.”
Full details on their project can be found at https://prestonr.xyz/papers/foodflock
Along with collaborators David Malakh and Daniel Guddemi, another recipient, Zachary Galeaz, explained that, while still a work-in-progress, his project CodeSprout is, at its core, an interactive e-catalog of programming projects. The design is full of specialized features and integrations that make it easy to engage and spark collaboration with peers in software development.
Galeaz, a computer science major, stressed that the support of the Jelly Fund has been essential to CodeSprout’s development. “We’ve used some of the AWS credits we were given to test out various platform configurations that we would have never been able to use as third-year college students, giving us experience with enterprise-level applications that you definitely wouldn’t get in a college class,” he said.
Positive effect on experiential learning
Student recipients of the funding are unanimously grateful to Chris Jelly and the Jelly Fund team. Khoury College leadership is grateful, too, for how the grants help bring student ideas to life.
“The Jelly Fund has made it possible to fuel our students’ entrepreneurial spirit and creativity while supporting their experiential learning goals and preparing them for the world of work. Khoury College and the students are grateful for Chris Jelly’s generosity and his ongoing support of our students,” said Ben Hescott, Khoury College teaching professor and associate dean of undergraduate education and experience.
There are plans to expand the fund and make more grants available to more students. Last year, Chris Jelly and Marina Moskowitz, who graduated from Northeastern in 2019 with a BS in computer science and entrepreneurship, created special Giving Day challenges: for every 100 gifts Khoury College received, Moskowitz made a $1,000 gift to the Khoury Dean’s Fund. Additionally, for every 250 gifts the college received, Jelly made a $5,000 gift to the Jelly Incubation Fund.
As significant as the Jelly Fund is with regards to financial support, the fund goes a long way as a positive motivator at a critical time in new project’s development. Galeaz stressed, “Just the simple fact that someone looked at our idea and decided it was good enough to fund has caused us to stick with the project.”
Photo provided by Chris Jelly.With this need in mind, Jelly created the Jelly Incubation Fund for Khoury College in 2017 with a $25,000 donation. He has characterized the fund’s purpose as “no-strings-attached cash grants to students with unique, self-directed ideas that are related to computer science in some way.” He views the fund as a conduit for compelling student ideas and projects.
Back when he was an undergraduate, Northeastern had funding opportunities for students outside of the classroom, such as IDEA and the Provost’s Award, but nothing that worked specifically the way the Jelly Fund works. “Lots of students want to build their own product or conduct research, so I wanted to create a fund that would be all-encompassing,” Jelly explained.
The fund is open to full-time Khoury College undergraduate students. In their proposals, which are assessed on the scope of the proposed idea and its relevance to both the college and the student applicants, they provide an outline of their project, including a budget, timeline, and a defined goal. Expenses typically covered by the fund include supplies, equipment, lab space, labor costs, or personal remuneration.
Collaborations with the Khoury College major gifts team and central university advancement, along with donations from parents, staff, and alumni of Northeastern, helped the Jelly Fund to award over $20,000 in project money in 2020 alone. Jelly also reached out and developed a partnership with Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) so that each grantee automatically receives an additional $5,000 in AWS credits via AWS Activate. These credits can be used for web services from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things.
Jelly is involved in the selection of recipients of the Jelly Fund, and he serves on the selection committee along with faculty, staff, and alumni. He credits Doreen Hodgkin, former associate dean of Khoury College, with the idea of having students apply to the fund instead of him personally selecting specific projects.
A showcase of funded student projects
One of the many fund recipients is Code4Community, a student-run organization dedicated to providing custom software solutions to local non-profits at no cost to them. The club partners with organizations needing software to increase their efficiency, scope, and ultimately their impact. (To learn more about Code4Community, go to c4cneu.com.)
Club president, data science major Floris Dobber, reported that Code4Community is immensely grateful for the financial support they’ve received. “The Jelly Fund donation has made it possible for us to provide our services to our partners at no cost. Their donation, and the associated AWS credits, covers all our development costs and allows us to use industry standard development environments,” he said.
Preston Rakovsky, a computer science and business major and another Jelly Fund recipient, has created an iOS app called “Food Flock,” which seeks to solve the age-old problem of where to go out to eat. “Users can swipe through a collection of these cards with their partner, until all individuals swipe right, or ‘match’, on the same restaurant,” Rakovsky explained. “Because of the Jelly Fund, we were able to host our app on cloud resources, purchase design assets and, once we go live, we will be able to use the remaining funding to market and advertise our app on various social media platforms.”
Full details on their project can be found at https://prestonr.xyz/papers/foodflock
Along with collaborators David Malakh and Daniel Guddemi, another recipient, Zachary Galeaz, explained that, while still a work-in-progress, his project CodeSprout is, at its core, an interactive e-catalog of programming projects. The design is full of specialized features and integrations that make it easy to engage and spark collaboration with peers in software development.
Galeaz, a computer science major, stressed that the support of the Jelly Fund has been essential to CodeSprout’s development. “We’ve used some of the AWS credits we were given to test out various platform configurations that we would have never been able to use as third-year college students, giving us experience with enterprise-level applications that you definitely wouldn’t get in a college class,” he said.
Positive effect on experiential learning
Student recipients of the funding are unanimously grateful to Chris Jelly and the Jelly Fund team. Khoury College leadership is grateful, too, for how the grants help bring student ideas to life.
“The Jelly Fund has made it possible to fuel our students’ entrepreneurial spirit and creativity while supporting their experiential learning goals and preparing them for the world of work. Khoury College and the students are grateful for Chris Jelly’s generosity and his ongoing support of our students,” said Ben Hescott, Khoury College teaching professor and associate dean of undergraduate education and experience.
There are plans to expand the fund and make more grants available to more students. Last year, Chris Jelly and Marina Moskowitz, who graduated from Northeastern in 2019 with a BS in computer science and entrepreneurship, created special Giving Day challenges: for every 100 gifts Khoury College received, Moskowitz made a $1,000 gift to the Khoury Dean’s Fund. Additionally, for every 250 gifts the college received, Jelly made a $5,000 gift to the Jelly Incubation Fund.
As significant as the Jelly Fund is with regards to financial support, the fund goes a long way as a positive motivator at a critical time in new project’s development. Galeaz stressed, “Just the simple fact that someone looked at our idea and decided it was good enough to fund has caused us to stick with the project.”
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