Mississippi State interior design students recently received 46 of 64 possible awards in the 2021 American Society of Interior Designers South Central Chapter Student Work Competition, which drew representatives from higher education institutions throughout Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Nine gold awards were handed down in the competition, all going to Ҵýapp students.
Ҵýapp Interior Design Program Director and Professor Beth Miller credits her students’ success to the exposure of a wide range of project types and to the faculty’s guidance and design experience in their respective fields. Ҵýapp’s interior design program also offers furniture design, numerous computer technology courses, hand rendering and lighting courses that many other universities do not include in their curricula.
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2021 Ҵýapp winners include:
Senior Olivia Grace Ausbon of Amory:
- bronze in Hand Rendering
Senior Dia S. Baldwin of Odenville, Alabama:
- bronze in Hospitality
- bronze in Hand Rendering
Senior Channing A. Blair of Kosciusko:
- silver in Original Product Design
Senior Mary Elle Burson of Madison:
- two silver awards in Hospitality
- silver in Healthcare
Senior Evelyn “Grace” Carroll of Jackson:
- silver in Hand Rendering
Aug. 2021 graduate Ashlyn Cummins:
- gold in Hospitality (with teammates Hannah Hancock, Katelyn Jenkins, Samantha Wilson)
Senior Sonsireth B. Di Geronimo of Starkville:
- silver in Hand Rendering
Senior Hollyann M. Friloux of Tupelo:
- silver in Hospitality
- silver in Hand Rendering
Junior Savanna K. Graffam of Franklin, Tennessee:
- gold in Hand Rendering
Junior Alaina “Laney” M. Hammond of Lakeland, Tennessee:
- bronze in Hand Rendering
Aug. 2021 graduate Hannah Hancock:
- gold in Hospitality (with teammates Katelyn Jenkins, Samantha Wilson, Ashlyn Cummins)
Aug. 2021 graduate Katelyn Jenkins:
- gold in portfolio
- gold in Original Product Design
- gold in Hospitality (with teammates Hannah Hancock, Samantha Wilson, Ashlyn Cummins)
- silver in Healthcare
- bronze in Institutional
- bronze in Workplace
Senior Marygrace K. Lee of Forest:
- silver in Original Product Design
- silver in Hand Rendering
Junior Anna N. Madison of Bessemer, Alabama:
- gold in Commercial
- gold in Hand Rendering
- silver in Residential | Small
- silver in Institutional
- silver in Residential
- silver in Computer-Generated Rendering
Aug. 2021 graduate Sheridan Morris:
- silver in Hospitality
- silver in Hand Rendering
- bronze in Workplace
- bronze in Computer-Generated Rendering
Junior Sarah C. Napoli of Jackson:
- bronze in Original Product Design
Senior Stewart E. Shive of Jackson:
- gold in Hospitality (with teammate Molly Taylor)
- silver in Residential | Large
- silver in Healthcare
- silver in Original Product Design
- silver in Hand Rendering
- silver Computer-Generate Rendering
- bronze in Computer-Generate Rendering
- bronze in Hospitality
Senior Molly P. Taylor of Eads, Tennessee:
- gold in Hospitality (with teammate Stewart Shive)
- gold in Original Product Design
- gold in Portfolio
- silver in Hospitality
- bronze in Hand Rendering
Junior Gabrielle “Gabi” J. Theriot of Covington, Louisiana:
- bronze in Hand Rendering
Aug. 2021 graduate Samantha Wilson:
- gold in Hospitality (with teammates Hannah Hancock, Katelyn Jenkins, Ashlyn Cummins)