For Bane Sullivan, pursuing a master’s in hydrology at Colorado School of Mines, the call came in early 2019, when he saw an advertisement for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Geothermal Design Challenge coordinated by Idaho National Laboratory (INL). As someone interested in geoscience visualization, “I saw it as a really good opportunity to gain exposure,” he said. “I was able to showcase a lot of the work I’m doing at school.”
One year after winning second place in the Design Challenge with “Open Source Solutions for 3-D Communications,” Sullivan is getting ready to graduate and take a job with Kitware, a Clifton Park, New York, company that specializes in open-source software development. The attention he and his collaborator Adam Kinard found through the contest brought them attention they might not have otherwise received.
Entries are now open for this year’s Geothermal Design Challenge, which is sponsored by DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office.
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