Booth is possibly the most notable tradition at Carnegie Mellon. It is a competition, where student organizations spend months designing, constructing, and decorating life-sized houses themed after movies and video games. These houses are complete with electricity, load bearing walls, and are built to Pittsburgh’s housing code.

I served as a booth chair for two consecutive years for the student organization Sigma Phi Epsilon, and oversaw 70 members in the construction of our booth. I was our director of art, working with our architect to design the shape and aesthetics of the booth. I also managed a team of ‘room chairs’, who I worked with directly to bring each room to life. These rooms included countless murals, custom made props, and mechatronics projects. The photos and videos below are snapshots of this months-long process, showing how we took early concept sketches to immersive life-sized creations that won our organization first place in competition 2 years in a row.