Prize Winners for the 2024 Undergraduate Experience Survey!

More than 100 prizes were awarded during this survey!  Completing the survey early increased the chances of winning a prize!  Students selected as a winner in a prize drawing will get an email from surveys@ucsc.edu.  Prizes included:

• Apple AirPods Pro! ($250 value)
• Santa Cruz Downtown Dollars!, for many local restaurants and shops! ($10, $50, and $100 prizes)
• Starbucks gift cards! ($25 prizes)
• Apple gift cards! ($50 to $100 prizes)
  
• Amazon gift cards! ($50 to $100 prizes)
• Bookshop Santa Cruz gift cards! ($30 to $100 prizes)

Congratulations to the following winners!  Thank you for sharing your experiences (and pictures) by taking this survey.  Enjoy spending your prize winnings!

April 2024 Prize Winners!

• Prize Winner: Brian Sabbath - Computer Science, Porter College
• Prize Winner: Erica Okene - Psychology, Oakes College
• Prize Winner: Ethan Nuñez - Business Management Economics, Cowell College
• Prize Winner: Jason Mack - Computer Science
• Prize Winner: Jesus Medina - Education and Literature, Cowell College
• Prize Winner: Joaquin Hernandez - Psychology
• Prize Winner: Alexander Castaneda - Politics
• Prize Winner: Alexis Cruz - Business Management Economics

• Prize Winner: Christopher Mathura - Latino Studies and Environmental Studies
• Prize Winner: Charlie Pollock - Robotics Engineering
• Prize Winner: Diamond Hodges - Psychology and Sociology
• Prize Winner: Dillon Hadden - Plant Science
• Prize Winner: Eliza Beam - Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
• Prize Winner: Isabel Bernal - Ecology and Evolution
• Prize Winner: Isaya Chou - College Nine

• Prize Winner: Kai Ando - Environmental Studies, History of Art and Visual Culture
• Prize Winner: Robin Lambidakis - Business Management Economics
• Prize Winner: Abby Siecienski - Human Biology, Crown College
• Prize Winner: Makena Koontz - Literature, Porter College
• Prize Winner: Grace Viggiano - Literature
• Prize Winner: Kayla Nguyen - Crown College
• Prize Winner: Arya Sharma - Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
• Prize Winner: Franchesca Boongaling - Art & Design: Games + Playable Media
• Prize Winner: Andrew Rivas - Economics and Mathematics
• Prize Winner: Abby Miller - Neuroscience, Merrill College
• Prize Winner: DeShonne Keller
• Prize Winner: Evan Brannon-Wu - Computer Science
• Prize Winner: Elizabeth Terrell - Psychology
• Prize Winner: Meghan Pugh - Politics, Rachel Carson College

May-June 2024 Prize Winners!

• Prize Winner: Gemma Estevez - Oakes College
• Prize Winner: Sonia Salunke - Cognitive Science, Crown College
• Prize Winner: Milo Arndt - Business Management Economics
• Prize Winner: Mazzy Jones - Agroecology
• Prize Winner: Meghan Pugh - Politics, Rachel Carson College
• Prize Winner: Caitlin Smith - Computer Science
• Prize Winner: David Guerrero-Pantoja - Computer Science Game Design
• Prize Winner: Molly O. - Human Biology

• Prize Winner: Heydi Trujillo - Latin American and Latino Studies / Sociology, Merrill College
• Prize Winner: Brady Lin - Computer Science: Computer Game Design
• Prize Winner: Syd Lyle - Art & Design: Games and Playable Media
• Prize Winner: Mariana Diaz Infante Ulloa - Business Management Economics
• Prize Winner: Carlos Ramirez - Business Management Economics
• Prize Winner: Klaus Stephenson - Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Prize Winner: Francis Sta. Ana - Psychology
• Prize Winner: Kevin Sun - Computer Science, Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics
• Prize Winner: Daisy Amparo - Chemistry
• Prize Winner: Jocelyn Lee - Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
• Prize Winner: Alyssa Bustamante - Environmental Studies, John R. Lewis College
• Prize Winner: Neo Sud - Computer Science

Additional Prize Winners in 2024!

In addition, during spring 2024 there were also dozens of prize winners of Downtown Dollars as well as many additional winners of giftcards for Starbucks, Apple, and Bookshop Santa Cruz! 

Prize Winners for the 2022 Survey

Prizes included:

• More than TWENTY $25 Bookshop Santa Cruz giftcards - awarded in prize drawings during summer
• THIRTY $50 Amazon giftcards - awarded in prize drawings during the survey
• FIVE $100 Prizes of Apple giftcards - during the UC Undergraduate Experience Survey's "An Apple a Day" prize week in May!
• FIVE Grand Prize $200 Amazon giftcards - awarded during the middle and at the end of the survey.

Grand Prize Winners! - Throughout the Survey and at the End of the Survey

• First $200 Grand Prize Winner (May): Giselle Nicasio-Aguero - Oakes College
• Second $200 Grand Prize Winner (June): Kasey La - Linguistics, Cognitive Science
• Third $200 Grand Prize Winner (June): Natalie Davis - Neuroscience, John R. Lewis College
• Fourth $200 Grand Prize Winner (July): Haley Jones - Biology
• Final $200 Grand Prize Winner (July): Madison Garay - History of Art and Visual Culture

Late Spring Quarter - "An Apple A Day" Prize Winners!

• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Kimberly Perez - Mathematics
• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Siena Oswald - Environmental Science
• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Joleen Chow - Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology; Merrill College
• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Megan Amiya - Economics, Merrill College
• "An Apple a Day" $100 Winner: Ingrid Herbulot - Oakes College

May-June Prize Winners!

• May $50 Prize Winner: Ashley Hom - Cognitive Science, John R. Lewis College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Kiana Miller - Stevenson College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Salil Tantamjarik - Computer Science: Game Design
• May $50 Prize Winner: Darshika Ravulapalli - Astrophysics, Kresge College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Basil Sheppard - Kresge College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Adan Gallegos - Business Management Economics, Oakes College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Christina Martinez-Fragoso - Astrophysics
• May $50 Prize Winner: Parul Datta - Computer Science, John R. Lewis College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Myron Zhang - College Nine
• May $50 Prize Winner: Elise Turkovich - Cognitive Science, Cowell College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Edith Sanchez - Merrill College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Mars Hosler - Psychology
• May $50 Prize Winner: Benjamin Pa - Sociology
• May $50 Prize Winner: Cosette Yang - Marine Biology, Cowell College
• May $50 Prize Winner: Kimroop Bhatti - John R. Lewis College
• June $50 Prize Winner: Beatriz Aguilar - Biology
• June $50 Prize Winner: Name withheld as requested by winner
• June $50 Prize Winner: Luke Sullivan - Marine Biology
• June $50 Prize Winner: Shavit Melamed - Literature and Sociology
• June $50 Prize Winner: Name withheld as requested by winner

April Prize Winners!

• April $50 Prize Winner: Britney Truong - Biology
• April $50 Prize Winner: Hussain Fatehi - Merrill College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Maureen Eberhardt - Spanish Studies
• April $50 Prize Winner: Oceana Silveira - Psychology, Kresge College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Julia Stewart - Astrophysics, Crown College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Newton Novak
• April $50 Prize Winner: Naitik Poddar - Crown College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Aileen Flandez - Sociology and Education, Democracy, and Social Justice
• April $50 Prize Winner: Venkat Sykam - Computer Science, John R. Lewis College
• April $50 Prize Winner: Maximillian Haber - Anthropology

Bookshop Santa Cruz winners!

• In addition, during the 2022 survey, more than twenty $25 giftcards for Bookshop Santa Cruz were awarded!