1) Undergraduate and graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar presented their research projects to a panel of experts from academia, government, and industry at CMU-Q's 8th annual 'Meeting of the Minds' symposium. 2) The experts provided feedback and selected the best projects, giving students valuable real-world perspective. Two computer science students also designed a system to streamline the judging process. 3) The winning projects included a Twitter sentiment analysis system and a project on helping people save food effortlessly. The quality of student work was praised by judges for being exceptional for undergraduates.