Get The Picture Corp.

Every year, since 2013, we have had the pleasure of welcoming a group of students from China to come work with us. They are college-aged students who are here to gain experience in something related to their field of study. Some are studying business while others are studying various fields in the arts. While they are here learning, we are able to use this as an opportunity to learn about their culture and develop great, new friendships along the way.

One student from our 2018 season wanted to get even more out of the program. Qiqi (Vicky) Wang decided that she wanted to make a difference in downtown Harrisburg where she was living for the summer. She felt like something was missing from the experience beyond just learning about our culture. She wanted to take it a step further and immerse herself into the culture by trying to help make the area a better place. Her efforts were recognized by Greenheart Exchange, who invited her to come back to speak at the Greenheart Global Leaders C…

Do you ever wonder what the HERSHEY’S Characters do on a slow day at Chocolate World?  They ride the ride, of course!

We frequently see empty or partially empty cars in Chocolate World and we’ve now begun automatically inserting Milk Chocolate, Reese’s and Kiss characters in empty seats in their respective cars.

A trivial task for humans, determining if a car is empty is actually a fairly challenging task for a computer.  Our initial attempts at traditional machine vision techniques were thwarted by significant inconsistencies in the seats so we decided to take another approach: Artificial Intelligence.


Our VP of Systems and Engineering threw out the challenge of identifying empty seats to his two elementary-aged kids--Emily (age 10) and Paul (age 6)--who helped train our AI by sorting a representative sample of cars, giving them a real-world opportunity to see STEM in action.  The results were fed through a machine learning algorithm which produced a trained neural network that is a…

When it’s time to say “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations” or even just a simple “Thank You”, Hershey’s Sweet Personalization says it in three different ways. First, there’s the photo, then a written message, and finally, the chocolate. Hershey’s Sweet Personalization is a customized box surrounding a variety of Hershey’s products from Giant 7oz Milk Chocolate bars to a standard 2-cup pack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups! Guests can customize each aspect of their order by submitting a photo, writing their message, and choosing which candy they would like wrapped.

When giving candy as a gift, folks are always looking for something to make it extra special. That’s what Sweet Personalization brings to the table with its customization. Our user interface is simple to use and gives immediate feedback to what the final product will look like. Though the Hershey’s Chocolate World location is the flagship of Sweet Personalization, it can also be found at the Hershey store in Times Square an…

GTP tries to give back to the community in many ways, one of which is by donating equipment and expertise to local non-profits.


Earlier this year, Setebaid Services, a group that runs sleep-away summer camps for youth with diabetes, approached Camp Swatara, a local summer camp, with a question: instead of waking campers twice a night to check blood sugar levels, could an existing network be expanded to cover 11 additional buildings quickly and affordably?
GTP has long worked with Camp Swatara in a variety of capacities.  In this case, we helped build out their existing wireless network using several boxes of network equipment that GTP was no longer using.  Through GTP's donation of equipment, Nuvera Life Science Consulting and Setebaid Services were able to remotely monitor the glucose levels of their campers overnight, eliminating the need to wake most of them and catching potentially life-threatening hypoglycemia before what would have been scheduled nighttime checks.

Every pers…

GTP partnered with Hersheypark to provide a unique ride experience on Hersheypark's Cupfusion ride.  Customers who ride, scan a wristband prior to getting on the ride and then receive personalized stats following the ride.  GTP's unique photography software uses face localization technology to provide a photo of each rider which is tagged to their scores and displayed on the leaderboard at the end of the ride.



Photos are also available for purchase at the Hersheypark Get The Picture Walkaround photo booth.