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10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/learnhub |
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Community page
Lectures video portal
IN demanded Video
teachers portal
Index page
Inspiration
Our vision to provide all educational needs under a single roof.
We will provide the video lectures by the teachers and we will provide the practice question sets for the student for their better clarification. For any help, they can put their questions on our community. It's also helpful for schools and organizations. They can conduct their exam in a fair manner by using our webcam service. We will provide the practice questions on their related field to enhance their skills. A qualifying test is also included. Complete doubt clearance from our experts and chatbot facility.
Maintaining the class curriculum through video lectures provided by the teachers.
Fair conductance of the exam with webcam service(Decrease the malpractice).
24*7 doubt clearance facility from our experts and chatbot service for quick doubts clarification.
Providing course materials on various in-demand technologies.
Practice questions set with certification exam for each courses for students for great learning experience.
Large community of the students for problem discussions and guidance talk.
What it does
In this COVID -19 pandemic, all the educational institutions are closed.
Due to that, The teachers give their classes in online mode. Many of the students don't attend the meeting at that time due to bad weather condition or some other tasks. This could be a very bad condition for them in the upcoming future.
So We will provide a better solution for both students as well as teachers.
So In our service package, we will provide the video uploaded by the teachers and we will provide the practice question sets where the student can use those video lectures clarifying the topic and clear the concepts by practicing the model questions.
It is not only for the students but this platform is also helpful for the schools and organizations. It is a complete package for the students as well as the teachers. Here the schools or organizations can conduct their exam in a fair manner by using our webcam service. We will provide the programming question for the interested student to enhance their coding skills. we will also provide the community where the
students can help others to solve their doubts.
Due to this lockdown period, the students might not be able to clarify their concepts properly so we will provide the practice question sets where the student can practice, and in the end, they have to give the qualifying test to check their potential and knowledge on the concepts.
In our virtual learning platform, we will provide the 24 hours doubt clearing service where the students can clear their doubts by our experts and we will also provide a chatbot service for quick clarification.
In this pandemic time, this platform could be the best place for learners where all the facilities are available under one roof.
How I built it
It is a website it help the student to explore their knowledge
Challenges I ran into
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
What I learned
I learned many thing.and great one is experience.
What's next for learnhub
to make education easy.
Built With
api
css
html
javascript
php
phpmyadmin
vue
Try it out
delhi-hacks-2.github.io | learnhub | Our vision to provide all educational needs under one roof.We will provide the video lectures by the teachers and will provide the practice question sets for the student for their better clarification | ['Hrushikesh Das', 'Aditi Kumari', 'Sovam Pradhan'] | [] | ['api', 'css', 'html', 'javascript', 'php', 'phpmyadmin', 'vue'] | 38 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/dishsumm | Inspiration
This was inspired by the real-life problems faced by me and a lot of people( mostly my friends) while deciding what to order in a restaurant. So, in order to make that order easier, we came up with this plan.
What it does
Whenever you go to a restaurant, and want to try a new dish, it takes a lot of time for you to
decide. So, in order to make the order easy, what we can do is first create a review system for
each dish, where the people who have already had the dish can express their views about the
dish.
Now, the thing is, the user cannot read each and every review, so the best thing would be to
create a summary of these reviews. DishSumm comes into play at this time.
It uses a BART based NLP prototype to summarize the all the reviews so that the users can
easily look up the summary of the dish and then decide what to order.
The Main Objective here is to first create a platform
where the users can see all the dishes available in the
restaurant. This can be achieved by placing a Menu in the
website.
Now, alongside the dishes, the summaries generated by
the model can be added to give extra objective to the
people.
How I built it
The main processing was done by the BART CNN pretrained model which computed all the
Challenges I ran into
I couldn't integrate the server to a website to showcase the working of the stuff properly but we are still working on that
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I was able to use this and create meaningful summaries in a limited time
What I learned
How to do stuff fast. And also how to collaborate with people online.
What's Next for Altaf
Let's see. Let's hope mote hackathons and fun stuff to build in the future.
Built With
bart
natural-language-processing
python
react
Try it out
github.com | DishSUmm | Summary Generator From User’s Reviews of Dishes | ['Altaf Ahmad', 'Yash Badwe'] | [] | ['bart', 'natural-language-processing', 'python', 'react'] | 39 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/all-in-one-a-web-application-to-avoid-queues | Inspiration
It comes from our daily shopping to d mart at festival times
What it does
customer can himself scan the code and pick the item and put in cart
How I built it
It is build on barcode scanner lib., html css and js.
Challenges I ran into
how to scan barcode or QRcode
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
we have register user without the external database as we r running out of time
What I learned
many usefl technologies
What's next for All In One - A Web Application to avoid queues
to add chat bot , recommendation for customers and ease in billing
Built With
css3
html5
javascript
quagge
Try it out
github.com | All In One Store- A Web Application to avoid queues | After a pleasureful shopping people disappoints because of long queues in shopping mart for billing.To avoid this an application where user can scan qrcode or barcode with their own devices. | ['Aditya Gadre', 'Nikhil Khodake', 'Ajinkya Sahu', 'Pradnya Gaikwad'] | [] | ['css3', 'html5', 'javascript', 'quagge'] | 40 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/stick | stick extension UI
stick extension UI pt. 2
website UI
Inspiration
We were inspired by the common use of physical sticky notes in everyday work, and the ability to take notes while surfing through the internet. We wanted to create something to enjoy the ease of taking temporary notes while browsing without having to open a separate application.
What it does
Stick lets its users take notes conveniently in a Chrome extension, and displays them in the same location. It also allows its users to add/edit notes on the corresponding website.
How I built it
We used JavaScript to create the chrome extension and Python Flask for the website. The basic idea was to have an extension that can record and display notes. We gradually added to that idea with the option of editing on a website and highlighting text to save it.
Challenges I ran into
Because we are all inexperienced with JavaScript, we encountered many issues and had to spend a large amount of our time troubleshooting and debugging. Designing the user interface also proved to be a challenge, as we tried to have compact features for convenience without cluttering the UI. We also ran into a lot of issues with the strings themselves, so we had to research methods to manipulate strings in JavaScript.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We’re proud of how quickly we were able to complete this project, as we are still new to the technology that we utilized. We were also able to effectively communicate during this entire project.
What I learned
We learned a lot about string manipulation, such as removing HTML tags and taking substrings in JavaScript. We also learned how to use JavaScript to manipulate the HTML much more efficiently than we had in our previous projects.
What's next for stick
For the future, improvements we’d like to add include new features such as integration with Google Calendar and a categorization method. We’d also like to publish our extension and host the website. Finally, it’d be interesting to create a mobile version to make stick even more convenient.
Built With
css
flask
html
javascript
python
Try it out
github.com | stick | stick will stick with you forever :) | ['Ratana Wang', 'Nanxin Qin', 'Brian Zhang', 'George Wan'] | [] | ['css', 'flask', 'html', 'javascript', 'python'] | 41 |
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bootstrap | m | . | [] | [] | ['bootstrap'] | 42 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/drishti-dwcsrx | sss
Built With
python
raspberry-pi
tinkercad
Try it out
github.com | Drishti | A AI assistant for a blind people which can help them to easily communicate with surroundings. | ['Kunj Bhatt', 'sandeep vishwakarma', 'Gaurav Konde', 'shruti Naik'] | [] | ['python', 'raspberry-pi', 'tinkercad'] | 43 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/air-quality-prediction | Delhi hacks
Team members names and ids
1) M Jayananden -
https://github.com/jaya-nanden
2) A Mohan -
https://github.com/mohan-mathew
Theme Social Good
Inspiration
Problem statement
The quality of air which we all are breathing is unable to measure within instance at every place and cannot find the actual factor causing the increase of air pollution
The awareness towards this(Air quality) when compared to others like Covid-19 is very less which made an impact after getting worse
Solution(Idea)
Monitoring the values with respect to time
Finding the reason or factor which causes increase in air quality within the provided list
Predicting the air quality based on the past values or data
Creating a device which have required parameters to measure quality
Goal
Bringing back the air polluted areas into safer zone within few years.
Making Society Science where the awareness is created by science and the action to control the measures is taken by the society.
Built With
css
django
html
python
Try it out
github.com | Air-Quality(Social Good) | The quality of air which we all are breathing is unable to measure within instance at every place and cannot find the actual factor causing the increase of air pollution. We come up with this solution | ['Jayananden M', 'Mohan A'] | [] | ['css', 'django', 'html', 'python'] | 44 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/intelligent-vision-dqjh2m | Home page
Feature Page
Functionality Page
Inspiration
Often have seen that CCTV recordings serve as a piece of major evidence in crime investigation. Hence for collecting relevant information from videos, we need to spot suspects in the video. Now, these recordings can be hours long and there can be a long list of suspects. Therefore, a lot of time is wasted in spotting relevant people in the video. In addition to that, it is a labor-intensive task and needs to done will utmost attention. Given the seriousness of this field, where prompt actions are required and there are very limited people working on it, we thought to make their tasks easier by automating the analysis of videos.
What it does
Let's say we have an image of a suspect, and we have the CCTV recording of the crime scene. Enter the suspect's picture and the video recording in our tool, and our tool will find the suspect's face in the video recording. You will be able to see the frames in which the suspect appeared in the video.
How I built it
We achieved this using Machine learning techniques. The ML-pipeline is as follows:
Divide the video into frames.
Detect faces in the frames and put those frames into a list.
Encode detected faces.
Group the faces of one person in a cluster
Detect the face in the given image and encode it.
Predict in which cluster will the query image belongs to.
Retrieve all the frames in the predicted cluster
We deployed our Machine Learning model on a web application using Flask.
Challenges I ran into
We were running short of time as we had many things to do. It was a challenge for us to as all the files were to running in only one of the computers, and then any changes to be made would be in that only. So not only we learned about the technical side we also learned a lot about team co-operation, and we also realized how well we can work together.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Completing whatever we had planned in time was the biggest accomplishment
As we started this project there were many things that we weren't aware of. Through this
project, we were able to learn a lot of new things that have helped us grow and I think this opportunity
that we had to learn and the thing that we took this opportunity with open hands is the biggest accomplishment that we are proud of.
What I learned
Till now we had only worked with ML-pipelines in the jupyter notebook. This is the first time we deployed it on a web application. We learned the back-end development and integration of ML-Pipeline into the back-end.
What's next for Intelligent Vision
We have planned many things for the future of our project, some of them are as follows:
1) Analyzing Live recordings
2) To make our Machine learning model more robust
3) Smoke and Fire detection in videos and live streams
4) To add more functionalities to our website
Built With
bootstrap
css
face-recognition
flask
html
javascript
numpy
opencv
pandas
python
sci-kit-learn
Try it out
github.com | Intelligent Vision | A small technical help to solve bigger crimes | ['Shambhavi Aggarwal', 'Dharven Doshi', 'Bhargav Akhani'] | [] | ['bootstrap', 'css', 'face-recognition', 'flask', 'html', 'javascript', 'numpy', 'opencv', 'pandas', 'python', 'sci-kit-learn'] | 45 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/music-player-system | This music playeris the collection of 36 songs including Ramayan songs.
• It’s a responsive music player webpage, Build using HTML and CSS from
scratch.
What it does
How I built it
Challenges I ran into
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
What I learned
What's next for Music Player System
Built With
css3
html5
java
javascript
Try it out
github.com | Music Player System | Enjoy and do fun with this Music Player ! | [] | [] | ['css3', 'html5', 'java', 'javascript'] | 46 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/quizzle-fopr65 | Export
Question Generation
Inserting Data
Data Selection
Question Selection
Inspiration
On the occasion of Teacher's day, we came up with a solution to help teachers.
What it does
We created a website that will automatically generate the questions based on the text selected by the teacher with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
How I built it
Steps:
Brainstorming on the Idea
Designing the Database
Designing Front End
Research on appropriate A.I. algorithm
Backend Coding
Integration of Modules
The teacher just have to enter the material and system will generate the text file containing all the questions and answers.
Challenges I ran into
Machine Learning Algorithm takes time to execute Code Optimization was time taking.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We were able to generate list of questions and multiple options for each question using AI.
What I learned
I researched about various NLP Algorithms.
What's next for Quizzle
We can include subjective questions as well.
We can provide multiple export formats.
Built With
ai
css
django
javascript
python
Try it out
github.com | Quizzle | Quizzle is a web application that helps teachers to create MCQ style questions and generate options based on the selected text using AI. | ['Nikhil Suwalka', 'Nishit Shanbhag', 'Shristi Bisht', 'Jay Khandelwal'] | [] | ['ai', 'css', 'django', 'javascript', 'python'] | 47 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/vocal-for-local | Inspiration - An initiative to support Atmanirbhar Bharat movement of our PM.
We have built an app that gives information about a brand and the place of origin of the brand.
Users can ensure if a product they are buying is Indian or not in three ways-
By scanning barcode.
By taking picture of the product.
By manually entering the name of product.
Consumer in India are less aware of the made in India products hence we want to encourage them to use Indian products.
We have built the app using Flutter.
We have added firebase in backend. We are using Machine learning and barcode scan functionality of firebase.
We learnt a lot of things and also basics of machine learning.
Our future plan is to make this app more user friendly and finally deploy it on Play store.
Built With
dart
firebase
flutter
machine-learning
Try it out
github.com | Vocal For Local | An app to support local brands | ['Manan Vanawat', 'Devansh Shukla'] | [] | ['dart', 'firebase', 'flutter', 'machine-learning'] | 48 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/prassana-efiyd1 | The problem Air Quality solves
Many website available on the internet does not predict the future air quality index given current date AQI the aim of the app is to predict AQI of locality based on certain factors. Air pollution can cause both short term and long term effects on health and many people are concerned about pollution in the air that they breathe.
Challenges we ran into
I couldn't find any relevant dataset for this purpose so I decided to scrape the climate data from this website using Selenium and Beautiful Soup which were really helpful. You can find the code for scraping here and to combine all data here.
Built With
ai
webscraping
Try it out
air-quality-predictor.herokuapp.com | Air Quality Index | There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. | ['Sahil Morankar', 'Pranav Jojan', 'Nakul Amate'] | [] | ['ai', 'webscraping'] | 49 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/agri-and-ai | Overview of all Agi AI commoditys
Forecast Trends
Agri AI Commodity page
Agri AI Home page
Inspiration
Saving Poor Farmers from extreme pressure by solving crop value prediction problem in an efficient way to ensure the guaranteed benefits to the poor farmers.
What it does
A simple Interface to Solve Crop Prediction Problem with guaranteed benefits to Poor Farmers
How I built it
I used various Machine Learning techniques on various data to came out with better solution. This solution uses Decision Tree Regression technique to predict the crop value using the data. The frontend is build with flask framework and javascript.
Challenges I ran into
developing the product merging them and coordinationg with other members.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
team work , coordination, working in a limited time frame and helping others
What I learned
How to deploy a full ml model to production and build an app out of it .
What's next for Agri and AI
Integrating with live chat and video call help for poor farmers to interact with consultants in agriculture for free.
Built With
css
flask
html5
javascript
machine-learning
python
Try it out
github.com | Agri and AI | Connecting farmers with Tech. | ['Bhanvi Menghani', 'Aditi N'] | [] | ['css', 'flask', 'html5', 'javascript', 'machine-learning', 'python'] | 50 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/delhi-hacks-project | Inspiration
Inspired from real life disasters and a need for a necessary service to manage relief mission and volunteer works.
What it does
Works as a middleman work managing various relief assets and requirements during relied missions
How we built it
We built it using Node.js, ExpressJS, MongoDB in a microservices style architecture.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Efficiently communicating with teammates during a time of pandemic.
What's next for Emergency Aid Tracker
Expanding the application with more features and operations
Built With
css
html
javascript
mongodb
node.js
pug
Try it out
github.com | Emergency Aid Tracker | An effecient service to manage volunteer relief aid and assests during relief missions | ['Befin Babu', 'Arjunlal M.A', 'Anjaly Jose'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript', 'mongodb', 'node.js', 'pug'] | 51 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/word-book | Inspiration
It is said that one should know at least 1000+ words to be able to carry out a conversation in English language. Knowing 4000+ words make you a proficient in English. But still, it's very likely that one may encounter a new word everyday. Sometimes it's also possible that one may not know the correct spelling of a word. To solve this problem, one should have an application which can help them to find the meanings of the words, even if their spelling is not 100% accurate.
What it does
The prototype we’ve built is a console application, made using python programming language. It takes the word from the user and returns its definition from the json file. It also gives best-matched word when the user enters the word with the wrong spelling.
How we built it
The Main Technology Stack what we've used is Python and it's Libraries.
Challenges we ran into
As this was our first hackathon, so we sort of ran out of time and we didn't finish to built it as a complete rest API to be integrated with other apps.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of the console application that we've built so far.
What we learned
We learned about how to use python and it's libraries. And also how to manage time management skills.
What's next for Word Book
This project can be further extended to be a Rest API which can be integrated with different apps(such as Kindle, PDF Reader). It will be an AI based API whose work will be to check the eyeball movement of the reader and show the meaning of a particular word in a pop-up or a toast format if the reader is emphasizing on a word for a specific time(say 4 secs or so.).
Built With
python
Try it out
github.com | Word Book | Learn Words Efficiently. | ['Shubham Chakraborty', 'Shashwat Shahi'] | [] | ['python'] | 52 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/qboard_secure-0naxr6 | Inspiration
What it does
ABC
How we built it
Challenges we ran into
Accomplishments that we're proud of
What we learned
What's next for
Built With
abctext.com | ABC | ABC | ['Priya Aggarwal', 'Riya Suntwal'] | [] | ['abctext.com'] | 53 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/edu-ar | workflow
solution defination
Problem statement
solution
Inspiration
This idea struck me when one of my junior friends who just landed at engineering college called me complaining about the education system. all I could do is agree because it's been years that our education system hasn't updated their way of teaching and this pandemic situation has put a major effect to it by online classes where students cant understand subjects which include heavy machinery .so that's where I got an idea bout projecting 3d model for a better understanding. I did research what does it require it took me 2 months to learn the augmented reality and here I'm with my first idea.
What it does
Our product is basically based on Recognition based AR, where a target image is placed in front of the AR camera and a 3D model of it is projected.this all featured are integrated into an Andriod application where people can scan images and view 3D model anywhere anytime with a 360-degree view with Audio effect.
How I built it
I used Unity 2017 student version,vuforia cloud , Andriod SDK, unity asset, ARKIT in Windows 10 environment
Challenges I ran into
The main challenge in building this was the error in scripts and model making.it took weeks to add animations I used unity forum to find answers and fixed it.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
proud moment was to see all the things working up at the end despite of re trying many times. it was an eternal satisfaction but still, there is a long way to go.
What I learned
patience is the biggest lesson I learned over here. I had a point where I was about to give this project but having patience helped to go through that stage.
What's next for EDU-AR
we are currently working on the next update on EDU-AR where we are covering more subjects of engineering students and more models with better animation. we are also looking for mixed reality to enhance experience
Built With
andriodstudio
android
arkit
c#
unity
vuforia
windows-10
Try it out
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github.com | EDU-AR | Our idea is to use Augmented reality technology in education field during this pandemic situation where students are bound to online classes and are lacking practical skills. | ['ks keshava rao', 'Anirudh Soni', 'Sohail Ahmed'] | ['1st Place'] | ['andriodstudio', 'android', 'arkit', 'c#', 'unity', 'vuforia', 'windows-10'] | 54 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/f-r-i-e-n-d-s | Inspiration
When I travelled to my hometown , I was quarantined for 14 days. Those 14 days were some of the most lonely days I ever felt. No human interaction. Although I could talk to my friends and family , they don't really understand the situation I am in.
The best person who could understand what I was feeling was someone who was going through the same.
What it does
We aim to entertain people who are in quarantine and looking for someone to talk to.
F.R.I.E.N.D.S has multiple chat rooms , even for your city , so that you can share thoughts with people having same taste , background and ethnicity.
You can even create custom room for your city/society.
Be friends with people who are going through exactly what you are and win this Covid.
How I built it
We took the inspiration from old-school chatroom. We used flutter to create cross-platform app so that we cover all the masses.For the login and signup we used google authentication to authenticate each and every user.
To store the messages we used real-time database of Firebase offered by Google because of its speed , reliability and secure encryption.
Challenges I ran into
The main challenge we faced was how to Integrate it to Firebase as this was the first time we were using cloud database.
But kudos to Sarita for solving the problem.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
A working model of the idea :)
What I learned
Time Management ,
Team Working,
Firebase (Cloud database)
What's next for F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Our future goals include
1)Integrate mini games into the apps
2)More secure login and sign-up option
3)Adding a Doctor channel for quick consultation
Built With
dart
firebase
flutter
Try it out
github.com
docs.google.com | F.R.I.E.N.D.S | Together We can Fight! | ['Sarita Agarwal', 'Ayush Rungta'] | [] | ['dart', 'firebase', 'flutter'] | 55 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/vr-medix | Inspiration
This project is inspired by that medical students can't get proper practical at there colleges and institutions.
How we built it
Project is created with:
Unity version: 2019.2.11f1
GVR SDK for Unity version: v1.200.1
Challenges we ran into
The objective is to provide a virtual medical assistant. We will be using the technology of Virtual Reality to achieve the objective. The application built will have two main sections: one for the people in the medical field i.e. the doctors, health workers, medical students, para-medical staff, etc.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The application will have a virtual room, tools, virtual patients describing their problems to see if the learner can handle it well. It has a separate section for emergency training, accidental cases, critical surgeries, etc. it also includes a virtual guide (for self-training) and group training (for a group of students).
What's next for the project
In the next version, we combine this project with some hardware sensors so that we can try to make this app more user friendly. user can interact with patient by hand gesture and motions
Built With
c#
glsl
googlevr
ibm-watson
shaderlab
unity | Healthcare | Healthcare learning app | ['Ruchi Kushwaha', 'Saumya Bathla', 'Muskaan Mittal'] | ['Honorable Mention'] | ['c#', 'glsl', 'googlevr', 'ibm-watson', 'shaderlab', 'unity'] | 56 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/corona-hospital-patient-management-system | ongoing situation of corona virus
it does simple and innovative management of corona patient
i used c++ language here
there are so many challenges in building code
i learned different library of c++ and commun
next of this project i am looking for real time tracking of different patient cause of different disease in india.
Built With
c++
Try it out
github.com | coromag | simple and innovative concept idea for manageing corona patient | ['Rahul sharma', 'Shivani Upadhyay'] | [] | ['c++'] | 57 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/shelterize-7n01y4 | Home Page
Map that shows all Shelter in the city
Nearby Shelter along with their Information
Profile of the Organization/NGO that offers Shelter Home
List of Homeless People
List of People helped in past by your organization
Inspiration
We believe that nothing is as satisfying as watching a homeless person having a shelter to live and food to eat. Considering the current situation wherein many natural disasters are happening in different states of our country. We came up with an Idea of a Web Application to help out the people in need.
What it does
This Web Application aims at providing shelter to the victims hit by natural calamities.
It will help the victims to find nearby shelters where they can take refuge. It will also provide a platform to all the NGOs where they can easily approach the people in dire need.
How we built it
We used Reactjs to build the frontend along with Firebase as a Backend service. We used Google Places API, Google Autocomplete Places, Google Geocoding, and Reverse Geocoding to make the User Experience Easy to Understand.
Challenges we ran into
We had a little bit of trouble integrating Google Maps to React and Firebase Web Application.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are successfully allowing a homeless person home at the end of the day. As the person can check out its nearby shelter homes and also the Organizations can also contact him.
What we learned
We learned how to integrate Google Maps API, React-hooks, and firebase all together to make a dynamic web Application
What's next for Shelterize
We can add a feature called SOS in which a person can contact organizations by both website and a simple SMS or a missed call. We will also be able to add person detail in our database with the SOS feature so the organization can reach out to him/her.
Built With
firebase
google-maps
google-places
react
react-hooks
Try it out
github.com | Shelterize | Nothing is as satisfying as watching a homeless person having a shelter to live and food to eat | ['Tanya Pandhi'] | [] | ['firebase', 'google-maps', 'google-places', 'react', 'react-hooks'] | 58 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/zamindar-com | Inspiration :
There are many issues faced by Real-Estate business and buyers and sellers involved in it. There are some sources which makes online real-estate business possible but they were only acting as 3rd party, so we solved many problems involved in the business.
What it does :
It's an social good innovation that solves common people problems in the Real-Estate business and saves their time and other assets and assures transparency.
How I built it :
I built the prototype using Frontend skills, Using algorithms to take Unbiased rates of property from IGR websites, and using online payment options for call to action.
Challenges I ran into:
The biggest challenge is customer satisfaction and transparency so it was our responsibility to build a user-friendly website and provide customers an easy a transparent bucket checkout.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of :
All other websites present act as 3rd party websites in the Real-Estate business whereas we accomplished as a 2nd party which can serve its customers directly. We have used the Digi locker service for transparency and authentication.
What I learned :
Learned about API's and more about Real-Estate business, Adobe, marketing, and much more.
What's next for Zamindar.com:
Authentication by Govt. of India and turn into a startup.
Built With
adobe-xd
bootstrap
javascript
powerpoint
python
Try it out
github.com | Zamindar.com | Real-Estate organisation with easy checkouts and many other services. | ['Aayush Garg', 'Aayushi Rai', 'Abhijay jain', 'Antriksh Batra', 'ANMOL SHARMA'] | [] | ['adobe-xd', 'bootstrap', 'javascript', 'powerpoint', 'python'] | 59 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/cryptocrop | Team Details
Team name: CryptoCrop
Theme: Agriculture, AI, Cryptocurrency
Members
Veer Gadodia (Team leader) - github: vgadodia
Muntaser Syed - github: jemsbhai
Ebtesam Haque - github: ebtesam25
Nand Vinchhi - github: NandVinchhi
Inspiration
52.5 percent
of all the agricultural households were indebted with an
average debt of Rs. 1,07,671
.
12,360 farmers took their own lives
in the year 2014 alone.
Over 70% of these deaths were due to crash in crop prices and inability to pay back debts
.
The fact of the matter is, falling crop prices and crop failure due to weather causes
tremendous losses to farmers
, leading them into grave debt. Farmers in debt cannot take more loans. Sadly, these losses endured by farmers often
give rise to psychological disorders, mental illnesses, depression, and suicide
, with
farmer suicides accounting for 11.2% of all suicides in India.
Furthermore, the current Minimum Support Price system effectuated by the government of India is not sufficient to cover the losses and solve the problem. Take wheat, one of the two most grown crops in India. In 2018-2019,
just 12% of the 33.6 million farmers who were growing wheat availed of the government’s MSP.
The rest were sold in “mandis”, whose access was usually
controlled by middlemen
and where
market prices are often below government MSPs.
What it does
CryptoCrop is a mobile app, targeted towards farmers in India, for
optimising agricultural finances and farming practices.
The app uses
machine learning to predict crop prices
for various different crops – wheat, rice, tomato, urad dal, masoor dal, moong dal, potato and onion –
6 months into the future,
factoring in rain
and
weather conditions,
as well as
MSP trends
into the algorithm. This feature helps farmers decide
which crops to grow
and
how much of the crop to grow
during a certain time period.
Furthermore, our app
enables farmers to invest in or sell agricultural commodities using cryptocurrency,
based on our crop price prediction mechanism. For example, if the prices of wheat are predicted to be high during the next harvest, the farmers can buy stocks in wheat crops, and reap the profits during the successful harvest. Similarly, if the prices are predicted to drop, the farmers can sell their current harvest in exchange for cryptocurrency, which they can convert to rupees. We have implemented different ERC20 tokens (aka coins) for each type of crop. Thus we have ricecoin, wheatcoin, onioncoin, potatocoin, tomatocoin and dalcoin. Each of these tokens are tied to the value of the crop indicated respectively. Our interface allows farmers to trade these tokens at a microtransaction level, with each token having divisibility of upto 18 decimal places. This
helps farmers invest in crops that are promising to succeed
, and
allows them to stay financially secure and happy!
Why Cryptocurrency?
The advantages of using cryptocurrency over regular money for this purpose are as follows:
Gives the farmer ability to do microtransactions.
Does not depend on the nation’s economy.
Eliminates Middlemen from the transaction.
Makes the transactions more transparent, and beneficial for the farmer.
Forms a direct link between the investor and the seller.
How We built it
React Native
for mobile app.
Government of India crop wholesale price dataset, along with historical weather dataset for training the model
Python Scikit Learn
Random Forest Regressor for ML model .(99.76% accuracy score on training data)
Visual crossing weather API
for realtime weather data for predictions.
Flask
for back-end endpoints.
Sashido
and
DigitalOcean
for serverless hosting
MongoDB Atlas
for user data and login/registration systems.
Bcrypt
for password encryption
Ethereum
for blockchain network.- ERC20 tokens
Solidity
for Contract Code
Figma
for UI design.
Challenges We ran into
Our main challenge was getting good quality data for training our machine learning model. We needed to combine multiple existing datasets using extensive python code to make an effective dataset.
Getting our model to a high accuracy was a challenge. We tried over five different approaches such as Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Lasso Regression and Random Forest Regression before getting the optimal results.
Web hosting was a challenge, due to lack of prior experience with those frameworks.
Making a multi-page react native app in such a short time limit.
Writing Multiple Solidity contracts and wallet management between several tokens
Learning to use Sashido as it was our teammates' first time using the technology
ERC0 Crypto token list and contract addresses (Ropsten testnet):
potatocoin - symbol ptc, contract address: 0x8b0c9b4f06c6a8af25e1033143ed39106efea9d6
tomatocoin - symbol tom, contract address: 0x40197b1c4556345b05b04e154311ab1faee1fa10
ricecoin - symbol ric, contract address: 0xe187823A153C460a06B7c449538B4401FEF9e343
wheatcoin - symbol whc, contract address: 0xfBB9CB9b164507b9885B05EC49719A02112F38F7
dalcoin - symbol dlc, contract address: 0xBCF1Aa48CdDFB19c4f35040faf07c5e0c26fd16c
onioncoin - symbol onc, contract address: 0xf7c05512e503eb7050c7b159d149e2a629bae898
Accomplishments that We're proud of
Combining many different datasets into one for our prediction algorithms.
Creating a machine learning model with over 99.76 % accuracy on the test data.
Creating a clean UI design, with support for English and Hindi languages.
Integrating Ethereum with a mobile app
Getting many different components to work together in a short span of time.
Deploying all the ERC 20 tokens on the network - Ethereum Ropsten Testnet
We are proud to have successfully used Sashido to host our serverless backend functions, and succesfully integrating it into our app.
What We learned
React Native mobile app development
Digital Ocean Hosting
Sashido
MongoDB Atlas
Generic skills - How to manage our time well and create effective deadlines.
What's next for CryptoCrop
Support for regional languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Marathi etc.
Migrating back-end to NodeJs for scalability
Government support for better quality data
Releasing the app on google play store
Creating a more robust SMS client.
References
https://www.livemint.com/industry/agriculture/how-central-government-s-minimum-support-price-failed-marginal-farmers-1551031226482.html
https://www.indianfolk.com/farmer-suicides-india-digging-deep/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suparnadutt/2018/01/08/for-indias-farmers-its-agtech-startups-not-government-that-is-key/#47ba85d21c6e
Built With
digitalocean
ethereum
figma
flask
mongodb
python
react-native
sashido
scikit-learn
Try it out
github.com
www.figma.com
docs.google.com | CryptoCrop | Efficient Farming using Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency. | ['Veer Gadodia', 'Nand Vinchhi', 'Ebtesam Haque', 'Muntaser Syed'] | [] | ['digitalocean', 'ethereum', 'figma', 'flask', 'mongodb', 'python', 'react-native', 'sashido', 'scikit-learn'] | 60 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/sane-mind | Inspiration
Competitive exams offer us the opportunity to be a part of our country's most prestigious institutions. But all that glitters is not gold. The bomb of investments in terms of fees and time keeps ticking for our students. They completely isolate themselves, thinking this bold step will increase their probability to perform well. Little do they know that the distance which is supposed to keep them focused towards their goal, acts as a slow poison, eventually making our poor kids the easiest targets of depression and anxiety. Adding to this, COVID-19 has affected the student population of our country to such an extent that 28 innocent lives are lost on a daily basis as per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and the Indian Psychiatric Society.
What it does
Students with mental illness fear how society will treat them.
Because of this, a life of misery and solitude is shoved down their throats.
What we want to provide them, is a platform for rejuvenating their social life.
A platform where they will find companions without being judged.
We call this life-changing platform, SANEMID working on the ancient principles of ‘Chittavrittinirodha’ which means to calm the oscillation of the mind towards stability.
Challenges I ran into
Data collection was quite challenging as finding filtered data was next to impossible, a lot of time was wasted to find clean data on which the machine learning model could be trained. Training and testing the model on customized data is still not perfect because of the slight errors in learning and deployment.
Some features are
Sharing data : A feature that can allow users to share their moods on social media, directly with family members, or with healthcare providers.
Matching users and therapists : After gathering a user’s medical data through a set of questions, a mental health app can use an algorithm to recommend suitable therapists.
Like-minded communities : Dealing with something is easier when there are others around you who are also dealing with it. This can help users know they’re not alone and can pull them through hard times.
Journals and Blogs : Not everyone is comfortable physically writing down their thoughts and feelings, a journaling feature in our app could be a portable and secure solution.
Relaxation techniques : Mindfulness is a great way to improve everyday life. Breathing techniques, guided and unguided meditation, prayers, and positive affirmations are just a few of the features you might incorporate into your app.
Volunteering Feature : We will appreciate the efforts of all our volunteers, with a vote of thanks and an appreciation certificate for their service to society.
What's next for SANE MIND
In the new order of social distancing, homes are the new classrooms. Welcome to post-coronavirus reality where technology dictates the terms. SANEMIND is there for your rescue. Efforts will be made to uplift your mood from the routine boredom and negativity.
For all competitive examination aspirants, dedicated counseling sessions would be provided for the all-embracing mental well being of the candidates, without facing interruption from social media.
Built With
angular.js
bootstrap
charts.js
figma
firebase
invision
javascript
machine-learning
python
Try it out
github.com | SANE MIND- Mental Healthcare for our students | Your brain's fitness trainer! | ['G B'] | [] | ['angular.js', 'bootstrap', 'charts.js', 'figma', 'firebase', 'invision', 'javascript', 'machine-learning', 'python'] | 61 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/trufflecode | Metamask wallet saver
Asking Permission
Accounts ganache built-in Accounts
Added Items
Added single account showing address and amount of ethers
SmartContracts, # Blockchain , #Solidity , #Ethereum, #Truffle, #Ganache
Inspiration
Connection of saving assets in liquid form , we almost try to do. Why not we simply trade our small things in Cryptos. Can we build project of not only saving todos , simple database or we can also use these platform of cryptos in saving wallet and building something attractive to users.
Blockchain{
@Transparency
@Security
@Owning your own assets
@No third party involvement
@Distributed ledger
}
*
Using Blockchiain is very fascinating . Blockchain was basically technology only based on money transaction , bitcoin as developed by Satoshi Nakamoto . One of extremely searched topic in recent years and probably upcoming years. Earlier blockchain was used by small firms and small number of people within peer-to-peer distribution ledger technology. *
----Blockchain has not only attracted bankers but also developers , miner, government interest officials, entrepreneurs and many more people worldwide. One can say Blockchain as new era . They proposed to shift power to mainly Developers and business sector of firms .
Some firms also opposed this method to get adopted as no one can assure security , no third member will be responsible also third party income cannot be obtained through using blockchain . Applications will earn transacting money and detailed information between parties were at large loss . But still hype around world taking blockchain in account is very impressive . What exactly blockchain is ? What does it offer ? Can blockchain bring some amazing diversities in industries project handling way ? And doesn’t having bitcoin mean that you are already pro for blockchain . To examine claims , we are adhered lots of lies in front of world and many need to recognize and confusion about blockchain.
What it does
Block_Explorer is a platform where the public can conveniently trade using ethers as not only phase of just testing and development phase but also use it in their daily life.
How I built it
Web app is built using HTML, CSS and Bootstrap. Transactions events carried out are displayed on site. One can click these option like unsubscribe to remove own from their own account and show details . Subscribe to show recent events and receipts.
Challenges I ran into
I have difficulties in loading truffle development modules .Connecting ports and connecting to ganache is not that easy to perform .
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am really happy that I was able to complete my first Hackathon and build it nicely.
What I learned
We learned how to use web3 together with truffle framework. First time building Smart contract.
How to run Block_Explorer
Download or clone from my Github share field
Perform these steps (Also shown in respective video reason I want everyone to download and see how amazing blockchain can be .)
This might see simple but trust me just writing Smartcontracts and deploying is alone work which can make attract you and own your own assets even you can change some and make your own sets .
What's next for Block_Explorer
I am looking forward to add functionalities in this webapp with using same ethereum and solidity base and testing inclusions. Also features like swapping indian currencies and ethers .Their are many wallets APIs we can import and make this webapp universal for usage of users . Now this may looks like app for only Development phase but it can do more than that . After getting proper Real life models connected to it.
Thanks For Giving Me This Opportunity
Built With
css
html
javascript
solidity
web3
Try it out
github.com | TruffleCode | Trading Dapp | ['MONISHA DUBEY'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript', 'solidity', 'web3'] | 62 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/holibeats | The board to customise your music
Indian classical music
How can you listen?
Who we are?
Our Aim is to provide tranquility through melody
Inspiration
Youtube Meditation Music- I used to listen to it so as to release my tensions , restlessness, eye burns and headaches.So I tried to create a customized music application where the user can listen as she/he wishes.
What it does
It creates music from indian instruments,tibetan music,raagas ,nature sounds like waterfall ,insects and birds.
How I built it
I first followed the tutorials and I found tonejs and magentajs appealing ,so I used them to make this application.I used HTML and css too.
Challenges I ran into
Challenges were using Magenta ML models.I have to still explore a lot to get thorough with them.My team mate also gave in due to tight schedule so I had to do everything.But due to these challenges , I have learnt and improved myself a lot.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
My first Hackathon!And I built what I had imagined to do and it turned out to bet better!
What I learned
As Im very new to tech field , I dont have lot of expertise and this was my first hackathon too.But after this hackathon I learnt many things apart from technologies.The will to make the project and continue despite all challenges.
I learned a lot from this.I saw many tutorials and videos related to Magenta which were very interesting and learnt Tonejs ,Magenta and P5 too.
What's next for Holibeats
1.I would properly implement magenta models into it.
2.Would like to use noise to convert into music.
3.Make music from fingerprint patterns .
Basically , I have lots of plans to do for Holibeats.Im really excited and thank the organisers for this amazing oppurtunity.
Built With
css
html
javascript
magentajs
tonejs
Try it out
rashmitha520.github.io
github.com | Holibeats | We are Holibeats and we intend to provide a calming and soothing music experience to the listeners.We have included various carefully curated sounds to improve the user's mood through music. | [] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript', 'magentajs', 'tonejs'] | 63 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/ai-based-support-system-for-farmer | Inspiration
Food is something we eat everyday and we get it on our plate only because of the hard work of the farmers. So, we want to help farmers using our computer science knowledge. our project “AI based support system for farmers” is born from this thought.
What it does
We did some research on internet and came to know about the major problems faced by them and did a project to solve them by combining Machine Learning and Android. Our project does three things
1.Predicting best crop that can be grown in given conditions such as temperature, soil moisture, soil type, rainfall,
humidity.
2.Suggesting pesticides for a particular crop.
3.Information about current market price of crop at particular location
How we built it
In order to solve these problems, we developed a machine learning model using KNN algorithm which predicts crop that should be grown based given conditions such as rainfall, temperature, moisture, soil type and humidity as input. we took these five environmental parameters into consideration such as rainfall, temperature, moisture, soil type and humidity of around 30 crops, analysed over 3000 values in dataset and classified into groups, trained a model to predict which crop has best crop yield. Then we developed android application as a prototype using ADT Eclipse which has three modules which are meant for predicting crops, suggesting pesticides for a given crop and displaying current market price of crop based on location.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We were able to complete most of the project in given time including ML model and Android Application . Our Machine learning model got an accuracy of more than 95%, and We are proud of these things.
What's next for AI based support system for farmer
Integrating Android Application with Machine Learning Model
Adding new features like language translators,
one click crop recommendation
In app selling for connecting farmers to direct consumers.
Built With
android
machine-learning
python
scipy
Try it out
github.com | AI based support system for farmer | Food gives us strength and my idea give strength to the people who give us food that is Farmers. My idea is to solve the major problems faced by farmers using Machine Learning and Android APP. | ['Gumadavelly Ramya', 'sravani chinnam'] | [] | ['android', 'machine-learning', 'python', 'scipy'] | 64 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/politicianconnect | Home Page
Questions Page
Answers Page
Ranks Page
Email to Representative Tom Malinowski
Inspiration
We have always been interested in politics, but we found it was difficult to actually communicate with our representatives. One of us had even tried to contact his local representative, but of course, the representative never responded. It is aggravating when you can’t even communicate with someone who is supposed to be representing your interests in government. We discovered that this was a common problem: politicians often don’t respond to individual calls, emails, or letters, and if they do, it’s almost always a cookie-cutter response by an intern or secretary rather than by the politician his/herself. People who personally send letters to their politician would also not know if fellow people had the same questions or concerns or if their concern had been addressed already. Considering the number of voters a politician may have, it may be impossible for them to answer every single question they recieve.
We thought it would be more efficient if a politician would only have to answer the most pressing questions through a convenient platform. Additionally, video responses would ensure that constituents know that they are not getting a prefabricated response by an intern or a compromised response. This solution of participating in politics gave us the inspiration of creating an app that improves the communication between politicians and their constituents: PoliticianConnect.
What it does
PoliticianConnect is a platform where the public can conveniently ask questions to their representatives. It is divided into two account types: constituents and politicians. When a regular user creates an account, PoliticianConnect automatically assigns the relevant senators, representatives, and governors for that user based on the address they signed up with.
Users can create a question-post directed at a representative and can “upvote” questions made by other users that they like. The most pressing questions float to the top, creating more attention and visibility to the issue, demonstrating that the post demands an answer from the representative. Our ML algorithm automatically assigns a tag to the post when the question is submitted, allowing for convenient sort features.
The politicians can then create a politician account in order to effortlessly respond to the most upvoted questions. They can reply with text, a video, or both. On the “answered” page, users can look at all the questions their politician has answered.
On the “ranks‘ page, users can see which politicians have answered most questions that week, signifying which politicians are most active in communicating with their constituents. The user can click on the politician’s website
How we built it
The app is built using Meteor.js, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and Flask. Videos uploaded by the politician are uploaded to Google Cloud storage and retrieved using signed URLs. For machine learning, we constructed an NLP naive bayes topic classifier using scikit-learn. We used the Google Civic Information API to retrieve information about politicians.
Challenges I ran into
We initially had difficulty with using Bootstrap with Meteor.js. At the start, we tried to use Bootstrap Studio, but found it very annoying to synchronize our work together, so we ended up not using it.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are happy that we created a powerful web app with a really nice UI.
What I learned
We learned how to use Meteor.js together with bootstrap. This was our first time using Bootstrap Studio!
What's next for PoliticianConnect
The Civic Information API provides a lot of information for each politician, including their website URL and office locations. We’d like to be able to display that information for the user.
Add more ways of sorting questions and answers.
Add more types of politicians (such as state legislators and mayors) and candidates
Built With
bootstrap
css
html
javascript
meteor.js
mongodb
python
scikit-learn
Try it out
github.com | PoliticianConnect | A platform for people to conveniently ask questions to politicians | ['Chris Gu', 'Victor Hu', 'Aman Wadhwa', 'Sid Srivastava'] | ['Second Place'] | ['bootstrap', 'css', 'html', 'javascript', 'meteor.js', 'mongodb', 'python', 'scikit-learn'] | 65 |
10,449 | https://devpost.com/software/slate-helping-students-learn-and-get-tutored-efficiently | Inspiration
What it doese
How I built it
Challenges I ran into
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
What I learned
What's next for A React-Native App
Built With
apis
cloud
expo-permissions
expo.io
google-firebase
google-firestore
react-native
react-native-base
react-native-email
react-native-phone-call-library
tribe.io
wolfram-technologies
Try it out
github.com | A React-Native App | A RN App for Education | ['Om Joshi'] | [] | ['apis', 'cloud', 'expo-permissions', 'expo.io', 'google-firebase', 'google-firestore', 'react-native', 'react-native-base', 'react-native-email', 'react-native-phone-call-library', 'tribe.io', 'wolfram-technologies'] | 66 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/nutr-ez-cdgm8p | Inspiration
We wanted to build a tool for students to use when they have many preferences and dietary goals that they don't know how to translate into a meal plan. I was actually one of those students myself!
What it does
Nutr-EZ will aid you in creating a tailored meal plan according to your preferences and dietary goals. It's designed with the Carnegie Mellon campus dining offerings in mind (indeed, you don't have to venture away from campus to be in charge of your nutrition!). It will aim to helpfully and responsively adapt to your feedback on the provided recommendations, underpinned by powerful data analytics under the hood.
How I built it
We used python for the web server and html to design the website, and the pandas library.
Challenges I ran into
We were unfamiliar with HTML, so it was a lot to learn HTML.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Our website!
What I learned
We learned HTML! And a lot about python and web servers.
What's next for Nutr-EZ
More data analytic strategies for more accurate guesses empowered by machine learning!
Built With
html
machine-learning
pandas
python | Nutr-EZ | A tool to help CMU students decide where to eat according to dietary plans | ['Anupam Pokharel', 'Lisa Mishra'] | [] | ['html', 'machine-learning', 'pandas', 'python'] | 0 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/discord-bot-for-monopoly-go | Inspiration
We decided to work on this project when during the summer, we were looking at some common board/card games that we could play online and noticed that there hadn't been a discord bot created for playing monopoly deal, an abridged version of monopoly. Since we couldn't play the actual version in real life due to the pandemic, we were dismayed that we couldn't play online, so we decided to code up an automated bot that hosts a game of monopoly deal through discord.
What it does
This discord bot is able to host a game of monopoly deal through means of a discord server, and direct messages with players. Players are able to interact with the bot through the use of certain commands, such as "/draw" to draw a card, or "/play" to play a card. We also had this bot perform other basic functions other than the game, like provide a rulebook for the game, clear messages in the server, and calculate ping for each player.
How I built it
This bot was built by using the discord API, which allowed us to develop an automated system for playing games through means of reacting through posts and typing. We created a system where you could play specific action cards, or draw new cards through the use of commands.
Challenges I ran into
Learning the discord.py api, took us a while to learn, particularly the usage of cogs within discord's system. We also had some trouble communicating with a partner connected through a VPN in China, due to a consistently unstable internet connection
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are proud that we were able to learn the discord api, and we used some of the free time we had afterward to show off our discord bot to our friends, and implement the bot in our own discord servers.
What I learned
Most importantly, we learned collaboration through vscode live, and basic Github usage. We also learned a lot about using the discord api, how it uses decorators, and how the discord library communicates with a discord server to call on certain events.
What's next for Discord Bot for Monopoly Go
Although we only have it for two players right now, it shouldn't be too hard for us to implement a multiplayer version, off of the framework that we created here. We also would like to add more action cards, and property cardfs in the future.
Built With
discord.ext
discord.py
python
Try it out
github.com | Discord Bot for Monopoly Deal | A bot developed to host games of monopoly deal, through discord | ['Anderson Sutandinata', 'Andrew Chong', 'Derek Duenas'] | [] | ['discord.ext', 'discord.py', 'python'] | 1 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/fluffyland | success scene
failed scene
balls
Inspiration
We are frustrated by the reluctant response from many people for the current Covid-19 Pandemic. We want to create game which is both entertaining and educational at the same time.
What it does
The goal of the game is to keep the number of infected little balls under a threshold in a time period by
(1) using (grow with time but limited) money(or technology points) to buy masks to reduce the transmission rate, improve hospital capacity, developing vaccines.
(2) quarantining infected little balls and sending them to the hospitals to recover faster.
How I built it
First we discussed our main goals and outlined the game together. We took down notes as ballot point in google docs and drew the imaginary game scene. Then we used the divide and conquer techniques(Lingjie is responsible for art, Zipiao is responsible for music, Lingxi and Ziyu are responsible for the technical programming part).
Challenges I ran into
oriented programming details, variable extraction, finishing lots of tasks in limited times, intensive debugging
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Creative Ideas.
Art and animation implementation.
Original music.
What I learned
Team cooperation, learning unity from scratch, emotion control when things go wrong
What's next for fluffyland
So far we have the basic modules of the games down, in the future we will add more fancy features in it. For instance, in the shopping section, we will add more products for the players to help them combat the spreading of virus, and we will also design more map and levels of difficulty later. Our game is designed specifically for COVID-19, so the virus in the game is very contagious, but we may work on other kind of viruses like Ebola. There might be a more complex version that requires to balance between economic development and disease control.
Built With
c#
unity
Try it out
github.com | fluffyland | Helping little balls combat the virus!!! | ['Vpollo Li', 'Lingjie Feng', 'Lingxi Zhang'] | [] | ['c#', 'unity'] | 2 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/vnprompts | HackCMU2020
VN Prompts: A Twitter bot that posts visual novel story descriptions!
dataset.py
To add a new dataset, add a new subfolder in the data directory and subclass
the Dataset base class to implement the
get_lines
method.
Before a dataset can be used for training, the
Dataset.process
method must be
called with the source material to create a
raw_lines.txt
.
train.py
To train a model, combine samples of the dataset as desired in
make_data
, then
run the main script.
run_model.py
A command-line tool for generating model text, optionally based on an input.
tweet.py
Automatically tweet generated descriptions.
Dataset
vndb:
https://dl.vndb.org/dump/
Built With
beautiful-soup
markovify
pandas
python
selenium
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github.com
twitter.com | vnprompts | A Twitter bot that posts visual novel story descriptions! | ['Anna Cai', 'Abhishek Vijayakumar'] | [] | ['beautiful-soup', 'markovify', 'pandas', 'python', 'selenium'] | 3 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/fitbook | Inspiration
Losing the motivation to workout everyday is a common problem among many people. It has happened to the best of us, and having a workout buddy makes us more motivated. Rather than working out alone you can have someone else to hold you accountable. During the workout you can motivate each other to push even harder or make it to the finish line. Even if you don’t want to take it too seriously it can be difficult to find enough people to play team sports as well. This way you can always find someone else to play a game of basketball or do yoga in the park with.
According to NBC News, “95 percent of those who started a weight-loss program with friends completed the program, compared to a 76 percent completion rate for those who tackled the program alone.” This demonstrates that working out with someone motivates us and allows us to live healthier lives.
Personally, I started playing tennis over quarantine and I’m tired of reaching out to friends to rally with me. Because of gym closures, I also got a bike and kept asking my friends to bike with me but kept getting turned down--which gave me the idea of Fitbook.
What it does
Fitbook is a platform that connects people based upon their fitness interests so that you no longer have to exercise alone. You can post to find workout buddies and share after workouts, which will show up on your friends' feeds. It's a quick way to reach out to several friends about when and what workout you want to do.
How we built it
We used react, javascript, css, and github for version control.
Challenges we ran into
This was the first time more than half of the group used react so it was a learning curve. Furthermore, it was the first time half the group used a system for version control, so we ran into a few merge issues.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud going from zero React knowledge to being able to create an entire website.
What we learned
We learned about React and Github.
What's next for Fitbook
Going mobile!
Built With
css
html
javascript
react
Try it out
github.com | Fitbook | Fit together, fit forever | ['Divya Aggarwal', 'Iris Dong', 'Suzanne Nie'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript', 'react'] | 4 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/task-master | Inspiration
As college students, we find that time management is essential to our academic success. We decided to create this project to help ourselves with time management. We have all been in a moment where we had an assignment due much earlier than expected, and we wanted a program to solve that issue.
What it does
Task Master organizes all our tasks from four main sources: Canvas, Autolab, Gradescope, and Piazza. Each class instructor has a different style for assignments, but our code combines all the sites so that all that information is given together to the user. This data allows the user to figure out exactly when the next task is due by searching by class.
How we built it
Our program was built on selenium and webdriver. We needed a way to make sure that the user can access the four sites above together, so all sites and data are automatically stored in a json file for the user to see. Privacy is at the core of our program, so we made sure that no information is stored unsecurlely online. After the user inputs their username and password into the program, it is removed. Once the program has access to each website, it goes through different links to retrieve different pieces of information. For example, a lot of assignments and assignment deadlines are stored in gradescope, so our program gets the assignment name, deadline, and even grade if it has already been graded by the instructors.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into many challenges when finding the specific links for sites. Inially, each HTML file had a username and password with an "ID" but later on, we realized that Gradescope did not. We were able to get around this by using xpath with webdriver, and we were able to find out a pattern so that we could get through this process smoothly. A lot of the data was stored at the same level in HTML, so we figured out how to loop through to get all that data. Our final issue was creating the terminal interface for the user. We had some issues combining all the different programs that we wrote for each site. We solved this issue by commenting out all the test parts and any unnecessary code.
Built With
python
selenium
webdriver
Try it out
github.com | Task Master | We decided to aggregate all the different information from different sites, such as Canvas, Gradescope, Autolab, and Piazza. This aggregated data ensures that users know exactly when a task is due. | ['Sean Swayze', 'Jonathan Ke', 'David You', 'Poojan Palwai'] | [] | ['python', 'selenium', 'webdriver'] | 5 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/hackcmu2020 | Helpful Statistics!
Main page
Input Selection
Calendar
HACKCMU 2020: CMU Schedule Optimizer
Want to register for a schedule where have you to wake up the latest? Want to take as many in-person classes as you can?
Given a list of your courses and a metric, the CMU Schedule Optimizer generates all possible schedules using data extracted from the Course Catalog in order to find the best one that best fits your needs. It also displays helpful statistics and information so you can best understand your schedule.
Built with Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flask, BeautifulSoup, DayPilot, requests, matplotlib.
We learned a lot about web scraping, heuristics, Flask, and Git.
We faced a lot of challenges with updating the calendar feature of our app with DayPilot. It was also difficult to scrape the data from the CMU course catalog. It was also a challenge to integrate backend and frontend components with Flask, which we learned especially for this project.
Built With
css
flask
html
javascript
python
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github.com | CMU Schedule Optimizer | Have you ever wasted time trying to construct the perfect schedule? CMU Schedule Optimizer is here to help! | ['Trevor Leong', 'Eric Tong', 'osavkur123 Savkur', 'gxgao Gao'] | [] | ['css', 'flask', 'html', 'javascript', 'python'] | 6 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/cmu-virtual-art | Scotty Artwork
Inspiration
We were inspired by public art installations that allow anyone to contribute to a piece. What if you could demonstrate the art styles of different students across CMU's campus with virtual art demonstrations?
How it works
We are designing a website to facilitate the creation of “virtual” art installations around CMU's campus. Each building will have a QR code sticker that links a user to a canvas dedicated to that building. The user is allowed to add one dot and choose its color and size. The user cannot further add to this artwork until 24 hours have gone by, in order to promote contribution from multiple students. Over time, each of these artworks should develop as new students add dots to each dynamic artwork. This experiment will most likely show how students of different majors at CMU collectively create art. Each artwork is intended to constantly change and remain dynamic across graduating classes of CMU, for its entire lifespan.
Built With
python
Try it out
github.com | CMU Virtual Art | A series of dynamic, virtual, and collaborative art pieces | ['Chansocphentra Salcido', 'Julia Hou', 'Pearl Franz'] | [] | ['python'] | 7 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/latexinator | Comparison of LaTex output and matrix spoken
Comparison of LaTex output and matrix spoken
Inspiration
We were intrigued by the prompt of automating something in our daily lives. As computer science/engineering students, much of our time is spent on typesetting problem sets, a repetitive task that we could save much time on by automating.
What it does
LaTeXinator is a script that takes in microphone audio and outputs functional LaTeX code, ready to be directly copy-pasted into a document. It can detect and translate mathematical symbols and equations, LaTeX commands and functions, and multi-line structures such as matrices.
How we built it
We used Python, utilizing the Google Speech Recognition API to process audio into a string. We wrote functions that parsed the string into LaTex using a dictionary we wrote ourselves.
Challenges we ran into
For all members on the team, this was our first hackathon, so we had much to learn in regards to planning, collaboration, and navigating the hackathon structure as a whole. In particular, we realized that we did not have time to implement all our ideas, so we had to focus on a few specific, basic ideas and build our way up.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Using relatively simple ideas and code, we were able to build a program that will be useful to our daily lives. In terms of specifics, we’re proud of parsing multi-word triggers for LaTex functions and finding a way to parse matrices.
What we learned
As new coders, we experienced the hackathon development process for the first time, gaining a sense of understanding and appreciation for how “real-world” projects are developed under fast-paced and extreme conditions. In terms of specific coding knowledge, we worked with some APIs and packages for the first time, augmenting our toolkit of Python and programming as a whole.
What's next for LaTexinator
We want to try and make the script deployable as an app. This way, more people can use this. As the speech pattern needed resembles that of actual LaTex, this may serve as a way to intuitively learn LaTex. Looking forward, we may want to implement additional features (e.g. giving document templates) for easier and more helpful use.
Built With
google-web-speech-api
python
speechrecognition
Try it out
github.com | LaTexinator | Why waste hours on LaTex when you can just talk? | ['Alan Zhu', 'Sree Devee Sattenapalli', 'jchiu342'] | [] | ['google-web-speech-api', 'python', 'speechrecognition'] | 8 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/ez-calendar | Log In Page
Dashboard with Autofill Search Bar
Professor Editing Events
Uploaded To Google Calendar
Example Code
Inspiration
Finding the zoom links for office hours and lecture hours of all your courses is such a hassle! Each course has their own website we need to navigate to. We decided create a resource where professors and TAs can upload their class/office hour times with zoom links into a centralized database. Students just need to select which courses they are in and a calendar will be created for them in one click.
What it does
As a professor or TA, you have to add your classes/office hours to the database. Create and log into your teacher account to do this.
As a student, create and log into your account then add the courses you are taking this semester. You can search for your courses in the search bar and it will give a dropdown list of the closest matches. Then, by a single click of the download calendar button, you get an ICS file that you can upload to any calendar app of your choosing.
How we built it
We wrote a database and log-in system using PHP and SQLite3.
As well, our website uses HTML and JavaScript to communicate with the database.
Challenges we ran into
Setting up the database and log in system was very time consuming due to the sheer amount of lines of code that had to be written. As well, the search bar algorithm for detecting the closest match had multiple bugs that we had to fix.
Another challenge we solved was the dropdown menu disappearing once we went to click on one of the options. Since the dropdown is only supposed to be visible when our cursor is in the search bar, once we click on one of the options in the dropdown menu, the dropdown would disappear and nothing would happen. We had to fix this by making the onclick across the entire body.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Implementing a search bar with autofill, a reliable backend and login system are amazing achievements for us.
Another accomplishment was being able to create a database with logins and personalized profiles for each user. The professors can then update the database and it will be live for subsequent calendar download and course searches from students
What we learned
We learned a lot about databases in PHP with SQLite as backend as well as how to create a frontend in HTML, CSS, JS.
Also, we learned how to communicate between the frontend and the backend using POST requests and processing the textResponse received from the backend.
What's next for Easy Calendar
We are planning to add even more features including linking with Andrew ID login and improving the graphics/visuals of the website.
Built With
html
javascript
php
sqlite
Try it out
github.com | Easy Calendar | Set up your calendar for all your classes in ONE PLACE! | ['Alex Xu', 'Jacky He', 'David Tang'] | [] | ['html', 'javascript', 'php', 'sqlite'] | 9 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/splatex | We're Artas Alajbegu and Natalie Tedeschi, two sophomore math majors who just developed SpLaTeX.
LaTeX is a document typesetting language used commonly for writing math papers and used nearly universally by math and computer science students here at Carnegie Mellon University.
Transcribing written notes into LaTeX files is tedious, and the time adds no value to what students gain from their problem sets. Additionally, we've noticed a tremendous learning curve where freshmen unfamiliar with the language waste unnecessary hours searching for commands and adapting themselves to the language.
SpLaTeX automates this process. Students can dictate their solutions and SpLaTeX will provide them with the LaTeX code they need in seconds.
Looking forward, we plan on making SpLaTeX into a chrome extension, so that students can dictate directly into a LaTeX window on their browser. Our aim is to make SpLaTeX a universal tool that millions of students, faculty, and research journal editors use to assist them in writing math.
Built With
css
flask
google-cloud
html
python | SpLaTeX | Speech to LaTeX | ['Natalie Tedeschi'] | [] | ['css', 'flask', 'google-cloud', 'html', 'python'] | 10 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/virtual-closet-slc58b | App Icon
Confirmation of adding the item in
Adding an item into the closet
Scrolling down the virtual closet
View with no tags selected
Home Screen layout
View of search filtering out items to just swimwear and shorts
View of search filtering out items to just sweaters
View with multiple tags selected which yields an empty result
Inspiration
From online clothing stores and websites, and that we wanted a way to categorize and organize our clothes from a mobile device
What it does
Allows you to keep an inventory of the clothes you own, and allows you to categorize these clothes based on certain tags (which will filter the results)
How we built it
Using android studio
Challenges we ran into
Lots of bugs with the graphical user interface not doing what we wanted it to throughout the course of the hackathon, getting familiar with coding in android studio
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Finishing the task on time with no major bugs
What we learned
All three of us were just starting out with android studio for the first time, and by the end of the hackathon we became much more familiar with it, it's probably our biggest learning achievement throughout this project
What's next for Virtual Closet
Including tags for all objects, not just clothes. Integrating it with Machine Learning to help pick out a set of clothes for you to wear on a certain day
Built With
android-studio
java | Virtual Closet | A way to index and organize your collection of clothing items from your mobile device | ['William Huang', 'Christina Yao', 'Gael Hyppolite'] | [] | ['android-studio', 'java'] | 11 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/deadline-eyrtj4 | Inspiration
I was devastated when I missed one of my assignment deadlines because I forgot to check my Canvas page! The deadline was in such small font that I missed it easily. Furthermore, there are multiple websites for assignment submission and we have to check them one by one and tediously copy them down. Why spend more time checking deadlines when you can spend the time doing homework? #myHeartIsInTheWork motivates us to automate this task to fulfill our calling of doing work that matters.
What it does
DEADline helps to collate deadlines from CMU websites such as Gradescope and Canvas. What's best is that it is all done in the background automatically! DEADline is a Chrome extension that does web scraping. Upon logging in to the school assignment websites, DEADline does its job of quietly keeping track of all the deadlines! The deadlines are then displayed on a user friendly webpage that clearly lists out your classes and upcoming deadlines for each assignment.
How I built it
We built it using Javascript for web scraping of HTML DOM elements, bootstrap and HTML for GUI design.
Challenges I ran into
We had to identify the assignments whose deadlines were approaching and filter out those that have already been submitted. We also had to navigate through the complex HTML DOM elements to find our hidden deadlines. This is especially challenging as each website has its own architecture.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We managed to work through the whole process from web scraping to data collation to displaying on the UI. It works and it is really something we are going to use it to ensure that out heart is in the true work!
What I learned
We learnt how to build a Chrome extension and how to do web scraping. Being new to development, working on the GUI was a good learning process too. Most importantly, we learnt to work together as a team. Team work makes the dream work.
What's next for DEADline
Get cooler
Built With
bootstrap
html
javascript
Try it out
github.com | DEADline | Tired of searching through websites and missing assignments? Use DEADline and you'll never forget to submit your work ever again! | ['Bo Xia', 'Joshua Cheng', 'Ying Yee Wong'] | [] | ['bootstrap', 'html', 'javascript'] | 12 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/hangman-covid-19-tracker | These are lower severity cases, with an encouraging message for percentages below 1%.
These are some of the more severe cases, including the fully formed figure on the right, and a CMU mask and a caption advising to stay home.
This shows the multiple windows overlapping on the same desktop, for easy comparison of different states.
Inspiration
We were inspired to make this project because we often felt like it was difficult to interpret the various types of ways that each state presented its COVID-19 data. Even when the numbers or graphs were presented, it was always hard to guage what numbers were bad or good. So we wanted to make an app that simplified all of this.
What it does
Our project takes the relative percentage for increase in positive tests compared to the total test increase for each state/U.S. territory. Then it takes the percentage and outputs the tkinter canvas drawing of hangman, each time the percentage increases by 1%, it outputs a new part of the body(ie: 1% --> head, 2% --> body, 3% --> arms, etc.) Once a state reaches 5%, it will have the entire hangman body and presents a message telling you to continue efforts to stay home as much as possible and continue social distancing.
How we built it
We built this using python and tkinter graphics. We started by defining functions that created each portion of the canvas image. Then we defined one large function, drawHangman, that included a library of the state abbreviations to state names, calls all the individual functions, and uses if statements to compare the percentages to what needs to be included in the output.
Challenges we ran into
Some of the challenges that we ran into were through learning new ways to use python. For example, we had to learn how to pull data from online sources to get the percentages, and we also had trouble figuring out how to upload an image into the tkinter canvas so that we could represent Carnegie Mellon Tartans on the mask of the body. Another challenge we ran into was trying to make a prompt text box to input which state you wanted the data for, in the end we decided that it was too much work and not worth our time to implement it into the project.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It was a great experience to be able to implement skills that we were learning in our introductory cs courses into real world problems. We are very proud of our new skills using graphics through tkinter :))
What we learned
We learned more about coding with tkinter and how to use the requests module to grab data from the internet.
What's next for our Hangman COVID-19 Tracker
Ideally we would scale this out to other countries, have more data sources and move the input from the terminal to a message box or something.
Built With
https://covidtracking.com/data/api
python
requests
tkinter | Hangman COVID-19 Tracker | Easily visualize the severity of the pandemic in your state | ['Rachel Wilson', 'Madeline Thai-Tang', 'dinnerdash6 Wu', 'RoboticDrago'] | [] | ['https://covidtracking.com/data/api', 'python', 'requests', 'tkinter'] | 13 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/schedule-helper-34qm79 | A generated timetable.
User information form.
Inspiration
As freshmen at CMU, it's been made clear the importance of time management and good sleep hygiene. This is even more important during a time of remote learning, when many students are at home where they may become easily distracted.
What it does
It generates weekly schedules for CMU students, who can input their classes and weekly commitments. Using FCE data about the hours spent on each course, we are able to plan for appropriate study time per course.
How I built it
This project was built using React. The weekly calendar was a custom component to allow for more flexibility in displaying the schedule. Schedules are generated using a rudimentary form of simulated annealing, where we enforced different rules on the schedule by means of a customizable loss function.
Challenges I ran into
Initially, we had difficulty in generating the schedules as there were a lot of moving parts involved. It was made easier by reframing the problem as an annealing problem rather than hard-coding rules to slot events.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
For the most part, the crucial features were completed before the deadline. Although still a bit rough around the edges, it is a working product.
What I learned
We learnt more about front-end web development and the various issues about scheduling.
What's next for Schedule Helper
One important feature is allowing the user to export the generated schedules in an iCal format.
Built With
react
Try it out
btwj.github.io
github.com | CMU Schedule Helper | Study scheduling made simple. | ['Bradley Teo', 'Sijun Cathy Yi', 'Janika Oh', 'Akash Arun'] | [] | ['react'] | 14 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/hackcmu-2020 | HackCMU-2020
There has been a lot going on this year due to the pandemic. During these difficult times, negative news can affect our mental health on a daily basis. Therefore, we came up with an idea to build news search engine that would help people control the type of news they would like to read by classifying news as positive or negative.
App development was new to all of us, and during this hackathon we learnt how to develop a web application from scratch and learnt new concepts.
Built With
css
flask
html
machine-learning
natural-language-processing
neural-networks
python
sentiment-analysis-online
Try it out
github.com | HackCMU-2020 | HackCMU 2020 - Team submission | ['Karthik P', 'Sahana Ramu', 'Sanjana Kandi', 'Aushim Nagarkatti'] | [] | ['css', 'flask', 'html', 'machine-learning', 'natural-language-processing', 'neural-networks', 'python', 'sentiment-analysis-online'] | 15 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/spectre-w6f4mv | home screen of website
video screen of website
Inspiration
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people were forced to abandon plans of in-person gatherings in favor of meeting up with friends on virtual platforms. One frequently utilized social platform is Discord, which allows people to come together and talk when not physically together. However, such virtual platforms have their limitations: Discord does not allow for the streaming of perfectly synchronous video, making it impossible to watch and enjoy YouTube videos with friends as lag causes people's videos to desynchronize.
What it does
spectre is a synchronous video-watching platform for you and your friends that can be initiated in a discord server with a simple command: !watch [youtube link] or !watch [youtube playlist link]. The bot will reply with a message containing a link to the room. You and anyone who wishes to watch with you can click on the link to join the room. The homepage will require you to enter a username before entering the room itself, where you can then watch the linked video(s) with friends. Inside the video room, there are features available to enhance your viewing experience, including changing host permissions or adding videos to the queue. The chatroom is linked with Discord so that messages sent in discord will show up in the chatroom.
Our Stack
The languages we used to build this project were Python, JavaScript, and markup language (HTML/CSS). The Discord bot was built using Python and the discord.py Discord API. The spectre platform backend was built in JavaScript, using an Express.js server, Node.js, and WebSocket. The front end of the website was designed using HTML and CSS.
How we built it
Our Discord bot implemented the Discord API in order to interact with users. It works in conjunction with the server backend and communicates to it via a RESTful API. The backend server uses websockets to synchronize video playing between devices and interacts with the YouTube Data API v3 for video playback from YouTube. The framework for the front end, the implementation of the websocket, and the chat backend was adapted from Vynchronize. However, with the addition of the new API and with the connection of the Discord bot to our website, most existing features were incompatible, so we had to do a complete rehaul. We also improved the appearance and ease of use of the front end. The website was designed with HTML and CSS, with JQuery and AJAX for server communication.
Vynchronize is licensed for our use under the MIT License.
Challenges we ran into
When we initially had an idea, we realized that it would be impossible to learn how to implement a video player that would synchronize across users' screens in 24 hours, so we were forced to rely on a pre-existing framework. Another challenge was that the framework had to be adjusted quite a lot to suit our needs, which was to communicate with a discord bot.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of being able to adapt to a new framework and a programming language we haven't worked with before, in addition to learning using an existing framework to add an API. We also initially struggled a bit with displaying our product before figuring out how to deploy to Heroku.
What we learned
Through the production of this project, we gained a lot of experience using Express.js and Node.js and websockets for the backend. We learned more about the Discord API and creating a functioning bot. Through creating the frontend of the webpage such that it was compatible with the framework, we learned Boostrap and embedded CSS.
What's next for spectre
For the Discord bot, we want to implement more features that will make going between Discord and Spectre easier. In addition, we hope to add more interesting features to the website that will enhance the video watching experience, as well as add support for other widely-used video players, and potentially even include support for popular apps like TikTok. We would also like to improve the accessibility of the site, such as by supporting high contrast or light mode and much more alt text.
Built With
bootstrap
css3
discord
express.js
html5
javascript
node.js
python
socket.io
Try it out
discord.com
github.com
cmu-spectre.herokuapp.com | spectre | Spectre, a synchronous YouTube streaming platform for you and your friends. Let our Discord bot do the work. | ['Pranav Addepalli', 'Emma Jiang', 'Jai Kumar', 'dora-xiao'] | [] | ['bootstrap', 'css3', 'discord', 'express.js', 'html5', 'javascript', 'node.js', 'python', 'socket.io'] | 16 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/hackcmu-2020-7s0nca | HackCMU-2020
This is a Discord bot created for HackCMU 2020 by Adhvik Kanagala and Keren Huang.
Functionality is somewhat limited but it was a great exercise of our somewhat limited knowledge of Python, as well as our skills with accessing APIs.
In the future, we'd like to figure out how to implement OAuth2 to allow for deeper integration with various services, which was the biggest hurdle of this project.
For now, the bot has a few commands, which can be accessed using !commands.
To add it to your own discord server, please visit
https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=759211947613880391&permissions=8&scope=bot
Built With
python
Try it out
github.com | HackCMU-2020 | This is a Discord bot that can use various APIs to provide information to users directly within Discord! | ['Adhvik Kanagala', 'Keren Huang'] | [] | ['python'] | 17 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/likehack-0qaug9 | Word Cloud
Timeline
Timeline
Inspiration:
Given the digital age we’re in, we don’t often remember what we liked in the past. Our attention is stretched thin from the number of social media outlets and videos we have access to at all times. To create a way for us to see what interested us in the past and how our interests changed over time, we created LikeHack. By providing a Facebook developer token, you can view a word cloud of the pages you liked in the past and a timeline of the likes.
LikeHack is meaningful because it also shows how much of ourselves we put online and how much you can tell about a person just based on their facebook likes.
What it does:
LikeHack takes in a Facebook Developer’s Access Token and creates a word cloud and timeline of the user’s likes.
Challenges we ran into:
One of the challenges we encountered was learning how to use the Facebook API.
There were very rigid steps we had to follow so that we could access our likes in a usable data structure.
How we Built It:
We started with Facebook’s Graph API to extract “likes” and then used wordcloud and matplotlib modules to create infographics.
What we learned:
How to integrate Facebook Graph API with python data visualization
How to work with developer keys to access information from facebook accounts (in this case our own)
Next steps:
In the future, we can implement a more developed front end that can create the infographics with one’s Facebook account and password, instead of a FB Developer’s access key. We can also finetune the timeline function to make it interactive.
Built With
facebook-graph
json
matplotlib
python
wordcloud
Try it out
github.com | LikeHack | See What You Liked, When You Liked | ['Sibhy Rajesh', 'Shizhen Liu', 'Sebastian Garcia'] | [] | ['facebook-graph', 'json', 'matplotlib', 'python', 'wordcloud'] | 18 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/svcevents | View of Website page
Inspiration
Our school posts online announcements about it's events, but those events often are posted on a different site depending on who runs them (the school, organizations, clubs, etc.). We felt like it might be smart to make something that centralizes all of those announcements
What it does
The site has event objects that are displayed in short detail on the main page. When a user clicks on them, the detail expands, and more information is presented.
In addition, we made a form for creating new events and adding them into the site.
How I built it
We built the entire app using the Angular framework. We used it, and many of it's modules to create the displays and form that were used.
Challenges I ran into
Our hope was to implement a Mysql database into the Angular app. However, we could not find a way to intergrate it into the final project. Mainly, Angular does not provide a Mysql service, and so we would have had to create a php backend that connects to the Angular backend.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
While we could not implement Mysql, we were able to use Angular. This is a great accomplishment, as many of us came into the project not knowing how to use the framework
What I learned
Learning Angular was important for my development in software engineering and web development. I am happy to have started my journey with it and am excited to see where it goes from here
What's next for SVCEvents
Given that a lot of functionality had to be cut from the final submission, these things are on the top of the list in terms of updating this and making it better
Built With
angular.js
Try it out
github.com | SVCEvents | Centralizing all of SVC Event Announcements | ['Matthew Beck'] | [] | ['angular.js'] | 19 |
10,456 | https://devpost.com/software/ready-plot-td6kcm | Ready Plot
Jomibecha BD is an exclusive Land or Plot and Flat sales agent. We do sell various size of Ready Plot and Luxurious Flat nearby Uttara,Dhaka. Anyone can contact with us for buying ready or semi ready Plot or Flat.
Email:
aziz.jbcbd@gmail.com
Cell: 8801707- 444425
Built With
english
Try it out
www.jomibechabd.ml | Ready Plot | Jomibecha BD is an exclusive Land or Plot and Flat sales agent. | ['Romana Romi'] | [] | ['english'] | 20 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/tbd-7yxgu1 | Our logo and name represent the heights we can accomplish when the right people meet each other
Our banner page and main slogan, inspiring people to make a difference
Our main explore page, featuring challenges
Projects page, featuring tasks and project information
Challenge page featuring community map and challenge description
User Dashboard with Profile featuring badges, tags, and user description
The Problem
Currently, many nonprofit organizations are having trouble competing for the attention of digital users, and in an increasingly digital world, this is preventing them from progressing in their causes. We are also living through an era, where time is of the essence, and many small businesses and organizations are hanging by a thread. We thought that it was unfair that the very groups that are trying to make the world a better place, are faced with the impossible solution of having to settle for low-tech alternatives to continue their causes.
Our Goal
As young student developers fairly new to the development space, we realized that there were many other people like us who wanted to make a difference, but didn’t have enough experience to make change on a large scale. We thought that if we could join these two groups, we could better help organizations get their message out in a modern, more effective manner.
We decided our goal for this project would be to level up local non-profits and helping them become more technologically advanced allowing them to more effectively work on completing their missions, to make the world a better place. Also giving the opportunity for other organizations to post challenges, creating opportunities for beginner developers to gain experience.
Solution
With Stratus, if an organization has a problem that a developer could solve, they post a challenge on our site, next a Developer would come along and create a project under that challenge. They would then work as a team with other contributing developers to create a production grade app, that helps the organization tackle the problem they need solving. The projects will have a built in To-do list that the contributors can use to organize the tasks needed to complete the project. A challenge can have multiple projects, which allows developers with different ideas to create different projects, all under the one challenge. The Organizer can then star the project that they end up using, which will reward the developer contributors a badge on their user profile.
In addition to fostering connections between Developers and Organizations, we wanted to make tools that organizers and developers could use to filter down the projects and challenges. We made the tag features so that Organizers could specify the urgency of the challenge, to help developers find the challenges that they can, and want to help, and finally, as a user profile feature so developers can share their interests.
Finally, we wanted to foster a sense of community on our platform, and so we decided to add community maps on the challenge pages. At the end of the day, we wanted to help reassure our developers that they are not alone. So, for each challenge, we made a map that shows a user the concentration of fellow developers who are also working on the challenge.
Features
Challenge pages where organizations post challenge prompts.
Project postings where developers can join projects.
Tasks associated with each project which act as a to-do list for contributing developers.
Tags act as labels that projects, challenges, and users can associate themselves with to be a part of those communities.
Badges awarded to developers for completing challenges.
Community heatmap where developers can see other contributors in their area, fostering a sense of community.
User profiles that others can view
Development
We worked with the Django Python web framework, HTML and CSS, alongside the Cirrus CSS framework, to build the frontend. The deployment is backed by NGINX and an sqlite database, with both PostgreSQL and MySQL being completely supported alternatives.
Challenges
While being one of our core features, the contributor heat map was quite a challenge to implement.
Accomplishments
We were able to finish this project with close to full functionality, and learned how to work with geojson data when creating the Mapbox API map.
Future
More complete functionality and better mobile views
Support for user interaction in the form of message boards
Integration into git repositories including hosting or mirroring
More control for challenge creators and site administrators
Built With
cirrus
css
django
html5
javascript
mapbox
python
Try it out
github.com | Stratus | A web platform that connects organizers with developers | ['Justin Lu', 'Aava Sapkota', 'Celeste L'] | ['First Place'] | ['cirrus', 'css', 'django', 'html5', 'javascript', 'mapbox', 'python'] | 0 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/polar-bear-demo | Home Screen
Login
Registration
Inspiration
With the rise of COVID-19, it's harder for people to go out and visit places they might want to go. Once such example is the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat. It's remote location already limits the number of people that it can reach and a pandemic further decreases that number. There is a need for a virtual experience that matches an in-person visit so that people can be more engaged with the polar bears and the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat.
What it does
VirtualVisit allows users to have a virtual experience with the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat. It offers an AR viewing of the polar bears, knowledge bites about anatomy adaptations, direct viewing of the website, and much more.
How we built it
I used React Native for the framework of the app along with Google Cloud Platform's Firebase for authentication of users.
Firebase
User Authentication
Realtime Database
Stores Data and User Information
React Native
Framework
GitHub
File Management
Hosting
EchoAR
Polar bear experience from your own home
Challenges we ran into
I'm not a huge fan of React Native so this project was a way for me to start liking it more. One of the biggest challenges I faced was trying to retrieve data from FireStone, it involved authenticating the users and checking that state on opening the app. Another challenge was trying to display the user's name on the home page. Because I was using stateless components, it became very difficult to try and pass objects. One thing that was particularly frustrating was the paywall that a lot of good models are behind for using with EchoAR. I had to settle for a low-poly image.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It's functional! Many times in hackathons before I've lost motivation part way through and I didn't want to continue, but I was able to get through this one. I'm particularly proud of getting Firebase to work as that was a struggle.
What we learned
Firebase
User Authentication
EchoAR
WebView in React Native
What's next for VirtualVisit
Implement a Meet the Bears page where you can click on each bear and learn more about their personalities
Implement Radar.io with the ability to calculate how far away you are from the habitat, how fast you can run compared to a polar bear etc.
Bring in the live feed from the website and make it accessible through the app
Games to play that help you learn about habitat loss (perhaps a platform game, Donkey Kong style climbing towards the ice
Built With
echoar
firebase
google-cloud
javascript
react-native
Try it out
github.com
expo.io | VirtualVisit | An app that lets you visit the polar bears at Canadian Polar Bear Habitat | ['Ramya Challa'] | ['Second Place', 'Best use of Google Cloud'] | ['echoar', 'firebase', 'google-cloud', 'javascript', 'react-native'] | 1 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/cph-meet-the-bears | Inspiration
After hearing the three challenges, we were immediately drawn to the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat Challenge. The challenge wanted an interactive experience that engages the audience so, we immediately thought of a game. After researching the organization more, we decided to target our game to a younger audience as they are the future generation and should be aware of the effect of climate change on polar bears.
What it does
Our game allows the player to choose a polar bear which then proceeds to an activity like swimming or eating. Each activity gives the player information about the bear or a fact about polar bears in general! We hope that through this game it sparks curiosity in the younger generation about polar bears.
How we built it
We used Scratch, which is a programming language specifically geared for animations and games, to build our game. We first had to decide what exactly we wanted to do with the game. After landing on the idea of separate activities for each bear, we split up the work into creating sprites for each bear, drawing environments, animating walk cycles and activities, and stitching everything together. The full source code can be seen on the Scratch page when you click "See Inside".
Challenges we ran into
Some of the challenges that we had, were figuring out what programming language we should use and debugging the project. Since we are relatively new to programming we were not comfortable using Python to create the game which took up some of our time on the first day. So, we decided to build it using Scratch. However, this came with its own problems as there was a learning curve. Additionally, Scratch does not have a debugger so it took a long time to figure out what went wrong with the code.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we were able to complete the project as we were not sure how long the project would take. We are also proud that we participated in our first hackathon allowing us to expose ourselves to programming and develop our problem-solving skills.
What we learned
From this project, we learned many new things that do not pertain only to programming. We also learned about the importance of having a Polar Bear habitat for the long-term survival of their species. On the programming side, we learned that planning is key when it comes to designing a project as it allows us to clearly see how the project should be executed and breaks down the logic.
What's next for CPH: Meet the bears
To further enhance the game, we're going to add more activities involving the bears, such as in-depth training, more dietary options, and medical care. We're also going to add more information about the research that the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat is involved in and facts about polar bears.
Built With
scratch
Try it out
scratch.mit.edu | CPH: Meet the bears | Introducing CPH: Meet the bears (name of game), the new virtual experience for kids! CPH: Meet the bears was tailored to expose children to the importance of researching polar bears. | ['Sagarika R', 'Maggie Ye'] | ['Third Place'] | ['scratch'] | 2 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/polar-rc90ut | Inspiration
“The Canadian Polar Bear Habitat is known around the world for its polar bear research and education. However, its remote location limits the number of students, teachers, and life-long learners that it can reach.”
What better way to counter this obstacle by bringing the Habitat to your very home? With Kurius’ sponsorship by echoAR, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to dive into the world of virtual experiences.
What it does
Upon immersion into our virtual gallery, users are able to see and learn more about the four beloved stars of the Habitat: Ganuk, Eddy, Henry, and Inukshuk. As users explore the gallery, the four polar bears will move among them.
How we built it
First, we tried to find realistic 3D polar bear models that we could upload echoAR’s platform. We also uploaded images of Ganuk, Eddy, Henry, and Inukshuk to echoAR. Then, using Unity, we manipulated the models and images and correspond to our vision of the gallery.
Challenges we ran into
We had trouble running some of echoAR’s demonstrations. We had hoped to create portals through which a user could watch the Habitat’s enclosure live streams, but we were not able to make it work with a 2D video. We also had trouble running the application on our personal devices when there were multiple models in the scene.
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
We are proud of succeeding in using new platforms and developer tools such as echoAR and Unity.
What we learned
We learned more about programming in C# and matrix transformations. Furthermore, we learned how to coordinate remotely as a team on an AR project.
What’s next for PolAR
In the future, we are considering implementing more robust AR and portals in our virtual gallery. We would also like to overcome the challenges we were not able to during this Hackathon. Here’s to users being able to step into the Canadian Polar Habitat and explore from home!
Built With
c#
echoar
love
unity
Try it out
github.com | PolAR | Our virtual gallery allows users to learn more about the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat while Ganuk, Eddy, Inukshuk, and Henry roam about. | ['Nina Tan', 'Henning Lindig', 'Tilman Lindig'] | ['EchoAR Prize'] | ['c#', 'echoar', 'love', 'unity'] | 3 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/hackathonproject-d49vo0 | PolarHab
Created by Anwesha P, David R, Vasudha M, and Hashir M for the KURIUSHACKS 48h Hackathon
https://polarhabjudging.azurewebsites.net/
is the published website link!
https://youtu.be/I5JMOBUGDow
is the published video link!
Notice: Due to using the Azure Free Plan, we only have 60 min per day of computing time. All of the files help to create a .NET Core Blazor web app. The manual publish folder is also included in PolarHub/PolarHub/bin/netcoreapp3.1/publish. Additionally, security was not in mind when creating this website. We decided to have the website idea come first. You may find database keys in the project files. These are purely throwaway databases and we do not support leaving sensitive files or information available for anyone to see.
The Why
We wanted to make an interactive website to help people get to know things about polar bears (suiting challenge #3). We decided to take the turn of making it into a child oriented website and having fun and enjoyable activies that still teach them something. As they progress, a header shows how far they are in the entire process. After they complete all the activies, they will be awarded a virtual certificate that they can download! Of course, a real production website would have lots more activities, but the 15 that we have show the thought process of the entire website and what direction it would've gone if it was production quality. A lot of these activities were made basic with time in mind, but they can be expanded and improved upon. We also made use of EchoAR to show what a polar bear would look like in real life and what the anatomy would be (we could not find high quality free models that would support the EchoAR data annotation feature).
Video Script
Home Screen
Welcome to our project for the kuriushacks hackathon, with this website and a short implementation of EchoAR we provide a solution for the third prompt given to us by the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat. The home screen contains a basic overview of what CPBH is about. You can find the navigation bar located directly under the header.
Activities
First let’s go to activities. We have a number of virtual activities including polar bear trivia, a photo matching game, a “personality” quiz, coloring sheets, and a word search. Let’s take a look at a sample trivia question, you can select answers with unlimited tries. We also have this matching memorization game. We have another short personality quiz. Some of the downloadable activities we have include a few options of coloring pages and a word search. We also have another activity where you can “adopt/create” your own virtual polar bear and give it it’s own name and personality. As you navigate through the website, you earn points that display themselves at the top right corner of your browser. Once you have 100% you earn a certificate.
AR/VR:
On the activity page we have a short section that shows a 3d model of what a polar bear looks like and another one pointing out the specific anatomy of polar bears.
~idk~
Climate Change
Next up on our navigation bar we have “About Climate Change”. Here we have a short overview of global warming and how it’s affecting our ecosystem. The footer contains links that give access to more information and donation links.
Educational videos
Moving on to the next thing, we have a short section for educational videos. Here we have embedded some videos that help you learn more about Polar Bears.
Timeline
Next up, we have the timeline. This displays what the year looks like for the Polar Bears. It also contains in depth explanations of their behaviors in each season.
The Bears
Moving on, modeled after the original Canadian Polar Bear Habitat website, this is a small page that introduces all of the bears that live here. For more information you can go to the Candadian Polar Bear Habitat website's page.
About
Last but not least, we have the About page. This has an explanation of the site and all of the links and sources we used to create our website.
Built With
c#
css
html
javascript
Try it out
github.com
polarhabjudging.azurewebsites.net | PolarHab | Having a website to teach people about polar bears from the safety of their home | ['David Reeves', 'Bobtooty :P', 'Anwesha Pathak', 'Vasudha Marur'] | [] | ['c#', 'css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 4 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/procollab | Inspiration
Try it out
www.google.com | ProCollab | P | ['Aaditya Yadav'] | [] | [] | 5 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/kuriushacks-oiqjsr | Inspiration
Wanted to create an app that allows people to invite their friends to donate/volunteer for a cause and keeps track of all of their contributions to the cause.
What it does
It lets you keep track of your donations and volunteering accomplishments. It also lets you invite friends to also participate in contributing to the cause.
How I built it
I built it in android studio. So, with lots of java
Challenges I ran into
Connecting it to facebook was hard because I needed to link my developers ID with the key hash of my android app to be allowed to access facebook.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I made this within 48 hours. I think it's pretty functional for a 48 hour app.
What I learned
I learned how to link facebook with an android app.
What's next for KuriusHacks
Another hackathon, or maybe a hackathon where people take projects from previous participants and build upon them.
Built With
android-studio
java
Try it out
github.com | KuriusHacks_Centraide_Areej | A donations app that lets you invite your friends to contribute to a cause | ['areeja132000 Ali'] | [] | ['android-studio', 'java'] | 6 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/iceberg-escapades | Iceberg Escapades logo
Image from website home screen
Image from website home screen
Image from website learn screen
Image from website learn screen
Image from website act screen
Image from game home screen
Image from game play screen
Inspiration
Our group was inspired by the work and research of the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat. We saw that the habitat was a safe haven for polar bears who would normally not be able to survive on their own and in the wild. We also realized that the habitat's conservation efforts also provided a unique insight on the lives and behavior of polar bears in general.
The "Canadian Polar Bear Habitat Challenge" spoke to our group the most because we realized that CPBH was not well known or recognized by our peers. As members of the rising Gen Z population, we decide to make a project that would serve as an outreach to our fellow youth.
What it does
Iceberg Escapades spreads the news about CPBH through our interactive website and platformer game!
The website is made up of a Home, Play, Learn, Act, and Quiz page. Each of these pages provide information about polar bears and further our outreach goals.
First, the Home page provides a snapshot of what the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat community is all about and a summary of the Iceberg Escapades mission statement.
Following the homepage is the Play page which contains the highlight of Iceberg Escapade's website: the Iceberg Escapade game. The game works as an easy-to-play platformer where the player controls a polar bear through six fun and exciting levels! In each level, the player's goal is to reach the end of the level using the WASD and Return key to avoid melting icebergs.
The game also includes helpful information about Iceberg Escapades and CPBH on its About tab.
Additionally, the website offers a Learn page which focuses on providing interesting facts about the polar bear species and resources for the user to learn more! The Learn page also provides a video from Animals 101 that users can access directly from the website to expand their knowledge about these amazing creatures.
On the Act page, users can learn about global warming and a list of different actions they can take to help support the polar bear community.
Finally, the Iceberg Escapades' Quiz page lets users test their knowledge about polar bears through a series of polar bear trivia. At the end of the quiz, the user can see how well they did and try the quiz again to improve their score!
How I built it
We built our project using two IDEs and several languages.
To create the website, we worked in the repl.it IDE using HTML and CSS. We created new HTML files for each of the website's pages and used an external CSS file along with a lot of in-line CSS.
For the game and the quiz, we relied on Unity as our IDE and code the project using C#. We added in music using a few different programs including Bosca Ceoil and other platforms.
Throughout the whole project, one of our team members added in graphics by designing and creating artwork in Scratch.
After both the website and game were finished independently, another team member compiled the projects together.
Challenges I ran into
The biggest challenge for group was refining our platformer and ensuring that it worked properly. We had to do extensive research and search our code carefully to identify and fix errors and mistakes in our program. For example, we initially had some problems developing a timer for the game, but one of our team members was eventually able to troubleshoot the problem and come up with a creative alternative.
We are really happy with how the functionality of the platformer and its easy-to-use controls.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are proud of the overall user experience, appearance, and functionality of our project. We agree that Iceberg Escapades has a real potential at attracting users and capturing the interest of younger members of the community to help boost CPBH's publicity.
We think that the smooth features of our product along with the fun music and bright graphics really tie the project together and help make the Iceberg Escapades an excellent submission.
What I learned
We learned a lot about working together as a team and about how to create quality projects!
In terms of actual programming, we learned how to simulate gravity using Unity for our platformer and we also learned a few new tricks for the HTML/CSS coding of the website. We had to experiment a lot with different properties and commands to format the website correctly and we also learned how to implement the iframe tag.
Furthermore, collaborating also taught us that we all had unique artistic skills that could be used to make our project pop! Our team members worked on music and art as well as programming so we learned how to use different software to enhance the user experience. The difference between applying these effects greatly improved our project and we learned that there is always a way to improve a product.
What's next for Iceberg Escapades
In the future, we hope to expand the Iceberg Escapades game to include more levels! We are also considering embellishing the website with more features like the Quiz page so that users can interact more with the website.
Additionally, we would be open to partnering with the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat organization to develop more kid-friendly features to showcase all that CPBH has to offer!
You can check out our code files here:
https://repl.it/@catrazzy/KuriusHacks-3
Built With
c#
css
html5
javascript
repl
unity
Try it out
kuriushacks.catrazzy.repl.co | Iceberg Escapades | An interactive website and game to promote awareness among younger generations about the Canadian Polar Bear Habitat organization as well as the lifestyle and threats that polar bears face. | ['Catherine Rasgaitis', 'D0geDude .', 'Kene Ochuba'] | [] | ['c#', 'css', 'html5', 'javascript', 'repl', 'unity'] | 7 |
10,457 | https://devpost.com/software/canadian-polar-bear-habitat | This is the game I made
CANADIAN-POLAR-BEAR-HABITAT
Kurius Hackathon
I wanted to make something that will be fun especially with this quarantine. I created a game using js which is very new to me but I had alot of fun. I learned alot about shapes and coordinates. I was going to use sprites but I did not enough time to learn and implement.
Built With
css
html
javascript
Try it out
github.com | CANADIAN-POLAR-BEAR-HABITAT | Kurius Hackathon | ['Anoushka Singhal'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 8 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/project-listen-hmwgiv | VIDEO:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HScYJgIWwUyA5Y7HeK6TXWaXTcSjQkcC
Inspiration
In an age of immense cultural, political, and wealth disparity, there exist evermore miscommunications between one another. Science suggests that there is one perfect, optimal way to solve a problem. Yet, when searching for ideal solutions to social issues, we often tear down the infinite layers of complexity within us to make sense of a world that was, perhaps, never meant to be rational. In this rapidly expanding world of technology, dehumanization has grown ever more rampant. The pursuit of technological progress tends to obstruct us from striving for social progress as we construct artificial barriers that separate us on the basis of the color of our skin, our gender identity, or even our occupation. We want to create spaces that spark authentic conversations between humans and inspire people to think deeply and differently. This is a search for an alternative world in which people can become more human with one another. We want to discover ways to break down the walls between us and maximize our potential as a global community. This all starts by listening to others.
What it does
College students tend to talk about diversity in a general sense, but rarely do we advance to more in-depth conversations. Students aren’t always willing to slow down to communicate with each other with the intention to understand, and voices from marginalized communities often go unheard. Now, more than ever we need to amplify the voices of our BIPOC communities, as well as those living in poverty. Our team pursued the “Inequality” track presented by Duke’s IDEATE in an initiative to search for more meaningfully diverse, equitable, and inclusive college campuses. We aim to enable underrepresented college students to anonymously share their personal experiences with inequality while fostering meaningful exchanges with others. “Listen,,” is a platform where untold stories are encouraged; a space to affirm each other’s narratives and experiences in order to reflect on the needs and diversity of underrepresented communities.
A school email (.edu) is required for new users to browse or post stories, and a random name generator is applied each time a user submits a story in order to guarantee anonymity and prevent tracking. New users will also be asked to agree to terms of conditions, as well as a non-discrimination policy. All posts and comments will go through a moderator to filter out inappropriate comments with hate speech before it gets sent to the storyteller.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The logo is 2 commas, which is a reference to quotation marks, and it also represents an unfinished story: Listen, ...
What's next for Project Listen,,
Convert the website into a mobile app
Add functionality and other pages for:
Action: Fundraisers to donate to, petitions to sign, protests to attend
Education: Webinars/lectures on discrimination and compassion, free online courses, other resources
Built With
figma
Try it out
www.figma.com | Project Listen,, | “Listen,,” is a platform where untold stories are encouraged; a space to affirm each other’s narratives and experiences in order to reflect on the needs and diversity of underrepresented communities. | ['Christina Yu', 'Kosi Pierre-Louis', 'Jennifer Kim', 'Vicky Liu'] | ['Inequality Track Best Beginner Project'] | ['figma'] | 0 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/elevate-63g7zu | Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected minority-owned small businesses in the United States. According to McKinsey & Company, this is primarily for two reasons: they tend to face underlying issues that make it more difficult to run successfully, and they are more likely to be connected to industries most immediately affected by the pandemic. Given this, it is more vital than ever to ensure that these businesses survive in the current circumstances.
There’s a need for owners looking to gain exposure and find resources to grow, and for customers and allies looking to support more BIPOC owned, ethical, and sustainable businesses. We aim to address this problem by providing both consumers and BIPOC businesses a medium for connecting with one another, allowing individuals to find small businesses to support and startups to build their consumer base. We want minority entrepreneurs to elevate their campaigns while shoppers elevate their positive impact.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
Elevate combines the best features from Reddit, TikTok, and Kickstarter to provide a platform on which sustainably-minded BIPOC entrepreneurs can share their business ideas for crowdfunding. This application includes resources about conscious consumerism, increases accessibility to eco-friendly alternatives, and amplifies underrepresented voices in the business space.
Elevate eliminates influencer marketing by removing the ‘social’ aspect of competitor apps and instead focuses on the people behind the brand. The platform’s ‘Lobby’ includes an elevator chart where people can anonymously upvote ideas for businesses to rise up the ranks to gain more exposure. The Lobby also includes a daily livestream feature of a randomly selected business, where potential customers can learn more and back the project.
With ‘Elevator Pitch’ storefronts, businesses gain a dedicated customer base and the opportunity to be seen by investors, while also enabling customers to round up to the nearest dollar to back other charitable organizations.
Video link is on loom.com (included in links)
Built With
figma
Try it out
www.figma.com
www.loom.com | elevate | Elevate combines the best features from Reddit, TikTok, and Kickstarter to provide a platform on which sustainably-minded BIPOC entrepreneurs can share their business ideas for crowdfunding. | ['Jessica Man', 'Thuy-An Nguyen', 'Charles Mcginn', 'Emme Enojado'] | ['Inequality Track Best Experienced Project'] | ['figma'] | 1 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/next-health-me43bk | WireFrame of three screens in user flow
Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
“I definitely felt like I was being treated differently.”
After doing research into the problems faced within the healthcare industry, we felt that the problem of gender and minority discrimination was one of the most pressing. Various online testimonials as well as our personal experiences validated the concern that many minority patients can feel intimidated in communicating with their doctors due to language barriers, inefficient medical record sharing, and the existence of gender biases or stigmas. Thus, patients often experienced misdiagnoses or are disregarded by medical professionals which makes patients feel unheard or insecure about their health. As a result of these issues, we landed upon our problem statement: How might we enable intimidated patients to communicate effectively with their doctors?
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
About 80%
of serious medical errors are from miscommunication between the physician and patient. Next Health enables intimidated patients to have more fluent communication with their doctors by encouraging them to reach out to their healthcare provider and educating them on how to properly approach their physician. The print-out report of the medical history makes communicating their problems easier as notes and symptoms are easily translatable. For women and other minorities who are often disregarded by their doctors, this printout also serves a credible source to validate their concerns. The app also recommends various doctors and actions to take based on previous medical history and symptoms.
Built With
figma
Try it out
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www.figma.com | Next Health | A healthcare app designed for minorities to empower self health knowledge | ["Merrill O'Shaughnessy", 'Lydia Wang', 'Anna Nguyen', 'Tina Ly'] | ['Health Track Best Beginner Project'] | ['figma'] | 2 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/carefull-8ihd7t | A teacher's dashboard on the CareFull web application.
A parent's dashboard on the CareFull mobile application.
[ Describe the problem your solution addresses? ]
With many schools returning to in-person instruction during the fall, parents and teachers nationwide are concerned about keeping their students safe in the midst of COVID-19. Elementary schools, especially, are likely to be virus hotspots due to a large number of people in a relatively small indoor space. Additionally, elementary school students themselves may not be reliable to report their own symptoms and understand the associated consequences. This creates a gap in communication, putting everyone in the school at risk.
Therefore, the question becomes, “how can we effectively and frequently communicate to the school whether or not a child has symptoms?”
For the most reliable updates, there needs to be streamlined communication between the student’s parent and the student’s teacher. This is what we tackle in our solution.
[ Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? ]
CareFull helps both parents and teachers keep track of student health. For parents, CareFull is a mobile app that lets parents easily log their child’s symptoms and assures them that they are contributing to a safer school environment. If their child is displaying symptoms, it directs them to their nearest testing centers. It also records the child’s log history, so parents and teachers can view any past symptoms.
For teachers, CareFull is a desktop app that allows instructors to view a list of their students and any potential health risks, and prepare the classroom accordingly. It is integrated with features to take attendance and send out alerts to parents if necessary. By doing so, CareFull bridges the communication gap between elementary school parents and teachers, allowing them both to work together to create a safe environment for students and themselves.
[ Some problems we faced and corresponding solutions: ]
PROBLEM: "How do we know that parents will tell the truth?"
SOLUTION: We included a notice at the beginning of the log form, including information about how honest tracking is the user's social responsibility. By clicking "START", they agree to be honest. By having this up front, the parent can consciously give truthful information knowing that there are consequences for not doing so.
PROBLEM: On the web app, the attendance feature originally had a "Present" and "Absent" function. After receiving feedback, we realized that teachers probably want to save time and only mark the students who are absent.
SOLUTION: Change the "Present"/"Absent" buttons to a single "Mark as Absent" button.
PROBLEM: When a log was updated, users were congratulated with "Completed!" typography with decorative stars. This could be seen as making the COVID-19 pandemic/tracking a lighthearted, non-serious issue.
SOLUTION: We changed to a simpler design, using a check-mark to have a more formal positive connotation.
[ If we were to continue this project, we would: ]
Incorporate student administrator access (the teacher --> student relationship changes to admin --> teacher).
Make useful for other contagious health concerns, not just COVID-19.
Implement a feature to reward students with high log streaks, incentivizing constant logging.
Grow in accordance with HIPAA and other privacy guidelines to ensure trust and lawfulness.
Implement push notifications for parents.
Conduct interviews with parents and teachers and modify the apps accordingly.
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www.figma.com | CareFull | CareFull is a platform that allows parents and teachers to communicate more effectively and keep students safe in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. | ['Justin Tang', 'Archishma Kavalipati', 'Katrina Orevillo', 'Jonathan Lum'] | ['Health Track Best Experienced Project'] | ['figma'] | 3 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/my-covid-adventure | Logo
Mockup
Personas
Prototype
Describe The Problem:
With many schools returning in the Fall, proper adherence to social distancing measures and proper hygiene has never been more important. While younger children have been observed to experience less severe symptoms, they still have the potential to transmit COVID-19 to the adults in their lives (from teachers to parents and extended family). Younger children are less likely to understand the pandemic, the purpose behind many pandemic measures, and how to remain safe in public spaces.
Additionally, under stay-at-home measures, many children may need an outlet for socializing with friends, and parents may be too overwhelmed with their other duties to fully explain the details of COVID-19 and may not be able to supervise their children at all times.
How can we remind young children of what the right measures are, convince them of their importance, all while those young children may be in unfamiliar situations and different public spaces?
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem?
We believe we can best convey information and best practices in the format of a game. Delivery of COVID-19 information should be interactive, colorful, sparse-in-words, while consequences and results (by playing with parameters) should be visual.
Players travel around a map, exploring various scenarios to learn about COVID-19. This helps create necessary associations. Tasks are presented in a chapter system, to gradually teach more specific information.
By using an in-game currency incentive system that rewards learning and penalizes guessing, we ensure that the game is an active, effective learning experience. This currency can be used to customize characters and results can be shared among friends through the leaderboard and social media functions.
We provide the means for communication among friends, but give parents strict content control for the safest experience. Our goal was to incorporate pastel colors and friendly design to make the game a positive, comfortable, potentially social learning experience on a serious topic.
Link to full figma design
https://www.figma.com/file/gZn083xlzClhQD7KcxqCGy/My-COVID-Adventure
Link to Low/medium-fidelity
https://www.figma.com/file/D6UgmpsDuX6H4tl1fXZzur/My-COVID-Adventure---Low%2FMedium-Fidelity?node-id=0%3A1
Link to High-fidelity
https://www.figma.com/file/ltrzI9EMYVilRHvIbzgbxg/My-COVID-Adventure---High-Fidelity?node-id=28%3A0
Design Process
Problem:
During the pandemic, children are isolated at home with limited social interactions and don’t know what’s going on around the world
Question (HMW):
How might we use positive reinforcements to educate young children about the pandemic?
We will need to:
Educate young children about the pandemic and how they should act about it.
Use engaging approaches, easy procedure, engaging with friends
Solution:
Design a game for children to learn lessons about the pandemic, get rewards for practicing self-care, and enjoy remote socialization with friends in the game. We intend for this game to partially take the role of a virtual museum: users are encouraged to discover and explore items and “exhibits”. Demos are present in the game to visually convey the results of social distancing procedures.
Impact:
With school returning in the Fall, the importance of maintaining social distancing measures has never been greater. Although children may not experience the most severe symptoms, their communities and the adults (from teachers, parents, to elders) are all still at risk. We intend this app to reinforce the importance of social distancing and hygiene measures to children (< 5th grade) in a positive way, showing them that everyone must provide a contribution during a pandemic.
Personas:
Main audience:
1st - 5th grade students
How our app meets the needs of various audience:
For kids: fun gaming and learning experience, help form good habits
For parents: educate kids about the pandemic
For schools: prepare kids for school reopening, protect teachers/kids/parents
For general public: reduce the virus transmission by kids
Topic Research
Article on keeping kids healthy and calm at home during quarantine
https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/COVID-19/Pages/Parenting-in-a-Pandemic.aspx
CDC article about talking with children about COVID-19
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/talking-with-children.html
Mayo clinic - children don’t show symptoms as severe as adults/infants/elderly
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-in-babies-and-children/art-20484405
https://www.starlight.org/stories/we-are-still-delivering-happiness/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=adgrant&utm_campaign=Search_Google_Grant_NonBrand_Blog_MC&c_src=GoogleAdGrant&c_src2=Search_Google_Grant_NonBrand_Blog_MC_how%20to%20talk%20to%20your%20kids%20about%20covid-19&utm_source=google&utm_medium=adgrant&utm_campaign=Search_Google_Grant_NonBrand_Blog_MC&c_src=GoogleAdGrant&c_src2=Search_Google_Grant_NonBrand_Blog_MC_how%20to%20talk%20to%20your%20kids%20about%20covid-19&gclid=CjwKCAjwsO_4BRBBEiwAyagRTXACtjtKb629zvV__MDhJ_j7vc1ZODokgoFprK9zazmTLddxg8uh5hoCre8QAvD_BwE
(article about how to friendly talk about covid to kids)
ThinkNinja - a mental health app for children (users spiked during covid)
https://pharmaphorum.com/news/kids-mental-health-app-sees-spike-in-users-in-covid-19-crisis/
Their Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pY36_kxIB0
Game Features:
Journey game that follows children to their home, school, bus (transportation), sports club, public spaces etc.
Missions separated by journal entries
Travel to relevant locations with the map
“Backpack of Essentials” - survival kits, check list, bandana, cloth masks N95,...etc
Learn elements of vaccine development
Ventilators
Infographics: conceptually how social distancing works, herd immunity, purpose of masks, how transmission happens (air, touch, etc.)
Design System:
Decided to use pastel, warm colors to attract children
https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/cartoon-background-with-empty-classroom-interior-inside_2669611.html
Goals & Scalability:
The first few levels (chapters) are meant to educate children on general best practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Later chapters are more niche and introduce concepts (at the appropriate level) such as the vaccine development process or tools such as ventilators.
Throughout the gameplay process, we approach the educational aspect of the game by teaching with play. Pop-up demos should be hands-on, colorful, and results and consequences should be highly visual.
Some demo ideas include:
Transmission rates with cloth masks: let player choose on carrier, non-carrier, or both, and watch the status bar on transmission likelihood change
Effects of social distancing: many people find a physics analogy to social distancing helpful: (eg: position of many mousetraps and dropping a ping pong ball to see how many spring). The player can choose distance between people and then run a corresponding simulation on infection rates.
A guessing game on commonly missed areas while washing hands (guess the most missed area, second most,...etc).
Side by side comparisons of masks, sanitizing fluids
Teach Situational Associations
We include relevant locations that many students may encounter on the map (e.g. school, friend’s house, airport). This helps a young audience discover best practices in a wide variety of situations they may find themselves in. During the COVID-19 pandemic, certain sites and actions may have the highest transmission rates, so this app can inform users of what to avoid.
How (relatively) safe is checking out a library book? The schoolbus? How about using a water fountain or going to the store? Going to the airport?
Safety, Privacy, and Online Features for Young Children:
Since this app is intended to target the younger audience, we include many features to protect them in regards to privacy, online usage, and their safety.
Instead of having children choose their profile picture for the game, we are defaulting them to create their own avatar by using the designs we have.
By default, parents are asked to maintain a list and approve for new friends. Parents can also cap the use time of online features such as chat and videochat.
All missions that involve online features can instead be verified by a parent instead.
Additionally, an advanced implementation can use a CNN to identify a face mask or other similar objectives to save time for a fully-offline, no assistance needed experience.
Making the Game Yours
An in-game store can be added to personalize avatars. We can add the ability to customize or even design cosmetics (à la animal crossing). At its base, this game partly builds on the design of an eye-spy game where items can be partially hidden. While our demo has a thin white border highlighting items, we can increase or decrease the border with different difficulty levels.
Positive reinforcements
For our game, we would like to emphasize on the positive reinforcements we designed to engage kids with the game and drive them forward in the game. The main incentive is the currency rewards which kids gain by completing tasks and following the tutorial correctly. The currency leaderboard would be displayed among friends to see who is collecting the most. Besides, we have built in conversations for users to interact with NPC from different occupations (e.g. teachers, doctors, officers), and they would be encouraging the users to follow with the task flow. We also designed a friend collaboration system, where users can complete tasks with their friends, text them, and even video call them. During the social distancing and quarantine, we believe that online gaming and video calling would be a great approach to help kids interact with each other.
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www.figma.com | My COVID Adventure | An educational game about the pandemic designed for young kids | ['Seijung Kim', 'Ziyi Yan', 'George Hong'] | ['Education Track Best Beginner Project'] | [] | 4 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/teachly | Virtual learning is an underwhelming experience for both students and teachers. With so many potential distractions at home and on one’s devices, it’s extremely difficult for students to pay attention and stay engaged during class. And as an instructor, it can be pretty disheartening to spend hours talking to dozens of faceless screens. We want to solve this problem by making the online class experience more interactive for both sides.
We chose to design a video calling web service tailored for classrooms because we felt that the popular group calling apps such as Zoom, Skype, and Google Meet fail to address many of the issues faced by students and teachers.
For example, in a virtual classroom, there are few opportunities to meet and talk to other students. To solve this problem, we’ve designed the Groups feature, which puts students into random or premade groups where they can chat and discuss questions freely during class.
We’ve also designed a Whiteboard Mode that lets teachers see what their students are working on. This could be especially useful for subjects like math and physics, where showing your thought process is important.
Note: The audio cut out of our video unfortunately for some strange reason. Sorry for the inconvenience — hope you like the interactive prototype!
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www.figma.com | Teachly | Teachly is the all-in-one hub that makes learning easier and accessible for everyone — anytime, anywhere. | ['Brandon Ngo', 'COLLEEN LI', 'Lucy Huo'] | ['Education Track Best Experienced Project'] | [] | 5 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/wellness-buddy-evmrgo | Inspiration
Current times have forced many to attend virtual meetings and work on devices. With increased screen time and more than enough reasons to be stressed, we believed that it was necessary for people to be able to take a break and step away from their devices.
Describe the problem your solution addresses:
Significant numbers of American workers have shifted to working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This requires workers to spend prolonged periods of time working on their computers and phones and attending virtual meetings, potentially leading to mental fatigue and stress. According to data provided by NordVPN, the average American work day has increased by about 3 hours. This not only reduces productivity, but also harms mental and physical health. Even before the pandemic, many office workers stayed stagnant in front of their desks, which contributed to the American health crisis.
What it does
Our app stands out in its ability to simplify the process of setting reminders while also providing the perfect amount of flexibility for users to customize their experience. Another important feature in our app is the way in which it notifies users of a break, effectively freezing the device until a timer runs out. Instead of offering a friendly notification that the user may ultimately ignore, Wellness Buddy hopes to ensure that users step away from their devices and take a well-needed break.
How we built it
We started exploring some of the impacts towards mental health and wellness as a result of COVID-19 and decided to address this problem statement: How might we reduce the effects of burnout and fatigue from virtual work environments while maintaining productive and functional lives? We had conducted research the ideal duration of breaks as well as the various activities that people can do to destress and increase productivity. At the same time, we also explored other wellness apps and looked into user complaints and reviews to improve upon and further innovate the way in which wellness apps interact with users.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem?
We chose this solution because we believe it addresses the problem by reminding people to take spaced out wellness breaks during the day, which allows them to mentally and physically refresh. Our app provides a diverse selection of activities for the user, which are grouped into categories of exercise, hydration, healthy snacking, stretching, and napping. These breaks include activities such as doing 20 pushups, drinking a glass of water, and eating fruit, and the user can create custom break activities. In an article published in Time Magazine, research shows that people’s concentration wanes after about 52 minutes of focus, and taking a break for 17 minutes fully refreshes people. Our app leverages this by providing notifications every hour by default, with intervals that can be customized by the user.
Challenges we ran into
Perhaps the biggest challenge we faced was deciding on a solution. Initially, we had three viable solutions that we felt could work, and we had difficulty choosing one over the other. After picking a solution, we wanted to ensure that it was feasible and properly addressed mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, due to its scalability and its new method of user interaction, we finally decided to go with what would become Wellness Buddy.
Accomplishments that we are proud of
We are proud to have designed a fleshed out application in such a short amount of time. The amount of thought and care we gave every feature of our app was worth it, as the finished design clearly demonstrates.
What we learned
We learned about the process of design thinking and about the importance of working as a team to identify problems and devise solutions to them. We also discovered the importance of taking breaks as we fleshed out the solution to the problem.
What's next for Wellness Buddy
We plan to both intrinsically and extrinsically motivate the user with statistics that support taking breaks and by gamifying this component by rewarding the user for taking breaks when scheduled. We hope to grow from an idea to an app that people can use to take care of themselves during these stressful times. We firmly believe that Wellness Buddy can make a difference in our users' mental health.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GSoEzQ9CrkNmSUzTtYqLbAC6JoYd04JW/view?usp=sharing
Built With
english
figma
spanish
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docs.google.com | Wellness Buddy | App that prevents mental burnout from excessive usage of device by freezing the device and providing a suggestion to take a break with. | ['Alex Niculescu', 'Angeli Mittal', 'Ryan W.', 'Kevin Yin'] | [] | ['english', 'figma', 'spanish'] | 6 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/breathe-an51j3 | Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed extreme stress and chaos onto the lives of workers on the front lines, especially for our health care professionals. Every day, our nurses must navigate isolation, anxiety, and fear while they work tirelessly and with little break. While of high importance at all times, this pandemic has crucially brought to light how important it is to care for our caregivers. Wanting to prioritize the best possible care for their patients all day long, it can be difficult for nurses to take time for themselves. As nurses deal with longer hours filled with tougher decisions and more emotional trauma, resources must be in place to help them first, find time for self-care, and second, maintain their own health. These resources must encourage and facilitate that process and build the infrastructure to allow nurses to continue doing their important and powerful work.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
Through extensive research of possible application-based resources on the market, we only encountered overall wellness apps that were not targeted for nurses and their specific circumstances. Due to this, we designed a product focused on nurses’ wellbeing during this pandemic and beyond. In addressing the first issue of nurses finding time for self-care activities, we created a core feature that allows for switching shifts with other nurses. In effect, this enables nurses to easily take breaks when they need it for personal or mental health reasons. For the additional goal of maintaining nurses’ health, options for a mood journal and encouragement to complete meditation offer valuable resources to track and maintain physiological and psychological health. Furthermore, we formulated the app to provide opportunities for nurses to chat with therapists to receive professional help or even connect with other nurses to talk through shared difficulties.
Here is the link to our AdobeXD project:
https://xd.adobe.com/view/89074c27-638e-4413-9e4b-25d0b223f9bf-dc54/
(Due to technical patches, not all screens might appear, however, all the interactions were properly created and can be shared with a .xd file elsewhere.)
Built With
adobe-illustrator
adobexd
balsamiq
miro
Try it out
xd.adobe.com
balsamiq.cloud
drive.google.com | Breathe | Caring For Our Caregivers | ["Grecia O'Brien", 'Sabina Ashurova', 'Ayush Garg'] | [] | ['adobe-illustrator', 'adobexd', 'balsamiq', 'miro'] | 7 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/blanket-kc7q5w | Impact vs Feasibility Chart
Brainstorming
Empathy Mapping
Describe the problem your solution addresses?
In May 2020, 49% of adults in the U.S. reported depression symptoms. 27% of parents reported worsening mental health. During the worldwide pandemic, many people are undergoing mental stress— parents working from home with kids, healthcare professionals sacrificing their safety and time, young adults feeling hopeless about their future, etc. One of the root causes of their anxiety is a lack of a destress solution and an overwhelming amount of incoming news about the pandemic. For instance, our solution proposes an app that provides a filtered news feed that allows you to read the information that may not be dangerous for a depressed person, useful for a busy person, or just focused on the emergency news which would be enticing for a physician. In addition, we offer a journal option that helps you self-reflect and write down your feelings instead of keeping them inside.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem?
Our app Blanket works like a safety blanket for the target users where they can feel safe from the outside world. They can hold on to it as a one-stop app to survive this challenging time, rather than having to download multiple apps to improve well-being. Users can filter the incoming news they will get on their feed so they can still stay informed in case any emergency enforcement is made for the pandemic. Users can also write down their feelings in a simple journal so that they don’t keep thinking all night long. We created value propositions by identifying stakeholders, building 4 personas: healthcare workers, quarantined people, busy workers, and young adults/teenagers. We then created empathy maps to consider what they say, do, think, and feel and identify their pains and gains. We then chose features to implement with impact vs feasibility chart.
Built With
figma
miro
Try it out
www.figma.com | Blanket | The one-stop bundle solution for people undergoing mental and physical stress | ['Kayako Yamakoshi', 'Zeynep Inan', 'Jaime Passuni Córdova'] | [] | ['figma', 'miro'] | 8 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/share-5zqcdh | Dashboard
Create Study Plan
Split Screen
The Problem
COVID-19 has led to the cancellation of in-person classes for
over 60% of students across the globe
. With in-person classes unsafe, many school districts have turned to online platforms to continue education, but this method of delivery creates barriers for low income students, who may not have technology readily accessible. Technology distribution programs have been put in place to provide these students with tablets, but there is still a
major shortage
.
The Solution
To address the shortage of available tablets for students, we developed Share, a learning platform with built-in, easy-to-use split screen capabilities that allows for two students to work on the same tablet. This allows for school districts to provide technology to more students, since schools can provide one tablet to each household, while still providing the same quality of education to every child. Students will be able to complete their work simultaneously, which is crucial for families with parents who work and may only have a few hours each day to help their children with schoolwork.
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www.figma.com | Share | A learning platform with built-in, easy-to-use split screen capabilities that allows for two students to work on the same tablet | ['Mariusz Derezinski-Choo', 'Steven Chen'] | [] | [] | 9 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/biligual-viewer | Our entire team comes from an immigrant family background coming from different languages, cultures, and generations. Communicating between immigrant families is difficult. For our user research, we spoke to Emily and Jason, two college students with immigrant parents. Emily says, “My mom wouldn’t know terms like mass incarceration in Vietnamese” which demonstrates the gap in understanding and communication between the parent and child for important societal issues. However, Emily and Jason both care about important social issues such as Black Lives Matter and want to speak to their loved ones about this issue.
Their proficiencies in the language spoken at home also hinders their ability to communicate effectively with their parents. Emily states that, “I talk to my mom in Vietnamese because she would understand better but if questions were in Vietnamese, I would feel like I had a lesser ability to respond than if the question were in English.”
Using documentaries about global issues, we are creating an interactive watch and learn experience for immigrant families to learn and talk about important social issues. We picked this solution because media is able to powerfully convey information about societal issues. It is easier to facilitate conversation because they are guided by the information from the film which they both watched. We chose Youtube because it has global content and is a free, accessible platform. While watching, we display questions for viewers and we have a guided conversation tool afterwards with the questions. We help facilitate the conversation for users struggling with communicating in different languages using a vocabulary cheat sheet for commonly used terms in both languages and a built-in translation tool. Notice both English and Spanish are displayed so both language speakers can actively participate as well as learn each other’s languages for better communication in the future.
Built With
figma | Bilingual Viewer | Learning about society issues and facilitating conversations for immigrant families. | ['Monica Yao', 'Nancy Cao', 'Matthew Corpus'] | [] | ['figma'] | 10 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/ruums | *Describe the problem your solution addresses?
Just because we're not together, doesn't mean we can't connect! In these times of remote learning, connections are more important than ever. Even the smallest things like spontaneous study sessions are treasured and missed by students. So, how can we replicate human connections quickly and easily? Our problem is that students feel disconnected during remote learning, subsequently creating a barrier to their digital working environments and mental health. Our virtual study rooms app “Ruums” is a simple, quick, solution to connecting people together, so people can get more work done together, as humans.
* Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem?
After plotting a prioritization matrix of our ideas, we evaluated that creating a platform to facilitate virtual study sessions friends had the highest user value while still having high feasibility. We found that other potential solutions would have new pain points like professor/university buy-in. The current process to study together involves difficult scheduling, often limits it to 1:1 calls, and formalizes a casual and spontaneous process. We add that spontaneous factor back! Our design decisions are connected to our users: students who seek connections in an efficient and casual manner. We kept app features minimal as the focus ought to be on the video call connection rather than on the app. The applications of efficient virtual rooms and video chat availability are endless - workplaces, blind students, mental health hotlines to see which hotlines are available, and more! Right now, our flow is focused on studying and how to create productive yet inherently human connections.
Inspiration
Students with deteriorating mental health due to loneliness.
What it does
Focuses on connecting people together by allowing users to toggle if they're studying, see their friends that are studying, create public or private virtual study rooms, explore friends study rooms, and view what other users are in the same University that study for the same class. Allowing students to meet new friends is an extra feature we considered for students learning online, as many, especially freshman, have expressed difficulties in new relationships. Studying is an easy way people typically meet new friends in person, and so we replicate the in-person studying experience this way.
Who is it for
Primary users: high school students, university students, studying facing mental health issues due to isolation, generally students who are used studying in groups and it iss a big part of their learning process, environment, and mental stability!
Secondary users: people wanting to meet new study groups.
How I built it
Using figma and lots of team video sessions!
Challenges I ran into
Not being able to get a lot of user input.
What's next for Ruum: For Better Virtual Connections and Studying
Expanding the connections to other activities beyond studying!
Video Demo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1gwl23CXF-07xOzfoiddwHRxxbEox8w/view?usp=sharing
Try it out
www.figma.com | Ruums: Virtual Rooms for Better Connections and Studying! | See which of your friends are studying, make virtual rooms, and meet new people! | ['Annie Li', 'Amanda Chu'] | [] | [] | 11 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/app-clip-for-noname-book-club | Describe the problem your solution addresses?
We live in a world where our physical and digital world are often separated from one another.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
I picked this solution to further merge our digital experiences with physical ones to improve our productivity, learning, and happiness. With low-energy NFC tags, the digital world finally can understand your surroundings and provide the best educational/productivity tools without the need for creepy ads/data collection.
Inspiration
Love NFC. Automation. Siri Shortcuts.
What it does
Imagine being in a Library and wanting to learn more about the Noname Book Club. You scan the NFC tag on the flyer and it displays their latest discussion on Instagram TV.
How I built it
Figma Prototype and iOS 14 Design resources.
Challenges I ran into
Finding the right design elements for iOS 14. They made resource files for everything except Figma. Thankfully, there was the Figma community.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
How quickly I put this together.
What I learned
Rapid prototyping is a skill. Learning by doing is valuable.
What's next for App Clip for Noname Book Club
Publishing. Shipping. Making it reality in time for iOS 14.
Built With
app
clip
ios
Try it out
www.figma.com | App Clip for Noname Book Club | Digital Education Tag | ['Justin Harris'] | [] | ['app', 'clip', 'ios'] | 12 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/amend | Initial landing page
Professor sign-up
Course listing, profess
Notification screen, professors
Course listing, students
Student sign-up
Platform options for students
Action items for professors
Professor dashboard
Student check-in survey
Problem statement
There is a lack of open, clear communication between college students and professors about the disruption of their academic experience due to COVID-19.
Access Demo Here
https://duke.zoom.us/rec/share/w-JkPerAymZOBdbu0ljbA_4vJ9X4eaa81CVNr_pcy0xAksUcHTl9i-O6NWQWaVCm
Background
COVID-19 has forced college students all over the world to resort to online learning. Professors were forced to adapt their class content to online platforms, an unknown medium for most educators. Besides the technical difficulties, the lock-down also brought additional challenges for the community of educators and students.
Robert Newall (2020) describes in his article the burden placed amongst students, as they have suffered through, “loss of earnings or loss of income from parents, deterioration of psychological state due to negative news and events, fear of losing a scholarship or funding, burnout due to an overabundance of information, and difficulty of studying at home in the current situation”.
A survey conducted in May 2020 found that “41% of students feel less confident in their ability to afford college now as compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, and 69% said their financial well-being has been impacted”. This indicates that many students experienced stress due to financial uncertainty, coupled with academic conflicts.
Another March survey identified additional student reactions to the current context. For instance, “64% of survey respondents expressed concerns about being able to focus and maintain the self-discipline needed to study remotely”; a different poll identified that “77% of more than 800 college students surveyed said they felt distance learning is worse or much worse than in-person classes”.
Professors are not well versed with domestic situations affecting students’ learning process. Many students need to request accommodations for their academic experience due to ever-changing personal scenarios. Professors strive to provide an engaging academic experience to students, but the success of a class relies on their capability to replicate the authenticity of the classroom and introduce a structure that enhances the student experience.
Noticing the difficulties undergone by students and educators, we’re excited to pitch Amend, a web app that is the solution to resolving classroom issues, as it provides accommodations to suit a myriad of student concerns.
Target Audience
Students at US Universities
By Fall 2018, there were 16.6 million college students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics-NCES. In 2019, the total number of international students enrolled in US colleges was 1,095,299, making up 5.5% of the total US student body. Due to COVID, the international student body was forced to consider going back home to continue their academic journey. This means students taking classes within inadequate home conditions and conflicting different time zones. For instance, around 662.000 students are from China, India, South Korea and, Saudi Arabia.
Professors at US Universities
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms 1.350.000 professors working by 2018 with a growth rate of 11% by 2028. Some universities describe the professor’s experience teaching online. They underline the importance of interaction and feedback from students under an in-person format, their ability to read the room, how limited they feel expressing themselves, getting close to students, and delivering graphic content through online platforms.
User Needs
College students demonstrate the need to vocalize about challenges they are facing with COVID in real-time that impact their learning experience. This creates an opportunity for professors to create more humane and flexible online content based on the students’ feedback. Nevertheless, some of the circumstances students find themselves in might be difficult to communicate, in which case a platform that provides an easy, private, and practical way to disclose any type of information to the professors proves critical to their success.
Although anonymized student discussion platforms like Piazza and collaborative classroom management software like Canvas do exist, these technologies fail to communicate the unique concerns of students during COVID-19 to educators. Although Piazza provides a format for receiving quick responses to questions, it does not provide a place for students to connect directly with their professors to discuss individual problems. While Canvas provides a messaging system for students and professors, it doesn’t provide potential solutions to the issues faced by students due to conflicting time zones or pending accommodations. Amend provides an interactive web app, that can be coupled with Canvas, to facilitate an engaging and understanding class discussion environment. Our AI algorithm provides educators with data analytics on their classes, highlighting the time zones and survey responses of their students, along with suggesting a list of potential solutions to accommodate the needs of every student.
Ideation Process
Our journey as designers started brainstorming about our target population. During this phase it was evident for us that most college students have been going through an unprecedented situation that has brought about many changes. We resonated with different situations that need our attention, from the recreation of lab experiences to the access of school materials.
But, an important aspect that helped us converge into one situation was our experience as college students. For the second half of the Spring semester, we encountered difficult situations adjusting ourselves to online learning. In addition, experiences lived by our fellows helped us to understand the importance of contributing to the current academic environment and enhance the communication experience between us (students) to facilitate the professor’s role.
We used Figma throughout our brainstorming process, afterward we displayed the students' and professors’ journeys in Miro for two ideas. The graphic display of these journeys helped us to converge on a web solution accessible for every college student and improving the professor’s job of delivering content in a more humane way. The next step was to draft our first prototype in paper to have a better understanding of the workflow and the frames we need for our solution.
Design, explained
COVID-19 has presented a multitude of challenges to students across the board, including issues regarding finances, health, work, family, social interaction, citizenship status, among others. Not all students feel comfortable revealing their personal situation to the professor, and professors don’t know common roadblocks multiple students may be facing.
Amend seeks to change that. This platform allows students to anonymously (if they choose to omit their name) alert the professor of their circumstances. Professors can identify shared pain points of the learning experience. Amend can help facilitate communication between both parties to create a collaborative classroom.
User Experience
Students
Upon arriving at the portal, the student creates an Amend account by inputting their University, Student ID, Email Address, and Password. The student fills out a survey about the situation they are encountering by selecting from a given list or writing their own. Next, they click for which class and professor they would like to notify.
Professors
Similarly, the professor creates an Amend account by entering their University, Professor ID, Email Address, and Password. The professor can access the main dashboard with general metrics or a tab with specific demographic notification. Upon noticing a metric change, the professor can respond to or acknowledge new notifications, or they can communicate directly with student(s).
Features Prioritized
Key features of Amend include submission of student situations, a notification with the presence of a metric change, messaging tool on the platform, feedback form, and request of accommodations (e.g. amendment of timeline or due date).
What's next for Amend
Sharing the power of education should not be limited to during a pandemic. We believe the tools Amend offers can provide insightful data and analytics in any course taught during any period. To better tailor the course to fit student needs, students can submit feedback to the professor about what is working well and what isn’t. This valuable knowledge can help the professor modify the curriculum and timeline. Amend strives to continue discovering innovative methods to facilitate communication between students and professors, to ensure a better educational experience for all.
Built With
figma
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www.figma.com | Amend | Amending the educational experience through a platform empowering students and professors | ['Sanjana Pendharkar', 'Ishita S Kumar', 'Natalie Chen', 'Diana M. Ramirez Guzman'] | [] | ['figma'] | 13 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/get-up-o1n0rb | Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
In a world where most people are working remotely from home, many people sit in front of their computers and lack the exercise needed in order to stay healthy. As a result, prolonged sitting leads to back and neck pain, as well as increased risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer. A second problem with remote working is that many people struggle to stay on task. Distractions from social media tends to disrupt the productivity of many. These problems can be resolved with an app that allows users to have disruption-free work time as well as a workout routine to stay healthy.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
We picked GetUp as the solution as it motivates people to exercise periodically between their work, which can serve to prevent health consequences caused by prolonged sitting. When one begins work on a computer, it is easy to lose track of time. This app serves as a reminder for remote workers and online students to get up from their chairs and exercise periodically between their work. Focus mode feature of the app allows people to stay focused on their work, and not get distracted by other means such as texts and social media. We believe that a combination of disruption-free work time and fitness workouts will provide users with a highly-productive work/study experience. Users are able to review their workouts in the History page, and are incentivized to stay productive and perform exercise through a leader board system to compete with friends!
How we built it
-We first brainstormed our possible problems and solutions via zoom. We create some rough sketches of the app and built a prototype on Figma, using iOS 13 and Material Design 2.0 UI kits.
Challenges we ran into
-We were all very new to using Figma, and ran into all sorts of problems - from getting UI Kits to setting constraints.
Accomplishments
-that we're proud of We were really proud of our synthesis of ideas! Everyone contributed their insights during the discussions and we were able to fuse together our final solution from many, many small ideas.
Our team also consisted of one member working in the US, while three members worked from China. We were very proud of our team synergy across time zones, as well as the idea that "someone always had their hands on this project throughout the past 48 hours"
What we learned
-All of us learned to use Figma, as well as storytelling as a designer from a character's perspective. We found the storytelling workshop to be extremely helpful and will be especially useful towards pitching future projects.
What's next for GetUp!
-Depending on everyone's schedule, we would love to polish up on some of GetUp!'s functions, and even possibly beginning to code an implementation of this app!
//Team members consist of Jerry Hou, Islina Shan, Jerry Jiang, Cristal Zhu. They are all located in China, so I was not able to add them here in time due to time zones.
//the prototype is linked in "try it out" page.
Built With
figma
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www.figma.com | GetUp! | Introducing GetUp!, the only app you need to boost your productivity and fitness during this crazy time, all while keeping up with your social circle! | ['Jerry Hou'] | [] | ['figma'] | 14 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/art-gives | Inspiration
After interviewing artists and art buyers for their insight, we found two major needs in the art community. Underrepresented artists want a space to feature and sell their unique art, and art buyers want to buy art that supports underrepresented communities and gives artists a voice.
A Sample of User Research
Ryan (young art collector):
A main page where the art really speaks for itself, i.e. not a lot of text.
Difficult to display a lot of art on a phone screen → sort of slideshow system where art pieces are given focus at random.
Tapping the piece you like would include: title, artist, medium, size, and write up
Artist profile: biography, where they're from, social media links
“Favorite artists of the day” - potentially, to spotlight different artists
Limitations:
Auction style would have risks. Excellent for popular artists (can drive up the price) but poor for smaller artists (may sell for too little).
Bidding systems kind of lack the instant gratification of buying a piece in the moment because you really like it
William (student/artist):
Main challenge: “I feel like I find it most difficult to find an audience to sell to. I feel like my style and work is kinda niche so I have a hard time finding too many people that take interest in buying my work other than in a typical gallery setting.”
Question: “Do you think artists such as yourself would look forward to using the app?”
Reply: “Yeah! Absolutely! I feel like a lot of emerging artists find it really difficult to get shown pretty much anywhere, you have to keep applying to a bunch of places and hope that one of them sticks. My first showing when my art was for sale was at a DIY garage show in Tampa at my Friend, Kai's house. After doing a couple more shows I eventually applied for a group show with a group of latinx artists and i feel like that show really helped me get into other opportunities but for a lot of us it's very difficult to even start to get onto that stage.
I feel like the app would be a good way to kinda mix up the usual current gallery system. Like if you're an artist represented by a current gallery they take about 50% of your revenue and while i understand that they're marketing you as an audience, I don't think that's necessarily the fairest thing to do.”
Question: Would you be willing to initially make less of a profit in order to gain exposure and steadily raise the value of your work?
Reply: “I think it would be okay to start with smaller value because that's essentially how the art market works anyways, your reputation kinda adds to the value of your work.”
Comment: This is meant as a partnership between the artists and art brokers. There’s a lot to consider, but we certainly would not take 30% and especially not 50% of your profits.
Reply: “I like that a lot! I think it allows artists to take back the power to sell directly and make buying a lot easier, kinda like how they used to do it back before there was a gallery system”
Roger (student/artist):
Important points:
“The art scene is hard to put yourself out there if you don’t “stand out” or have that one popular post [on social media] that gets you famous.”
“Algorithms are really important when it comes to this, that’s why Tumblr and Instagram were really popular in these areas when they first started. Both their algorithms in their earlier years started as the ‘new posts’ were the ones you get to see first on your dashboard/feed from the people you follow, and then your explore page was obviously from people you don’t follow but they create art with your interests in mind depending on what you have liked, created, and your interests.”
Limitation: “But now that’s changed to: “the people you ‘interact most with’ is all you ever see”, which gives less popular creators a little to no chance of getting recognized unless their post becomes popular.
TikTok is a great example of how hard it is. Only popular creators are shown the most, and TikTok who have the most likes (that specify to your interests) will show up the most as well. There is little room for smaller accounts to get themselves known unless a post of theirs gets popular.”
Personal Note: This is an interesting point as I considered TikTok to be the epicenter of small artists sharing their creations and hoping to grow a following, but didn't realize this was much more difficult in practice. It’s true that a lot of small artists have been able to become better known for their work because of the platform, but there may be an equally sized or much larger group of artists who could not achieve the same results despite their efforts.
“Any exposure is good exposure when it comes to art. But again, that can vary from artist to artist. Some (few) may not want to be as “popular” and would like to stay “underground” and just stick with small gallerie and large auctions.”
Feedback on app design*: “It’s a nice idea for an app. My input would be that there should be two sides on the artist’s profiles, or just in general within the app that has both what the artist is selling and what the artist is just showing. Because artists don’t want to sell all of their art. They like to share their stories and illustrations amongst others and this could help them build their own portfolio alongside selling pieces.
So for example, If i were to click the profile of an artist, I would first see their art and what their ‘portfolio’ is, and then i would click an icon on their profile that would show me their works that they’re auctioning.”
Question: “Do you think artists such as yourself would look forward to using the app?”
Reply: “I think I would benefit from the app. Honestly, artists are always trying to find a new platform to benefit from that will help them get themselves out there and known.”
“We’re just very close with Instagram/Twitter, because it has a little bit of everything (Twitter especially because you can post your art plus post texts but it’s a lot harder than instagram when it comes to hashtags and stuff).”
Question: Would you be willing to initially make less of a profit in order to gain exposure and steadily raise the value of your work?
Reply: “Some artists may lower their prices at first to get exposure, but others may not depending on their hard work within the pieces. That answer varies, but I would think the majority would lower it at first and raise it later.”
Cate (student/experienced seller):
Feedback on other selling platforms:
Etsy: great for new shops
marketplace where buyers can search for items they want
Charges by purchase and listing, not by month (so if I only made two sales a month I’d only have to pay Etsy like a dollar or something instead of big cartel’s flat rate of $10)
Bigcartel: what I moved to after I got a bigger following on IG and started making more sales
Once you make a certain amount of sales the etsy fees become absolutely ridiculous
The site is way more customizable than etsy which helps with ~branding~ or whatever
Because etsy also handled shipping labels, I had to pay for shipstation ($29 a month) as well once I transferred to big cartel, which meant I was paying $39 a month to keep my shop open
General Challenges:
understanding the limitations of each product I was producing, like making sure both sides of a double-sided acrylic keychain had the exact same silhouette, or that the linework for my enamel pins wouldn’t cause the metal lines to melt together on the real thing
Finding trustworthy manufacturers/communication (a lot of my manus are in china)
INSTAGRAM. The algorithm is a blessing and a curse and it’s so freaking hard not to care about the numbers
What it does
art.gives brings artists from underrepresented communities and art buyers who want to lift their voice into a shared space. Our platform showcases artist stories and biographies alongside the art itself to simultaneously promote the art and the artist.
Our curated content gives those seeking to buy art a customized and curated collection of work made by artists by historically underrepresented backgrounds. We believe this makes the whole experience of our app feel more personal. Users can easily digest both a description of the art and a brief biography of the artist. Users can also easily tap on a piece to see more about both the art and the artist.
art.gives also allows artists to showcase a portfolio of work.
How I built it
Our design was built in Adobe XD, our user research was catalogued in Google Docs, and our flow map was constructed in Lucidchart.
Challenges I ran into
All but one of the members on our team were new to both the design process and to Adobe XD. Quite a few struggles with the layout of XD, the tools, and especially the components system ensued throughout our process.
We worked hard to find a middle ground between showing artists and showing their work. We wanted to convey both the story of the art and the story of the artist in a way that meaningfully represented both of them.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We love the elegant look and feel of our UI. We believe this emphasizes both the art and the artist in a really powerful way. Our product reflects the work we put into user research and personas to create an inclusive platform that addresses the needs of the art community.
We all learned a lot about human-centered design and how to best serve both buyers and sellers on a shared and inclusive platform.
Built With
adobe-xd | art.gives | Connecting underrepresented artists with buyers looking to hear their stories and uplift communities. | ['Nathan Ostrowski', 'Hadrian Gonzalez Castellanos', 'Rohin Shahi', 'Vanessa Tascon'] | [] | ['adobe-xd'] | 15 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/clarity-wxukbe | Inspiration:
The transition to online learning has been difficult for students, but it has been especially difficult for those who have autism. With past experiences, teaching Autistic students using an online environment can be difficult, and require lots of collaboration and effort to the students, teachers, and mentors involved. The contemporary online tools used for learning are quite limiting, and we plan to evolve currently existing ones to adapt to the needs for Autistic students. We decided to innovate upon existing technologies for remote classes such as Zoom and Google Meets by incorporating more features catered to middle school students with autism.
What it does:
Dashboard:
Reason: Trouble with changes in their routines, create a system to alert students about changings in schedules
Design: alert the student of their next upcoming Zoom class, then students get the ability to look further into their day ahead, 3 main buttons used: clarify, discussion, and notes, Agenda has links to zoom calls, and homework list has links to the homework material
Clarify:
Reason: Students with autism often are very literal in their understanding of conversations, texts, etc.
Design: allow students to search for notes that possibly contain words that might be inaccurately construed, and the function should return the text back in a more palliative manner to clarify texts like similes and metaphors, etc.
Notes:
Reason: students with Autism are visual learners
Design: allows students to obtain personal copies of transcribed live notes from zoom class, teachers also provides additional material to student to preface what they will learn in the upcoming classes
Discussion:
Reason: To aid students with understanding the nuances of social interactions and encourage effective communication with others
Design: to allow students, teachers, and classmates to communicate with each other, also contains the clarify function for the instances where the student wants extra clarification on what a teacher or classmate wrote in the discussion chat
Zoom:
Reason: To help students direct or redirect their attention to the most important aspects within the lecture, visual learners
Design: teachers have a button on their zoom dashboard to alert students of important topics discussed at the current moment to make the class interactive, live transcripts of what the teachers’ are saying during class so students can follow along with the lecture, students can also post questions
One on One:
Reason: Include the student in planning for instruction, discuss what will be done to meet the student’s needs, gives the student an opportunity to create a trusting relationship with the people supporting them
Design: students can grant teachers access to their local laptops to help them make their schedules,
## How We Built It
We first conducted research to understand our demographics and personas. We found that Autistic children tend to have less internal structure and regulation. They need external structures in place to allow them to be successful. With the transition to remote learning, their learning environments can make it easier to procrastinate and lose focus while making it harder to organize their day and to communicate with their teachers and support staff.
Also, they are also more visual learners and instructions that are written out in large blocks of text are difficult for them to decipher. Thus, we aimed to incorporate concise, minimal features with our web application to create the most conducive environment for them to succeed.
We also decided to stick to a calming color palette of black, white, gray, and pale pink (pale pink is often chosen as the most calming color for children with Autism).
We used Figma to wire frame and prototype the entire web application.
## Challenges We Ran Into:
We had to balance simplicity of the design while choosing the most important features to include in the application. We needed to minimize the use of graphics or displays which would be too distracting for middle school children with autism while introducing features which would best allow them to focus and to be engaged. We agonized over the use of text and icons for the buttons and the shape, color, and feel of the alerts for the video calls.
## Accomplishments We're Proud Of
We are proud to have redesigned familiar platforms for online learning to accommodate for the specific needs of Autistic students from grades 6-9.
We were a team of beginner designers, but we are proud of ourselves for using Figma to wireframe and prototype an application for the first time. Our product has features which would be beneficial for Autistic children even outside of learning during the pandemic; it can also be used for check-ins with advisors, becoming familiar with the unspoken rules of social situations, and deciphering the language of traditional textbooks and lessons with the “Clarify” function.
Built With
figma
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www.figma.com
drive.google.com | Clarity | Clarity is a web application to make online learning accessible for Autistic students grades 6-9 with innovations for lectures, speech-to-text, a clarify function for jargon, and engaging discussions. | ['Alexsandra Gao', 'Marin M Quinn', 'Oliver Cheng', 'Melanie Chio'] | [] | ['figma'] | 16 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/covi-g3qoub | Describe the problem your solution addresses?
Our solution addresses the stigma surrounding sharing Covid-19 stories, whether it is your own or a family member's experience. Platforms like Instagram and Facebook are not built to create communities for Covid-19 survivors and family/friends of those with Covid-19, but Covi strives to create said communities.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem?
We chose the solution of creating a platform in which people can create community and share their own stories because we thought it would help people connect and empathize in an isolating time. Covi addresses the problem by destigmatizing talking about having Covid-19 or any mental hardships that come from Covid-19. It allows users to relate to others' experiences, support each other, find ways to cope, and truly feel as they are not alone in what they are going through.
Try it out
www.figma.com | Covi | A platform for people with Covid or friends and family of people with Covid to support each other through these unprecedented times. | ['Michelle Tai', 'Louise Lu'] | [] | [] | 17 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/teach-ez | high-fidelity screen
Due to the current pandemic, many parents are working from home and children are unable to go to school. For older students, keeping up with online learning at home is easy; however, younger children require more involvement and attention from the parent. The parent then must work from home and also become a teacher for the child. The working parents will need help to keep their children engaged, because it is difficult to balance two full-time schedules.
Our solution is an app that can keep their kids engaged during the pandemic. This is a tool which will allow them to do such with little involvement. The app will allow the parent to set an academic schedule for the child, so parents can "teach" without having to implement direct involvement. This works by creating a personalized and timely schedule for the child to follow weekly. The educational tool will draw from free databases like Khanacademy and teach courses in specific timeframes. By using this app, stay at home virtual learning can be achieved with little parent involvement, so the children can learn while the parents work. Plus, the app can be used to schedule study time whenever, not just during the summer in the pandemic. It represents a change in the way that parents can engage with their children's learning.
Built With
figma
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www.figma.com | Teach-Ez | A solution for working parents who can't be elementary school teachers as well. | ['Kruti Maheshwari', 'Kavya Jade', 'lily huff'] | [] | ['figma'] | 18 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/health-score | Inspiration
Healthcare in the U.S. is largely reactive, and Covid-19 has exacerbated this issue. Practitioners prescribe fixes to problems as they see them where preventative action could have alleviated ailments in preliminary stages. Health-related behaviors such as adherence to recommended treatment and partaking in self-care depend highly on a person’s own understanding of their underlying conditions and knowledge of how to address them.
What if we put patients in charge of their own health?
What it does
We designed an app to leverage patient data to empower people to take actionable steps to improve their health based on their personal health history and current goals.
Users enter basic health information, like a brief medical history, social factors, and lifestyle choices to receive a baseline health score. Users are then motivated to improve that health score through action steps, defined goals, and visible progress statistics. The user’s score will update every time they complete a challenge, and will go back to the baseline score at the beginning of every month. The user also has the opportunity to edit their basic health information.
How we built it
We first narrowed in on the problem of helping users better understand their health in relationship to others of their demographic group. Many complex factors contribute to a person’s overall health. We asked -
how might we
help people have a better understanding of their own health condition. To simplify a person’s health history in relation to others, we developed an easy to interpret health score. We hypothesized that this would empower people to advocate for themselves in a healthcare context.
We next discussed how we would motivate users to improve their health via the health score. To make the app engaging for both high and low scorers, we developed a goals section for users to personalize their journey. To help people take actionable steps, we developed a task section to give users manageable things to do to improve their health. We designed these tasks in a way to motivate users to return to the app, level up their accomplishments, and visualize their results.
We tested this concept and a wireframe of a prototype with a few potential users.
We made improvements by doing user interviews and market research of other platforms, and comparing it to our app. We incorporate unique solutions to our prototype that other apps do not currently have (e.g. social risk factors).
Challenges we ran into
Health data that is currently available.
Access to a diverse set of users.
Lack of time to do more user interviews.
Consensus in refining our solutions during brainstorming sessions.
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
Prototyping a meaningful, impactful and scalable app.
Collaborating with our team virtually.
Creating solutions using a user-centric design thinking approach.
What we learned
User-centric design thinking and prototyping.
What's next for Health Score
Empower patients to advocate for themselves.
Do more user interviews and testing to understand consumer’s needs/pain points. Will continue to reiterate our prototype once we have collected more data.
Build more features/capabilities in our app for continuous engagement and participation of our users.
Built With
figma
powerpoint
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www.figma.com | Health Score | Putting patients' health in their hands | ['Ashley Wilson', 'Mary Phillips', 'Jaimie McKeel', 'Jessica Ho'] | [] | ['figma', 'powerpoint'] | 19 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/telehelp | Inspiration
We were inspired by our conversations with real-life healthcare professionals who expressed their desire for apps that could make Telehealth easier. Additionally, our own experiences with grandparents and other immunocompromised individuals who are struggling to receive healthcare during this pandemic made us realize how revolutionary Telehealth could be for people like them.
Telehealth is in high demand during Covid-19 because many patients cannot physically go into a doctor’s office. Because of the high demand and the large number of patients, we wish to expedite the process for both patients and healthcare providers.
While other apps exist to help connect patients with doctors virtually (e.g. Lemonaid) and to record health data (e.g. Apple Health), our app aims at training users to monitor their health at home, promote health awareness, and expedite modern telehealth appointments by providing doctors with patient data prior to the appointment. This will help both doctors and patients make more informed decisions about health and will be more efficient about doing so.
A typical user might live in a rural area 2 hours away from a hospital. It is in their best interest to schedule a telehealth appointment before going into the hospital to spare them from a long drive, unless it is absolutely necessary. Other users may be immunocompromised or elderly people and scared to leave their homes or visit a doctor’s office during the pandemic.
What it does
The app allows users to collect health data with the equipment they have, connect to doctors, and send the information to their health care provider. The app additionally has COVID-19 information and resource centers.
When a user opens our app for the first time, this is the screen they will see. There’s just a basic introduction, and we ask the user if it alright to share their medical information with chosen healthcare providers, as well as their location.
New patient registration for new profile:
Once the user has opened up the app, they will be led to a profile’s page. If this is their first time using the app, or if they want to make a new profile, they can click (here) which leads them to a patient registration form.
Existing profile home page:
If the patient already has an existing user profile, they can click on that and it will lead to a home page. Displayed here are the patient’s previous and upcoming appointments, along with a navigation bar on the bottom. Let’s go through these functions.
COVID-19 functions
This feature allows users to know how high their risk for coronavirus is at their current location, provides information related to nearby COVID-19 help-centers, and even contains a COVID-19 self assessment test.
My Devices functions
Next, we have my devices. For instance, we can choose to click on a device, Pulse oximetry. There is an option to watch a video tutorial on how to use the device, and then record data measuring the user’s vitals. After saving this data to their profile, the user can then choose to return to the home page or continue using devices. In the event that the user has no medical devices available at home, our app also offers a tutorial for manual measurement of pulse.
My Doctors Functions
Moving on to My Doctors; this function allows users to set up e-appointments with healthcare providers in nearby clinics. They can either select particular doctors and specialization, or they can just choose a date and time to be matched to a doctor. Users will receive a confirmation for their e-appointment, and during the time of the e-appointment, their doctor will be able to call them and review the previously gathered information.
This allows for patients who live in resource poor settings and patients who are scared to visit hospitals to get the treatment and advice that the need.
Settings
Then we have the settings function, which allows users to change things such as their picture, notifications etc. They can also choose to alter their patient data (goes to editing patient registration page) or change their user profile.
View Data, Send Data
Finally, the user can also view or send their patient data to healthcare providers. If you click on send data, you can choose which doctor you want to send this information to. The application will then generate a PDF with the latest basic patient health information and with readings from the at home healthcare devices, allowing for more accurate diagnosis during the e-appointment.
How I built it
We used Figma to design an app after a lot of brainstorming.
Challenges I ran into
We faced challenges in learning how to navigate a new software and coordinating with our different team members despite all of us being from different time zones. However, in the process, we learnt to become better collaborators and learnt to adapt to non-ideal situations when designing.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We learned to use Figma. The aesthetic is nice. The idea is creative.
What I learned
How to use Figma to make an app that is accessible to users. We also learned about design and collaboration with teammates in different time zones who are on the other side of the world.
What's next for TeleHelp
We can envision this app becoming a part of our future, with many improvements or additions being made over time. One major way to continue building on this idea would be to consult more healthcare professionals about additional features that could be added to the app to help make the functionality more efficient. Also, testing the app on a user base would help determine whether or not certain aspects of the app were user friendly enough, and if not, how the user experience could be enriched.
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www.figma.com | TeleHelp | A telehealth tool that expedites an appointment by collecting data from users and showing them how to do so. It also connects users to doctors and have COVID-19 information. | ['Sanika Gupte', 'Harshi Devisetty', 'ria thimmaiahgari', 'Simran Sokhi'] | [] | ['figma'] | 20 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/empowher-1t60do | Inspiration
Black women in developing countries are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to securing quality education and even more disadvantaged when it comes to securing quality STEM education. A major cause of this is because of the very conservative nature in these communities; for instance, a girl growing up in rural Nigeria might have limited access to opportunities in STEM because her parents might be more concerned with her being a good wife and prevent her from accessing these opportunities. Another major cause is the lack of mentorship from other black women in STEM fields.
EmpowHER strives to bridge this gap between black girls in developing nations and STEM opportunities.
What it does
EmpowHER is a cross-platform application that connects black girls in developing countries to tons of opportunities, resources, mentors, and regular programming to introduce them to the world of STEM in hopes of inspiring them to venture into STEM fields.
How I built it
Due to the fact that the Ideate Hackathon is strictly about design, we used digital design and prototyping tools like Figma and Miro exclusively.
Challenges I ran into
My teammate and I had never done any design work up until Ideate and we struggled a bit to wrap our heads around all the design/prototyping toolkits and the ideation process in such a very short period of time with limited guidance,
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are both proud of not giving up despite all the frustrations we experienced and following through with EmpowHER
What I learned
We both learned the power of collaboration and mutual respect.
What's next for EmpowHER
We plan on developing the prototype into an actual app and scale to actualize our vision.
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miro | EmpowHER | A platform to inspire black girls in developing countries to venture into STEM related fields. | ['Chika Dueke-Eze'] | [] | ['figma', 'miro'] | 21 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/antiguo | As a result of COVID-19, nursing homes have been disproportionately affected; studies found that cases rose as much as 18% in long term care facilities over a 14 day period ending July 10th (Chidambaram, 2020). To protect their residents, nursing homes prohibit family and friend visitation. Many residents of nursing homes have experienced depression and anxiety because of decreased social isolation and decreased visitation. Socialization is extremely important to the mental health, quality of life, and cognitive function of elderly people. Studies have found that socialization may help to lessen potential cognitive impairment and improve seniors’ sense of self worth. Adequate social support and socialization are also associated with reduced mortality and risk of physical illness.
Elderly people in nursing homes have limited visits from family members and do not have people to talk about their interests. We believe that through Antiguo, residents of nursing homes can safely form and maintain new relationships with people that share their interests, which will bolster their mental health. The resident’s accounts are overseen by care coordinators and mental health professionals at their nursing homes.
Despite seniors’ growing online presence, there are few platforms dedicated specifically to them, or to their meeting new people. 59% of Americans above the age of 65 use the internet. Facebook, Instagram, and other forms of social media are confusing for older generations, and are mostly used by seniors to maintain contact with friends and family they already know. Our easy-to-use app with large font and reduced toggles help seniors confidently use technology to make new friends, improving their mental health and quality of life during the pandemic.
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www.figma.com | Antiguo | A platform for seniors to meet other seniors with similar interests | ['Mayank Kinger', 'Lauren Yoon', 'Lisa Nagahama', 'Pratistha Maharjan'] | [] | [] | 22 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/coware-ideate-project | Group members: Andrew Lee (ajl88), Judy Zhong (jtz3), Donghan Park (dp239)
Describe the problem your solution addresses.
With the novel coronavirus virus infecting more than 4.2 million people in the United States, it has become essential for every individual to make smarter decisions about daily activities like shopping and eating out. Accessible and personalized risk data about specific destinations is sparse and makes it difficult for the average person to make informed choices. There is also a lack of readily available data on a more local basis concerning county-level trends of COVID-19 and its associated risk of infection. Due to the continued shortage of tests, it has become increasingly important to test efficiently without wasting a single test. As the pandemic has progressed, there has been much confusion on when someone should or should not get tested. So, the problem is twofold: a lack of risk awareness and high barriers to testing.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem?
We believe that a solution must effectively both promote awareness and lower barriers to testing—Coware does just that. Coware is an app that assesses the risk of a user getting infected from certain activities based on a number of factors: geographical location, foot traffic, mask usage, etc. Calculating this risk score will aid people in their decision-making, eventually altering their behaviors. Coware also gives users ready access to data about the current situation in their area. By providing personalized risk assessments and COVID-19 data, Coware can provide recommendations for testing at local centers once they reach a certain risk threshold—lowering the barriers to testing. Considering the dangers of community spread, users can also create personal groups to share risk profiles with family members and close friends. Using carefully calculated risk to guide user decisions, Coware hopes to curb the spread of COVID-19 by promoting awareness and testing.
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www.figma.com | Coware IDEATE project | Coware promotes COVID-19 awareness and eliminates high barriers to testing | ['Donghan Park', 'Andrew Lee', 'Judy Zhong'] | [] | ['figma'] | 23 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/all-hands-on-deck | Our group has designed a mobile app prototype called “All Hands on Deck” which is an event organizing app. Our app’s main priority is to protect the anonymity of protesters and/or organizers to combat the recent problem of harassment from police departments. The biggest problem that protestors have faced includes the police department having set out violent attacks and forms of harassment while protestors are exercising their rights. Unfortunately, popular social media platforms are not ideal for planning protests/events or even sharing protest-related media because cops can simply look up protesting material and disrupt events or harass protestors. Thus, our solution was to create a platform in which prioritizes the security of people who either want to plan and/or attend these kinds of social events. Users are able to create anonymous accounts and stay updated on nearby current events without sacrificing the potential of giving away their identity. We also have a report button, in the case that people do get harassed, that prioritizes functionality and ease of use. The app also includes the ability to private message event organizers and friends without revealing a lot of personal information.
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www.figma.com | All Hands On Deck | A safe platform to organize and attend protests. | ['Vanessa Ta', 'LISA Sinn', 'Rossa Sabu', 'Jessica Chen'] | [] | [] | 24 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/legisclear | Inspiration
With advancements in AI that have disproportionately profiled Black lives and minorities, harms are amplified when legislation embeds these flawed technologies into law enforcement. Specifically, policies like California Proposition 25 are suggesting the use of computer-based algorithms to assess the risk of criminal suspects for trial.
However, the current environment of minimal discourse and coverage of local legislation means that the wider implications of such policy on incarceration are largely influenced by already heavily involved stakeholders in legislation. In other words, lobbying groups that have ulterior motives are the ones swaying these decisions though the harms are greatly felt by individuals, and oftentimes minorities.
The issue lies in the lack of engagement and transparency in legislation. With the verbosity and jargon surrounding policies as well as the hassle to synthesize information on legislator stances, it’s time-consuming for citizens with no prior experience with government or members of marginalized and suppressed groups to understand policies and express their opinion.
How do we address this?
The proposal is “LegisClear,” a mobile application that addresses low voter engagement and understanding of pending legislation. The solution increases transparency by introducing bills, streamlining understanding of the legislation with stance summaries in layman's terms, creating opportunities for immediate action through email and phone app integrations with script templates, and fostering community engagement through a centralized platform of latest outreach activity as well as social media integration. These functionalities demystify legislation while also enabling sustained individual involvement.
LegisClear allows members of traditionally underrepresented or under-engaged political groups to easily gather information about relevant current issues and where their own representatives in government stand, helping them know how to vote when Election Day comes. Single working mothers, members of ethnic minorities, and students and young adults who want to be more politically engaged, but have no idea how to vote will benefit from the streamlined information and opportunities to take direct action. We believe LegisClear is ideal for today's political climate, in which numerous social issues have recently come to the forefront of popular culture, driving so many to seek awareness on political matters. The social aspect of the app will allow political Instagram stories and Facebook posts to be curated in one place, so users can direct others to their LegisClear profile to see all their activism-related posts in one place and have relevant discourse. Furthermore, we envision availability in different languages, so those who are generally ignored in the political process because of language barriers can access necessary information. The community aspect of the app will also allow users to be recommended groups in their areas or related to their demographics, allowing local political organizers to easily reach them with event information and other opportunities to help.
The discourse around legislation won’t ever need to end. Through LegisClear, the decision of any bill will involve individual voters and extensive discourse around topics before a decision is made. Especially regarding legislation that can cause harmful and racially-biased computer algorithms to be embedded into law enforcement systems, increasing the accessibility of democratic involvement will allow more players and diverse voices to work against policies that exacerbate inequality.
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www.figma.com | LegisClear | Increasing the transparency around legislation and promoting political engagement | ['Maegan Jong', 'Elizabeth Ling', 'Akhila Boda'] | [] | ['figma'] | 25 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/study-buddies-fojtea | We wanted to recreate the collaboration that happens in crowded office hours, when students that don't necessarily know each other are all congregated in the same space, studying for the same exams and assignments. Sometimes, particularly in our larger CS classes, people would gain more by learning from their peers than waiting in line to work with a TA/professor.
This kind of collaboration-based learning is a great tool for students, and our app aims to recreate that experience for an online learning format. We built this app in Figma, and we used tools like Adobe's color palette picker to choose a color scheme as well as UI kits.
Both of us are beginners to Figma, and it was hard to align elements and create different stylistic tabs. We're proud of creating a full prototype and pushing each other to think out of the box.
We learned a lot about using Figma and integrating UI kits into our own design. We also learned about controlling the amount of user input, expanding navigation beyond just front and back buttons, and how to create contrast.
We would focus on expanding Study Buddies to other colleges and universities, and we could create a feature to create meetings of choice on Zoom or a software of choice.
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www.figma.com | Study Buddies | Study Buddies is an app that recreates collaborative office hours for an online learning experience! | ['Noorain Baig', 'Patricia Chin'] | [] | ['figma'] | 26 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/voice-ryi5uo | High-fidelity image
Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
Due to the current political climate engendered by the growing concerns of the coronavirus pandemic, there is a feeling of estrangement between politicians and working-class America. The lack of accessible knowledge and universal understanding of the role that local and state politicians play in addressing current underlying issues downplays the gravity of the current situation within the country. As a result, it seems more pertinent now than ever to provide the people with a more centralized source of information. This disconnect has prevented the people from making informed choices about voting in the community’s best interests. The social climate created from the pandemic has separated all groups, whether it be due to economic or racial differences, even further from a commonality. By accentuating the local power within our communities to vote, we hope to bridge the gap between politicians and working-class America as well as those among the working-class.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
By making our app free, it allows people from any demographic, regardless of political or economical position, to access the first-source information that our app provides. Thus, this levels the power disparity that currently exists as a result of information-driven division in like-minded individuals. In COVID-19 times, social media has proven to be an exceedingly effective tool in inducing change through online petitions and spreading information and our app builds upon the inherent speed at which social media operates in order for the public to have meaningful relationships, especially with politicians and like-minded individuals. Our app hopes to provide more avenues for discussion centered around building these relationships but is differentiated from other similar platforms by the information that we provide. In the future, we hope to expand the scope of interaction of our app to address locally inherent problems as a means to spark national change and decision-making.
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www.figma.com | VOICE | This is an application used to help users of all backgrounds have a streamlined way to interact with local and state politicians to help voice their opinions and have a collective information source. | ['Justin Jang', 'Louis Hu', 'Elliot Ha', 'Matthew Yuan'] | [] | [] | 27 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/sprouts-r3xg2l | Describe the problem your solution addresses?
Due to COVID-19, working families have struggled to adapt to virtual work and learning environments. Students, especially younger ones, are not receiving the same hands-on aspect of learning that often keeps them excited and engaged. These interactive, tangible experiences are central to STEM education and development, playing an integral role in getting these students excited about learning and pursuing careers in this field. In order to provide the same level of engagement for children, we must ask, “How can we support STEM education remotely?” Further, how can we make remote learning interactive, simple, and accessible for all?
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem?
Sprouts is a subscription service where students, parents, and teachers can schedule weekly STEM kit deliveries. Users can enter the student’s interests, age group, and desired frequency of delivery. Sprouts will use this information to suggest deliveries that can be easily reviewed and edited by the user. Once delivered, users can use the corresponding interactive walkthroughs, guides, and learning resources hosted on the Sprouts website. It’s a solution that makes sense for the whole family- Delivery makes it easy for students to access the right materials and takes the toll off working parents. The online resources makes it easy for students to understand and complete the activity. Sprouts provides the hands-on component of STEM learning with the ease of virtual, interactive walkthroughs. Additionally, a portion of profits will be spent sending kits and physical learning resources to students in rural areas where access to education and the internet are severely limited.
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www.figma.com | Sprouts | A subscription science kit service that encourages hands-on learning everywhere. | ['Lindsey Yu', 'Hannah Wang'] | [] | ['figma'] | 28 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/blu | Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
“Younger students need help to learn online - lots of help.” A recent article from the New York Times highlights the urgency to solve the difficulty of bringing the elementary school environment into each home. Parents are working from home and don’t have time to spend logging into devices, clicking in the right places and directing the attention of all their kids. Teaching young kids through remote platforms has not been a walk in the park either. According to a study conducted in April 2020, 74% of teachers are feeling overwhelmed during the transition to online instruction. A staggering majority of these teachers also say students are having an even harder time switching to remote learning especially when adult supervision is not physically present. Our solution provides a seamless tool for teachers that allows them to grab and hold the attention of young students with minimal supervision required from home.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
Meet our lovable stuffed teddy bear Blu. Blu is a teaching assistant that helps serve as a supervisor directly in the student’s home. Blu can help alert students when class is about to start, provide encouraging messages to stay on task, or any other customized message the teacher wants to send. Not only is Blu a great assistant, the app interface provides the student with parent-free set-up and navigation. Just a click of “Let’s Go!” and the student is off for the day. On the other side, teachers can now seamlessly distribute their content to connect more fluidly with their students. Education is dependent on the relationship between the student and the teacher, and the quality of this interaction can really shape the development of the student. Our platform provides interactive learning experiences for students while simultaneously deviating teachers from complex platforms and parents from persistent supervision.
Challenges we ran into
At the end of last night, we all took a step back and looked at our prototype on Figma. We came to a group consensus that what we had currently just wasn't it, so we scrapped it. We spent the next 18 hours working together and coming up with the new interface that is being submitted today.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Coming in, nobody on the team had any experience with Figma, or has participated in Ideate before. We are very proud of the final product that we were able to put together.
What we learned
Like Erin said in the first keynote, the first idea is probably the worst. We were set on doing something related to AR or creating a virtual environment, until we realized fully the problems students, teachers and parents are facing. We shifted course and ended up with Blu.
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www.figma.com | Blu. | Blu. A teacher's, student's and parent's best friend. | ['Nick Jerles', 'Sanja Kirova', 'Jolan von Plutzner', 'Anna Sipek'] | [] | ['figma'] | 29 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/happe-for-duke-ideate-2020 | Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the uneven and often inequitable distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE). From masks to respirators to the humble hand sanitizer, life-saving equipment has been in great demand and scarce supply. The World Health Organization (WHO) even reported that the shortage of PPE poses a serious risk to the lives of healthcare workers who are already risking their lives to keep us healthy. To compound the issue, much of the PPE shortage is caused by supply chain and distribution issues, not manufacturing and outside of healthcare, these shortages predominantly affect already vulnerable low-income, BIPOC populations.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
haPPE is a marketplace for individual to individual transactions of personal protective equipment (PPE) that takes location and desired amount of PPE into account which allows for greater distribution efficiency; PPE is not wasted and those in need are able to receive it in a more timely manner. The app acts as a distributor: rather than a single household having lots of PPE and another household nearby lacking access to PPE, haPPE is a medium to spread PPE based on inventory and location to help fight infections in the community. This solution fixes the problem of the inequitable distribution of PPE as distribution efforts are severely reduced and has become a collaborative, local effort to provide protection against infectious diseases. In at-risk and underprivileged communities, PPE distribution networks such as haPPE can protect them from infections, thus reducing death and hospitalization rates.
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www.figma.com | haPPE | A Marketplace for Localized PPE Distribution | ['Devin Shah', 'Aarzu Gupta', 'Anoushka Gupta'] | [] | ['canva', 'figma'] | 30 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/carehandle | Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150-word limit)
We chose the Health track and thought about pain points for patients, healthcare workers, and their family members. Using the Design Thinking workshop approach, we narrowed down our focus: that due to the current circumstances of the pandemic, family members are unable to physically visit their loved ones in the hospital. Unable to be by the side of their loved ones places emotional stress on the family members as well as the healthcare workers who would have to accommodate various phone call updates. And this is true even in situations of other infectious diseases or when families are miles apart, in different countries or family members who are burdened by other work commitments. To alleviate this pressure, we asked ourselves “How might we create a two-way communication interface that provides emotional support to family members while also giving them access to their loved ones’ health status in the hospital?”
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150-word limit)
Our solution is a mobile interface for the patients’ status updates, medical reports, emergency hospital contact, and most importantly, a live monitor for family members to see and talk to their loved ones. We picked this solution to recreate the experience a family member would have by being at the bedside of the patient. By being in the same room as the patient, the family member can know how the patient looks, feels, and can read various vital signs on the monitor - heart rate, temperature, etc. Through this interface, families will receive periodical updates of their loved ones alleviating the burden from nurses and doctors constantly having to answer phone calls. The highlight of the interface is the live streaming of the patient’s bedside view, where family members can send virtual love to patients and view the patients’ vitals, and using VR mode they can hug patients virtually.
Team Members - Athena Tang, Dhwani Parekh, Neha Lingareddy, Valeriya Gorelova
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www.figma.com | carehandle | A way for family members and friends to virtually visit and care for hospital patients | ['Athena Tang', 'Dhwani Parekh', 'Neha Lingareddy'] | [] | ['figma'] | 31 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/hotline-choose-the-right-alternative | Inspiration
Black people have been 28% of those killed by police since 2013 despite being only 13% of the population. It’s not about crime, nor about geography. It’s about race. The people who respond to crises in our community should be the people who are best-equipped to
deal with those crises. Rather than strangers armed with guns, we want to create space for local and personalized community support.
What it does
Hotline helps those who lack awareness and don’t have the time to research community-based responses to every single incident to choose the right alternative to calling the police. We are taking power away from the police and into those who truly care for the community. We combine the technology of personalized sign up forms, GPS tracking services, AI chat bot, and a comprehensive database to allow users to find the right solutions.
How we built it
We built it on Figma. We split our team into UX and UI designers. After conducting our UX research by consulting 7 unique BLM organizations and research papers, we started our low fidelity prototypes. We then tested the prototypes by conducting four user interviews, and then finished our high fidelity version.
Challenges we ran into
The biggest challenge creating a product for a problem that does not currently have many solutions in the extremely limited amount of time we have. We also wanted to create a meaningful experience while keeping the issue of the privacy over user data in mind.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Submitting this!
What we learned
We educated ourselves more deeply about the community-based alternatives to calling the police and how to go through the design process in under 12 hours!!
What's next for Hotline: Choose the Right Alternative
We would love to continue exploring this as a solution, maybe even as a built-in app for iPhones. | Hotline: Choose the Right Alternative | Hotline helps our users better understand and notify the correct alternative to the police based on their specific scenario within their own communities. | ['Sabrina Lin', 'Heer Mandalia', 'Richa Kulkarni', 'Soham Khadatare'] | [] | [] | 32 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/activ | Home Screen
Introduction to App
Choose a Cause
Dashboard 1
Dashboard 2
Filter Activities
Petitions Database
Successful Petition
Video Link;
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Problem + Setting
2020 has seen the rise of social activism, especially on social media. Our app Activ hopes to maintain long-term engagement and support for various movements by compiling a list of activities and education material for people to effectively support the causes they care about.
Audience
We felt our audience could incorporate anyone with a desire to participate in social activism, but the majority of our audience would be individuals ages 16-25.
Solution and Features
Features:
After signing up for our app, a user will have the ability to:
Get Motivated
Create goals and track personal progress whether thats money donated, hours spent volunteering, education articles read, petitions signed, etc. We found that users are more likely to stay motivated if they can track the progress they’ve made.
Get Educated
Access a database of up to date resources to help you get educated while also being able to save resources for later and also mark education experiences are completed.
Get Involved
Filter through a database of activities based on their cause, budget, location, time commitment and more.
Favorite and save activities for a later date.
Mark activities as “not interested” so that activities are tailored to your interests.
Sign petitions though the app with the click of a button
Reaching out to local, state and federal government members becomes easier with letter templates and call scripts.
Our goal with this app was to make getting involved in a movement as easy as possible!
Growing as a Designer and as a Team
Throughout this process we learned to collaborate as a team and combine our best ideas. We used the lessons we learned in workshops at Ideate 2020 and plenty of feedback from Office Hours to improve our design. Obstacles we ran into were shifting our mindset from coding (we're all programmers) to a designed-focus approach. For many of us this was our first design competition and also the first time using a tool like Figma.
Ultimately 3 strangers grew as designers and as a team to bring you Activ!
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www.figma.com | Activ | Becoming involved in movements you care about becomes easier with activ. | ['Cynthia Rios', 'Julie Lely'] | [] | ['figma'] | 33 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/reframe-w967et | Reframe is inspired by the lack of accessibility and inclusivity in today’s mental health sector. We wanted to help alleviate all the hurdles people encounter when looking to improve themselves (i.e. financial stability, minimum age requirement, geographic location). Through this project, we learned to address all user pain points through a design solution to improve mental health. As beginners to Figma, we prototyped our app to best showcase how users will ideally navigate the interface. Although we are new to the digital product design industry, we are constantly searching for resources to design a more meaningful and inclusive experience for our users.
Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
Seeking help in a time of vulnerability requires an immediate and effective solution. When it comes to mental health, therapy is the first resource that comes to mind, yet it is often inaccessible and expensive. Users are often bombarded with complex suggestions instead of allowing them to improve on one method. It is ingrained in our minds to focus on the negative aspects of any given situation. Research shows that self-blame over negative events are linked to an increased risk of mental health problems. Additionally, many marginalized groups are often overlooked in technology and product features are overgeneralized. They lack inclusivity and have limited resources. Reframe, our design solution, provides a safe space for users to independently rationalize their immediate thoughts and helps them focus on the positives. With a user-friendly and customizable interface, users can log their thoughts throughout their day and understand them from a more logical perspective.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
The idea of seeking professional help is often too bothersome that people choose to simply keep it to themselves – but there are alternatives. Our solution is not a stand-in for professional help, but rather a tool to guide users to improve their mindsets. A negative situation can often be viewed with a different perspective so that users truly understand their emotions before affecting their long-term mental health. Reframe challenges users to view their thoughts without judgement and appreciate the good and learn from the bad. It is also a safe space with a user friendly interface, designed to accommodate all with its customizable features of contrast hues, text size, and option for speech input. Reframe is a new beginning, to every thought that comes across our mind.
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www.figma.com | REFRAME | Reframe - appreciate the good and learn from the bad. | ['Erica Li', 'Kelly Li', 'Bonny Wong', 'staceylii Li'] | [] | ['figma'] | 34 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/clarity-35dwne | Problem:
We believe that access to clean water is a right for all beings, wherever you may be or travel to. However, in cases like the Flint Water Crisis, many citizens and visitors to Flint, Michigan experienced unexpected changes to their water quality and did not receive clear communication from those in power following the incident. Travellers and people who often move from city to city (students, renters etc.) need to be informed of potential hazards surrounding tap water. Getting access to this water quality data is not easily accessible, especially to those who are new to the area and are unfamiliar with the local utility or water provider. Understanding the data is essential to their health and wellbeing and more importantly their right to know what they are putting in their bodies.
Our solution to the water quality awareness issue is to provide our target audience with easily accessible information regarding their local or selected locational water quality. With our app, With our app, users can gauge whether or not their drinking water is safe or unsafe to consume. The purpose is to educate the user on their local utility or water provider while also offering important information on the actual contents of their water. It felt most within our means to lean into an education-oriented product because we don't possess an easy way to prototype/market a tool that actually tests water quality. So the next best thing is to provide awareness. Our app sources already researched, real-time updated data and gives the individual access in a more user-friendly manner through a quick location lookup.
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www.figma.com | Clarity: A Water Information Hub | Clarity is an app that allows you to stay up to date on something crucial to your well-being: the water from your tap. Clarity will keep you informed and aware so you can consume with peace of mind | ['Joylynn Wang', 'Ben Williams'] | [] | ['figma'] | 35 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/crack-the-covid | Frames
Design Team
Frames with interactions
Inspiration
Our team decided to delve into all three tracks provided by Ideate. While brainstorming, the same problem kept arising in our ideas: the current pandemic. No matter the problem put forth, the virus kept being a factor when it came to the variables we were working with while trying to solve the problem in health, inequality, or education. That being said, we decided to rise to the challenge of our time and develop something that could make getting through these uncertain times slightly easier. Back to school has been riddled with uncertainties, meaning that children must also learn skills that will keep them and their families safe.
What it does
Our app ultimately seeks to teach children procedures that will keep them safe in an engaging way. By making it fun to learn, we can foster a positive outlook on social distancing and sanitation. The games provided have a reward system that allows for competition among friends, ultimately putting the healthiest one atop the leaderboard. This would, in turn, translate into real-life habits in children that will reduce the spread of COVID-19.
How we built it
We built our app through Figma, making a path for every decision made by the app-user which rewards them for good practices. We made the app inclusive by having a wide variety of avatars.
Challenges we ran into
Our team had absolutely no knowledge of Figma or design thinking prior to this opportunity. Taking advantage of the many webinar opportunities given to us with talented speakers, as well as our own research, enabled our team to grow and learn together. The time limit for production of the app was also challenging, but drove us to work quickly and efficiently.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The prototype is a large success given our prior experience and skill level. As well, being able to successfully work in a team and making something that can have an impact on society is something we are highly proud of.
What we learned
The main lesson that we learned is the difficulty of coming up with a feasible solution to the problems in education, health, and inequality. This is especially true in design development, but the hands-on experience of building a prototype and working in a team will greatly help us with future projects. We have witnessed first-hand the power of a group of people working together.
What's next for Crack the COVID
Crack the COVID will hopefully be made into a fun app with more interactive games and a world-wide player base that will help keep our children safe. Perhaps, this game will even be adopted in the classroom.
Built With
figma
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www.figma.com | Crack the COVID | Interactive game that teaches young children prosocial behavior and social distancing during COVID-19 | ['Julia Leeman', 'Sophia Leeman', 'Adan Hernandez'] | [] | ['figma'] | 36 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/mooz | Video demo link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R66J0LTOHUnAf3sK-SRqd-xJQhXVBctU/view
1) Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, students have faced a variety of challenges: on top of grappling with social isolation, many students have had to return to a mentally taxing home life and stress about the quality of their education. Furthermore, students crave connection with their friends and peers. Therefore, our team aimed to create a solution that targets college students and helps them navigate mental health issues — in particular, those exacerbated by the pandemic. During our research phase, we noticed that existing apps offered either one-on-one professional support or allowed users to find and support peers; however, we did not find applications that combined both of these elements. Thus, MOOZ primarily focuses on providing students with accessible professional counseling as well as offering options for peer-on-peer support. In addition, our app heavily features communities for students who have been personally affected by COVID-19. By prioritizing these communities, our team aims to create a safe space and educational platform where students have the opportunity to share their personal stories and connect with others who have faced similar challenges or experiences. Connecting with peers virtually and attending classes online can pose a number of significant challenges — it can feel stress-inducing, inefficient, and exhausting. However, amongst this uncertainty, MOOZ strives to provide a breath of fresh air.
2) Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
With MOOZ, students will have the opportunity to stay connected with their friends and peers through a series of communities tailored towards their shared interests and identities. We aim to build and expand upon existing solutions to create an all-in-one application that students can utilize as a resource to stay connected and informed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through tools such as virtual counseling and therapy sessions, online chat rooms and video calls led by psychology specialists, MOOZ mitigates challenges associated with connecting in a virtual setting. Through video conferencing tools, MOOZ offers professional counseling from specialists trained in approaching mental health issues that may have arisen from the start of the pandemic, such as financial worries, academic uncertainty, family tensions, anxiety regarding personal health and more. Furthermore, MOOZ is a safe space where students can interact with peers and access professional counseling while keeping their identity secure.
Our team utilized the Miro collaborative platform to sketch the user flow of our application and we created MOOZ using the Figma graphics editor and prototyping tool. A primary challenge we faced lay in narrowing our target audience, as we understand that all students have faced social and academic challenges in transitioning to a virtual environment. However, we ultimately decided to narrow our focus to college students because, being college students ourselves, we were able to personally identify with many of the issues addressed by the application.
Built With
figma
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www.figma.com
docs.google.com | MOOZ | Better than zoom. | ['Ivy Jiang', 'Catherine Yang', 'Dorothy Nie', 'Evie Sun'] | [] | ['figma'] | 37 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/dineout | Describe the problem your solution addresses? (150 word limit)
Due to COVID-19, many schools have adopted guidelines concerning social distancing. Among all, one of the largest difficulties for students staying on campus is dining. Traditionally, students would have to wait in line and eat in crowded spaces, which creates a high risk for infections. Besides, there is usually no organized database with the different university eateries and the foods they offer. Individuals with food constraints may need to look at food options in more detail.
Why did you pick this solution and how does it address the problem? (150 word limit)
We chose the solution because it makes the process of ordering food on a college campus convenient and efficient while following social distancing guidelines. Our App, Dine Out, displays the different campus eateries with their menu options, allowing students to choose a meal, pay through the app, and receive a specific pick up location. If the university is using reusable containers, the app will help the student locate the nearest station to drop off containers for cleaning and reusing purposes. Overall it’s a solution that makes dining safer, more convenient, and more eco-friendly.
Built With
figma
Try it out
www.figma.com | Dine Out | When you can't dine in, Dine Out! | ['Sofia Hornstein', 'Daniel Block', 'Yuxi Long'] | [] | ['figma'] | 38 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/pass-the-fork | The Post Item page, where food suppliers can post a new food listing along with relevant information for food seekers to see.
The Confirmation page that lets the food supplier know that their listing has been posted successfully.
The Explore page, where people seeking food can see what's available near them and filter by dietary restrictions.
More information about a food listing, where people seeking food can access directions, input their arrival time, and claim the order.
The Orders page, where food seekers can see their current and past orders.
People who have claimed an order can access the details of an order again and let others know when they have picked up the food.
People who have picked up their order can take a photo of what's left, rate the supplier's reliability, and write a review for other users.
Inspiration
Our inspiration came from mutual aid distribution sites and online ads offering to share excess food resources to food-insecure people. In our design, we also considered the possibility of users living in food deserts with limited access to public transportation, so they can search for food within a smaller radius and receive walking directions from Google Maps to the food resource.
What it does
Pass the Fork is a centralized platform for people with excess food, such as restaurants or event organizers who are throwing away leftovers, with people who need food, such those struggling to pay for groceries. People with surplus food can list their food, providing details such as dietary accommodations, when and how to pick it up, and a description. They will also be asked to take a photo of the food so that other users can see what the food looks like. People seeking food can access a map of food surpluses near them, which they can claim and then pick up at a certain time. They can communicate with the suppliers as well to voice any questions or gratitude on the messages page. Lastly, they can view any current orders they have claimed in addition to all of their past orders. The user can view their order to recall any important information, such as the address. Once they arrive and pick up their order, we ask that the user takes a photo of whatever food is left, so that other users can see if there is still food available for them. The user can also rate the supplier’s reliability and write a review, so that future users who are seeking food from this supplier can see how reliable, safe, and accurate the supplier was. Lastly, the users are able to create profiles and share a bio to promote a sense of community and make it easier to use the app if their information is already saved.
How I built it
First, we thought of the current solutions to food-insecurity and discussed where they could be improved. Then, we took on personas of both types of users: those who have an excess of food, and those who are food-insecure. We listed what features we would want to see from both perspectives, then discussed what we would expect to see from the app in sequential order. From that order, we sketched our screen flow on paper then started building our prototype in Figma.
Challenges I ran into
The biggest challenge we had was thinking about the safety of users and ensuring that food listings were legitimate. One step to fight false listings was to require a photo of the food being posting. Another was a reliability rating so that if someone did post a false listing, a user could give a bad rating and the next users could see it reflected in the listing information and know to not trust that resource. We decided against requiring some sort of background check to prevent users choosing not to post things due to hassle. We also added a special section for contact-less pickup details to minimize risk to the health of users.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Our goal was to build a low-fidelity prototype that communicated the concept for Pass the Fork. Our team worked very well together and was able to produce multiple medium-to-high fidelity screens that together give a comprehensive demo of our app. Despite having some technical issues, involving shaky internet connections and insufficient computing power, we were able to communicate through our Slack channel and fill-in gaps of our teammates.
What I learned
All of our team members were new to Figma, so we all quickly gained familiarity with the platform and became comfortable users. We learned from a guest speaker the importance of taking on personas of users to consider ease of use and layout. Also, we learned that people have a tendency to look for buttons in specific screen locations, so it was important to consult popular apps such as Instagram and Facebook to build a familiar UI.
What's next for Pass the Fork
We have many future visions for Pass the Fork. We discussed how many people experiencing food insecurity may not have reliable transportation. We want to implement a feature where users can view the faster route using only public transportation. Eventually, we want to allow the suppliers the option to drop the food off at the food seekers location because we know that many of our suppliers may be headed in that direction anyways. Additionally, we want to add a series of background checks for the users seeking food to ensure the safety of all users, though we still aim to make the app little steps as possible in order to avoid deterring any users from utilizing our app.
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figma
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www.figma.com
docs.google.com | Pass the Fork | Connecting food-insecure people with those who have an excess of food to fight hunger and reduce food waste | ['Grace Novak', 'Julia Lang', 'Cathy Wang', 'Emma Helmich'] | [] | ['figma'] | 39 |
10,460 | https://devpost.com/software/readbuddies | Inspiration/Problem Our Solution Addresses
The transition to online learning in light of the Covid-19 pandemic has been difficult for all students. Furthermore, there has been a lack of innovation targeted towards online learning for elementary schoolers who are in the most formative stages of their development.
Reading buddy programs in which older elementary school students are paired with younger students to read together are commonly implemented in elementary schools throughout the nation. Studies have shown that through cross-age tutoring and partnerships, students improve their reading and fluency skills and gain broader literacy and social benefits. Several research studies have found that augmenting traditional classroom instruction with one-on-one interventions, such as a reading buddies program, is a powerful combination that can accelerate students’ oral vocabulary gains. Others suggest that cross-age tutoring is effective at supporting children’s reading.
Many reading buddy programs across the nation will likely be cancelled as schools shift to online learning.
Why Did We Pick This Solution/How does it address the problem?
We chose this solution because we felt that there weren't a lot of tools out there to help elementary schoolers with the transition to online learning. As students ourselves, we knew that there were a lot of different resources being implemented to ease our transition to virtual learning in college, but we hadn't heard of many technologies being leveraged to help replicate the elementary school experience. We saw this as especially concerning given that elementary school is also key for developing social skills, and an online learning environment can induce an isolating experience for children. For both of us, we realized that one fond experience that we both had in elementary school was our participation in reading buddy programs. By developing a virtual platform for these programs, we promote the development of literacy and social skills in young students as well as help foster a sense of responsibility and connection.
What it does
Our application provides an online platform for reading buddies for elementary schoolers. There are two different roles, a reader who is an older student (3rd to 5th grade) who will read to a readee (K-2nd grade). Readers and readees are matched based on a profile and availability. Once matched, the readee can propose times to the reader to have reading sessions, and the reader has the freedom to accept and reject sessions. Once a session is confirmed, a reader can choose a book from our internal library for the session. When the time comes for the session, the reader and readee will both join the session which will feature a virtual version of the book as well as video interaction.
Ultimately, we hope that our application and its simplistic design will continue to allow elementary schoolers to develop the reading and literacy skills that are so crucial for their development.
Target Audience
Our target audience and end users are elementary schoolers who have transitioned to online learning and their parents. Depending on the age of the student, they may not be that tech savvy which is why they will likely need the help of their parents with the application. Because of this, we tried to make our UI as simple as possible.
How we built it
ReadBuddies is built entirely through Figma.
Challenges we ran into
Lack of experience with Figma - One of us had no prior experience with Figma and the other had minimal experience. There was definitely a bit of a learning curve at first but things went more smoothly after a couple hours of experimenting with Figma.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Some accomplishments that we're proud of include learning how to better use Figma to build prototypes and learning to map out user pathways. Both of us are more used to more software engineering oriented tech roles, so we really enjoyed viewing a project from a designer's point of view.
What we learned
Some things we learned include:
Using Figma to design prototypes and run through a demo
Mapping out user pathways
The ideation process for designing new projects
The importance of designing from a user's perspective and defining the problem statement clearly
What's next for ReadBuddies
In the future, we’d definitely like to build out some additional flows as well as redesign various aspects of the UI once we get more experience with FIgma. It would also be cool to start working on the actual implementation of the application.
Built With
figma
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www.figma.com | ReadBuddies | An online platform that matches older elementary school students with younger elementary school students as reading buddies | ['Alex Zhuang', 'Lu Cao'] | [] | ['figma'] | 40 |
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