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## Inspiration
One of our team members is a community manager for a real estate development group that often has trouble obtaining certifications in their attempts to develop eco-friendly buildings. The trouble that they go through, leaves them demotivated because of the cost and effort, leading them to avoid the proc... | ## Inspiration
My friend and I needed to find an apartment in New York City during the Summer. We found it very difficult to look through multiple listing pages at once so we thought to make a bot to suggest apartments would be helpful. However, we did not stop there. We realized that we could also use Machine Learnin... | ## Inspiration
Last summer working while one of our group members was working at Scotiabank, he was asked to analyze, and provide recommendations as to how to improve tracking, and efficiency aspects of a pricing request intake platform. As he delved into potential solutions he came to the same two roadblock again and... | partial |
## **opiCall**
## *the line between O.D. and O.K. is one opiCall away*
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## What it does
Private AMBER alerts for either 911 or a naloxone carrying network
## How we built it
We used Twilio & Dasha AI to send texts and calls, and Firebase & Swift for the iOS app's database and UI itself.
## Challenges we ran i... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by Katie's 3-month hospital stay as a child when she had a difficult-to-diagnose condition. During that time, she remembers being bored and scared -- there was nothing fun to do and no one to talk to. We also looked into the larger problem and realized that 10-15% of kids in hospitals d... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the large time delays between when citizens report an issue and when first responders are able to process the information and take action. We realized that these delays are especially pronounced in urban areas where there may be high volumes of calls due to the condensed population. ... | winning |
## The inspiration
My inspiration stems from my parents, who struggle with understanding various features of Facebook. Explaining the icons or where to click or type is challenging due to her educational background. Our annotated images aim to provide direct guidance to help individuals like her navigate technology wi... | ## Inspiration
Our project was inspired by the intersection of Education and Healthcare, focusing on bridging the digital and healthcare information gap for seniors. A revealing dialogue about Japan’s aging demographic shed light on the potential for seniors to actively contribute, challenging their perceived role as ... | ## Inspiration
Data analytics can be **extremely** time-consuming. We strove to create a tool utilizing modern AI technology to generate analysis such as trend recognition on user-uploaded datasets.The inspiration behind our product stemmed from the growing complexity and volume of data in today's digital age. As busi... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration stemmed from the desire to create a platform where individuals could engage in meaningful debates, sharpening their communication skills while exploring diverse topics tailored towards their interests while also having fun.
## What it does
Debate Me offers a dynamic space for users to ... | ## Inspiration
We got into a debate about our hackathon idea. One thing lead to another, and we built YapBot!
## What it does
* **Smart Argument Generation**: Yapbot analyzes your debate topic and delivers well-structured arguments that are both compelling and effective.
* **Real-Time Suggestions**: Get instant feed... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | losing |
## Inspiration
We have often seen the technical gap that the older generations face when they are working with the latest technologies. This restricts them from all the resources and knowledge that they can acquire using these technologies and leave them with not much choice but use the human resources. One such scena... | ## Inspiration
We noticed that loneliness is a problem in long-term care homes through families, friends, and the news. Physical cards are already something that is sent to people in long-term care homes, which is why we discovered a faster solution, virtual messages, to get in touch with them.
## What it does
Our w... | ## Inspiration
**DronAR** was inspired by a love of cool technology. Drones are hot right now, and the question is, why not combine it with VR? The result is an awesome product that allows for drone management to be more **visually intuitive** letting users interact with drones in ways never done before.
## What it d... | losing |
## Inspiration
Sometimes it is impossible to keep up with the online lectures. Maybe you were working hard last night and fell asleep during the lecture or maybe you weren't able to attend the lecture due to some personal concerns or maybe your laptop burned down on you. Well, now you don't have to worry.
## What it ... | ## **Education Track**
## Inspiration
We were brainstorming ideas of how to best fit this hackathon into our schedule and still be prepared for our exams the following Monday. We knew that we wanted something where we could learn new skills but also something useful in our daily lives. Specifically, we wanted to crea... | ## Inspiration
Over **15% of American adults**, over **37 million** people, are either **deaf** or have trouble hearing according to the National Institutes of Health. One in eight people have hearing loss in both ears, and not being able to hear or freely express your thoughts to the rest of the world can put deaf pe... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by the idea of data privacy and ownership, and believe that everyone should have a choice whether they can own their own data. We heard about these two new technologies (Nostr decentralised social media protocol and Interplanetary File System decentralised CDN), and wanted to learn more... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for this project came from my passion for decentralized technology.
One particular niche of decentralization
I am particularly fond of is NFT's and how they
can become a great income stream for artists.
With the theme of the hackathon being
exploration and showing a picture of a rocket
... | ## Inspiration
Music is something inherently personal to each and every one of us - our favorite tracks accompany us through our highs and lows, through tough workouts and relaxing evenings. Our aim is to encourage and capture that feeling of discovering that new song you just can't stop listening to. Music is an auth... | winning |
## Inspiration
When we talk about nostalgia, we are reminded of the memories we built while watching movies. We wanted to create something that would help us remember those movies using the latest AI technology.
## What it does
This web application combines Cohere AI and Svelte to deliver a nostalgic movie recommend... | ## Inspiration
Strokes are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Unfortunately, many people are not aware of the warning signs of a stroke or don't know what to do if they or someone they know is experiencing symptoms. By creating a website dedicated to heart stroke detection, the aim is to increase publi... | ## Inspiration Behind DejaVu 🌍
The inspiration behind DejaVu is deeply rooted in our fascination with the human experience and the power of memories. We've all had those moments where we felt a memory on the tip of our tongues but couldn't quite grasp it, like a fleeting dream slipping through our fingers. These frag... | losing |
## Inspiration
With so many online orders and vaccine transport, logistics is a key point to solve these transport issues. But there is often this problem of multi routing vehicles where the question of "What is the optimal set of routes for a fleet of vehicles to traverse in order to deliver to a given set of custome... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to assess a problem that's been quite prevalent within our modern world. We ended up landing on the problem of pollution and climate change, and created our application to assist with reducing the emissions of one of the biggest culprits.
The 3 major problems we wanted to tackle:
1) Millions... | ## Inspiration
Have you ever thought that BeReal's are too fake? An app built to challenge the unrealistic beauty standards set by typical social media turned into one of the giants it aimed to destroy. With BrainbeatReal we capture the real "you". Our state of the art social media platform prompts you to take a pictu... | losing |
## Inspiration
We love Travel. We love the environment. And just like us, the majority of Gen Z is prioritizing travel and their love for the environment 90% of Gen Z members reported making changes in their daily lives to live more sustainably, and according to Fortune, 79% Of Gen Z and Millennials see leisure travel... | ## Inspiration
Global Warming has rapidly progressed in recent years, with a sheet of ice the size of Greater London breaking off 5 days ago in Antarctica. One of the major contributors towards global warming is the transportation industry. We decided to raise awareness on how different methods of travel produce varyi... | # Travel Itinerary Generator
## Inspiration
Traveling is an experience that many cherish, but planning for it can often be overwhelming. With countless events, places to visit, and activities, it's easy to miss out on experiences that could have made the trip even more memorable. This realization inspired us to creat... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were going to build a themed application to time portal you back to various points in the internet's history that we loved, but we found out prototyping with retro looking components is tough. Building each component takes a long time, and even longer to code. We started by automating parts of this p... | ## Inspiration
When struggling to learn HTML, and basic web development. The tools provided by browsers like google chrome were hidden making hard to learn of its existence. As an avid gamer, we thought that it would be a great idea to create a game involving the inspect element tool provided by browsers so that more ... | TL:DR; It’s hard and important to learn machine learning and data science; we’re making it easier than ever.
## Inspiration
We’re students ranging in various levels of machine learning experience, but we all started the same way; working through infamous online courses and filling out starter code with lines we don’t... | winning |
## Inspiration
Pianos are usually heavy and expensive, so a keyboard made from cheap and portable materials like paper can be very useful. That's why we came up with the paper piano idea. With a paper piano, it's natural to connect it to a computer and achieve multiple purposes like composing. While most composers rel... | ## Inspiration
A deep and unreasonable love of xylophones
## What it does
An air xylophone right in your browser!
Play such classic songs as twinkle twinkle little star, ba ba rainbow sheep and the alphabet song or come up with the next club banger in free play.
We also added an air guitar mode where you can play a... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for the disaster management project came from living in the Bay Area, where earthquakes and wildfires are constant threats. Last semester, we experienced a 5.1 magnitude earthquake during class, which left us feeling vulnerable and unprepared. This incident made us realize the lack of a ... | winning |
# Inspiration
I recently got attached to Beat Saber so I thought I'd be fun to build something similar to it.
# Objective
The objective of the game is to score higher than your opponent. Points are scored if a player triggers a hitbox when a note is in contact with it.
**Points Chart:**
**Green:** Perfect hit! The... | ## Smart Invest
**Smart Invest** uses simulated world market data and their machine-learning algorithms to help beginners make their first steps in the world of stock investment. It provides them with scenarios that they would have to make wise choices in and based on how well they do, the questions get more challengi... | ## Inspiration
Making Sales and Trading more accessible towards everyone
## What it does
Monitors stock prices and automatically buys or sells stocks when a given value is reached
## How we built it
A lot of node.js and Azure
## Challenges we ran into
Almost all of us had no experience in javascript
## Accompli... | partial |
## Inspiration
What inspired us to create BusyMap was the frustrations that arose when planning for trips during these socially distant months. A factor that we must weigh heavier nowadays in contrast to pre-COVID19 days is how crowded a destination may be. There were countless times during the past few months where w... | ## Inspiration
Congestion is a serious problem across major cities across the world and it has been a complex issue to solve; in fact, humanity has yet to develop a solution to completely solve congestion. As a team, we want to develop a creative solution to indirectly ease the issue of congestion and the environmenta... | ## Inspiration
During extreme events such as natural disasters or virus outbreaks, crisis managers are the decision makers. Their job is difficult since the right decision can save lives while the wrong decision can lead to their loss. Making such decisions in real-time can be daunting when there is insufficient infor... | partial |
## Inspiration
Access to course resources is often fragmented and lacks personalization, making it difficult for students to optimize their learning experiences. When students use Large Language Models (LLMs) for academic insights, they often encounter limitations due to LLMs’ inability to interpret various data forma... | ## Inspiration
Ever found yourself struggling to keep up during a lecture, caught between listening to the professor while scrambling to scribble down notes? It’s all too common to miss key points while juggling the demands of note-taking – that’s why we made a tool designed to do the hard work for you!
## What it do... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Many of us have a hard time preparing for interviews, presentations, and any other social situation. We wanted to sit down and have a real talk... with ourselves.
## What it does
The app will analyse your speech, hand gestures, and facial expressions and give you both real-time feedback as well as a c... | ## Inspiration
Knowtworthy is a startup that all three of us founded together, with the mission to make meetings awesome. We have spent this past summer at the University of Toronto’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s incubator executing on our vision. We’ve built a sweet platform that solves many of the issues surrounding ... | ## Inspiration
The challenge of delivering speeches with clarity and confidence inspired us to create SpeechSage. Furthermore, improved communication skills lead to better job opportunities, which is important for college undergrads. Whether for presentations, interviews, or public speaking, we wanted to offer a tool ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Each of us uses speed reading tools on the daily for online news articles and such, so it's always been a pain transitioning to printed media. We wanted a tool that would enable us to read as efficiently as we do online, in real life.
## What it does
This program recognizes words on a physical page us... | ## Inspiration
My friend and I needed to find an apartment in New York City during the Summer. We found it very difficult to look through multiple listing pages at once so we thought to make a bot to suggest apartments would be helpful. However, we did not stop there. We realized that we could also use Machine Learnin... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for *SurgeVue* came from the high risks associated with brain surgeries, where precision is critical and the margin for error is minimal. With a mortality rate that increases 15-fold for non-elective neurosurgeries, we were motivated to create a solution that leverages augmented reality ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Have you ever been frustrated looking for a grocery item, only realizing after that you passed by it multiple times? Ever wish you could receive store guidance without stepping out of your social bubble?
We are introducing **Aisle Atlas**! An interactive, computer vision companion residing right on top... | ## Inspiration
Each election is a struggle since government representative information isn't readily available.
## What it does
Allows people to enter their zip code and to see who represents them in their state/national government. They can then rate how well their government representatives are performing and list... | ## Inspiration
We live in increasingly polarizing times. A poll published by CNN in 2017 showed that around two thirds of Democrats and one half of Republicans have either a few, or no friends in the opposite party. Doozy seeks to improve political discourse by allowing for conversation surrounding differences while s... | losing |
## Inspiration
Eve the robot from WALL-E for its intelligence.
## What it does
It serves as a virtual assistant to help EV drivers plan their trip ahead, and will understand your habits and knows how to improve their driving experience. In case they need to stop somewhere on the road for charging, it also provides t... | ## Inspiration
University gets students really busy and really stressed, especially during midterms and exams. We would normally want to talk to someone about how we feel and how our mood is, but due to the pandemic, therapists have often been closed or fully online. Since people will be seeking therapy online anyway,... | ## Inspiration
Charles had a wonderfully exciting (lol) story about how he got to Hack the North, and we saw an opportunity for development ^-^! We want to capitalize on the idea of communal ridesharing, making it accessible for everyone. We also wanted to build something themed around data analytics and sustainabilit... | partial |
## Inspiration
GET RICH QUICK!
## What it does
Do you want to get rich? Are you tired of the man holding you down? Then, WeakLink.Ai is for you! Our app comes equipped with predictive software to suggest the most beneficial stocks to buy based off your preferences. Simply said, a personal stock broker in your pocket... | ## Inspiration
We constantly have friends asking us for advice for investing, or ask for investing advice ourselves. We realized how easy a platform that allowed people to make collaboratively make investments would make sharing information between people. We formed this project out of inspiration to solve a problem i... | ## Inspiration
Prolonged covid restrictions have caused immense damage to the economy and local markets alike. Shifts in this economic landscape have led to many individuals seeking alternate sources of income to account for the losses imparted by lack of work or general opportunity. One major sector that has seen a b... | partial |
## Inspiration
Twine is inspired the #dawg-spotting channel on the [Cal Blueprint](https://calblueprint.org) Slack, where the club’s members post sightings of other members on the Berkeley campus. Interestingly, the channel serves as a photo diary of the club’s time together. What if this form of photo diary was the b... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for "Tag" came from a desire to bridge the gap between people, across all ages and interests, in a deeply personal yet digital way. Recognizing the limitations of existing social platforms in fostering genuine connections that have become less social and more media-centric, especially du... | ## Inspiration
Social media today is focused on connecting users who share similar friend circles and interests. The recommendations that show up on users' feeds are geared towards their current beliefs, leading to increasingly polarized iterations of the information in the hopes of keeping them online for extended pe... | losing |
## Inspiration
As avid readers, we wanted a tool to track our reading metrics. As a child, one of us struggled with concentrating and focusing while reading. Specifically, there was a strong tendency to zone out. Our app provides the ability for a user to track their reading metrics and also quantify their progress in... | ## Inspiration
Elementary school kids are very savvy with searching via Google, and while sometimes the content returned are relevant, they may not be at a suitable reading level when the first search results talks about something like phytochemicals or pharmacology. Is there a way to assess whether links in a search ... | ## Inspiration
As students we know the challenge of sitting overwhelmed in a lecture as more information than we have time to process and write down is being presented. We wanted to build a tool that allows students to focus on the lecture and not worry about taking notes.
## What it does
eyenote tracks eye movement... | winning |
## Inspiration
We're computer science students, need we say more?
## What it does
"Single or Nah" takes in the name of a friend and predicts if they are in a relationship, saving you much time (and face) in asking around. We pull relevant Instagram data including posts, captions, and comments to drive our Azure-powe... | ## Inspiration
There's something about brief glints in the past that just stop you in your tracks: you dip down, pick up an old DVD of a movie while you're packing, and you're suddenly brought back to the innocent and carefree joy of when you were a kid. It's like comfort food.
So why not leverage this to make money?... | ## Inspiration
In 2019, close to 400 people in Canada died due to distracted drivers. They also cause an estimated $102.3 million worth of damages. While some modern cars have pedestrian collision avoidance systems, most drivers on the road lack the technology to audibly cue the driver if they may be distracted. We wa... | winning |
## Inspiration
In our daily lives we noticed that we were spending a lot of time shopping online and weighing many options. When I was looking to buy a mechanical keyboard last month, I spent over two days visiting countless sites to find a keyboard to buy. During this process, it was frustrating to keep track of ever... | ## ✨ Try out our Figma prototype [here](https://www.figma.com/proto/UwwjiYZ9OcKncY7WsVZ3Rv/TED-Talks-Dashboard?node-id=3-712&node-type=frame&t=AiEglOMvzB3etz1W-1&scaling=min-zoom&content-scaling=fixed&page-id=0%3A1&starting-point-node-id=3%3A712)
## Inspiration
We all procrastinate a lot—especially our team. We didn'... | ## Inspiration
Generative AI has had the ability to overtake the creative domain of artists, and NFTs minted on the blockchain created to help artists maintain control of their work have been violated by fraudsters. Additionally, the unauthorized minting of NFTs can lead to copyright issues with the artist's work. The... | losing |
## YHacks
Team Techies | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from our passion for the Arduino, we decided on using the Arduino because it structures an intuitive environment for both hardware and software.
## What it does
It is a simple carnival game, where the user tries to apply as much force on a pressure sensor. The result of this is a ... | 
# What is gitStarted?
GitStarted is a developer tool to help get projects off the ground in no time. When time is of the essence, devs hate losing time to setting up repositories. GitStarted streamlines the repo crea... | losing |
## Inspiration
2020 has definitely been the year of chess. Between 2020 locking everyone indoors, and Netflix's Queen Gambit raking in 62 million viewers, everyone is either talking about chess, or watching others play chess.
## What it does
**Have you ever wanted to see chess through the eyes of chess prodigy Beth ... | ## 💡 Inspiration
You have another 3-hour online lecture, but you’re feeling sick and your teacher doesn’t post any notes. You don’t have any friends that can help you, and when class ends, you leave the meet with a blank document. The thought lingers in your mind “Will I ever pass this course?”
If you experienced a ... | ## Inspiration
One of the greatest challenges facing our society today is food waste. From an environmental perspective, Canadians waste about *183 kilograms of solid food* per person, per year. This amounts to more than six million tonnes of food a year, wasted. From an economic perspective, this amounts to *31 billi... | partial |
## Inspiration
* The pandemic makes socializing with family, friends, and strangers, more difficult. For students, turning on
your camera can be daunting.
* Buddy Study Online aims to create one thing: a safe space for students to meet each other and study.
## What it does
* The product allows users to enter study r... | ## Inspiration
As first-year students, we have experienced the difficulties of navigating our way around our new home. We wanted to facilitate the transition to university by helping students learn more about their university campus.
## What it does
A social media app for students to share daily images of their camp... | ## Inspiration
Students are often cramming youtube videos or lectures to prepare for their exams.
## What it does
We came up with an idea to create a study buddy online that watches videos for you and create study guides based on the summary.
## How we built it
We split up our team to work on frontend, backend, se... | partial |
## Inspiration
In our opinion, the best way to get people hooked is with humour. So why not have something that can help you reduce your decision fatigue in a way that integrates dad jokes, sarcasm, really bad puns, and Gordon Ramsay style insults all into one little bundle.
## What it does
Hi Hungry's job is to jud... | ## Inspiration
In a world increasingly dominated by food delivery, we recognized the need to promote homecooked meals. Our inspiration for *Re:Recipes* stems from a desire to encourage healthier eating habits while also decreasing the amount of excessive food waste.
## What it does
*Re:Recipe* takes in the ingredien... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to build a sustainable project which gave us the idea to plant crops on a farmland in a way that would give the farmer the maximum profit. The program also accounts for crop rotation which means that the land gets time to replenish its nutrients and increase the quality of the soil.
## What i... | losing |
## See our live demo!
**On Rinkeby testnet blockchain (recommended):** <https://rinkeby.kelas.dev>
**On xDAI blockchain (Warning: uses real money):** <https://xdai.kelas.dev>
## Check out our narrative StoryMaps here!
**Greenery in your Community:** <https://arcg.is/1vu448>
**Culture & Diversity in choosing your H... | We created this app in light of the recent wildfires that have raged across the west coast. As California Natives ourselves, we have witnessed the devastating effects of these fires first-hand. Not only do these wildfires pose a danger to those living around the evacuation area, but even for those residing tens to hund... | ## Inspiration
We started with the idea of creating an app that incentivized environmental volunteering, and the idea quickly grew into an app that offers incentives for any type of volunteering in your local community. The whole goal is to increase local community engagement while contributing to the common good.
##... | winning |
## Inspiration
In one of my most stressful semesters, I suddenly realized how long it has been since I last made a new friend. I resolved to join more clubs and events the following semester but I simply didn't have time and energy to widen my social circle with the stress and fatigue. Looking down at my lunch from fo... | ## Inspiration
Get to know someone new over meal! Lunch is such a wonderful opportunity to meet new people, yet we often eat alone because of our schedule. This smart scheduling app let you find someone cool to eat with wherever, whenever.
## What it does
WeEat let you make arrangements on the spot -- in the line en... | ## Inspiration
Hungry college students
## What it does
RecipeBoy returns a list of recipes based on the ingredients you give him.
You can also send him your recommended recipes and get a list of recommendations!
## How we built it
Using Cisco Spark's API, Javascript, Node.js, and Food2Food API.
## Challenges we r... | losing |
## What it does
From Here to There (FHTT) is an app that shows users their options for travel and allows them to make informed decisions about their form of transportation. The app shows statistics about different methods of transportation, including calories burned, CO2 emitted and estimated gas prices. See a route y... | ## Inspiration
As college students, we saw a need to aid low income and first generation college students navigate travel as travel, especially cross national and international travel. Because this population tends to have less experience with such travel, they may lack knowledge about the steps to successful execute ... | ## Inspiration
Vehicle emissions account for a large percentage of North America's yearly carbon dioxide emissions. However, despite many efforts in the past, people remain reluctant to proactively make even small contributions to this generational issue. We believe that this lack of proactivity is due to a lack of re... | losing |
## Inspiration
From a 7-minute presentation to a 3-minute time slot, the presentation was cut more than half from last year! This immediately threw out ideas and we had to start idea generation from scratch. This resulted in the AI-generated 2 in 1 slideshow and pitch deck creator! Easily fits your presentation within... | ### 🌟 Inspiration
We're inspired by the idea that emotions run deeper than a simple 'sad' or 'uplifting.' Our project was born from the realization that personalization is the key to managing emotional states effectively.
### 🤯🔍 What it does?
Our solution is an innovative platform that harnesses the power of AI a... | ## Inspiration
We Indians have very rich background of ayurveda and yoga. I see people struggling with day-to-day health discomfort and short term illnesses. I wanted to give our resources an exposure to whole community and world. Internet can connect people. I want to make use of it and ease people's life. Indians ha... | winning |
Learning a new language doesn't happen inside an app or in front of a screen. It happens in real life.
So we created Dojo, an immersive and interactive language learning platform, powered by artificial intelligence, that supports up to 10 different languages.
Our lessons are practical. They're personalized to your ev... | ## Inspiration
When learning new languages, it can be hard to find people and situations to properly practice, let alone finding the motivation to continue. As a group of second-generation immigrants who have taken both English and French classes, language is an embedded part of our identity. With Harbour, we sought t... | ## Our Vision
Canada, without a doubt, is one of the greatest countries to live in. Maple Syrup. Hockey. Tim Hortons. Exceptional nice-ness. But perhaps what makes us most Canadian, is our true appreciation of multiculturalism.
Many of us are or have families which have traveled far and wide to be a part of this grea... | partial |
# butternut
## `buh·tr·nuht` -- `bot or not?`
Is what you're reading online written by a human, or AI? Do the facts hold up? `butternut`is a chrome extension that leverages state-of-the-art text generation models *to combat* state-of-the-art text generation.
## Inspiration
Misinformation spreads like wildfire in th... | ## Inspiration
During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w... | ## What it does
This google chrome extension checks if an online article has traces that might indicate it is a fake news.
## How we built it
We coded the majority of our logic in python, using a large dataset and cosine similarity to find intersections among different articles. We then coded the extension using jav... | winning |
# [SwitchVR](http://getswitchvr.com)
A super cool mini game built for the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion controller.
## Inspiration
Coming into QHacks, we didn't really have an idea for what we wanted to build so we decided to have a little fun and play with tech many of us have never used before! So we ended up gr... | ## Inspiration
This is what the future looks like.
## What it does
It is quite simply just a game that lets you use the capabilities of the Leap Motion such as seeing your hand on a screen and grabbing/throwing objects.
## How I built it
I used Unity, C#, and the Leap Motion
## Challenges I ran into
When you att... | ## What is 'Titans'?
VR gaming shouldn't just be a lonely, single-player experience. We believe that we can elevate the VR experience by integrating multiplayer interactions.
We imagined a mixed VR/AR experience where a single VR player's playing field can be manipulated by 'Titans' -- AR players who can plan out the... | losing |
## 📞 The problem at hand.
How might we leverage an alert agent to ensure **24/7 student safety** from school shootings?
## 🗝️ Where did this stem from?
**School shootings. There are 2 per week**…and this number is NOT decreasing. Students are now worried about their safety but have no way to indicate potential dan... | ## What inspired us to build it
Guns are now the leading cause of death among American children and teens, with 1 in every 10 gun deaths occurring in individuals aged 19 or younger. School shootings, in particular, have become a tragic epidemic in the U.S., underscoring the urgent need for enhanced safety measures. Ou... | ## Inspiration
Examining our difficulties in our daily workflow, we realized that we often could not find files that we knew we had written before. Lots of us had saved countless papers and books, only to be unsure of where we saved them. Not knowing where our old code was led us to rewrite old libraries and codebases... | partial |
## Inspiration
We wanted to create a game that helped us further understanding some main methods of machine learning.
## What it does
This game encompasses a machine learning model that learns how to play a simplified version of the popular game, Super Smash Bros. It uses a population of individuals with neural netw... | ## Inspiration
We've always wanted to try and develop a browser game similar to many of the viral ones that we've seen - websites that are simple but oddly addictive and fun to visit because of their simplicity. In terms of the topic around which the game would revolve we decided to use Kenshiro, an older but none the... | # How to choose a hospital for treatment? -> Inpatient Decision
This web app allows consumers to explore potential hospitals to visit when they must undergo a specific procedure. The hospitals are ranked by a relatively simple algorithm that uses features such as Risk Adjusted Rate (RAR) of the Inpatient Quality Indic... | losing |
## Inspiration
2 days before flying to Hack the North, Darryl forgot his keys and spent the better part of an afternoon retracing his steps to find it- But what if there was a personal assistant that remembered everything for you? Memories should be made easier with the technologies we have today.
## What it does
A ... | ## Inspiration
Life is short and fast-paced, filled with fleeting moments of joy, achievements, and connection. During Hack the North, our team met so many amazing and inspiring people in such a short amount of time. It struck us how easy it is to forget these meaningful interactions and experiences as life rushes on.... | ## Inspiration
One pressing issue amongst the elderly population that modern medicine has not been able to properly diagnose and solve is dementia and Alzheimer's disease. These two cripping diseases affect the mind, and their symptoms are similar: a loss of memory.
We took it upon ourselves to challenge the status q... | winning |
## Inspiration
We are very interested in the intersection of the financial sector and engineering, and wanted to find a way to speed up computation time in relation to option pricing through simulations.
## What it does
Bellcrve is a distributed computing network that simulates monte carlo methods on financial instr... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration was to provide a robust and user-friendly financial platform. After hours of brainstorming, we decided to create a decentralized mutual fund on mobile devices. We also wanted to explore new technologies whilst creating a product that has several use cases of social impact. Our team used ... | ## Inspiration
As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the... | winning |
## Inspiration
The current way of handling preferences options on iOS is somewhat frustrating: too many options, too many layers and too much blank spaces. There's gotta be a better to do it. That's why I built this framework.
## What it does
It presents users a clear, simple collection view with all the options. It... | ## Inspiration
Robinhood democratized investing. However, there was always one huge component missing. What should I invest in? Most of Robinhood's users want to invest but lack the expertise or information to make profitable investments. Minerva is here to change this. With Minerva, users have access to state of the ... | ## Inspiration
There should be an effective way to evaluate company value by examining the individual values of those that make up the company.
## What it does
Simplifies the research process of examining a company by showing it in a dynamic web design that is free-flowing and easy to follow.
## How we built it
It... | losing |
## Inspiration
20% of people worldwide have a learning difference such as dyslexia or ADHD, representing 70 million people in the US alone. All of us had observed and were familiar with the problems such students face. For example, our teammate Samim started an NGO in Germany that started offering workshops at German ... | ## Inspiration
Since we are a group of students, we have been seeing our peers losing motivation for school due to un-engaging lectures. Young adults are more stressed due to added responsibilities of taking care of younger siblings at home and supporting their family financially. Thus, students who have more responsi... | ## Inspiration
COVID revolutionized the way we communicate and work by normalizing remoteness. **It also created a massive emotional drought -** we weren't made to empathize with each other through screens. As video conferencing turns into the new normal, marketers and managers continue to struggle with remote communi... | losing |
## Inspiration
The idea for IngredientAI came from my personal frustration with navigating complex and often misleading ingredient labels on beauty and personal care products. I realized that many consumers struggle to understand what these ingredients actually do and whether they are safe. The lack of accessible info... | ## Inspiration
I was cooking at home one day and I kept noticing we had half a carrot, half an onion, and like a quarter of a pound of ground pork lying around all the time. More often than not it was from me cooking a fun dish that my mother have to somehow clean up over the week. So I wanted to create an app that wo... | ## Inspiration
As college students more accustomed to having meals prepared by someone else than doing so ourselves, we are not the best at keeping track of ingredients’ expiration dates. As a consequence, money is wasted and food waste is produced, thereby discounting the financially advantageous aspect of cooking an... | losing |
## Inspiration
We wanted to get better at sports, but we don't have that much time to perfect our moves.
## What it does
Compares your athletic abilities to other users by building skeletons of both people and showing you where you can improve.
Uses ML to compare your form to a professional's form.
# Tells you imp... | ## Inspiration
During extreme events such as natural disasters or virus outbreaks, crisis managers are the decision makers. Their job is difficult since the right decision can save lives while the wrong decision can lead to their loss. Making such decisions in real-time can be daunting when there is insufficient infor... | ## Inspiration
Many people want to stay in shape, so they really want to go workout to achieve their physique. However, most don't due to the hassle of creating unique workout plans because it could be time consuming and general to a specific body type, resulting in poor outcomes. What if you can build a plan that foc... | winning |
### **Inspiration:**
A quarter of all Canadian adults are hypertensive, which is a primary determinant for stroke and heart diseases. By adopting a healthy lifestyle, these risks can be eliminated. Our website considers a wide variety of lifestyle components, from nutrition to mental health, and allows users to implem... | ## Inspiration
We came up with the idea of incorporating machine learning with health to improve the lives of diabetes patients, heart disease patients, etc.
## What it does
Health++ suggests diet recipes and reminds you to take your medicine based on machine learning. It takes your information including weight, hei... | ## Inspiration
Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo... | losing |
## Inspiration
One of our teammates had spend his formative years in French immersion, while another through IB and into first year of undergraduate studies. Though, due to years passing by without sufficient practice and reinforcement, the had forgotten or found it hard to recall certain vocabulary. We wanted to reme... | ## Inspiration
We tried to figure out what kept us connected during the pandemic other then the non ending zoom meetings or the occasional time you spend in class together, and fundamentally this all came down to our ability to just speak and once we started thinking about it we couldn't stop
## What it does
We crea... | ## Inspiration
One of our teammate’s grandfathers suffers from diabetic retinopathy, which causes severe vision loss.
Looking on a broader scale, over 2.2 billion people suffer from near or distant vision impairment worldwide. After examining the issue closer, it can be confirmed that the issue disproportionately affe... | losing |
## Inspiration
Have you ever been frustrated looking for a grocery item, only realizing after that you passed by it multiple times? Ever wish you could receive store guidance without stepping out of your social bubble?
We are introducing **Aisle Atlas**! An interactive, computer vision companion residing right on top... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was to help out our fellow friends who were often too scared/embarrassed to ask store employees for help regarding locating products within grocery stores. While online stores tended to thrive during COVID-19, many traditional retail stores struggled to make it through; ... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our journey with PathSense began with a deeply personal connection. Several of us have visually impaired family members, and we've witnessed firsthand the challenges they face navigating indoor spaces. We realized that while outdoor navigation has seen remarkable advancements, indoor environments remain... | ## Inspiration
One of our teammate’s grandfathers suffers from diabetic retinopathy, which causes severe vision loss.
Looking on a broader scale, over 2.2 billion people suffer from near or distant vision impairment worldwide. After examining the issue closer, it can be confirmed that the issue disproportionately affe... | ## Summary
Fold-N-Explore is an innovative and efficient exploratory robot that automatically folds when it detects an object in front of it. This unique feature can navigate tight spaces and areas that would otherwise be inaccessible to traditional robots. Its compact design also makes it easy to transport and deploy... | winning |
## Inspiration
As we have become more and more reliant on digital data, we found the need to better analyze one of our most important social networks: **our facebook chats**. I've sent and received over a million messages during my time on Facebook, yet I have little quantitative assessments of who I've actually talke... | ## Inspiration
I came to the realization that, while we now have thousands of "friends" online, and we are constantly in the loop of what everyone is doing via timelines and newsfeeds, there isn't yet an app whose aim is to improve the \_ quality \_ and not just quantity of friendships and interactions.
## What it do... | ## Inspiration
We visit many places, we know very less about the historic events or the historic places around us. Today In History notifies you of historic places near you so that you do not miss them.
## What it does
Today In History notifies you about important events that took place exactly on the same date as t... | losing |
## Inspiration
Over this past semester, Alp and I were in the same data science class together, and we were really interested in how data can be applied through various statistical methods. Wanting to utilize this knowledge in a real-world application, we decided to create a prediction model using machine learning. Th... | ## Inspiration
In 2012 in the U.S infants and newborns made up 73% of hospitals stays and 57.9% of hospital costs. This adds up to $21,654.6 million dollars. As a group of students eager to make a change in the healthcare industry utilizing machine learning software, we thought this was the perfect project for us. Sta... | ## Inspiration
When we first read Vitech's challenge for processing and visualizing their data, we were collectively inspired to explore a paradigm of programming that very few of us had any experience with, machine learning. With that in mind, the sentiment of the challenge themed around health care established relev... | winning |
## What?
Our goal was to create a noninvasive location tracker through a confined space. Our solution provides store owners/managers with a tool to see where their consumers spend most of their time without invading the customer's right to privacy. Our goal is that the merchant incentivizes the consumer with a discoun... | ## Inspiration
When looking at the themes from the Make-a-thon, one specifically stood out to us: accessibility. We thought about common disabilities, and one that we see on a regular basis is people who are visually impaired. We thought about how people who are visually impaired navigate around the world, and we real... | ## Inspiration
We got lost so many times inside MIT... And no one could help us :( No Google Maps, no Apple Maps, NO ONE. Since now, we always dreamed about the idea of a more precise navigation platform working inside buildings. And here it is. But that's not all: as traffic GPS usually do, we also want to avoid the ... | losing |
[Play the game.](https://victorzshi.github.io/threeway-freeway/)
[Check out the GitHub repo.](https://github.com/victorzshi/threeway-freeway)
## Inspiration
The Nintendo Switch, crazy cooperation in general.
## What it does
Threeway Freeway pits three friends (or strangers!) in a constantly changing feat of peril,... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to find a way to make transit data more accessible to the public as well as provide fun insights into their transit activity. As we've seen in Spotify Wrapped, people love seeing data about themselves. In addition, we wanted to develop a tool to help city organizers make data-driven decisions ... | ## Inspiration
As lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control features are becoming more available in commercial vehicles, we wanted to explore the potential of a dedicated collision avoidance system
## What it does
We've created an adaptive, small-scale collision avoidance system that leverages Apple's AR technolo... | partial |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by hard working teachers and students. Although everyone was working hard, there was still a disconnect with many students not being able to retain what they learned. So, we decided to create both a web application and a companion phone application to help target this problem.
## What ... | ## **Inspiration:**
Our inspiration stemmed from the realization that the pinnacle of innovation occurs at the intersection of deep curiosity and an expansive space to explore one's imagination. Recognizing the barriers faced by learners—particularly their inability to gain real-time, personalized, and contextualized ... | ## Inspiration
We're students, and that means one of our biggest inspirations (and some of our most frustrating problems) come from a daily ritual - lectures.
Some professors are fantastic. But let's face it, many professors could use some constructive criticism when it comes to their presentation skills. Whether it's... | partial |
## Inspiration
Meet Doctor DoDo. He is a medical practioner, and he has a PhD degree in EVERYTHING!
Dr. DoDo is here to take care of you, and make sure you do-do your homework!
Two main problems arise with virtual learning: It's hard to verify if somebody understands content without seeing their facial expressions/b... | ## Inspiration
Ever wish you could hear your baby cry where you are in the world? Probably not, but it's great to know anyways! Did you know that babies often cry when at least one of their needs is not met? How could possibly know about baby's needs without being there watching the baby sleep?
## What it does
Our t... | ## Inspiration
**Zoom fatigue** is real and you can't help but zone out every 5 minutes in meetings where you would be better off doing other more productive work.
## What it does
Set up this virtual camera and always look your best for your fellow peers. Our intelligent virtual camera will react in real time to wha... | winning |
## Inspiration
In today's world, Public Speaking is one of the greatest skills any individual can have. From pitching at a hackathon to simply conversing with friends, being able to speak clearly, be passionate and modulate your voice are key features of any great speech. To tackle this problem of becoming a better pu... | # Invaders
Using MATLAB, we built out a game that looks fun and sounds cool!
Our main motivation is to make a somewhat polished game during the span of HackHarvard 2024 and also to have fun!
## How MATLAB helped us
While playing or watching the game, you may notice that the aliens have different strategic movements... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our project aims to democratize algorithmic trading and the data associated with it to capture a 150 billion dollar a month trade volume and aim it towards transparency and purpose. Our project is a culmination of the technical depth and breadth of a new step forward in technology. We really wanted to o... | ## Inspiration
There is a simple and powerful truth: investing is a skill that has a long lasting impact on our ability to reach the most important goals in our lives, from student loans to buying a house to retirement funds.
However, our education system doesn’t prepare us to make these daunting decisions. When we w... | ## Inspiration:
Many people may find it difficult to understand the stock market, a complex system where ordinary people can take part in a company's success. This applies to those newly entering the adult world, as well as many others that haven't had the opportunity to learn. We want not only to introduce people to ... | losing |
## Inspiration
We are a group of friends who are interested in cryptography and Bitcoin in general but did not have a great understanding. However, attending Sonr's panel gave us a lot of inspiration because they made the subject more digestible and easier to understand. We also wanted to do something similar but add ... | ## Inspiration
The cryptocurrency market is an industry which is expanding at an exponential rate. Everyday, thousands new investors of all kinds are getting into this volatile market. With more than 1,500 coins to choose from, it is extremely difficult to choose the wisest investment for those new investors. Our goal... | ## Inspiration
Through a discussion about Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity with Professor Michael Wilcox, the topic of financial literacy and the disparity it has caused in the US was brought up, and we noticed how alarming the situation was. The statistics revealed serious problems rooted in information assymet... | partial |
## Inspiration
We live in a place where majority of the auctions take place in-person third party environment. So, we would like to create a platform where buyers can directly bid for the products sold by the seller.
## What it does
It provides a platform for users to sell and buy products without the involvement of... | ## Inspiration
Our project was inspired by the desire to strengthen the local economy of Kingston. We recognized the potential of digital platforms in enhancing the visibility of local businesses and student ventures. By creating an online marketplace, we aimed to bridge the gap between local vendors and residents, fo... | ## Inspiration
The purchase of goods has changed drastically over the past decade, especially over the period of the pandemic. Although with these online purchases comes a drawback, the buyer can not see the product in front of them before buying it. This adds an element of uncertainty and undesirability to online sho... | losing |
## Inspiration
As university students and soon to be graduates, we understand the financial strain that comes along with being a student, especially in terms of commuting. Carpooling has been a long existing method of getting to a desired destination, but there are very few driving platforms that make the experience b... | ## Inspiration
Every musician knows that moment of confusion, that painful silence as onlookers shuffle awkward as you frantically turn the page of the sheet music in front of you. While large solo performances may have people in charge of turning pages, for larger scale ensemble works this obviously proves impractica... | ## Inspiration
As technological innovations continue to integrate technology into our lives, our personal property becomes more and more tied to the digital world. Our work, our passwords, our banking information, and more are all stored in our personal computers. Security is ever more imperative—especially so at a un... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for the project was to design a model that could detect fake loan entries hidden amongst a set of real loan entries. Also, our group was eager to design a dashboard to help see these statistics - many similar services are good at identifying outliers in data but are unfriendly to the use... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration of this project came from one of the sponsors in **HTN (Co:here)**. Their goal is to make AI/ML accessible to devs, which gave me the idea, that I can build a platform, where people who do not even know how to code can build their own Machine Learning models.
Coding is a great skill to h... | ## Inspiration
Over this past semester, Alp and I were in the same data science class together, and we were really interested in how data can be applied through various statistical methods. Wanting to utilize this knowledge in a real-world application, we decided to create a prediction model using machine learning. Th... | losing |
## Inspiration
Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo... | ## Inspiration
Despite being a global priority in the eyes of the United Nations, food insecurity still affects hundreds of millions of people. Even in the developed country of Canada, over 5.8 million individuals (>14% of the national population) are living in food-insecure households. These individuals are unable to... | ## Inspiration
A lot of the things we start from a young age stick with us as we grow older. We decided to remedy today's gap in financial literacy with this principle- and encourage children, with the guidance of their parents and our program, to learn how to manage their allowance money, and learn the concepts of in... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired to develop ClinicAnalytic after learning that the Healthcare system employs methodologies often based on race, gender and other features, sometimes resulting in varying success rates. We then decided to develop a Machine Learning algorithm that takes in Hospital records as its data set ... | ## Inspiration
So, like every Hackathon we’ve done in the past, we wanted to build a solution based on the pain points of actual, everyday people. So when we decided to pursue the Healthtech track, we called the nurses and healthcare professionals in our lives. To our surprise, they all seemed to have the same gripe –... | ## Inspiration
Some people need a bit more connection between friends and longtime relationships. The distances make real connection difficult. Often, facetime or other real-time messaging app is the only way to see your loved ones. Wouldn't it be great, if you could savour the best moments of your facetime? Now you c... | partial |
## 💡INSPIRATION
Building a more empathetic world. Whether you are a healthcare worker, teacher, or corporate manager—empathy carries beyond the workplace or healthcare setting. We are first friends, parents, sons and daughters, sisters and brothers—and human. Our seemingly interconnected world continues to showcase d... | ## Inspiration
Our main inspiration was that there are quite a few times when people can't access their nearby resources when they need it the most. People have to wait for a fair amount of time just to get the basic needs of mental health. And that is when our app comes into play.
## What it does
Therapy ai is an o... | ## Inspiration
Whether you’re thriving in life or really going through it, research shows that writing down your thoughts throughout the day has many benefits. We wanted to add a social element to this valuable habit and build a sense of community through sharing and acknowledging each other’s feelings. However, even ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our team originally was working on something else, but Saturday at 6pm we discovered it was infeasible and disbanded. So I decided to work on something I'm interested in - **neural nets** - for the rest of the time. I didn't think I'd actually build something demo-able. I wanted to generate text that so... | Inspiration
PatientVault was inspired by the need for patients to have control over their medical data. With increasing concerns about privacy and security in healthcare, we envisioned a platform that empowers individuals to manage their own health information securely.
What it does
PatientVault allows users to secu... | ## Inspiration
In many developed countries across the world, the population is rapidly aging. This poses a variety of issues to senior citizens, including social isolation, an overburdened healthcare system unable to meet their needs, and the widespread effects of neurodegenerative conditions. We aimed to build a solu... | losing |
## Inspiration
As a team, we had a collective interest in sustainability and knew that if we could focus on online consumerism, we would have much greater potential to influence sustainable purchases. We also were inspired by Honey -- we wanted to create something that is easily accessible across many websites, with r... | ## Inspiration
One of our team members was in the evacuation warning zone for the raging California fires in the Bay Area just a few weeks ago. Part of their family's preparation for this disaster included the tiresome, tedious, time-sensitive process of listing every item in their house for insurance claims in the ev... | ## Inspiration
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many high risk individuals are unable to go out and purchase essential goods such as groceries or healthcare products. Our app aims to be a simple, easy-to-use solution to facilitate group buys of such goods amongst small communities and neighbourhoods. Group pu... | winning |
## Inspiration
Over the course of our lives, we have trained for (and failed) many coding interviews. One resource we always come back to is YouTube, with its plethora of engaging content. However, we've found that these videos become a chore to skim through when we are revising. This is where Safe Transcribe comes in... | ## Inspiration
Like most people, our team has found it difficult to adapt to e-learning during the pandemic. Among difficulties often faced by students in e-learning is dealing with the large quantity of asynchronous lecture content.
By providing the ability to download sped-up copies and transcriptions of online lec... | ## Inspiration
Imagine a world where learning is as easy as having a conversation with a friend. Picture a tool that unlocks the treasure trove of educational content on YouTube, making it accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or expertise. This is exactly what our hackathon project brings to life.
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## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project comes from our own experiences as University students. As students, we understand the importance of mental health and the role it plays in one's day to day life. With increasing workloads, stress of obtaining a good co-op and maintaining good marks, people’s mental healt... | ## Inspiration
Connection between doctor and patient is very distanced. we decided to take on aspect of it and make it easier, and that is prescription.
## What it does
when doctor make a prescription, data is send to our ios app and remind the patient to take their medication on time.
## How we built it
we used r... | ## Inspiration
When you think of the word “nostalgia”, what’s the first thing you think of? Maybe it’s the first time you tried ice cream, or the last concert you’ve been to. It could even be the first time you’ve left the country. Although these seem vastly different and constitute unique experiences, all of these ev... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration for STOOP(AI)D stems from witnessing the incredible, transformative power of AI as an educator. We were captivated by the idea of reshaping the educational landscape and making learning an entirely personalized journey.
## What it does
STOOP(AI)D is not just another AI; it's your perso... | ## Inspiration
Being a Cal Bear, it was a dream come true for us! Through personal experiences,
## What it does
Bind is a screening tool that evaluates one's state of mind in real time. It helps the user to figure out how he/she is feeling and what triggers theses feelings. Furthermore, it generates a report that ca... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by hard working teachers and students. Although everyone was working hard, there was still a disconnect with many students not being able to retain what they learned. So, we decided to create both a web application and a companion phone application to help target this problem.
## What ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Given the current state of events, we were inspired to create a device that was able to mitigate the transfer of bacteria through commonly touched surfaces, as well as provide a more efficient method of keeping track of the number of people entering or exiting a room for health and safety purposes. Due ... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for this app comes from the recent natural disasters and terror events that have been occurring around the United States and the globe. From our personal experience, when traveling to foreign places, there is always a sense of fear as it is difficult to get information on what is going o... | ## Inspiration
The failure of a certain project using Leap Motion API motivated us to learn it and use it successfully this time.
## What it does
Our hack records a motion password desired by the user. Then, when the user wishes to open the safe, they repeat the hand motion that is then analyzed and compared to the ... | partial |
## Inspiration
With summer time around the corner, it was natural that new problems would arise. One idea that we liked a lot was our struggles to find ice cream truck ice cream. Those soft serve cones, SpongeBob popsicles, and name brand ice cream sandwiches are awesome, but it's often hard to find these trucks. At t... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for *Chatting With Chess* was the fact that my friend and I thought that with the growing use of AI, we could incorporate ChatGPT to make chess matches have some commentary and even be a coach for the game. Another point of inspiration for this project is the fact that we both like Chess... | ## Inspiration
Our project is inspired by the sister of one our creators, Joseph Ntaimo. Joseph often needs to help locate wheelchair accessible entrances to accommodate her, but they can be hard to find when buildings have multiple entrances. Therefore, we created our app as an innovative piece of assistive tech to i... | losing |
## Inspiration
We saw that lots of people were looking for a team to work with for this hackathon, so we wanted to find a solution
## What it does
I helps developers find projects to work, and helps project leaders find group members.
By using the data from Github commits, it can determine what kind of projects a pe... | ## Inspiration 🌈
Our team has all experienced the struggle of jumping into a pre-existing codebase and having to process how everything works before starting to add our own changes. This can be a daunting task, especially when commit messages lack detail or context. We also know that when it comes time to push our ch... | ## Inspiration
Everyone in this team has previously been to post-secondary and noticed that their large group of friends have been slowly dwindling since graduation, especially after COVID. It's already well known that once you leave school it's a lot harder to make friends, so we got this idea to make FriendFinder to... | winning |
## Inspiration
While trying to decide on a project, we were joking about building an app to roast your friends. Saturday morning after one idea failed, we decided to work on the bot as something fun until we found a 'real' idea. Eventually it became the real project.
## What it does
@roastmebot will reply to any use... | ## Inspiration
Our project was heavily inspired by the chaotic evil prompt and by ChatGPT. We also really wanted to learn more about machine learning using the co:here API.
## What it does
The user can converse with a Shakespearian chatbot, which throws Shakespearian insults to the user based on what the user wrote.... | ## Check it out on GitHub!
The machine learning and web app segments are split into 2 different branches. Make sure to switch to these branches to see the source code! You can view the repository [here](https://github.com/SuddenlyBananas/be-right-back/).
## Inspiration
Inspired in part by the Black Mirror episode of... | losing |
## Inspiration
A couple weeks ago, a friend was hospitalized for taking Advil–she accidentally took 27 pills, which is nearly 5 times the maximum daily amount. Apparently, when asked why, she responded that thats just what she always had done and how her parents have told her to take Advil. The maximum Advil you are s... | ## Inspiration
How many times have you forgotten to take your medication and damned yourself for it? It has happened to us all, with different consequences. Indeed, missing out on a single pill can, for some of us, throw an entire treatment process out the window. Being able to keep track of our prescriptions is key i... | ## Inspiration
-- Nearly half of all U.S. citizens have taken at least 1 prescription medication within the last month. Upon further investigation, out team noticed that for the number of medications people take in their lifetimes, the process of tracking these treatments seems incredibly tedious. Users must remember ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Professional websites have the limitation of design. So, I thought of making a website for myself wherein I can showcase my life aesthetically.
## What it does
It showcases my work to a wider audience. It helps people to connect with me on social media platforms and lets them interact with me directly... | ## Inspiration
The global pandemic took a toll on countless people's mental health. Being able to function on a day-to-day basis can become tedious. But life should be fun and exciting. So this inspired my team and me to make a website that can help those who are suffering from mental health issues.
## What it does
... | ## Inspiration
After seeing the breakout success that was Pokemon Go, my partner and I were motivated to create our own game that was heavily tied to physical locations in the real-world.
## What it does
Our game is supported on every device that has a modern web browser, absolutely no installation required. You wal... | losing |
## Inspiration
Oftentimes, roommates deal with a lot of conflicts due to differences in living habits and aren't comfortable sorting things out by confronting one another. This problem creates unwanted tension between individuals in the household and usually ends up leading to a poor living experience.
## What it doe... | ## Inspiration
Since the start of the pandemic, the government has been creating simulations to predict the events of how the disease would progress. Although we can't create something to the degree of accuracy they were able to due to a lack of data and expertise in virology, we tried to create a logical model for di... | ## Inspiration
Creating a better typing assistant for people with disabilities.
## What it does
A web application that allows users to select characters entirely by using their mouse and copy it to clipboard.
## How we built it
Create react app and git.
## Challenges we ran into
Using Git.
## Accomplishments th... | partial |
Doze Alert - A Comprehensive Solution for Safe Driving
## Inspiration
When you're behind the wheel of a 2-ton chunk of metal with enough speed to kill someone, the last thing you'd want to worry about is driving sleepy and getting into an accident. As a team of new drivers still getting to know the many roads of Amer... | ## Inspiration
Approximately 107.4 million Americans choose walking as a regular mode of travel for both social and work purposes. In 2015, about 70,000 pedestrians were injured in motor vehicle accidents while over 5,300 resulted in fatalities. Catastrophic accidents as such are usually caused by negligence or inatte... | ## Inspiration
The need for driver monitoring in autonomous vehicle research has greatly improved computer vision and Human Activity Recognition (HAR). We realized that there was huge opportunity for computer vision in another area of life where focus and concentration are the primary concern: work productivity.
## W... | losing |
## Inspiration
The Distillery District in Toronto with historical buildings.
## What it does
This is a game about how to make whiskey in the old distillery district. Following the process of whiskey-making with manual labor, you have to find out the perfect formula to make the best whiskey.
## How we built it
We b... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project stems from the increasing trend of online shopping and the declining foot traffic in physical stores. Our goal was to provide a unique and engaging experience for customers, encouraging them to visit physical stores and rediscover the joy of in-person shopping. We wanted ... | ## Inspiration
We've all had technical interviews to prepare for. It's tough even on the best of days. In the end, success comes from consistency.
## What it does
With Tavern, you don't have to go at it alone. Algorithm challenges are now more like your favourite roleplaying game than interview preparation. Each day... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired to create a program that would convert ASL (American Sign Language) to text or voice commands, in order to simplify communication. In a world full of constantly-evolving technology, we are always being shown examples of smart devices that are voice-activated, but devices like these may ... | ## Inspiration
Deaf-mute people in the U.S constitute a non-underestimable 2,1% of the population (between 18 and 64 years). This may seem a low percentage but, what if I told you that it is 4 million people? Just like the whole population of Panama!
Concerned about this, we first decided to contribute our grain of s... | ## Overview
People today are as connected as they've ever been, but there are still obstacles in communication, particularly for people who are deaf/mute and can not communicate by speaking. Our app allows bi-directional communication between people who use sign language and those who speak.
You can use your device's... | losing |
## Inspiration
Existential risks have always fascinated me. That sounds a bit morbid, but it's quite an interesting issue philosophically! It also has tremendous implications for our actions today. However, the concepts behind existential risk are very difficult to understand. What does exponential growth really feel ... | ## Inspiration
How does a first-time freshman hacker compete with teams possessing several or even dozens of hackathons under their belt? Our team's response is buzz-words, all of them.
With a diverse team of majors ranging from Mechanical Engineering to International and Public Affairs, we each possessed distinct sk... | ## Inspiration
Our project was inspired by geocaching. Geocaching is the idea of crowdsourcing scavenger hunts where users can hide caches throughout a city and other users can go on adventures to discover them.
Team:
Dee Lucic
Matt Mitchell
Keshav Chawla
Alexei dela Pena
For this project we wanted to use the follow... | losing |
## Inspiration
In online documentaries, we saw visually impaired individuals and their vision consisted of small apertures. We wanted to develop a product that would act as a remedy for this issue.
## What it does
When a button is pressed, a picture is taken of the user's current view. This picture is then analyzed ... | ## Inspiration
We realized how visually-impaired people find it difficult to perceive the objects coming near to them, or when they are either out on road, or when they are inside a building. They encounter potholes and stairs and things get really hard for them. We decided to tackle the issue of accessibility to supp... | ## Inspiration
The current situation of covid-19 has made our classes go online.Our current classes are taken through video conferencing platforms such as zoom,meet etc.So one time I saw one of our teachers helping one of my friend complete a question by sharing his camera facing the notebook.So we thought why not cre... | winning |
## Inspiration
Cliff is dyslexic, so reading is difficult and slow for him and makes school really difficult.
But, he loves books and listens to 100+ audiobooks/yr. However, most books don't have an audiobook, especially not textbooks for schools, and articles that are passed out in class. This is an issue not only fo... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ... | ## Inspiration
When attending crowded lectures or tutorials, it's fairly difficult to discern content from other ambient noise. What if a streamlined pipeline existed to isolate and amplify vocal audio while transcribing text from audio, and providing general context in the form of images? Is there any way to use this... | winning |
## Problem Statement 💡
The modern electronic health record (EHR) encompasses a treasure trove of information across patient demographics, medical history, clinical data, and other health system interactions (Je... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for creating this AI project stemmed from the desire to leverage current technology to enhance the lives of our community members, particularly the elderly. Recognizing the difficulties faced by aging individuals, including our own grandparents, to embrace technological advancements, and... | ## Inspiration
Commuting can be unpleasant, especially early in the morning when you are tired and want to sleep. With a GPS based alarm you can safely sleep on the bus/train knowing you will not miss your stop.
## What it does
GPS based alarm
## How we built it
Smashing through bugs until something came out
## C... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our main inspiration was Honey, the star of YouTube advertisements, as we recognized the convenience of seeing information about your shopping list right in the browser. More people would buy sustainable products if there was an indicator that they are, which is why ecolabels exist and are used widely. ... | ## Inspiration
We’re huge believers that every individual can make a stand against climate change. We realised that there are many apps that give nutritional information regarding the food you consume, but there exists no tool that shows you the environmental impact.
We wanted to make a difference.
## What it does
... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to make something accessible to everyone that implemented cool API and ML models. After brainstorming ideas, we settled on something that would help us in our day-to-day lives: a bot that could record meetings, conversations, and lectures; a bot that can even take notes and summarize passages!... | partial |
## Inspiration
In a world where finance is extremely important, everyone needs access to **banking services**. Citizens within **third world countries** are no exception, but they lack the banking technology infrastructure that many of us in first world countries take for granted. Mobile Applications and Web Portals d... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | ## Inspiration
This project was inspired by Leon's father's first-hand experience with a lack of electronic medical records and realizing the need for more accessible patient experience.
## What it does
The system stores patients' medical records. it also allows patients to fill out medical forms using their voice, ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Our team wanted to create a useless invention, based on a product that we are familiar with. There was nothing more familiar then an alarm clock, which we use everyday.
## What it does
The random alarm clock is set to a random time to ring when you activate the alarm. This makes it completely useless,... | ## Inspiration
Studies show that we should not keep our phones with us while we sleep, but most people use their phones as their alarm. But when we turn to use a digital alarm clock, it never has any good features.
## What it does
Works as a customisable alarm clock.
## How I built it
An arduino project kit that I... | ## Inspiration
We were very inspired by the chaotic innovations happening all around the world and wanted to create something that's just a little stupid, silly, and fun using components that are way too overspecced for the usecase.
## What it does
It is intended to use electromagnetic properties and an intense amou... | losing |
## The Idea Behind the App
When you're grabbing dinner at a restaurant, how do you choose which meal to order?
Perhaps you look at the price, calorie count, or, if you're trying to be environmentally-conscious, the carbon footprint of your meal.
COyou is an Android app which reveals the carbon footprint of the meals... | ## Inspiration
While there are several applications that use OCR to read receipts, few take the leap towards informing consumers on their purchase decisions. We decided to capitalize on this gap: we currently provide information to customers about the healthiness of the food they purchase at grocery stores by analyzin... | ## Inspiration
Globally, over 92 million tons of textile waste are generated annually, contributing to overflowing landfills and environmental degradation. What's more, the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions, with fast fashion being a significant contributor due to its rapid production ... | winning |
## Inspiration
We like walking at night, but we don't like getting mugged. 💅🤷♀️We can't program personal bodyguards (yet) so preventative measures are our best bet! Accessibility and intuitiveness are 🔑in our idea.
## What it does
HelpIs allows users to contact services when they feel unsafe. 📱Location trackers... | ## Inspiration
Guardian Angel was born from the need for reliable emergency assistance in an unpredictable world. Our experiences with the elderly, such as our grandparents, who may fall when we’re not around, and the challenges we may face in vulnerable situations motivated us to create a tool that automatically reac... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | partial |
## Inspiration
1 in 2 Canadians will personally experience a mental health issue by age 40, with minority communities at a greater risk. As the mental health epidemic surges and support at its capacity, we sought to build something to connect trained volunteer companions with people in distress in several ways for con... | ## Inspiration
Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m... | ## Inspiration
Many seniors in our lives lack strong social connection and friendships with others. Our project goal was to help combat this issue using emerging technologies so that they never have to spend their day-to-day life alone. This project will contribute to the support of health-care workers and care taker... | winning |
## Inspiration
I wanted to do something that would be of benefit and that might actually help people that use it. It's not perfect but I hope to keep tweaking and refining it until it becomes a viable and completely usable app that would make people's
lives a little easier.
## What it does
LetsC is a voice activated... | ## Inspiration
Many visually impaired people have difficulties on a day-to-day basis reading text and other items, and other comparable technologies and software are either expensive or bulky and impractical to use. We sought to create a cheap, light and reliable system for text reading.
## What it does
A wearable t... | ## Inspiration
There were two primary sources of inspiration. The first one was a paper published by University of Oxford researchers, who proposed a state of the art deep learning pipeline to extract spoken language from video. The paper can be found [here](http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/%7Evgg/publications/2018/Afouras1... | losing |
## Inspiration
## What it does
## How we built it
## Challenges we ran into
The connections between the front end and backend
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
Worked out a neural network model to predict the chance of the user getting a certain disease
## What we learned
Connection between API
## What's ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from the frustration of managing medical data from multiple doctors. One of our teammates has a Primary Care Physician at MIT and another back home. When she attempted to compare lab results and diagnoses from both doctors, she found herself logging into separate portals and sifting... | ## Inspiration
In today's fast-paced world, highly driven individuals often overwork themselves without regard for how it impacts their health, only experiencing the consequences *when it is too late*. **AtlasAI** aims to bring attention to these health issues at an early stage, such that our users are empowered to li... | losing |
## Inspiration
Utilize our passion for mobile applications and UI/UX to present information in an easy to understand way.
## What it does
Queries Vitech's API and generates graph based off result.
## How we built it
Caffeine. Swift. iOS. Network calls. Charts.io library. Throw in some dictionaries and arrays. Spri... | ### What is yHaCkSlAcKpAcK?.
A collection of slack integrations to make your life easier and your work flow-ier.
Interactions with the external services are text-based, via a bot.
There are 3 integrations provided out-of-the-box, but they're all built on a framework that makes it easy to add more. All you need is an A... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to integrate many sensors into a design that was weather-related as well as useless, and we had the idea of creating a portable weather station - which is obviously not very useful because the station needs to be outside, and its weather analysis is very rudimentary.
## What it does
SmartSto... | partial |
If we take a moment to stop and think of those who can't speak or hear, we will realize and be thankful for what we have. To make the lives of these differently ables people, we needed to come up with a solution and here we present you with Proximity.
Proximity uses the Myo armband for sign recognition and an active v... | ## Inspiration
The main problem we are focusing is the inability of differently abled people to communicate with normal people or other differently abled people. Now, we are here with the combined Hardware and Software solution which is called **“EME”**, after analysing some problems. And, try to make the next generat... | ## Inspiration
In the aftermath of the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, our prayers are with the 59 people who lost their lives and the 527 people who were badly injured.
But are our prayers sufficient? In this technology age, with machine learning and other powerful AI algorithms being invented and used heavily in... | winning |
## Inspiration
Our idea was inspired by our group's shared interest in musical composition, as well as our interests in AI models and their capabilites. The concept that inspired our project was: "*What if life had a soundtrack?*"
## What it does
AutOST generates and produces a constant stream of original live music... | ## The Gist
We combine state-of-the-art LLM/GPT detection methods with image diffusion models to accurately detect AI-generated video with 92% accuracy.
## Inspiration
As image and video generation models become more powerful, they pose a strong threat to traditional media norms of trust and truth. OpenAI's SORA mod... | ## Inspiration
Many times, humans are not fully informed about the invisible irritants in their environment. For every single location on the Earth, there exists many different environmental sources that have the potential to cause harm, from minor inconveniences to life-altering reactions and medical emergencies. The... | winning |
## Inspiration
We love cooking and watching food videos. From the Great British Baking Show to Instagram reels, we are foodies in every way. However, with the 119 billion pounds of food that is wasted annually in the United States, we wanted to create a simple way to reduce waste and try out new recipes.
## What it d... | ## Inspiration
An individual living in Canada wastes approximately 183 kilograms of solid food per year. This equates to $35 billion worth of food. A study that asked why so much food is wasted illustrated that about 57% thought that their food goes bad too quickly, while another 44% of people say the food is past the... | ## Inspiration
We make social justice change happen instead of posting stories about it.
## What it does
We allow users to sign up by showing what skills they have such as web development and then follow topics on social justice such as Black Lives Matter and create events or join events to provide their skills to m... | winning |
## Inspiration
There are three other things that slow down Metaverse adoption today:
* Not really immersive without a powerful VR
* Bad user experience
* Low usage
## What it does
We are Mimetic and we want to make the Metaverse more fun, immersive, and accessible through augmented puppetry that translates real mov... | ## Inspiration
As popular as VR is, interactions are often carried through mediums such as hand controllers. We are inspired by the idea that we can directly interact with the VR settings through our very own bodies: our hands, feet, knees, shoulders... and everything else!
## What it does
BodyVR, as its name implie... | ## Inspiration
We look at the **old tradition of visiting card**, where any person can write only limited details,
so we think that this is not enough so we try to solve it,
we make an ar app through which when any person can scan the visiting card then the detail will come on the card in real-world, virtually through... | partial |
## Relevant Prize Categories
* **Hack for Fun**
* **Best Beginner Hack**
* **Best Use Of Convex**
## Inspiration
We're developing a web application designed to simplify event planning among groups of friends. We've all been there, hearing phrases like 'What's the plan?' or 'What are we doing this weekend?' But often... | ## Inspiration
Had this idea a while ago, always wanted to be able to implement but I didn't know how to do apps in Android.
## What it does
It's a game that test your cognitive skills, putting an image through a small window and asking you which image it is. You can set the difficulty, which is the speed at which t... | ## Inspiration
We know the struggles of students. Trying to get to that one class across campus in time. Deciding what to make for dinner. But there was one that stuck out to all of us: finding a study spot on campus. There have been countless times when we wander around Mills or Thode looking for a free space to stud... | losing |
## Inspiration
We are all software/game devs excited by new and unexplored game experiences. We originally came to PennApps thinking of building an Amazon shopping experience in VR, but eventaully pivoted to Project Em - a concept we all found mroe engaging. Our swtich was motivated by the same force that is driving u... | ## Inspiration
During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w... | NOTE: We have a new ZIP uploaded to the itch.io link.
## Inspiration
We're big fans of the hip-hop artist Gucci Mane, and we've always wanted to play around with Amazon's Alexa system. Voice controls are always a fun gimmick in games, so we decided to try out hooking up the Alexa with Unity.
## What it does
The gam... | winning |
## Inspiration
We hate making resumes and customizing them for each employeer so we created a tool to speed that up.
## What it does
A user creates "blocks" which are saved. Then they can pick and choose which ones they want to use.
## How we built it
[Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)
[Express](https://expressjs.c... | ## TLDR
We are a developer toolkit which provides a decentralized database as a service where users can use our endpoints as well as NoCode tool where users can upload their data in a decentralised manner.
## Inspiration
👋🏻 With the advent of Web3, there are now decentralized **ways to store data that are a hundre... | DEMO URL: <https://www.loom.com/share/5779cb53c9f74cb79ecc619e2c612dab?sid=59d56d62-281f-4073-8481-5b3d9b664d16>
## Inspiration
Face to face connection is fantastic, but sometimes unrealistic for some conversations. If you're confused about what your professor is teaching, you can vibe check with people on Yap Bubble... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration came from the two women on the team, as the app is geared toward female security.
## What it does
A common issue and concern for women on dates is safety. Now that online dating sites are more popular, this raises the concern women may have about going out to meet their date-- is the p... | ## 💡Inspiration💡
According to statistics, hate crimes and street violence have exponentially increased and the violence does not end there. Many oppressed groups face physical and emotional racial hostility in the same way. These crimes harm not only the victims but also people who have a similar identity. Aside fro... | ## Inspiration
We are inspired by the story of people who have experienced sexual harassment in their life. The people who decided to bear the pain inside and stay silent because they didn't want to loose their job, they didn't want consequences and they didn't want further assault.
## What it does
Victims of assaul... | partial |
## Inspiration
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we go about everyday errands and trips. Along with needing to plan around wait times, distance, and reviews for a location we may want to visit, we now also need to consider how many other people will be there and whether its even a safe establishment to visit. ... | ## Inspiration
We know the struggles of students. Trying to get to that one class across campus in time. Deciding what to make for dinner. But there was one that stuck out to all of us: finding a study spot on campus. There have been countless times when we wander around Mills or Thode looking for a free space to stud... | ## Inspiration
Planning vacations can be hard. Traveling is a very fun experience but often comes with a lot of stress of curating the perfect itinerary with all the best sights to see, foods to eat, and shows to watch. You don't want to miss anything special, but you also want to make sure the trip is still up your a... | winning |
## Inspiration 📍
In an era where digital platforms are omnipresent, the challenge of fostering genuine connections while promoting ethical technology use has never been more pressing. The inspiration for "Beacons" came from our own experiences of struggling to coordinate plans and communicate effectively with groups.... | ## Inspiration
We thought it would be nice if, for example, while working in the Computer Science building, you could send out a little post asking for help from people around you.
Also, it would also enable greater interconnectivity between people at an event without needing to subscribe to anything.
## What it doe... | **In times of disaster, there is an outpouring of desire to help from the public. We built a platform which connects people who want to help with people in need.**
## Inspiration
Natural disasters are an increasingly pertinent global issue which our team is quite concerned with. So when we encountered the IBM challen... | partial |
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