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## Inspiration
Our team is fighting night and day during this recruitment season to internships. As with many others, we have varied interests in the fields that we specialize in, and we spend a lot of time tailoring our Résumes to the specific position we are looking at. We believe that an automatic Résume will immen... | ## The Problem (Why did we build this?)
The current tech industry has been difficult to navigate for newcomers to tech. With competition becoming more fierce, students struggle to stand out in their job applications
## Our Problem Statement:
How might we help students kickstart their early careers in tech in the cur... | ## Inspiration
40 million people in the world are blind, including 20% of all people aged 85 or older. Half a million people suffer paralyzing spinal cord injuries every year. 8.5 million people are affected by Parkinson’s disease, with the vast majority of these being senior citizens. The pervasive difficulty for the... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our team wanted to create a method to reduce the hassle of having to accurately count the number of people entering and leaving a building. This problem has become increasingly important in the midst of COVID-19 when there are strict capacity limits indoors.
## What it does
The device acts as a bidire... | ## Inspiration
Essential workers are needed to fulfill tasks such as running restaurants, grocery shops, and travel services such as airports and train stations. Some of the tasks that these workers do include manual screening of customers entering trains and airports and checking if they are properly wearing masks. H... | ## Inspiration
**With the world producing more waste then ever recorded, sustainability has become a very important topic of discussion.** Whether that be social, environmental, or economic, sustainability has become a key factor in how we design products and how we plan for the future. Especially during the pandemic,... | losing |
## Inspiration
We have all heard about the nutrition and health issues from those who surround us. Yes, adult obesity has plateaued since 2003, but it's at an extremely high rate. Two out of three U.S. adults are overweight or obese. If we look at diabetes, it's prevalent in 25.9% americans over 65. That's 11.8 millio... | ## Inspiration
The idea for Refrigerator Ramsay came from a common problem we all face: food waste. So many times, we forget about ingredients in the fridge, or we don't know how to use them, and they go bad. We wanted to create something that could help us not only use those ingredients but also inspire us to try new... | ## 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 |
# Relive and Relearn
*Step foot into a **living photo album** – a window into your memories of your time spent in Paris.*
## Inspiration
Did you know that 70% of people worldwide are interested in learning a foreign language? However, the most effective learning method, immersion and practice, is often challenging f... | ## Our Inspiration
We were inspired by apps like Duolingo and Quizlet for language learning, and wanted to extend those experiences to a VR environment. The goal was to gameify the entire learning experience and make it immersive all while providing users with the resources to dig deeper into concepts.
## What it doe... | ## Inspiration
Students are often put into a position where they do not have the time nor experience to effectively budget their finances. This unfortunately leads to many students falling into debt, and having a difficult time keeping up with their finances. That's where wiSpend comes to the rescue! Our objective is ... | winning |
## 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... | ## How we built it
The sensors consist of the Maxim Pegasus board and any Android phone with our app installed. The two are synchronized at the beginning, and then by moving the "tape" away from the "measure," we can get an accurate measure of distance, even for non-linear surfaces.
## Challenges we ran into
Sometim... | ## Inspiration
We're college students. After paying tuition, rent, and studying for all our courses, we're left with both little time and little money. That's why we're always on the look out for a deal. We noticed that Google Maps currently integrates ride-sharing services (Lyft, Uber...) when you look up a route. So... | winning |
## Inspiration
iPonzi started off as a joke between us, but we decided that PennApps was the perfect place to make our dream a reality.
## What it does
The app requires the user to sign up using an email and/or social logins. After purchasing the application and creating an account, you can refer your friends to the... | ## Inspiration
We have all been there, stuck on a task, with no one to turn to for help. We all love wikiHow but there isn't always a convenient article there for you to follow. So we decided to do something about it! What if we could leverage the knowledge of the entire internet to get the nicely formatted and entert... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to build something that could help people who deal with anxiety and panic attacks. The generous sponsors at PennApps also offered us a lot of APIs, and we wanted to make the best use of them as well.
## What it does
The user can open the app and create a personal account, as well as log emer... | partial |
## Inspiration
In the era of internet and social media, we need to process a large amount of information everyday. It would be useful to find a quick way to extract peoples' sentiments on certain topics.
## What it does
The web app uses the latest google natural language machine learning model to analyze data feeds ... | ## Inspiration
We thought it would be cool to use machine learning tools on current events to get a sense of what people are thinking about a particular topic. Specifically, our interest in finance inspired us to create this tool to analyze stock tickers in real time.
## What it does
This app takes in any topic or k... | ## Inspiration
Patients usually have to go through multiple diagnosis before getting the right doctor. With the astonishing computational power we have today, we could use predictive analysis to suggest the patients' potential illness.
## What it does
Clow takes a picture of the patient's face during registration an... | losing |
## Inspiration
**Handwriting is such a beautiful form of art that is unique to every person, yet unfortunately, it is not accessible to everyone.**
[Parkinson’s](www.parkinson.org/Understanding-Parkinsons/Statistics) affects nearly 1 million people in the United States and more than 6 million people worldwide. For pe... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
More money, more problems.
Lacking an easy, accessible, and secure method of transferring money? Even more problems.
An interesting solution to this has been the rise of WeChat Pay, allowing for merchants to use QR codes and social media to make digital payments.
But where does this leave people witho... | partial |
## Inspiration
We often find downtimes where we want to do some light exercises. Throwing a ball is perfect, but it's not easy to find another person to throw the ball to. We realized that we wanted to make a machine that can substitute the role of a partner... hence the creation of *PitchPartner*!
## What it does
P... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create something that helped other people. We had so many ideas, yet couldn't stick to one. Luckily, we ended up talking to Phoebe(?) from Hardware and she talked about how using textiles would be great in a project. Something clicked, and we started brainstorming ideas. It ended up with us... | ## Inspiration
We took inspiration from our experience of how education can be hard. Studies conducted by EdX show that classes that teach quantitative subjects like Mathematics and Physics tend to receive lower ratings from students in terms of engagement and educational capacity than their qualitative counterparts. ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Many people join their first hackathons worried and don't know what to expect. We created Hack Help to help people come up with ideas for their hacks and to provide them with resources and tips.
## What it does
Hack Help uses openAI to generate specific Hackathon project ideas based on the experience ... | ## Inspiration
We find it hard to attend hackathons when we are without a team. Some teams may lack talent in specific areas, such as front-end, or mobile development.
## What it does
Hackers are able to create profiles containing their skills, interests, and other relevant information. They are given a smooth user ... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create a device that ease the life of people who have disabilities and with AR becoming mainstream it would only be proper to create it.
## What it does
Our AR Headset converts speech to text and then displays it realtime on the monitor to allow the user to read what the other person is t... | losing |
## Inspiration
Much of our inspiration came from [this SMBC comic](http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/calculating) and Zach Weinersmith's offer of funding for the idea, "even in stupid form [sic]." We recognize that this comment was likely made in jest, however it was a wonderful idea for a hack and we trusted our abili... | ## Inspiration
We enjoyed playing the computer party game [*Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes*](http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/) with our friends and decided that a real-life implementation would be more accessible and interesting. It's software brought to life.
## What it does
Each randomly generated "bomb" has seve... | ## Inspiration
3D Printing offers quick and easy access to a physical design from a digitized mesh file. Transferring a physical model back into a digitized mesh is much less successful or accessible in a desktop platform. We sought to create our own desktop 3D scanner that could generate high fidelity, colored and te... | losing |
## Inspiration
Members of our team know multiple people who suffer from permanent or partial paralysis. We wanted to build something that could be fun to develop and use, but at the same time make a real impact in people's everyday lives. We also wanted to make an affordable solution, as most solutions to paralysis co... | ## Inspiration
More than **2 million** people in the United States are affected by diseases such as ALS, brain or spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, and numerous other diseases that impair muscle control. Many of these people are confined to their wheelchairs, some may be luc... | ## Inspiration
MISSION: Our mission is to create an intuitive and precisely controlled arm for situations that are tough or dangerous for humans to be in.
VISION: This robotic arm application can be used in the medical industry, disaster relief, and toxic environments.
## What it does
The arm imitates the user in a... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for PhishNet stemmed from a growing frequency of receiving email phishing scams. As we rely on our emails for important information, such as with our career, academics, and so on, my team and I often encountered suspicious emails that raised doubts about their legitimacy. We realized the... | ## Inspiration
We just like technology. I’ve killed many plants over the year and I felt that technology could help save them. People tend to think technology is antithesis of nature. We wanted show people that technology and nature can sometimes have a symbiotic relationship.
## What it does
Pot Buddy helps users t... | ## Inspiration
We think improving cybersecurity does not always entail passively anticipating possible attacks. It is an equally valid strategy to go on the offensive against the transgressors. Hence, we employed the strategy of the aggressors against themselves --- by making what's basically a phishing bank app that ... | losing |
## Inspiration
With the cost of living increasing yearly and inflation at an all-time high, people need financial control more than ever. The problem is the investment field is not beginner friendly, especially with it's confusing vocabulary and an abundance of concepts creating an environment detrimental to learning.... | ## Inspiration
With the coming of the IoT age, we wanted to explore the addition of new experiences in our interactions with physical objects and facilitate crossovers from the digital to the physical world. Since paper is a ubiquitous tool in our day to day life, we decided to try to push the boundaries of how we int... | ## Inspiration
Success in financial technology used to be completely proportional to the amount of data a company owned. Though the amount of data you have still remains a key factor to financial success, companies are needing to find new ways to apply their data, in order to see increasingly beneficial results.
Our ... | partial |
### Inspiration
The way research is funded is harmful to science — researchers seeking science funding can be big losers in the equality and diversity game. We need a fresh ethos to change this.
### What it does
Connexsci is a grant funding platform that generates exposure to undervalued and independent research thr... | ## Inspiration
Our team was determined to challenge a major problem in society, and create a practical solution. It occurred to us early on that **false facts** and **fake news** has become a growing problem, due to the availability of information over common forms of social media. Many initiatives and campaigns recen... | ## Inspiration
The volume of academic literature is exploding. In machine learning alone, the number of papers on arXiv doubles every 24 months. As former research interns, we've experienced firsthand the overwhelming challenge of sifting through hundreds of dense, complex papers to find relevant information. This pro... | winning |
Our Team's First Hackathon - Treehacks 2024
## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was from the memories we recalled when sharing food and recipes with our families. As students, we wanted to create the prototype for an app that could help bring this same joyful experience to others, whether it be sharing a ... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired to make an application which checks news reliability since we noticed the ever increasing amount of misinformation in our digital world.
## What it does
Simply input the news headline into the input box and press submit. The algorithm will then classify it as a reliable, or unreliable... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Keep yourself hydrated!
## What it does
Tracks the amount of water you drank.
## How we built it
We had a Bluetooth connected to the Arduino computer and sent the collected data through the app.
## Challenges we ran into
The initial setup was quite difficult, we weren't sure what tools we were goi... | ## Inspiration
memes have become a cultural phenomenon and a huge recreation for many young adults including ourselves. for this hackathon, we decided to connect the sociability aspect of the popular site "twitter", and combine it with a methodology of visualizing the activity of memes in various neighborhoods. we hop... | ## Inspiration
We were brainstorming ideas where we came across an application that tracked a users financial balance and displayed their status through a friendly visual representation. As a group, our aim was to create an invention that would help benefit the health of our users. With that being said, as our minds w... | partial |
## About the Project
NazAR is an educational tool that automatically creates interactive visualizations of math word problems in AR, requiring nothing more than an iPhone.
## Behind the Name
*Nazar* means “vision” in Arabic, which symbolizes the driving goal behind our app – not only do we visualize math problems fo... | ## Inspiration
Although each of us came from different backgrounds, we each share similar experiences/challenges during our high school years: it was extremely hard to visualize difficult concepts, much less understand the the various complex interactions. This was most prominent in chemistry, where 3D molecular model... | ## 💫 Inspiration
It all started when I found VCR tapes of when I was born! I was simply watching the videos fascinated with how much younger everyone looked when I noticed someone unknown, present in the home videos, helping my mom!
After asking my mom, I found out there used to be a program where Nurses/Caretakers w... | winning |
## Inspiration
Since the beginning of the hackathon, all of us were interested in building something related to helping the community. Initially we began with the idea of a trash bot, but quickly realized the scope of the project would make it unrealistic. We eventually decided to work on a project that would help eas... | ## 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
We took inspiration from the multitude of apps that help to connect those who are missing to those who are searching for their loved ones and others affected by natural disaster, especially flooding. We wanted to design a product that not only helped to locate those individuals, but also to rescue those... | partial |
## Inspiration
Bookshelves are worse than fjords to navigate. There is too much choice, and indecision hits when trying to pick out a cool book at a library or bookstore. Why isn’t there an easy way to compare the ratings of different books from just the spine? That’s where BookBud comes in. Paper books are a staple p... | ## Inspiration
I was inspired to create this app by my aging Chinese grandparents, who are trying to learn English by reading books. I noticed them struggle with certain words and lean in squinting to read the next paragraph. I decided that I could create a better way.
## What it does
Spectacle is an upgrade for you... | ## City Bins Roamer : An AI multiplayer game for sustainable cities!
# What it does
We're using Martello's geospatial data to make a Pac-Man-like game taking place across the playing board of Montreal's streets.
The goal: if you play as 'garbage': try to escape from the Intelligent System of Bins!!
If you play as 'bi... | 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
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
Our inspiration came from all the new AI tools to assist in studying. We had previously seen a note-taking Chrome extension that can read and summarize slides, and we thought "How could we make this even more convenient?". Nothing is more convenient than using your eyes, so we decided to make a note-tak... | winning |
## Inspiration
In a world full of so much info but limited time as we are so busy and occupied all the time, we wanted to create a tool that helps students make the most of their learning—quickly and effectively. We imagined a platform that could turn complex material into digestible, engaging content tailored for a f... | ## Inspiration
Today, anything can be learned on the internet with just a few clicks. Information is accessible anywhere and everywhere- one great resource being Youtube videos. However accessibility doesn't mean that our busy lives don't get in the way of our quest for learning.
TLDR: Some videos are too long, and s... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for DigiSpotter came from within our team members, who recently started going to the gym in the past year. We agreed that starting out in the gym is hard without having a personal coach or gym partner that is willing to train you. DigiSpotter aims to solve this issue by being your electr... | partial |
## Inspiration
To spread the joy of swag collecting.
## What it does
A Hack the North Simulator, specifically of the Sponsor Bay on the second floor. The player will explore sponsor booths, collecting endless amounts of swag along the way. A lucky hacker may stumble upon the elusive, exclusive COCKROACH TROPHY, or a... | ## Inspiration
Technology in schools today is given to those classrooms that can afford it. Our goal was to create a tablet that leveraged modern touch screen technology while keeping the cost below $20 so that it could be much cheaper to integrate with classrooms than other forms of tech like full laptops.
## What i... | ## Inspiration
We got inspired by Flash Sonar (a mathod that helps peopla to see via sound waves) but it took months to learn so We developed Techno Sonar a guide for blind people.
## What it does
Uses ultrasonic sensors to detect objects and inform the user based on the size and distance of the object
If object is ... | winning |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project came from three of our members being involved with Smash in their community. From one of us being an avid competitor, one being an avid watcher and one of us who works in an office where Smash is played quite frequently, we agreed that the way Smash Bro games were matched... | ## 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
This is our first hackathon, so none of us knew what to make at the beginning. We all liked the suggestion of a discord bot, and Sebastian had used the gspread API before, so we tried to think of ways to combine the two ideas. With these two ideas in mind, Eric remembered some online tournaments he play... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired to create this due to the fact that we personally have trouble keeping up with our supplements.
## What it does
Sends SMS reminders to users to take their medicine
## How we built it
Using Node JS as the backend, with the database powered by Google Cloud SQL, and the SMS messaging p... | ## Inspiration
When you are prescribed medication by a Doctor, it is crucial that you complete the dosage cycle in order to ensure that you recover fully and quickly. Unfortunately forgetting to take your medication is something that we have all done. Failing to run the full course of medicine often results in a delay... | ## **Inspiration**
Ever had to wipe your hands constantly to search for recipes and ingredients while cooking?
Ever wondered about the difference between your daily nutrition needs and the nutrition of your diets?
Vocal Recipe is an integrated platform where users can easily find everything they need to know about hom... | losing |
## Inspiration
We wanted to come up with a means of evaluating Goldman Sachs' GIR forecasting data against the market, and also against other possible predictors. This placed a heavy emphasis on meaningful visualizations of the given Marquee API data.
## What it does
This project is composed of a series of Python sc... | # ObamaChart
It all began three weeks ago when Charlie, Gerry, and Gene convinced Hector to join them in the hackathon.
The idea was not born until late in the wee hours of the night when everyone was fed up with Charlie's "one way photo encryption" idea and instead wanted something more useful. Thus we decided visua... | ## 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
Waste Management: Despite having bins with specific labels, people often put waste into wrong bins which lead to unnecessary plastic/recyclables in landfills.
## What it does
Uses Raspberry Pi, Google vision API and our custom classifier to categorize waste and automatically sorts and puts them into r... | ## Inspiration
As university students, we and our peers have found that our garbage and recycling have not been taken by the garbage truck for some unknown reason. They give us papers or stickers with warnings, but these get lost in the wind, chewed up by animals, or destroyed because of the weather. For homeowners or... | ## Inspiration
We were really excited to hear about the self-driving bus Olli using IBM's Watson. However, one of our grandfather's is rather forgetful due to his dementia, and because of this would often forget things on a bus if he went alone. Memory issues like this would prevent him, and many people like him, from... | winning |
## Inspiration
One of our team members, Ray, recently visited Cambridge, MA (from Canada!) and realized that their trash cans were essentially nonexistent. The few that did exist there weren't exactly performing well enough to organize trash efficiently and conscientiously. That's why we decided to choose the focus of... | ## Inspiration
With traditional travel and expense programs, processing a single report can take an average of 20 minutes! In a recent study, we found that users can save an average of 3 hours per week on expense management. That's an additional 156 hours per year that individuals could put towards things that truly m... | ## Inspiration
Want to take advantage of the AR and object detection technologies to help people to gain safer walking experiences and communicate distance information to help people with visual loss navigate.
## What it does
Augment the world with the beeping sounds that change depending on your proximity towards o... | losing |
## Inspiration
The EPA estimates that although 75% of American waste is recyclable, only 30% gets recycled. Our team was inspired to create RecyclAIble by the simple fact that although most people are not trying to hurt the environment, many unknowingly throw away recyclable items in the trash. Additionally, the sheer... | ## Inspiration
An Article, about 86 per cent of Canada's plastic waste ends up in landfill, a big part due to Bad Sorting. We thought it shouldn't be impossible to build a prototype for a Smart bin.
## What it does
The Smart bin is able, using Object detection, to sort Plastic, Glass, Metal, and Paper
We see all ar... | ## Inspiration
One day, one of our teammates was throwing out garbage in his apartment complex and the building manager made him aware that certain plastics he was recycling were soft plastics that can't be recycled.
According to a survey commissioned by Covanta, “2,000 Americans revealed that 62 percent of responden... | winning |
# Shakespeak
Project for McHacks 2019
This is a website we built in 24 hours for McHacks 2019. We drew inspiration from [xkcd #1133](https://xkcd.com/1133/) and it's eponymous [The Up-Goer Five Text Editor](http://splasho.com/upgoer5/). In our 'Shakespeak Translator' text editor, we challenge users to explain technic... | ## What it does
Eloquent has two primary functions, both influenced by a connection between speaking and learning
The first is a public speaking coach, to help people practice their speeches. Users can import a speech or opt to ad-lib — the app will then listen to the user speak. When they finish, the app will presen... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project came from the issue we had in classrooms where many students would ask the same questions in slightly different ways, causing the teacher to use up valuable time addressing these questions instead of more pertinent and different ones.
Also, we felt that the bag of words ... | partial |
## Inspiration
During the fall 2021 semester, the friend group made a fun contest to participate in: Finding the chonkiest squirrel on campus.
Now that we are back in quarantine, stuck inside all day with no motivation to do exercise, we wondered if we could make a timer like in the app [Forest](https://www.forestapp... | ## Inspiration
Cute factor of dogs/cats, also to improve the health of many pets such as larger dogs that can easily become overweight.
## What it does
Reads accelerometer data on collar, converted into steps.
## How I built it
* Arduino Nano
* ADXL345 module
* SPP-C Bluetooth module
* Android Studio for app
## C... | ## Inspiration and what it does
We were inspired to create an app to create a customized workout plan for individuals with a limited space and time with an addition of a curated youtube video, especially with gyms being inaccessible due to COVID-19 restrictions and lockdown. Users have the freedom to pick and choose t... | partial |
## Inspiration
Given the increase in mental health awareness, we wanted to focus on therapy treatment tools in order to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. Therapists rely on hand-written notes and personal memory to progress emotionally with their clients, and there is no assistive digital tool for therapists to ke... | ## Inspiration
For this hackathon, we wanted to build something that could have a positive impact on its users. We've all been to university ourselves, and we understood the toll, stress took on our minds. Demand for mental health services among youth across universities has increased dramatically in recent years. A R... | ## 💡 Inspiration 💡
Mental health is a growing concern in today's population, especially in 2023 as we're all adjusting back to civilization again as COVID-19 measures are largely lifted. With Cohere as one of our UofT Hacks X sponsors this weekend, we want to explore the growing application of natural language proce... | winning |
## Inspiration
Jessica here - I came up with the idea for BusPal out of expectation that the skill has already existed. With my Amazon Echo Dot, I was already doing everything from checking the weather to turning off and on my lights with Amazon skills and routines. The fact that she could not check when my bus to sch... | ## 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... | ### Saturday 11AM: Starting Out
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BusBuddy is pulling the curtain back on school buses. Students and parents should have equal access to information to know when and where their buses are arriving, how long it will take to get to school, and be up-to-d... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to protect our laptops with the power of rubber bands.
## What it does
It shoots rubber bands at aggressive screen lookers.
## How we built it
Willpower and bad code.
## Challenges we ran into
Ourselves.
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
Having something. Honestly.
## What we lea... | ## Inspiration
Members of our team know multiple people who suffer from permanent or partial paralysis. We wanted to build something that could be fun to develop and use, but at the same time make a real impact in people's everyday lives. We also wanted to make an affordable solution, as most solutions to paralysis co... | ## Inspiration
Blink.ino
## What's next for Morse Codeverter
Realistically? Destruction. Theoretically? I could use a different output (i.e. audio) to make text on a screen intelligible accessible to people with visual impairments, but I'm sure there are better ways to do that. | winning |
## Inspiration
Fitness bands track your heart rate, but they do not take any action if anything is wrong. This makes them useless for people like heart disease patients who need them the most.
## What it does
Dr Heart connects data to the appropriate people. Using Smooch and Slack, it notifies doctors, families, and... | ## Inspiration
Survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest remains unacceptably low worldwide, and it is the leading cause of death in developed countries. Sudden cardiac arrest takes more lives than HIV and lung and breast cancer combined in the U.S., where survival from cardiac arrest averages about 6% overall, tak... | ## Inspiration
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. One in five deaths is a heart attack, and performing CPR immediately can greatly improve these odds, yet ambulances may only arrive so fast. This project aims to quickly help those in need by alerting nearby individuals with first-aid trai... | partial |
## 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 ... | ## Inspiration
We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin... | ## Inspiration
I was inspired by the sheer size and amount of people/things happening at HackMIT, since I had never been to a college hackathon before. I didn't want to miss out on any of the action, but I also obviously could not be more than one place at once, so I thought: why don't I just make a robot that I can c... | winning |
## Inspiration
Every day, students pay hundreds of dollars for textbooks that they could be getting for lower prices had they spent the time to browse different online stores. This disadvantageous situation forces many students to choose between piracy of textbooks or even going through a course without one. We imagin... | ## What it does
InternetVane is an IOT wind/weather vane. Set and calibrate the InternetVane and the arrow will point in the real-time direction of the wind at your location.
First, the arrow is calibrated to the direction of the magnetometer. Then, the GRPS Shield works with twilio and google maps geo location api to... | Fujifusion is our group's submission for Hack MIT 2018. It is a data-driven application for predicting corporate credit ratings.
## Problem
Scholars and regulators generally agree that credit rating agency failures were at the center of the 2007-08 global financial crisis.
## Solution
\*Train a machine learning mod... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration for TRACY came from the desire to enhance tennis training through advanced technology. One of our members was a former tennis enthusiast who has always strived to refine their skills. They soon realized that the post-game analysis process took too much time in their busy schedule. We aim... | ## Inspiration
It is nearly a year since the start of the pandemic and going back to normal still feels like a distant dream.
As students, most of our time is spent attending online lectures, reading e-books, listening to music, and playing online games. This forces us to spend immense amounts of time in front of a la... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for the project was thinking back to playing contact sports. Sometimes players would receive head injuries and not undergo a proper concussion examination; a concussion could then go undetected - possibly resulting in cognitive issues in the future.
## What it does
The project is a web... | winning |
## What it does
Paste in a text and it will identify the key scenes before turning it into a narrated movie. Favourite book, historical battle, or rant about work. Anything and everything, if you can read it, Lucid.ai can dream it.
## How we built it
Once you hit generate on the home UI, our frontend sends your text... | ## Inspiration
Ever wish you didn’t need to purchase a stylus to handwrite your digital notes? Each person at some point hasn’t had the free hands to touch their keyboard. Whether you are a student learning to type or a parent juggling many tasks, sometimes a keyboard and stylus are not accessible. We believe the futu... | ## Inspiration
We know that reading and writing is an important of a kid's education but often times it ends as chore so we wanted to make that process more interactive. Our team focused on this problem to make sure the children move forward in their development process especially during these COVID times.
So we are ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Our team firmly believes that a hackathon is the perfect opportunity to learn technical skills while having fun. Especially because of the hardware focus that MakeUofT provides, we decided to create a game! This electrifying project places two players' minds to the test, working together to solve variou... | ## Inspiration
We really are passionate about hardware, however many hackers in the community, especially those studying software-focused degrees, miss out on the experience of working on projects involving hardware and experience in vertical integration.
To remedy this, we came up with modware. Modware provides the t... | ## Inspiration
Since the beginning of the pandemic, social isolation has been a problem for many people. To tackle this, a lot of people decided that it was time for a change and found the most joyful way to fight loneliness: they got dogs. Having these loyal creatures, full of love and energy, always ready to play wi... | winning |
## Inspiration
One day Saaz was sitting at home thinking about his fitness goals and his diet. Looking in his fridge, he realized that, on days when his fridge was only filled with leftovers and leftover ingredients, it was very difficult for him to figure out what he could make that followed his nutrition goals. This... | ## Inspiration
Let’s face it: getting your groceries is hard. As students, we’re constantly looking for food that is healthy, convenient, and cheap. With so many choices for where to shop and what to get, it’s hard to find the best way to get your groceries. Our product makes it easy. It helps you plan your grocery tr... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind Pantry Palate was driven by a distinct need in today's digital age. With an abundance of food apps flooding the market, many equipped with fridge scanning capabilities, we recognized a gap that needed addressing. While such apps exist, they often fall short in catering to the spec... | partial |
## Inspiration
We wanted to help raise awareness for the segregation of different communities in Brampton
## What it does
* It uses analyzes Google reviews and determines legitimacy through NLP and finally outputs the info onto a map
## How we built it
* By running tests through jupyter notebook and using an API t... | # Welcome to CBTree!
Side-note: My computer permanently blue screened with about 9 hours left, and I hadn't pushed yet, so I had to start over... Special thanks to Adi and TreeHacks organizers for giving me a new computer!
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to treat... | ## Inspiration
Many hackers cast their vision forward, looking for futuristic solutions for problems in the present. Instead, we cast our eyes backwards in time, looking to find our change in restoration and recreation. We were drawn to the ancient Athenian Agora -- a marketplace; not one where merchants sold goods, b... | losing |
## Inspiration 🌟
Our project was inspired by the critical need for early detection of Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) and the rising concern of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We aimed to create a solution that enhances patient safety by enabling timely alerts for potential wound infections.
## W... | ## Inspiration
Have you ever wanted to listen to music based on how you’re feeling? Now, all you need to do is message MoodyBot a picture of yourself or text your mood, and you can listen to the Spotify playlist MoodyBot provides. Whether you’re feeling sad, happy, or frustrated, MoodyBot can help you find music that ... | ## Problem Statement
As the number of the elderly population is constantly growing, there is an increasing demand for home care. In fact, the market for safety and security solutions in the healthcare sector is estimated to reach $40.1 billion by 2025.
The elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people face a constant risk ... | partial |
## Inspiration
In a fast-paced Agile work environment, scrum meetings are organized to maximize efficiency. However, meetings that are supposed to last less than 15 minutes can often drag on for much longer, consequently draining valuable time.
## What it does
Kong is a voice-enabled project management assistant. It... | ## Inspiration
As software engineers, we constantly seek ways to optimize efficiency and productivity. While we thrive on tackling challenging problems, sometimes we need assistance or a nudge to remember that support is available. Our app assists engineers by monitoring their states and employs Machine Learning to pr... | ## Inspiration
Imagine: A major earthquake hits. Thousands call 911 simultaneously. In the call center, a handful of operators face an impossible task. Every line is ringing. Every second counts. There aren't enough people to answer every call.
This isn't just hypothetical. It's a real risk in today's emergency servic... | losing |
## Inspiration
Have you ever wondered if your outfit looks good on you? Have you ever wished you did not have to spend so much time trying on your whole closet, taking a photo of yourself and sending it to your friends for some advice? Have you ever wished you had worn a jacket because it was much windier than you tho... | ## Inspiration
As young adults, we're navigating the new waves of independence and university life, juggling numerous responsibilities and a busy schedule. Amidst the hustle, we often struggle to keep track of everything, including our groceries. It's all too common for food to get pushed to the back of the fridge, on... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by the learning incentives offered by Duolingo, and an idea from a real customer (Shray's 9 year old cousin), we wanted to **elevate the learning experience by integrating modern technologies**, incentivizing students to learn better and teaching them about different school subjects, AI, and NF... | losing |
## 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... | ## The Problem
Gift giving plays a significant role in society. From busy seasons like the winter holidays, to birthdays, individuals are always asked: what can I get you? Communicating these wants clearly and simply is not easy. There are lists across multiple online retailers, but beyond that there was no simple, se... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to make the world a better place by giving patients control over their own data and allow easy and intelligent access of patient data.
## What it does
We have built an intelligent medical record solution where we provide insights on reports saved in the application and also make the personal... | winning |
## 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
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
At the heart of our creation lies a profound belief in the power of genuine connections. Our project was born from the desire to create a safe space for authentic conversations, fostering empathy, understanding, and support. In a fast-paced, rapidly changing world, it is important for individuals to ide... | partial |
## Inspiration
Whenever you want to learn something new, there's always an initial wall, a barrier, that needs to be surpassed. How? How do you approach learning this thing? What part of it do you learn first? What do you need to know, in order to be proficient?
We've all faced this problem when we've become interest... | ## Inspiration
Our team was inspired specifically by our schools Intelligent Systems book, "Statistical Machine Learning, A Unified Framework" by Richard Golden. The book has amazing insights on building machine learning models from the ground up, but the first time we opened the book we were immediately overwhelmed b... | ## \*\* Internet of Things 4 Diabetic Patient Care \*\*
## The Story Behind Our Device
One team member, from his foot doctor, heard of a story of a diabetic patient who almost lost his foot due to an untreated foot infection after stepping on a foreign object. Another team member came across a competitive shooter who... | losing |
## Inspiration 🤔
The brain, the body's command center, orchestrates every function, but damage to this vital organ in contact sports often goes unnoticed. Studies show that 99% of football players are diagnosed with CTE, 87% of boxers have experienced at least one concussion, and 15-30% of hockey injuries are brain-r... | ## Inspiration
We built an AI-powered physical trainer/therapist that provides real-time feedback and companionship as you exercise.
With the rise of digitization, people are spending more time indoors, leading to increasing trends of obesity and inactivity. We wanted to make it easier for people to get into health a... | ## Inspiration
As avid cyclists who are interested in wearable tech, this idea came naturally to us. After stumbling upon a news article, we were shocked to discover that nearly 8000 canadian cyclists are seriously injured each year. 1 in 3 of all cyclist deaths occur in poor lighting conditions. We knew that we could... | winning |
Live Demo Link: <https://www.youtube.com/live/I5dP9mbnx4M?si=ESRjp7SjMIVj9ACF&t=5959>
## Inspiration
We all fall victim to impulse buying and online shopping sprees... especially in the first few weeks of university. A simple budgeting tool or promising ourselves to spend less just doesn't work anymore. Sometimes we ... | ## Inspiration
One of our team members was stunned by the number of colleagues who became self-described "shopaholics" during the pandemic. Understanding their wishes to return to normal spending habits, we thought of a helper extension to keep them on the right track.
## What it does
Stop impulse shopping at its co... | ## Inspiration
Lyft's round up and donate system really inspired us here.
We wanted to find a way to benefit both users and help society. We all want to give back somehow, but don't know how sometimes or maybe we want to donate, but don't really know how much to give back or if we could afford it.
We wanted an easy ... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to create a tool that would improve the experience of all users of the internet, not just technically proficient ones. Once fully realized, our system could allow groups such as blind people and the elderly a great deal of utility, as it allows for navigation by simple voice command with only ... | ## Inspiration
After growing up learning programming concepts from great tools such as Scratch, Logo and Processing, we realised the power but also the limitations of using visual feedback to make learning programming more rewarding.
Tools like these and many others, rely on visual mediums to communicate core program... | ## Inspiration
Informa’s customers want to understand what new technologies will be most relevant to their businesses. This is also more “hype” around technologies. Therefore, it is increasingly important for companies to stay informed about emerging technologies.
## What it does
Marble Grapes display the most relev... | losing |
## Inspiration
The three of us all love music and podcasts. Coming from very diverse backgrounds, we all enjoy listening to content from a variety of places all around the globe. We wanted to design a platform where users can easily find new content from anywhere to enable cultural interconnectivity.
## What it does
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As college students learning to be socially responsible global citizens, we realized that it's important for all community members to feel a sense of ownership, responsibility, and equal access toward shared public spaces. Often, our interactions with public spaces inspire us to take action to help othe... | 
## Inspiration
Social anxiety affects hundreds of thousands of people and can negatively impact social interaction and mental health. Around campuses and schools, we were inspired by bulletin boar... | winning |
## What inspired you?
The inspiration behind this project came from my grandmother, who has struggled with poor vision for years. Growing up, I witnessed firsthand how her limited sight made daily tasks and walking in unfamiliar environments increasingly difficult for her. I remember one specific instance when she tri... | ## Inspiration
The current landscape of data aggregation for ML models relies heavily on centralized platforms, such as Roboflow and Kaggle. This causes an overreliance on invalidated human-volunteered data. Billions of dollars worth of information is unused, resulting in unnecessary inefficiencies and challenges in t... | ## Inspiration
After a brutal Achilles tear and weeks in bed, one of our teammate’s moms re-tore her Achilles after a fall from a mobility scooter, similar to our walker. Luckily, she was at home when the re-injury occurred and could get help from family. Not everyone is so lucky, and this incident got us thinking abo... | partial |
## Inspiration
Have you ever wanted to search something, but aren't connected to the internet? Data plans too expensive, but you really need to figure something out online quick? Us too, and that's why we created an application that allows you to search the internet without being connected.
## What it does
Text your... | ## Inspiration
Our mission is to foster a **culture of understanding**. A culture where people of diverse backgrounds get to truly *connect* with each other. But, how can we reduce the barriers that exists today and make the world more inclusive?
Our solution is to bridge the communication gap of **people with differe... | ## Inspiration
You don't have Internet connection, but you want to use Bing anyway cuz you're a hopeless Internet addict.
Or you want to find cheap hotel deals. HotlineBing can help.
## What it does
Allows you to use Bing via text messaging, search for hotel deals using natural language (that's right no prompts) usi... | winning |
## Inspiration
I dreamed about the day we would use vaccine passports to travel long before the mRNA vaccines even reached clinical trials. I was just another individual, fortunate enough to experience stability during an unstable time, having a home to feel safe in during this scary time. It was only when I started t... | ## Inspiration
It took us a while to think of an idea for this project- after a long day of zoom school, we sat down on Friday with very little motivation to do work. As we pushed through this lack of drive our friends in the other room would offer little encouragements to keep us going and we started to realize just ... | ## Inspiration
Our team identified two intertwined health problems in developing countries:
1) Lack of easy-to-obtain medical advice due to economic, social and geographic problems, and
2) Difficulty of public health data collection in rural communities.
This weekend, we built SMS Doc, a single platform to help sol... | partial |
## Inspiration
We are a team of goofy engineers and we love making people laugh. As Western students (and a stray Waterloo engineer), we believe it's important to have a good time. We wanted to make this game to give people a reason to make funny faces more often.
## What it does
We use OpenCV to analyze webcam inpu... | ## Inspiration
The beginnings of this idea came from long road trips. When driving having good
visibility is very important. When driving into the sun, the sun visor never seemed
to be able to actually cover the sun. When driving at night, the headlights of
oncoming cars made for a few moments of dangerous low visibil... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for OdinCare AI comes from the high costs and scheduling challenges associated with traditional healthcare. The goal is to provide an AI-powered doctor that allows users to report their day-to-day health status and receive AI-based recommendations and diagnostics.
## What it does
OdinC... | winning |
## Inspiration 💡
The inspiration behind Songsnap came from the desire to combine the nostalgia of photos with the emotional resonance of music. We wanted to create a tool that could analyze the visual elements of a photo and curate a Spotify playlist that captures the essence of the scene depicted.
## What it does �... | ## Inspiration : A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words (Songs)?
Our team wanted to connect to the intangible parts of the music listening experience.
We were inspired by the feeling of walking down the street on a particularly beautiful day and want some music to match the mood you're in. Do you ever feel like a pictur... | # Nexus, **Empowering Voices, Creating Connections**.
## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project, Nexus, comes from our experience as individuals with unique interests and challenges. Often, it isn't easy to meet others with these interests or who can relate to our challenges through traditional social media plat... | losing |
# Pose-Bot
### Inspiration ⚡
**In these difficult times, where everyone is forced to work remotely and with the mode of schools and colleges going digital, students are
spending time on the screen than ever before, it not only affects student but also employees who have to sit for hours in front of the screen. Prolon... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
The pandemic has affected the health of billions worldwide, and not just through COVID-19. Studies have shown a worrying decrease in physical activity due to quarantining and the closure of clubs, sports, and gyms. Not only does this discourage an active lifestyle, but it can also lead to serious injuri... | winning |
## Inspiration
As the demand for developers increases worldwide, providing high quality learning resources is critical for beginners in coding. However, the majority of programming resources are written in English, which may introduce a potential language barrier for individuals that do not have English as a first lan... | ## Inspiration
Coding in Spanish is hard. Specifically, Carol had to work in Spanish while contributing to One Laptop per Child, but non-English speakers have this barrier every day. Around the world, many international collaborators work on open and closed source projects but in many cases, this language barrier can ... | ## AI, AI, AI...
The number of projects using LLMs has skyrocketed with the wave of artificial intelligence. But what if you *were* the AI, tasked with fulfilling countless orders and managing requests in real time? Welcome to chatgpME, a fast-paced, chaotic game where you step into the role of an AI who has to juggle... | partial |
## Inspiration
Recently, character experiences powered by LLMs have become extremely popular. latforms like Character.AI, boasting 54M monthly active users and a staggering 230M monthly visits, are a testament to this trend. Yet, despite these figures, most experiences in the market offer text-to-text interfaces with ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the idea that the **Metaverse is inevitable** and will impact **every aspect** of society.
The Metaverse has recently gained lots of traction with **tech giants** like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft investing into it.
Furthermore, the pandemic has **shifted our real-world e... | ## Inspiration
As a video game lover and someone that's been working with Gen AI and LLMs for a while, I really wanted to see what combining both in complex and creative ways could lead to. I truly believe that not too far in the future we'll be able to explore worlds in RPGs where the non-playable-characters feel imm... | winning |
## Inspiration
The upcoming election season is predicted to be drowned out by mass influx of fake news. Deepfakes are a new method to impersonate famous figures saying fictional things, and could be particularly influential in the outcome of this and future elections. With international misinformation becoming more co... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to allow financial investors and people of political backgrounds to save valuable time reading financial and political articles by showing them what truly matters in the article, while highlighting the author's personal sentimental/political biases.
We also wanted to promote objectivity and ne... | ## Inspiration
Everybody eats and in college if you are taking difficult classes it is often challenging to hold a job. Therefore as college students we have no income during the year. Our inspiration came as we have moved off campus this year to live in apartments with full kitchens but the lack of funds to make comp... | winning |
## Inspiration
Ethan: I have a fiery passion for the fields of AI, Nutrition, and Neuroscience, which led to an attempt to work together to create a tool for those who may not share the same passion, but share the same, well... anatomy & biology who can also benefit.
I brought my expertise from my current work as a Sc... | ## Inspiration
In our busy lives, many of us forget to eat, overeat, or eat just enough- but not necessarily with a well-balanced composition of food groups. Researching precise nutrition values can be a hassle - so we set out to make an app that helps people too busy with their careers to balance their diets.
## Wha... | ## Inspiration
Gun violence is a dire problem in the United States. When looking at case studies of mass shootings in the US, there is often surveillance footage of the shooter *with their firearm* **before** they started to attack. That's both the problem and the solution. Right now, surveillance footage is used as a... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration emanated from a collective belief in the power of sustainable fashion to bring about impactful change and contribute to the preservation of our planet. The core idea was rooted in the profound understanding that each decision we make, especially in the realm of fashion, holds the potenti... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration was the recent heatwave, a byproduct of the global warming that has been happening over the past few decades. As an individual, it is difficult to make substanstial change in the fight against climate change. The issues are highly systemic and influenced by large corporations who's energ... | ## 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 ... | losing |
## Inspiration
In recent times, we have witnessed undescribable tragedy occur during the war in Ukraine. The way of life of many citizens has been forever changed. In particular, the attacks on civilian structures have left cities covered in debris and people searching for their missing loved ones. As a team of engine... | ## 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
While on our way to McHacks, we watched the movie Lion (2016). This showed us the huge problems refugees and their families experience when they are constantly separated with little to no way of reconnecting with one another.
Past data depicts that a lot of kids get lost and are separated from the fami... | winning |
## Inspiration
One issue that we all seem to face is interpreting large sensor-based datasets. Whether it be financial or environmental data, we saw an opportunity to use LLMs to allow for better understanding of big data. As a proof of concept, taking care of a house plant or gardens was interesting because we could ... | ## Inspiration
Greenhouses require increased disease control and need to closely monitor their plants to ensure they're healthy. In particular, the project aims to capitalize on the recent cannabis interest.
## What it Does
It's a sensor system composed of cameras, temperature and humidity sensors layered with smart... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project stemmed from our deep-rooted passion for cryptocurrency trading and the insatiable curiosity surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in finance. With the cryptocurrency market's volatility, we saw an opportunity to marry data science and trading to create a robust, AI-p... | winning |
## 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
Every day, more than 130 people in the United States alone die from an overdose of opioids, which includes prescription painkillers and other addictive drugs. The rate of opioid abuse has been rising steadily since the 1990s and has developed into a serious public health problem since. Roughly 21-29 per... | ## Inspiration
Do you remember what’s in your fridge and why you bought it?
Fridges have remained as a “white box” for centuries, and with IoT and image classification technologies, it has still remained the same despite some unsuccessful attempts like the expensive Samsung Family Hub.
We want to create a cheap IoT ... | partial |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for this project likely comes from the need to create a music platform that addresses **privacy**, **safety**, and plagiarism concerns. By storing music on a **blockchain database**, the platform ensures that users' music is safe and secure and cannot be tampered with or stolen. In addit... | ## Inspiration
Over the past year I'd encountered plenty of Spotify related websites that would list your stats, but none of them allowed me to compare my taste with my friends, which I found to be the most fun aspect of music. So, for this project I set out to make a website that would allow users to compare their mu... | ## Inspiration
Each year, art forgery causes over **$6 billion in losses**. Museums, for example, cannot afford such detrimental costs. In an industry that has spanned centuries, it is crucial that transactions of art pieces can be completed securely and confidently.
Introducing **Artful, a virtual marketplace for ph... | losing |
## 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... | ## Intro and Idea
For our team of First Year UofT Engineering Science students, this was our first Makeathon and first project as a team. We have varying ranges of experience with software and hardware within our team and decided to approach this competition as both a challenge, and a learning experience.
After a cou... | ## Inspiration
Like most university students, we understand and experience the turbulence that comes with relocating every 4 months due to coop sequences while keeping personal spendings to a minimum. It is essential for students to be able to obtain an affordable and effortless way to release their stresses and have ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Jeremy, one of our group members, always buys new house plants with excitement and confidence that he will take care of them this time.. He unfortunately disregards his plant every time, though, and lets it die within three weeks. We decided to give our plant a persona, and give him frequent reminders w... | ## Inspiration
Typically plants in nature have little control over their own fate; organism growth is constrained by physical and environmental factors. Based on ambient sensor data as well as plant-specific information, we can better understand the state of the organism and adjust its spatial position and water level... | ## 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 |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by the fact that **diversity in disability is often overlooked** - individuals who are hard-of-hearing or deaf and use **American Sign Language** do not have many tools that support them in learning their language. Because of the visual nature of ASL, it's difficult to translate between... | Currently, about 600,000 people in the United States have some form of hearing impairment. Through personal experiences, we understand the guidance necessary to communicate with a person through ASL. Our software eliminates this and promotes a more connected community - one with a lower barrier entry for sign language ... | ## Inspiration
A week or so ago, Nyle DiMarco, the model/actor/deaf activist, visited my school and enlightened our students about how his experience as a deaf person was in shows like Dancing with the Stars (where he danced without hearing the music) and America's Next Top Model. Many people on those sets and in the ... | partial |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for Sabr ignited by the increasing prices of food. With food security becoming more prevalent in our society, we were determined to create an application that would help tie together local restaurants as well as the communities local to them in a way that corporate food delivery apps can... | ## What Inspired Us
As four young men navigating the complexities of modern life, we are empathetic to stark realities of the mental health challenges facing society today. As four students passionate about the power of data and technology, we are also well aware of the potential of the Internet of Things to inform ps... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to explore what GCP has to offer more in a practical sense, while trying to save money as poor students
## What it does
The app tracks you, and using Google Map's API, calculates a geofence that notifies the restaurants you are within vicinity to, and lets you load coupons that are valid.
#... | losing |
## 💡 Inspiration
**Waiting on the phone** can be a painful and tedious experience. Nothing is more annoying than hearing ***the same elevator song*** restart over and over... Why does a **mundane activity** that we all have to go through have to be so unproductive?
With the onset of the pandemic, people are calling ... | ## Inspiration
Climate change, deforestation. It is important to be able to track animals. This provides them with another layer of security and helps us see when there's something wrong. A change in migration patterns or sudden movements can indicate illegal activity.
## What it does
It is able to track movement an... | ## Inspiration
In today's fast-paced world, the average person often finds it challenging to keep up with the constant flow of news and financial updates. With demanding schedules and numerous responsibilities, many individuals simply don't have the time to sift through countless news articles and financial reports to... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were inspired to build Schmart after researching pain points within Grocery Shopping. We realized how difficult it is to stick your health goals or have a reduced environmental impact while grocery shopping. Inspired by innovative technlogy that exists, we wanted to create an app which would convenie... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
For many college students, finding time to socialize and make new friends is hard. Everyone's schedule seems perpetually busy, and arranging a dinner chat with someone you know can be a hard and unrewarding task. At the same time, however, having dinner alone is definitely not a rare thing. We've probab... | winning |
## Inspiration
Building and maintaining software is complex, time-consuming, and can quickly become expensive, especially as your application scales. Developers, particularly those in startups, often overspend on tools, cloud services, and server infrastructure without realizing it. In fact, nearly 40% of server costs... | # Inspiration
We’ve all been in a situation where collaborators’ strengths all lie in different areas, and finding “the perfect” team to work with is more difficult than expected. We wanted to make something that could help us find people with similar strengths without painstakingly scouring dozens of github accounts.... | The kidneys are a pair of bean-shaped organs on either side of your spine, below your ribs and behind your belly. Each kidney is about 4 or 5 inches long, roughly the size of a large fist. The kidneys' job is to filter your blood.They remove wastes, control the body's fluid balance, and keep the right levels of electro... | partial |
## Inspiration
A cultural obsession with cute animal videos and fluffy creatures doing human things drastically contrasts with the amount of irresponsible pet ownership, animal rights violations, and significant populations of abandoned pets in American cities. As we head into a future with an widening wealth gap, it ... | ## Inspiration
When we heard about using food as a means of love and connection from Otsuka x VALUENEX’s Opening Ceremony presentation, our team was instantly inspired to create something that would connect Asian American Gen Z with our cultural roots and immigrant parents. Recently, there has been a surge of instant ... | ## Inspiration
Every year, 7.6 million animals enter shelters, and approximately 2.7 million animals are euthanized. In addition, a large barrier to pet adoptions is the set of hidden fees and costs that are required to properly adopt (e.g. splaying and neutering, veterinary visits, microchipping, etc). We wanted to i... | partial |
# InstaQuote
InstaQuote is an SMS based service that allows users to get a new car insurance quote without the hassle of calling their insurance provider and waiting in a long queue.
# What Inspired You
We wanted a more convenient way to get a quote on auto-insurance in the event of a change within your driver profi... | ## Inspiration
We were heavily focused on the machine learning aspect and realized that we lacked any datasets which could be used to train a model. So we tried to figure out what kind of activity which might impact insurance rates that we could also collect data for right from the equipment which we had.
## What it ... | ## Inspiration
After conducting extensive internal and external market research, our team discovered that customer experience is one of the biggest challenges the insurance industry faces. With the rapid increase in digitalization, **customers are seeking faster and higher quality services** where they can find answer... | winning |
## Inspiration
Ethiscan was inspired by a fellow member of our Computer Science club here at Chapman who was looking for a way to drive social change and promote ethical consumerism.
## What it does
Ethiscan reads a barcode from a product and looks up the manufacturer and information about the company to provide con... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
Meet Josh. It is his first hackathon. During his first hack, he notices that there is a lot of litter around his work area. From cans to water bottles to everything else in between, there was a lot of garbage. He realizes that hackathons are a great place to create something that can impact and change p... | winning |
## About the Project
We are a bunch of amateur players who love playing chess, but over time we noticed that our improvement has become stagnant. Like many college students, we neither have the time nor the financial means to invest in professional coaching to take our game to the next level. This frustration sparked ... | ## Inspiration
We took inspiration from our experience of how education can be hard. Studies conducted by EdX show that classes that teach quantitative subjects like Mathematics and Physics tend to receive lower ratings from students in terms of engagement and educational capacity than their qualitative counterparts. ... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind Memory Melody stemmed from a shared desire to evoke nostalgic feelings and create a sense of connection through familiar tunes and visual memories. We've all experienced moments of trying to recall a forgotten show, the sensation of déjà vu, or the longing to revisit simpler times... | partial |
## Inspiration
We love to travel and have found that we typically have to use multiple sources in the process of creating an itinerary. With Path Planner, the user can get their whole tripped planned for them in one place.
## What it does
Build you an itinerary for any destination you desire
## How we built it
Usi... | ## Inspiration
There are 1.1 billion people without Official Identity (ID). Without this proof of identity, they can't get access to basic financial and medical services, and often face many human rights offences, due the lack of accountability.
The concept of a Digital Identity is extremely powerful.
In Estonia, for... | ## Inspiration
Ever sit through a long and excruciating video like a lecture or documentary? Is 2x speed too slow for youtube? TL;DW
## What it does
Just put in the link to the YouTube video you are watching, then wait as our Revlo and NLTK powered backend does natural language processing to give you the GIFs from G... | winning |
Plenty of people hope to travel and explore the world, and it's no surprise that traveling often ends up on bucket lists. However, flights are expensive, and trying to figure out when and to where airline tickets will be cheapest is exhausting.
Our project, Dream-Flight, hopes to make this process easier. By creating ... | ## 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... | # Get the Flight Out helps you GTFO ASAP
## Inspiration
Constantly stuck in meetings, classes, exams, work, with nowhere to go, we started to think. What if we could just press a button, and in a few hours, go somewhere awesome? It doesn't matter where, as long as its not here. We'd need a plane ticket, a ride to the... | 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
Imagine: A major earthquake hits. Thousands call 911 simultaneously. In the call center, a handful of operators face an impossible task. Every line is ringing. Every second counts. There aren't enough people to answer every call.
This isn't just hypothetical. It's a real risk in today's emergency servic... | ## Inspiration
I was walking in downtown Toronto on a bright summer day. I look around me at the view, and then the people, but something was wrong... the people seemed to be missing. The city seemed... Empty.
Everyone was looking down on their phone and living their own personal bubble.
I found it so ironic that te... | winning |
## Inspiration
It's too easy today to be focused on only the bad news and events of the world. In addition, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is unfortunately common to feel increasingly isolated from others. That's why we wanted to create Memo(rable)—a website that allows people to feel connected to others by s... | ## Inspiration
When I was 14 years old, I, Carlos, faced one of the most terrifying moments of my life -- my friend attempting suicide. Fortunately, nothing bad happened. But it is those moments when you contemplate the frightening nature of suicide.
After dealing with this situation, and through the years, I heard a ... | ## Inspiration 🌟
Nostalgia comes through small items that trigger our sweet old memories. It reminds us of simpler times when a sticky note was all we needed to remember something important and have fun. Those satisfying moments of peeling the last layer of the memo pad, the embarrassing history of putting online pas... | losing |
## Inspiration
As a startup founder, it is often difficult to raise money, but the amount of equity that is given up can be alarming for people who are unsure if they want the gasoline of traditional venture capital. With VentureBits, startup founders take a royalty deal and dictate exactly the amount of money they ar... | ## 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
Amid the fast-paced rhythm of university life at Waterloo, one universal experience ties us all together: the geese. Whether you've encountered them on your way to class, been woken up by honking at 7 am, or spent your days trying to bypass flocks of geese during nesting season, the geese have establish... | winning |
## Inspiration
Walk from home due to the pandemic more or less decreases our productivity. Hence, we need some boosters.
## What it does
Players can rasie cat in the game by finishing their checklists everyday.
## How we built it
Via sacrificing sleep time and using react.js.
## Challenges we ran into
Lack of ti... | ## Inspiration
Reflecting on 2020, we were challenged with a lot of new experiences, such as online school. Hearing a lot of stories from our friends, as well as our own experiences, doing everything from home can be very distracting. Looking at a computer screen for such a long period of time can be difficult for man... | ## Inspiration
Our game stems from the current global pandemic we are grappling with and the importance of getting vaccinated. As many of our loved ones are getting sick, we believe it is important to stress the effectiveness of vaccines and staying protected from Covid in a fun and engaging game.
## What it does
An... | partial |
## 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... | ## Inspiration
We message each other every day but don't know the sheer distances that these messages have to travel. As our world becomes more interconnected, we wanted a way to appreciate the journeys all of our communications go through around the globe.
We also wanted to democratize the ability to fact check news... | ## Inspiration
Living a healthy and balanced life style comes with many challenges. There were three primary challenges we sought to resolve with this hack.
* the knowledge barrier | *“I want to work out, but I don’t exactly know what to do”*
* the schedule barrier | *“I don’t know when to workout or for how long. I ... | partial |
## Inspiration–“💀” “that’s crazy” “lmao” just say you’re not funny.
The group chat is firing up. Messages are flying at Mach 3. Before you know it, a meme war has ensued, and you have no good response in your arsenal. Lucky for you, ChatMe-meT does.
## Explanation–As Easy as 1-2-Meme
ChatMe-meT is a Google Chrome e... | ## Inspiration
Going to the bathroom in the public is already not the most pleasant experience for everyone, but having to overcome inclusivity barriers such as looking for a unisex bathroom or one with wheelchair access makes the experience even more difficult. We wanted to create an application that makes going to t... | ## Inspiration
AI voices are stale and impersonal. Chrome extensions like "Free Text To Speech Online" use default voices to read text messages on the web out loud. While these default voices excel in cadence and clarity, they miss the nuance and emotion inherent in human speech. This emotional connection is important... | losing |
## Inspiration
Scrolling through a Facebook feed, you find countless articles written by big-name papers and third party sources that feed readers fake or biased news. The goal of this project was to counteract that by getting rid of the big names all together. The Root is a platform where users can get real-time news... | ## Inspiration
As a group of university students from across North America, COVID-19 has put into perspective the uncertainty and instability that comes with online education. To ease this transition, we were inspired to create Notate — an unparalleled speech-to-text transcription platform backed by the power of Googl... | ## Inspiration
The prevalence of fake news has been on the rise. It has led to the public's inability to receive accurate information and has placed a heightened amount of distrust on the media. With it being easier than ever to propagate and spread information, the line between what is fact and fiction has become blu... | losing |
## Inspiration
After observing different hardware options, the dust sensor was especially outstanding in its versatility and struck us as exotic. Dust-particulates in our breaths are an ever present threat that is too often overlooked and the importance of raising awareness for this issue became apparent. But retainin... | ## Inspiration
As the demand for developers increases worldwide, providing high quality learning resources is critical for beginners in coding. However, the majority of programming resources are written in English, which may introduce a potential language barrier for individuals that do not have English as a first lan... | ## Inspiration
Jeremy, one of our group members, always buys new house plants with excitement and confidence that he will take care of them this time.. He unfortunately disregards his plant every time, though, and lets it die within three weeks. We decided to give our plant a persona, and give him frequent reminders w... | partial |
## Inspiration
Plan to participate in driving course
## What it does
Recognize the traffic sign, (currently only with stop sign and school zone sign)
## How I built it
Unity with AR vuforia
## Challenges I ran into
Unity Location Service is not accurate
Looks good on the computer and looks bad on the phone
It is... | # 🎶 SongSmith | New remixes at your *fingertips*! 🎶
SongSmith is your one-stop-shop to **create new remixes from your favourite songs!** 🎼
**State-of-the-art AI Machine Learning Neural Networks** are used to generate remixes with similar styles🎨 to your best-loved songs🎶.
**📚Discover! 👨🎤Inspire! 🎧Listen! S... | # 🎯 The Project Story
### 🔍 **About Vanguard**
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, **cybersecurity** is not just important—it's essential! As threats multiply and evolve, security teams need tools that are **agile**, **compact**, and **powerful**. Enter **Vanguard**, our groundbreaking Raspberry Pi-powered vul... | losing |
## Inspiration
We decided to create this project out of a personal want; A want to enhance relaxation at home. With Online Schooling and Quarantine, we have spent an increasing amount of time in our rooms constantly studying. To avoid the stresses of school, what’s better than some chill vibes? Introducing, Mood Light... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to provide an easy, interactive, and ultimately fun way to learn American Sign Language (ASL). We had the opportunity to work with the Leap Motion hardware which allowed us to track intricate real-time data surrounding hand movements. Using this data, we thought we would be able to decipher co... | ## Inspiration
Our team wanted to make a smart power bar device to tackle the challenge of phantom power consumption. Phantom power is the power consumed by devices when they are plugged in and idle, accounting for approximately 10% of a home’s power consumption. [1] The best solution for this so far has been for user... | partial |
### Overview
Resililink is a node-based mesh network leveraging LoRa technology to facilitate communication in disaster-prone regions where traditional infrastructure, such as cell towers and internet services, is unavailable. The system is designed to operate in low-power environments and cover long distances, ensuri... | **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... | ## Inspiration
We all realized that in situations where it is necessary to track the safety of individuals in a group trek by knowing if they are not hurt, have a healthy body temperature, and are not very far from the group (desired location). So, we decided to make a wristband for the purpose of a large, group trek ... | winning |
## Inspiration
According to the National Council on Aging, every 11 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency room for falling, and every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from a fall. A third of Americans over the age of 65 accidentally fall each year, and this is estimated to cost more than $67.7 billion by ... | ## Inspiration
Quarantine drove many of us to streaming platforms such as Netflix and Hulu. We wanted to bring a unique spin to recommending new movies to watch, reminiscent of the bookstores that wrap their books so you can't see their covers. Using our project provides you with just a limited summary of the movie, m... | ## Inspiration
Greenhouses require increased disease control and need to closely monitor their plants to ensure they're healthy. In particular, the project aims to capitalize on the recent cannabis interest.
## What it Does
It's a sensor system composed of cameras, temperature and humidity sensors layered with smart... | losing |
## 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... | ## What it does
Uses machine learning sentiment analysis algorithms to determine the positive or negative characteristics of a comment or tweet from social media. This was use in large numbers to generate a meaningful average score for the popularity of any arbitrary search query.
## How we built it
Python was a cor... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to allow financial investors and people of political backgrounds to save valuable time reading financial and political articles by showing them what truly matters in the article, while highlighting the author's personal sentimental/political biases.
We also wanted to promote objectivity and ne... | partial |
## NOTE:
Received 2nd Place prize as well for Top Data Visualization from Qualtrics Inc. and two honourable mentions for best use of history in a hack and user interface.
## What it does
Finalytics is an all in one dashboard for financial portfolio visualization, analytics, and optimization. The platform makes it ea... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to bring financial literacy into being a part of your everyday life while also bringing in futuristic applications such as augmented reality to really motivate people into learning about finance and business every day. We were looking at a fintech solution that didn't look towards enabling fin... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our good friend's uncle was involved in a nearly-fatal injury. This led to him becoming deaf-blind at a very young age, without many ways to communicate with others. To help people like our friend's uncle, we decided to create HapticSpeak, a communication tool that transcends traditional barriers. As we... | ## Inspiration
As roommates, we found that keeping track of our weekly chore schedule and house expenses was a tedious process, more tedious than we initially figured.
Though we created a Google Doc to share among us to keep the weekly rotation in line with everyone, manually updating this became hectic and cumbersom... | ## Inspiration
Helping people who are visually and/or hearing impaired to have better and safer interactions.
## What it does
The sensor beeps when the user comes too close to an object or too close to a hot beverage/food.
The sign language recognition system translates sign language from a hearing impaired individu... | partial |
## Inspiration
Imagine: A major earthquake hits. Thousands call 911 simultaneously. In the call center, a handful of operators face an impossible task. Every line is ringing. Every second counts. There aren't enough people to answer every call.
This isn't just hypothetical. It's a real risk in today's emergency servic... | ## 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... | ## 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... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to make a simple product that sharpens blurry images without a lot of code! This could be used as a preprocessing step for image recognition or a variety of other image processing tasks. It can also be used as a standalone product to enhance old images.
## What it does
Our product takes blur... | ## Inspiration
I like looking at things. I do not enjoy bad quality videos . I do not enjoy waiting. My CPU is a lazy fool. He just lays there like a drunkard on new years eve. My poor router has a heart attack every other day so I can stream the latest Kylie Jenner video blog post, or has the kids these days call it,... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to build a technical app that is actually useful. Scott Forestall's talk at the opening ceremony really spoke to each of us, and we decided then to create something that would not only show off our technological skill but also actually be useful. Going to the doctor is inconvenient and not usu... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to build something fun, yet also challenges our ability to learn new material. We decided to take the game of Minesweeper, which has been around forever, and make it more accessible, more exciting, and more challenging.
## What it does
Much of the gameplay is the same. You right-click to fla... | ## Minesweeper Battle: Inspiration
Minesweeper is a classic, nostalgic, game that has stood the test of time. But while it may be fun, it can boring alone. As a single player game, the grid is fixed at the very beginning, and involves a slow, systematic deduction process to find all the mines in the grid. What if we c... | ## Inspiration
The world is constantly chasing after smartphones with bigger screens and smaller bezels. But why wait for costly display technology, and why get rid of old phones that work just fine? We wanted to build an app to create the effect of the big screen using the power of multiple small screens.
## What it... | losing |
## Inspiration
The transition to online schooling has made it difficult for students to work with friends. The decrease in communications among students has left them feeling lost in this challenging time. Thus to solve the lack of emotional support, we have decided to create this web app that aids and encourages the ... | ## Objective
We want to make people go further, together! Our application aims to create a friendly competitive environment for an entire organization. Each time an employee completes a task, points are given based on how much time it took to complete it. But, most importantly, if you cooperated with another departmen... | ## 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... | losing |
Our journey as a diverse group of students with backgrounds from Morocco, Ghana, Afghanistan, and China brought us to HackHarvard with a shared desire to make an impact on the world of healthcare. Our experiences and those of our parents, who come from various parts of the world, made us acutely aware of the gaps in he... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for our hackathon idea stemmed from an experience observed by one of our team members who had recently been to the hospital. They noticed the numerous amount of staff required at every entrance to ensure that patients and visitors had their masks on properly, as well as asking COVID-19 s... | ## Care Me
**Overworked nurses are linked with a 40 percent of risk of death in patients**
Our solution automates menial tasks like serving food and water, so medical professionals can focus on the important human-necessary interactions. It uses a robotic delivery system which acts autonomously based on voice recogni... | losing |
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