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## Inspiration
We were inspired to create Eco Kitty by the pressing need to educate children about environmental issues in an engaging and accessible way. We realized that many kids are naturally curious about nature and the world around them, but often find traditional environmental education boring or difficult to u... | ## Inspiration
We thought about this when we wanted to match the audio with video footage, which has a wide variety of applications that includes aiding the deaf.
## What it does
It uses CNN-LSTM neural networks (or deep learning) in order to be able to identify what someone is saying just by reading their lips. It ... | ## Inspiration
Because of covid-19 and the holiday season, we are getting increasingly guilty over the carbon footprint caused by our online shopping. This is not a coincidence, Amazon along contributed over 55.17 million tonnes of CO2 in 2019 alone, the equivalent of 13 coal power plants.
We have seen many carbon fo... | losing |
# yhack
JuxtaFeeling is a Flask web application that visualizes the varying emotions between two different people having a conversation through our interactive graphs and probability data. By using the Vokaturi, IBM Watson, and Indicoio APIs, we were able to analyze both written text and audio clips to detect the emot... | ## Inspiration
We are very interested in the idea of making computer understand human’s feeling from Mirum challenge. We apply this idea on calling center where customer support can’t see customers’ faces via phone calls or messages. Enabling the analysis of the emotional tone of consumers can help customer support un... | ## What it does
Our application provides a platform for training students for practical courses using augmented reality with hand-eye coordination. We focus mainly on welding, plumbing, and electrician courses which require labs that may not be available all the time in rural areas.
## How we built it
We built the e... | winning |
# kinect-the-blind
The purpose of our hack is so that a blind person can attach the wearable Kinect/motor combination onto their body. How it works is that if a person is walking and is within 50 centimeters of an obstacle, the connected motors will commence whirring to let the user know that they must switch their co... | Got tech is-shoes?(Issues) we solve them for you : P
## Inspiration
Recognizing the shortage of advanced technology for individuals with visual impairments, we want to create a project that will benefit this community and create more inclusive and user-friendly innovations.
We noticed that the more advanced tech for... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
**Animals 🐻 are everywhere**, right? Even in Philadelphia, where we have everything from snakes to Coyotes to Bobcats. Though some animals are a man's best friend, like your very own dog, some are the best enemies as well. Humans and nature are always in conflict.
Now, the mess gets worse. Humans are ... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the retro movie Tron and a love for all things racing.
## What it does
DEREZ combines the thrill of first person view car racing with the power of mixed reality. How it works is we are able to render an augmented reality race course for an RC var, visible through an Oculus Rift. Th... | ## Inspiration
Some things can only be understood through experience, and Virtual Reality is the perfect medium for providing new experiences. VR allows for complete control over vision, hearing, and perception in a virtual world, allowing our team to effectively alter the senses of immersed users. We wanted to manipu... | partial |
# better.me, AI Journaling
## Project Description
better.me is an AI journaling tool that helps you analyze your emotions and provide you with smart recommendations for your well being. We used NLP emotion analytics to process text data and incorporated a suicidal prevention algorithm that will help you make better i... | ## Inspiration
(<http://televisedrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/mr_robot.jpg>)
If you watch Mr. Robot, then you know that the main character, Elliot, deals with some pretty serious mental health issues. One of his therapeutic techniques is to write his thoughts on a private journal. They're great... they g... | ## 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... | winning |
## Inspiration
Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo... | ## Inspiration
With caffeine being a staple in almost every student’s lifestyle, many are unaware when it comes to the amount of caffeine in their drinks. Although a small dose of caffeine increases one’s ability to concentrate, higher doses may be detrimental to physical and mental health. This inspired us to create ... | ## Inspiration
Everyone loves to eat. But whether you’re a college student, a fitness enthusiast trying to supplement your gains, or have dietary restrictions, it can be hard to come up with meal ideas. LetMeCook is an innovative computer vision-powered web application that combines a scan of a user’s fridge or cupboa... | winning |
## Inspiration
During the past summer, we experienced the struggles of finding subletters for our apartment. Ads were posted in various locations, ranging from Facebook to WeChat. Our feeds were filled with other people looking for people to sublet as well. As a result, we decided to create Subletting Made Easy. We en... | # imHungry
## Inspiration
As Berkeley students we are always prioritizing our work over our health! Students often don't have as much time to go buy food. Why not pick a food for other students while buying your own food and make a quick buck? Or perhaps, place an order with a student who was already planning to head... | ## Being a university student during the pandemic is very difficult. Not being able to connect with peers, run study sessions with friends and experience university life can be challenging and demotivating. With no present implementation of a specific data base that allows students to meet people in their classes and b... | partial |
## Inspiration
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxuOxQzDN3Y>
Robbie's story stuck out to me at the endless limitations of technology. He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy which prevented him from having full control of his arms and legs. He was gifted with a Google home that crafted his home into a voice controlle... | ## Inspiration
We hate making resumes and customizing them for each employeer so we created a tool to speed that up.
## What it does
A user creates "blocks" which are saved. Then they can pick and choose which ones they want to use.
## How we built it
[Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)
[Express](https://expressjs.c... | ## Ark Platform for an IoT powered Local Currency
## Problem:
Many rural communities in America have been underinvested in our modern age. Even urban areas such as Detroit MI, and Scranton PA, have been left behind as their local economies struggle to reach a critical mass from which to grow. This underinvestment has... | winning |
## Inspiration
The Canadian economy has taken a tumble since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early March of this year. While these circumstances have affected all businesses from operating and staying open, local businesses have been the most affected.
Roughly **four in five Canadians** are worried that their favourite l... | ## Inspiration
Many low-income families and people without permanent homes in Canada are suffering from food shortages. Since 2017, it has been reported that on average, Canada throws away over 2 million tonnes of edible food per year.
Food waste is costly and damaging to the environment, while serving no purpose for ... | ## 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
We were motivated by the sheer number of cases in America where prescriptions go wrong. People re-use their old prescriptions by switching to a different ID, allowing for drug abuse issues. Other people have the prescription misinterpreted by the doctor or the pharmacist who fills the prescription. Thes... | ## Inspiration
Google Glass was, and always will be, one of the most magical advancements in wearable, intelligent technology. With recent advances in mobile processing power and computer vision techniques, the team was driven to combine ideas of the past with technologies of the present to solve complex, yet critical... | ## Inspiration
Every member of our team has needed medicine in the middle of the night, and realized that we’d run out. This might be okay for over-the-counter medicine like Tylenol, but for prescription medicines - especially those that offer critical, life-saving functionalities and must be taken on time - this is a... | losing |
## Inspiration
Let's be honest. Sometimes, we have a paper cup, and we look at both the trash can and the recycling bin. We might throw the paper cup away in the trash because the recycling is just a little further. I'm definitely a culprit.
Our team set out to invent a fun perception of recycling by creating a digit... | ## Inspiration
During extreme events such as natural disasters or virus outbreaks, crisis managers are the decision makers. Their job is difficult since the right decision can save lives while the wrong decision can lead to their loss. Making such decisions in real-time can be daunting when there is insufficient infor... | # Welcome to TrashCam 🚮🌍♻️
## Where the Confusion of Trash Sorting Disappears for Good
### The Problem 🌎
* ❓ Millions of people struggle with knowing how to properly dispose of their trash. Should it go in compost, recycling, or garbage?
* 🗑️ Misplaced waste is a major contributor to environmental pollution and ... | winning |
## OpenSing
This is a personal challenge to build something with a fierce team of 1 for a hackathon! I also wanted to improve my C++ skills along with learning the basics of OpenGL.
## What it does
Due to the use of C++ and OpenGL, OpenSing can be used on any platform it is compiled for. This means you can use it on... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration was to help learners, especially younger audiences to have motivation to learn a new language.
## What it does
In the game, the user has to save a balloon by popping(hence bop) by speaking to the computer the right color of the balloon right in a foreign language(in this case, french)
... | ## Inspiration
The intention behind NintAudio is, aside from recreating the feel of old arcade games, to offer new ways of exploring gaming. It was actually Xavier who came up with the idea, being interested in the accessibility of browsers; the question that naturally came next was "but what about video games?".
Thi... | losing |
## Inspiration
Kevin, one of our team members, is an enthusiastic basketball player, and frequently went to physiotherapy for a knee injury. He realized that a large part of the physiotherapy was actually away from the doctors' office - he needed to complete certain exercises with perfect form at home, in order to con... | ## 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... | # 🌟 Health Mate 🌟
## Your Personal Digital Health Assistant
## What it does 🤔
Health Mate is your comprehensive digital health assistant aimed at improving your well-being while working at your computer. It incorporates tools to track your posture, manage screen time, and promote healthier habits.
## Posture Cor... | winning |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from the famous subreddit r/place.
## What it does
Git-place is an interactive pixel art page on a GitHub repository. Anyone with a GitHub account can create pixel art on our projects README file.
## How we built it
The application was built using JavaScript, node, GitHub action... | ## Inspiration
We both came to the hackathon without a team and couldn't generate ideas about our project in the Hackathon. So we went to 9gag to look into memes and it suddenly struck us to make an Alexa skill that generates memes. The idea sounded cool and somewhat within our skill-sets so we went forward with it. W... | ## Inspiration
Nowadays, we have been using **all** sorts of development tools for web development, from the simplest of HTML, to all sorts of high-level libraries, such as Bootstrap and React. However, what if we turned back time, and relived the *nostalgic*, good old times of programming in the 60s? A world where th... | partial |
## HouseSearch - A NWHacks 2019 Project
Contributors: Stephen Yang and Justin Aujla
### Inspiration & Goals:
In the hectic environment of our modern day lives, buying a home has never been a more challenging and time-consuming task... At least, so I've been told. Hopefully, HouseSearch can help expedite the process ... | ## Inspiration
My friend and I needed to find an apartment in New York City during the Summer. We found it very difficult to look through multiple listing pages at once so we thought to make a bot to suggest apartments would be helpful. However, we did not stop there. We realized that we could also use Machine Learnin... | ## Inspiration
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... | partial |
## Inspiration
As university students, emergency funds may not be on the top of our priority list however, when the unexpected happens, we are often left wishing that we had saved for an emergency when we had the chance. When we thought about this as a team, we realized that the feeling of putting a set amount of mone... | ## Inspiration
Determined to create a project that was able to make impactful change, we sat and discussed together as a group our own lived experiences, thoughts, and opinions. We quickly realized the way that the lack of thorough sexual education in our adolescence greatly impacted each of us as we made the transiti... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to make investing more community based, accessible, and beneficial to society.
## What it does
Allows people to trade stocks by democratic voting, and donate their capital gains to charity.
## How I built it
We used React Native to build our app, and we used Expo to manage how we view, tes... | winning |
## Inspiration
My cousin recently had children, and as they enter their toddler years, I saw how they use their toys. They buy them, use them for a couple weeks, but then get bored. To be honest, however, I can't blame them. Currently, toys are used in one way, with no real interaction coming from both the child and t... | ## Inspiration 💡
Our inspiration for this project was to leverage new AI technologies such as text to image, text generation and natural language processing to enhance the education space. We wanted to harness the power of machine learning to inspire creativity and improve the way students learn and interact with edu... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by Katie's 3-month hospital stay as a child when she had a difficult-to-diagnose condition. During that time, she remembers being bored and scared -- there was nothing fun to do and no one to talk to. We also looked into the larger problem and realized that 10-15% of kids in hospitals d... | partial |
## Inspiration
<http://stackoverflow.com/> but for exam problems
## What it does
Peridot offers a social platform that allows students to post questions and receive help from their peers in advancing their learning. Through voting and answering questions, Peridot provides the perfect environment for every student to... | ## 🌟 Inspiration
Every student has their own set of challenges. While feedback on assignments is invaluable, deciphering and acting on it is a different ball game. And, oh! The anticipation of exams! 📚 How can one ace them without a sneak peek into possible questions? Recognizing knowledge gaps is just the beginning... | ## Inspiration
At companies that want to introduce automation into their pipeline, finding the right robot, the cost of a specialized robotics system, and the time it takes to program a specialized robot is very expensive. We looked for solutions in general purpose robotics and imagining how these types of systems can... | losing |
## Inspiration
We feel that studying on campus is easier with a study buddy, but it's tedious and annoying to contact each and every friend asking whether they're studying or not and where. We wanted to build a one-stop way to locate friends to help catch up on class, or prepare for midterms and finals with.
## What ... | ## Inspiration
I and many of my friends have fallen victim to frequent bouts of procrastination. Before the pandemic, we would hold study sessions to hold each other accountable. However, given the current circumstances, group study sessions are no longer possible. Holding them online through normal means like Discord... | ## Inspiration
As Engineering students, we tend to spend a lot of our time outside classes in the library working away on assignments. In the days following, we might even brag about how much time we spent working, and how much we were able to get done. However, up until now, there wasn't any concrete way to show this... | losing |
# Highlights
A product of [YHack '16](http://www.yhack.org/). Built by Aaron Vontell, Ali Benlalah & Cooper Pellaton.
## Table of Contents
* [Overview](#overview)
* [Machine Learning and More](#machine-learning-and-more)
* [Our Infrastructure](#our-infrastructure)
* [API](#api)
## Overview
The first thing you're p... | **Finding a problem**
Education policy and infrastructure tend to neglect students with accessibility issues. They are oftentimes left on the backburner while funding and resources go into research and strengthening the existing curriculum. Thousands of college students struggle with taking notes in class due to variou... | ## Inspiration
TL;DR: Cut Lines, Cut Time.
With the overflowing amount of information and the limited time that we have, it is important to efficiently distribute the time and get the most out of it.
With people scrolling short videos endlessly on the most popular apps such as Tiktok, Instagram, and Youtube, we thoug... | winning |
# waitER
One of the biggest causes of crowding and wait times in emergency departments is “boarding,” a term for holding an admitted patient in the ER for hours or even days until an inpatient bed becomes available. Long wait times can affect patient outcomes in various ways: patients may get tired of waiting and leav... | ## TLDR
Duolingo is one of our favorite apps of all time for learning. For DeerHacks, we wanted to bring the amazing learning experience from Duolingo even more interactive by bringing it to life in VR, making it more accessible by offering it for free for all, and making it more personalized by offering courses beyon... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by Nicole's many trips to the ER.
## What it does
OctoBud is a chat bot for Amazon Alexa that helps decrease wait times in the ER by decreasing the amount of time that nurses have to spend with each patient and by giving alternative options to the current ER. OctoBud gets the information from... | winning |
## Inspiration
After learning about the current shortcomings of disaster response platforms, we wanted to build a modernized emergency services system to assist relief organizations and local governments in responding faster and appropriately.
## What it does
safeFront is a cross between next-generation 911 and disa... | ## Inspiration
Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m... | ## Inspiration
We were interested in disaster relief for those impacted by Hurricances like Dorian and Maria for people that don't know what areas are affected and for first responders that don't know what infrastructure works are damaged and can't deliver appropriate resources in time.
## What it does
This website ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Students often have a hard time finding complementary co-founders for their ventures/ideas and have limited interaction with students from other universities. Many universities don't even have entrepreneurship centers to help facilitate the matching of co-founders. Furthermore, it is hard to seek valida... | ## Inspiration
Noise sensitivity is common in autism, but it can also affect individuals without autism. Research shows that 50 to 70 percent of people with autism experience hypersensitivity to everyday sounds. This inspired us to create a wearable device to help individuals with heightened sensory sensitivities mana... | ## Inspiration
Mental health. Due to COVID 19 a lot of student, did not get the opportunity to form study groups. Especially the first year students.
Our hope is to create something that will allow for networking and at the same time promote productivity.
## What it does
The web application allows for individuals (... | winning |
## Inspiration
As a beginner, entering into the scary world of app development can be a frighteningly difficult task. Each and every tool you use has its own quirks and complications that can throw you for a loop. Rarely do you have a visual representation of what is going on, and when you do it's coupled with complic... | ## Inspiration
As students, we are constantly needing to attend interviews whether for jobs or internships, present in class, and speak in front of large groups of people. We understand the struggle of feeling anxious and unprepared, and wished to create an application that would assist us in knowing if we are improvi... | ## 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... | losing |
# Inspiration
Our inspiration for Consensus arose from a shared frustration at the lacklustre nature of the current Amazon review/rating system. As it currently stands, the five-star system offers only a surface-level outlook into consumer experiences. Certain products with numerous five-star reviews may actually suff... | ## Inspiration
There is no such data-set available which can be used to do aspect based analysis of the user reviews. We wanted to make something which helps companies get detailed analysis of reviews with respect to various aspects of their service and help them improve based on it.
## What it does
Our algorithm wo... | ## Inspiration
During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w... | losing |
## Inspiration
GetSense was developed in an attempt to create low latency live streaming for countries with slow internet so that they could still have security regardless of their internet speed.
## What it does
GetSense is an AI powered flexible security solution that uses low-level IoT devices (laptop camera syst... | ## Inspiration
Conventional language learning apps like Duolingo don’t offer the ability to have freeform and dynamic conversations. Additionally, finding a language partner can be difficult and costly.
Lingua Franca tackles this head-on by offering intermediate to advanced language learners an immersive, interactive... | ## Inspiration
As many ML scientists have proclaimed, 2023 was the year of the RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) architecture. Despite this, it's still very inaccessible for regular day people. With RAG-U, I bring the power of RAG closer to everyone.
## What it does
RAG-U allows you to upload PDFs or insert links... | winning |
## Inspiration
Carscendo’s mission is to empower non-musical people to be creators, with a new medium for music composition. We aim to revolutionise **accessibility and fun in music creation**.
*From real-world users:*
**1. Learning music isn’t fun, getting good takes >10,000 hours:**
Our parents forced 2 members of... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the 217 million people in the world who have moderate to severe vision impairment, and 36 million people who are fully blind. In our modern society, with all its comforts, it is easy to forget that there are so many people who do not have the same luxuries as us. It is unthink... | ## Inspiration
Having previously volunteered and worked with children with cerebral palsy, we were struck with the monotony and inaccessibility of traditional physiotherapy. We came up with a cheaper, more portable, and more engaging way to deliver treatment by creating virtual reality games geared towards 12-15 year ... | partial |
## What it does
Danstrument lets you video call your friends and create music together using only your actions. You can start a call which generates a code that your friend can use to join.
## How we built it
We used Node.js to create our web app which employs WebRTC to allow video calling between devices. Movements... | # 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... | ## Inspiration
Our first goal with Choco was to build a simple-to-use, account-less platform where anybody from anywhere could get on a call together in a matter of seconds. During the pandemic, we would often get on video calls with our friends to catch up and relax. We would frequently jump around from from platform... | winning |
## Inspiration
There are thousands of youth with access to SMS who need food and or a place to stay. Tons of perfectly good food is wasted every day after restaurants, stores and bakeries close. We shouldn't have to wait for drastic legislative changes to fix this: <https://www.change.org/p/parliament-end-food-waste-i... | ## Inspiration
Many low-income families and people without permanent homes in Canada are suffering from food shortages. Since 2017, it has been reported that on average, Canada throws away over 2 million tonnes of edible food per year.
Food waste is costly and damaging to the environment, while serving no purpose for ... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration 🎯
Medication non-persistence is a critical issue affecting patient safety in the United States and beyond. According to studies, "between 40% and 75% of adults fail to take their prescribed medications on time each day" [1], leading to worsening health outcomes, increased hospitalizations, and preventa... | ## Inspiration
Phreesia's challenge about storing medical data with a third-party software
## What it does
Allows users to analyze an image and see a prediction for skin cancer(benign or malignant), and allows upload of the image and the prediction into cloud storage
## How we built it
Tensorflow Lite and Andriod ... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for PillHero was to create a complete solution to helping the sick and elderly to learn and stick too their schedule for taking medication.
## What it does
Using the iOS app, the user enters their medication schedule, which is composed of a start date, end date, daily timings, and the ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Being a big Grogu fan I wanted to make something related to baby yoda for a long time and used this hackathon as an opportunity for the same as there was no theme and hence I decided to make 'Go Grogu Go', inspired by popular Flappy Bird game.
## What it does
It's a simple yet addictive game similar t... | ## Inspiration
The thought process behind the creation was to enrich the lives of
children. It was originally designed as a simple AR game that had a progression, reward system and an in-game store to enhance gameplay. But as the app was being developed, I then realized that the main purpose of my app could be used to... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the genetic-algorithm-based Super Mario AI known as MarI/O made by SethBling. MarI/O uses genetic algorithms to teach a neural net to beat levels of Super Mario by maximizing an objective function. Inspired by this, we wanted to create a game that maximizes an objective function usin... | losing |
## Inspiration
Globally, over 92 million tons of textile waste are generated annually, contributing to overflowing landfills and environmental degradation. What's more, the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions, with fast fashion being a significant contributor due to its rapid production ... | ## Inspiration
Learning about some environmental impact of the retail industry led us to wonder about what companies have aimed for in terms of sustainability goals. The textile industry is notorious for its carbon and water footprints with statistics widely available. How does a company promote sustainability? Do peo... | ## Inspiration
We've all been in situations where we can't understand what someone is saying. What if you want to talk to someone but your ears are full or you're hard of hearing? We set out to make an easier way to hear someone in person: real-time subtitles using augmented reality.
## What it does
Now with this ap... | partial |
## Inspiration
Over 90% of pets who are sent to pet shelters are killed -- one of the major problems facing pet shelters today. Every day, [nearly 5,500 dogs and cats are killed](http://bestfriends.org/about-best-friends/our-mission/save-them-all) in America's shelters, just because they don't have safe places to call... | ## 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
Due to COVID-19, people around the world are struggling to "connect" with their friends, families and teachers. As high school students, we have faced difficulties with online learning in a new virtual environment. Therefore, we firmly believe that we can positively impact education, using our knowledge... | partial |
## Inspiration
A few facts about quizzing:
1. Studies have shown that students who are tested regularly actually learn more content and retain it longer than students who have not been tested.
2. Frequent testing... | ## Inspiration
Ecoxchange was inspired by the growing need to support renewable energy and the trading of environmental credits. We recognized that Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets, though critical to combating climate change, are often more valuable monetarily than the actions they represent. B... | ## Inspiration
Epidemiology is critical in figuring out how to stop the spread of diseases before it’s too late
## What it does
ClassiFly uses image data to classify individuals with known disease symptoms. For demonstration purposes, we selected Yellow Fever and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and Eele... | losing |
## Overview
How we understand and communicate to those around us shapes and determines the person we are. In order to help people better understand the sentiments behind their words, we have incorporated the NLTK sentiment analysis tool to learn and interpret the positive, negative, and neutral meanings behind our wor... | ## Inspiration
If you're lucky enough to enjoy public speaking, we're jealous of you. None of us like public speaking, and we realized that there are not a lot of ways to get real-time feedback on how we can improve without boring your friends or family to listen to you.
We wanted to build a tool that would help us p... | ## Inspiration
Nikola Tesla, Green energy advancements, fighting climate change, promoting sustainability, NASA x BYU collab (complient mechanism)
## What it does
Tracks the sun to make the solar panels more efficient
## How we built it
Using Arduino IDE with an Uno, photoresistors to send signals to the Arduino, ... | partial |
## Inspiration
In today's world, Public Speaking is one of the greatest skills any individual can have. From pitching at a hackathon to simply conversing with friends, being able to speak clearly, be passionate and modulate your voice are key features of any great speech. To tackle this problem of becoming a better pu... | ## Inspiration
We were looking for a hack to really address the need for quick and easy access to mental health help.
## What it does
Happy Thoughts is a companion service. Whenever in need or desiring a pick-me-up a user can text the app.
## How we built it
Using a React-made webclient we accepted user inputted p... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our team has always been concerned about the homogeneity of many computer vision training sets, given that they can introduce cultural and societal biases into the resulting machine learning algorithm.
CultureCV is designed to combat this highly relevant problem, with a user incentive for use: by takin... | ## Inspiration
Often as children, we were asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Every time we changed our answers, we were sent to different classes to help us embrace our interests. But our answers were restricted and traditional: doctors, engineers or ballerinas. **We want to expand every child's scope: ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration was accessibility of language learning around the globe. We wanted to create an app that would allow the user to scan an item into the app through the camera, allowing the user to learn about the objects right in front of them. We also planned on mapping routes for people to follow to le... | partial |
## Inspiration
Most students know the feeling of being behind in classes, and Stanford really tries to help us out. We get both lecture slides and videos for many classes, but neither alone is sufficient. Lecture slides are useful for quick information look up, but are often too dense to interpret without explanation.... | ## 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
Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Inspired by the Making the Mundane Fun prize category, our team immediately focused on helping users achieve long-term goals. We observed a surge in cooking at the start of lockdown, and wanted to keep that momentum going with a simple yet entertaining app to inspire users to enjoy cooking in the long t... | # Omakase
*"I'll leave it up to you"*
## Inspiration
On numerous occasions, we have each found ourselves staring blankly into the fridge with no idea of what to make. Given some combination of ingredients, what type of good food can I make, and how?
## What It Does
We have built an app that recommends recipes base... | ## Inspiration
After being unable to implement some other complex ideas, we settled on fixing a common problem most pedestrians face in the cold. Traffic lights take too long to activate.
## What it does
This ultrasonic sensor allows for traffic intersections to track the distance to cross, and adjust the traffic li... | partial |
## Inspiration
Between 1994 and 2013 there were 6,873 natural disasters worldwide, which claimed 1.35 million lives or almost 68,000 lives on average each year. In many of these disasters, people don't know where to go, and where is safe. For example, during Hurricane Harvey, many people learned about dangers such as ... | ## Inspiration
Disasters can strike quickly and without notice. Most people are unprepared for situations such as earthquakes which occur with alarming frequency along the Pacific Rim. When wifi and cell service are unavailable, medical aid, food, water, and shelter struggle to be shared as the community can only comm... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired to think about natural disaster relief, recovery, and prevention after talking to IBM Watson representatives. After mulling some ideas over, we came to the realization that visualizing and contextualizing past natural disasters may be useful. Once a natural disaster hits, it is very dif... | winning |
## Inspiration
Between 1994 and 2013 there were 6,873 natural disasters worldwide, which claimed 1.35 million lives or almost 68,000 lives on average each year. In many of these disasters, people don't know where to go, and where is safe. For example, during Hurricane Harvey, many people learned about dangers such as ... | ## Inspiration
In response to recent tragic events in Turkey, where the rescue efforts for the Earthquake have been very difficult. We decided to use Qualcomm’s hardware development kit to create an application for survivors of natural disasters like earthquakes to send out distress signals to local authorities.
## W... | ## Inspiration
The increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other natural calamities inspired us to build a system that could provide timely and accurate predictions, helping communities prepare and respond more effectively. We wanted to leverage machine learning and real-time data tracking to create a too... | winning |
## Inspiration: 4.6 million children have been diagnosed with neurological disorders in the US. Many of which were diagnosed late in these children's lives. So we wanted to come up with a quicker, more accessible, and more convenient solution to help diagnose these disorders.
## What it does: Collects brain wave signa... | ## Inspiration
Kabeer and I (Simran!) care deeply about impact, and building cool sh\*t.
He has a background in IoT and my background is in computational bio/health technologies. When thinking about what we want to create during HTN, we decided it would be most fun to find an intersection between hardware and healthc... | ## Inspiration
Globally, one in ten people do not know how to interpret their feelings. There's a huge global shift towards sadness and depression. At the same time, AI models like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion are creating beautiful works of art, completely automatically. Our team saw the opportunity to leverage AI ima... | losing |
### 💡 Inspiration 💡
We call them heroes, **but the support we give them is equal to the one of a slave.**
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of medics have to keep track of their patient's history, symptoms, and possible diseases. However, we've talked with a lot of medics, and almost all of them share the same... | ## Inspiration
*"A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy." - Mahatma Gandhi*
In this fast-paced world where everything seems to be conveniently accessed in a matter of seconds at our fingertips with our smartphones and laptops, some parts of our lives can not be replaced or compromised. Let's not kid ourselve... | ## Inspiration
“Emergency” + “Need” = “EmergeNeed”
Imagine a pleasant warm Autumn evening, and you are all ready to have Thanksgiving dinner with your family. You are having a lovely time, but suddenly you notice a batch of red welts, swollen lips, and itchy throat. Worried and scared, you rush to the hospital just t... | winning |
## Inspiration
ByteBasket aims to help our friends who grapple with food insecurity and often rely on food banks. We wanted to create an application to help streamline that process while also recognizing the existing challenges faced by food banks in providing fast, easy, and customizable solutions.
## What it does
... | ## Inspiration
Our team wanted to build an application with social impact. We believe that change starts within a community, therefore, we brainstormed ways that people can make a change within the local community. We realized that homelessness and food insecurity is a large issue within the Hamilton community, and we... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, we found ourselves pondering a profound question: What if AI agents could transcend their role as mere tools?
In the events of this hackathon, we've seen agents made with Fetch AI be utilized for autonomous tasking, scheduling, and other sim... | ## Inspiration
Sustainability is one of the core pillars of modern progress. We wanted to address this challenge by thinking about how we could allow for substantial improvement in sustainability by optimizing an existing system. That's why we landed on LLMs: their **meteoric rise in popularity** has changed the way m... | ## Inspiration
Our journey with language learning in class and on apps revealed their limitations—rote memorization and the absence of real-life conversations. Other language learners I met through Toastmasters Club, a public speaking club, echoed the same sentiment. Recognizing the importance of practical speaking sk... | winning |
## Inspiration
During the COVID-19 pandemic, our love for biking with friends blossomed amidst the chaos. However, the joy was bittersweet as our hearing-impaired friend Robert had to brave extra dangers to explore with us. Robert enjoyed biking with us but the already risky conditions of the road was only a greater t... | As having visually impaired people in our lives, we are passionate about making their lives a bit more hassle-free. Our prototype demonstrates a system that can be implemented onto a small watch-like device that will help visually impaired people avoid obstructions without the use of walking sticks. The buzzer will bee... | ## Team
Sam Blouir
Pat Baptiste
## Inspiration
Seeing the challenges of blind people navigating, especially in new areas and being inspired by someone who wanted to remain blind anonymously
## What it does
Uses computer vision to find nearby objects in the vicinity of the wearer and sends information (X,Y coordin... | losing |
**Made by Ella Smith (ella#4637) & Akram Hannoufa (ak\_hannou#7596) -- Team #15**
*Domain: <https://www.birtha.online/>*
## Inspiration
Conversations with friends and family about the difficulty of finding the right birth control pill on the first try.
## What it does
Determines the brand of hormonal contraceptive... | ## Inspiration
Donut was originally inspired by a viral story about dmdm hydantoin, a chemical preservative used in hair products rumoured to be toxic and lead to hair loss. This started a broader discussion about commercial products in general and the plethora of chemical substances and ingredients we blindly use and... | ## Inspiration
The loneliness epidemic is a real thing and you don't get meaningful engagements with others, just by liking and commenting on Instagram posts, you get meaningful engagement by having real conversations with others, whether it's a text exchange, phone call, or zoom meeting. This project was inspired by ... | winning |
## Inspiration
In the past decade, software development has heavily shifted towards open-source development, with React at the forefront of web development. Today, there are over 1.6 million React-specific libraries developed and maintained by the community. Picking between countless UI libraries and styling options i... | ## Inspiration
Have you ever found yourself scrolling through YouTube looking for the best coding tutorial? Let's face it - there are millions of tutorials out there, some published 7 years ago and some published as early as yesterday. How do you know which tutorials are worth your time and which ones are better left ... | ## Inspiration
All of us have gone through the painstaking and difficult process of onboarding as interns and making sense of huge repositories with many layers of folders and files. We hoped to shorten this or remove it completely through the use of Code Flow.
## What it does
Code Flow exists to speed up onboarding... | losing |
## Inspiration
As the council jotted down their ideas, the search for a project to better our lives came to an end when the idea of garbage sorting came to us. It's not uncommon that people tend to misplace daily objects, and these little misplays and blunders add up quickly in an environment where people tend to give... | ## Inspiration
All of our parents like to recycle plastic bottles and cans to make some extra money, but we always thought it was a hassle. After joining this competition and seeing sustainability as one of the prize tracks, we realized it would be interesting to create something that makes the recycling process more ... | ## Inspiration
While looking for genuine problems that we could solve, it came to our attention that recycling is actually much harder than it should be. For example, when you go to a place like Starbucks and are presented with the options of composting, recycling, or throwing away your empty coffee, it can be confusi... | losing |
## GitHub: <https://github.com/1terry/Hack-Western>
## Inspiration
Seeing that the worldwide pandemic has caused both physical and mental wear on a lot of people, we decided to dedicate our project to solely helping people look at themselves in the mirror and feel absolutely spectacular!
## What it does
NutriPower ... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the health vertical and Vision Recognition technologies. We wanted to create a very simple and user friendly way to track calorie and nutrient intakes, hoping to make it as easy as possible to develop and sustain healthy eating habits.
## About Our Product
Using Clarifai's food mod... | ## 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
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... | 💭 **Inspiration**💭
We know what it's like to be indecisive about where to eat (trust us, we're both extremely indecisive), so we created a solution that'll solve just that!
🍴 **What it does** 🍴
For all the indecisive people, our program will randomly select a restaurant as well as recommend the highest rated res... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by our own experiences and by those of our classmates. Despite having started our degree in-person, before the pandemic, most of our time in college has been spent online. We know people who started post-secondary studies during the pandemic and some of them have never even been to camp... | partial |
## Inspiration
We wanted to build an app to help save people's money through smart budgeting. We want to integrate Alexa with personal finance skills which it is currently lacking.
## What it does
Budget It is a web app connected to the Amazon Alexa to inform users how much money they have spent or saved. Users can ... | ## Inspiration
Ever felt a shock by thinking where did your monthly salary or pocket money go by the end of a month? When Did you spend it? Where did you spend all of it? and Why did you spend it? How to save and not make that same mistake again?
There has been endless progress and technical advancements in how we de... | ## Inspiration
At the beginning of the weekend, we tossed around ideas about different apps. We got bored at some point and started discussing family. A lot of our family members seemed to have some sort of hearing loss. At this point, we started to formulate ideas around this topic. We realized that a lot of apps exi... | winning |
## Inspiration
In this age of big tech companies and data privacy scares, it's more important than ever to make sure your data is safe. There have been many applications made to replicate existing products with the added benefit of data privacy, but one type of data that has yet to be decentralized is job application ... | ## Inspiration
Many investors looking to invest in startup companies are often overwhelmed by the sheer number of investment opportunities, worried that they will miss promising ventures without doing adequate due diligence. Likewise, since startups all present their data in a unique way, it is challenging for investo... | ## Inspiration
After experiencing the current crisis in affordability, we set out to create a platform that lowers costs by allowing everyday users to borrow goods and request services through mutually beneficial deals. We were inspired by existing applications such as Uber and Airbnb for their use of technology to lo... | partial |
## Inspiration
Most donation platforms (GoFundMe) use fiat currencies, discouraging globalization and taking hefty fees. A community-driven platform relies on authenticity, transparency, and scalability. DeSo leverages blockchain technology so people know who actually donates, how much they donate, and is able to faci... | ### Inspiration
I wanted to explore technologies like Ethereum that redefine conventional norms; however, instead of attempting to predict the next lucrative crypto investment, as a developer, I found it more compelling to shape the future of Web3 by building the infrastructure and applications that comprise the Web3... | ## Inspiration
With the recent Corona Virus outbreak, we noticed a major issue in charitable donations of equipment/supplies ending up in the wrong hands or are lost in transit. How can donors know their support is really reaching those in need? At the same time, those in need would benefit from a way of customizing w... | losing |
## Inspiration
Productivity is hard to harness especially at hackathons with many distractions, but a trick we software developing students found to stay productive while studying was using the “Pomodoro Technique”. The laptop is our workstation and could be a source of distraction, so what better place to implement t... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the instability and corruption of many developing governments and wanted to provide more transparency for citizens. The immutability and decentralization of IPFS seemed like the perfect tool for this problem. We further developed this idea into a framework for conducting government a... | partial |
# Inspiration
When we ride a cycle we to steer the cycle towards the direction we fall, and that's how we balance. But the amazing part is we(or our brain) compute a complex set of calculations to balance ourselves. And that we do it naturally. With some practice it gets better. The calculation in our mind that goes o... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
As a team, we were immediately intrigued by the creative freedom involved in building a ‘useless invention’ and inspiration was drawn from the ‘useless box’ that turns itself off. We thought ‘why not have it be a robot arm and give it an equally intriguing personality?’ and immediately got to work takin... | winning |
# Turtle Time Management
[Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QQM4SmEfa4UJntaW_-HUmdiuW1zZNPA2_iCn7cJwEF0/edit)
## Inspiration
This project was inspired by our common struggle of time management during school. We are all hardworking ambitious people but we cannot do it all. So we developed a new and ... | # McHacks
Taco 'bout it Website
We wanted to create a more personable restaurant delivery system that can be available to local restaurants. Smaller restaurants have trouble competing with the major brands that can afford web developers to build them custom websites. Our product would be available for purchase by a r... | ## Inspiration
The idea for Clustr came out of a problem that our friend group encountered after being sent home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We struggled to find the same rhythm that our conversations had when we were in person. Group chats were too intrusive, taking too much time to engage in and supplying an endle... | losing |
## Inspiration
Self-motivation is hard. It’s time for a social media platform that is meaningful and brings a sense of achievement instead of frustration.
While various pro-exercise campaigns and apps have tried inspire people, it is difficult to stay motivated with so many other more comfortable distractions around ... | ## Inspiration
Grip strength has been shown to be a powerful biomarker for numerous physiological processes. Two particularly compelling examples are Central Nervous System (CNS) fatigue and overall propensity for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). The core idea is not about building a hand grip strengthening tool, as this... | ## Inspiration
One of our team members' family member was struck with COVID-19 and had a hard time trying to take care of the family member. One of which was taking vitals for her loved one. We came up with a solution to digitalize the way care takers would take patient's vitals
## What it does
Vitals allows you to:... | winning |
## Inspiration
In the next 10-15 years, the rise of autonomous machine to machine payments will become growingly obvious and lucrative industry to serve.
In seeing how soon large scale fleets of autonomous Uber cars will not only drive us, but begin negotiating and paying for their own parking with their fellow smart... | ## Inspiration
Currently, crypto is seen as a highly volatile investment vehicle. We believe crypto is the future of payments; however, no products currently exist to enable users to spend crypto easily across online channels. Additionally, more than half of our team grew up outside the United States and have experien... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration was to provide a robust and user-friendly financial platform. After hours of brainstorming, we decided to create a decentralized mutual fund on mobile devices. We also wanted to explore new technologies whilst creating a product that has several use cases of social impact. Our team used ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to do something fun and exciting, nothing too serious. Slang is a vital component to thrive in today's society. Ever seen Travis Scott go like, "My dawg would prolly do it for a Louis belt", even most menials are not familiar with this slang. Therefore, we are leveraging the power of today's m... | ## Inspiration
In high school, a teacher of ours used to sit in the middle of the discussion to draw lines from one person to another on paper to identify the trends of the discussion. It's a very meaningful activity as we could see how balanced the discussion is, allowing us to highlight to people who had less chance... | winning |
## Inspiration
One of our original teammates was unable to attend PennApps due to evacuations in Florida. This got us down the track of building something relating the resources we could give others in emergency situations.
## What it does
It provides real time data relating to natural disaster zones and our service... | ## Inspiration
## What it does
ResQ is a holistic natural disaster recovery tool.
-Officials (FEMA, Red Cross, etc.) can manage their resource centers on a WebApp: by managing the distribution of resources, the location of distressed individuals, and publicly sourced alerts.
-Private Citizens can use a mobile app as... | ## 💡 INSPIRATION 💡
Today, Ukraine is on the front lines of a renewed conflict with Russia. Russia's recent full-scale invasion of Ukraine has created more than 4.3 million refugees and displaced another 6.5 million citizens in the past 6 weeks according to the United Nations. Humanitarian aid organizations make trip... | losing |
# anonybuddy
## What it does
In times of hardship, sometimes you just need someone to talk to. *anonybuddy* is a web app designed to provide support to addicts and others in recovery in a personal yet anonymous way. "Clients" can reach out when they feel overwhelmed or fear relapse, and volunteers will support them o... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from many of our own experiences with dealing with mental health and self-care, as well as from those around us. We know what it's like to lose track of self-care, especially in our current environment, and wanted to create a digital companion that could help us in our journey of u... | ## Inspiration
Millions of young people, especially kids and teens, suffer from eating disorders, often feeling overwhelmed by the recovery process. Traditional recovery tools, such as calorie tracking, can further entrench unhealthy behaviours, and are often not suited for younger age groups. Inspired by the need to ... | partial |
## TLDR
We are a developer toolkit which provides a decentralized database as a service where users can use our endpoints as well as NoCode tool where users can upload their data in a decentralised manner.
## Inspiration
👋🏻 With the advent of Web3, there are now decentralized **ways to store data that are a hundre... | ## 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
Blockchain has a lot of interesting applications for secure payment and a strong impact on how information is shared. After learning about how Uber sells the location data and travel patterns of passengers for a profit, we wanted to allow each rider and driver to have their own privacy and rights. Talki... | winning |
## 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
Having previously volunteered and worked with children with cerebral palsy, we were struck with the monotony and inaccessibility of traditional physiotherapy. We came up with a cheaper, more portable, and more engaging way to deliver treatment by creating virtual reality games geared towards 12-15 year ... | ## Inspiration
No one likes waiting around too much, especially when we feel we need immediate attention. 95% of people in hospital waiting rooms tend to get frustrated over waiting times and uncertainty. And this problem affects around 60 million people every year, just in the US. We would like to alleviate this prob... | winning |
# The Clapp
The Clapp was born out of a deep love, and a deep frustration. Alan was the organizer for the Simon Fraser Gaming Commitee; as a naïve youth he just wanted to connect people and enjoy a nice weekend inside playing video games together — but all he found was logistical nightmares, frustrated friends, and a ... | ## Inspiration
As humans, it is impossible to always be in perfect shape, health, and condition. This includes our mental health and wellbeing. To tackle this problem, we created a website that encourages users to complete simple tasks that have been proven to improve mood, drive, and wellbeing. These tasks include jo... | MediBot: Help us help you get the healthcare you deserve
## Inspiration:
Our team went into the ideation phase of Treehacks 2023 with the rising relevance and apparency of conversational AI as a “fresh” topic occupying our minds. We wondered if and how we can apply conversational AI technology such as chatbots to ben... | losing |
## Inspiration
Fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts, and legumes don’t play the **central role** they need to in our food system. The result is a **chronic health epidemic**, disastrous impacts on the **climate**, and **unequal access** to food. We wanted to find a tangible solution to this very real and consequential proble... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind LeafHack stems from a shared passion for sustainability and a desire to empower individuals to take control of their food sources. Witnessing the rising grocery costs and the environmental impact of conventional agriculture, we were motivated to create a solution that not only add... | ## Inspiration
Our team has gone to the local farmer's market every summer in Ottawa for as long as we can remember, however it only runs on Sundays and for specific weeks in the summer. We thought we could improve on the idea of a summer market by enabling customers to buy fresh produce whenever possible.
## What it... | winning |
## Inspiration
In August, one of our team members was hit by a drunk driver. She survived with a few cuts and bruises, but unfortunately, there are many victims who are not as lucky. The emotional and physical trauma she and other drunk-driving victims experienced motivated us to try and create a solution in the probl... | ## Inspiration
As lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control features are becoming more available in commercial vehicles, we wanted to explore the potential of a dedicated collision avoidance system
## What it does
We've created an adaptive, small-scale collision avoidance system that leverages Apple's AR technolo... | ## Inspiration
Road safety has become an escalating concern in recent years. According to Transport Canada, the number of collisions and causalities has been rising in the past three years. Meanwhile, as AI technology grows exponentially, we identified a niche where we could leverage powerful AI to offer valuable advi... | winning |
## Inspiration
To any financial institution, the most valuable asset to increase revenue, remain competitive and drive innovation, is aggregated **market** and **client** **data**. However, a lot of data and information is left behind due to lack of *structure*.
So we asked ourselves, *what is a source of unstructure... | ## Inspiration
Determined to create a project that was able to make impactful change, we sat and discussed together as a group our own lived experiences, thoughts, and opinions. We quickly realized the way that the lack of thorough sexual education in our adolescence greatly impacted each of us as we made the transiti... | ## Inspiration
After struggling to find resources and tools that help people make educated investment choices, we chose to simplify the process, and have a machine figure it out for you!
## What it does
Utilizing Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, we are able to import thousands of records in order to accurate... | winning |
## Inspiration
My friend Pablo used to throw me ball when playing beer pong, he moved away so i replaced him with a much better robot.
## What it does
it tosses you a ping pong ball right when you need, you just have to show it your hand.
## How we built it
With love sweat tears and lots of energy drink.
## Chall... | ## Inspiration
Every year roughly 25% of recyclable material is not able to be recycled due to contamination. We set out to reduce the amount of things that are needlessly sent to the landfill by reducing how much people put the wrong things into recycling bins (i.e. no coffee cups).
## What it does
This project is ... | ## 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
It’s insane how the majority of the U.S. still looks like **endless freeways and suburban sprawl.** The majority of Americans can’t get a cup of coffee or go to the grocery store without a car.
What would America look like with cleaner air, walkable cities, green spaces, and effective routing from plac... | ## Inspiration
A project online detailing the "future cities index," a statistic that aims to calculate the viability of building a future city. After watching the Future Cities presentation, we were interested to see *where* Future Cities would be built, if a project like the one we saw was funded in the US. This pro... | ## Inspiration
The pandemic has drastically impacted us in a number of ways, but the biggest change is definitely the alienation that many of us are facing being stuck inside. A study analyzing the effects of the stay-home order that was conducted on over 3,500 people showed that over 60% experienced depression, and a... | winning |
## 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... | ## Inspiration:
The human effort of entering details from a paper form to a computer led us to brainstorm and come up with this idea which takes away the hassle of the information collection phase.
## What it does?
The application accepts an image / pdf of a medical form and analyses it to find the information which... | ## What it does
It is a platform that will reduce the amount of unnecessary physical interaction between nurses and patients by digitizing several common tasks. We created a website that will store all the patients’ past date, live data, and current needs/wants. The website will be accessible for the patients’ relativ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Travelling can be expensive but data plans abroad can really push the expenses to a whole new level. With NavText, we were inspired to create an app fuelled by SMS messaging to do all the same services that might be useful while travellling. With this app, travelling can be made easy without the stress ... | ## Inspiration
The only thing worse than no WiFi is slow WiFi. Many of us have experienced the frustrations of terrible internet connections. We have too, so we set out to create a tool to help users find the best place around to connect.
## What it does
Our app runs in the background (completely quietly) and maps o... | ## 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... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to design a bottle that was as functional, and simultaneously creative, as possible
## What it does
Our design uses force-sensor technology and wireless interfacing, as well as the help of some intuitive logic, to create a system that actively keeps track and reports the number of pills in a... | ## Inspiration
As the list of use cases grow for artificial intelligence (AI for short), we thought that it is important to use AI in order to bridge the gap between those who are tech-savvy and those who are non tech-savvy. We were inspired to create this project because we know people that are not knowledgeable in S... | ## Inspiration
Americans waste about 425 beverage containers per capita per year in landfill, litter, etc. Bottles are usually replaced with cans and bottles made from virgin materials which are more energy-intensive than recycled materials. This causes emissions of a host of toxics to the air and water and increases ... | partial |
## Inspiration 💡
Do your eyes ever feel strained and dry after hours and hours spent staring at screens? Has your eye doctor ever told you about the 20-20-20 rule? Good thing we’ve automated it for you along with personalized analysis of your eye activity using AdHawk’s eye tracking device.
The awesome AdHawk demos ... | ## Inspiration
We thought Adhawk's eye tracking technology was super cool, so we wanted to leverage it in a VR game. However, since Adhawk currently only has a Unity SDK, we thought we would demonstrate a way to build eye-tracking VR games for the web using WebVR.
## Our first game
You, a mad scientist, want to be a... | ## Inspiration
COVID revolutionized the way we communicate and work by normalizing remoteness. **It also created a massive emotional drought -** we weren't made to empathize with each other through screens. As video conferencing turns into the new normal, marketers and managers continue to struggle with remote communi... | partial |
## Inspiration
With fairly little experience in the Data Science/Machine learning space, I wanted to dive right in and tackle one of the data science problems that was presented at the hackathon.
## What it does
It uses multiple linear regression to predict insurance quotes for each of the four insurance types that ... | ## Motivation
Growing up in Parkland, Florida, one of our hackers experienced firsthand the effects of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting. Surveys have shown that over 60% of Americans worry that they or a loved one will die in a mass shooting (Brennan 2017). The most harrowing reality of school shootings is... | ## Inspiration
With the ubiquitous and readily available ML/AI turnkey solutions, the major bottlenecks of data analytics lay in the consistency and validity of datasets.
**This project aims to enable a labeller to be consistent with both their fellow labellers and their past self while seeing the live class distribut... | losing |
## inspiration
i met a waterloo cs student a few months ago
## description
you play as a sweaty, touch-starved first year cs student as you navigate your first Computer Science™ lecture. sure, you can solve leetcode easies in 30 seconds, but can you talk to a girl?
## available endings (spoilers)
* good ending
* m... | On late and caffeine-drive nights (aka almost every night), thousands of hackers are sitting at their desks coding. Thousands of lonely souls looking for the right debugging partner. Someone who will know that tabs should always be used instead of spaces. Someone that knows that Vim is clearly superior to Emacs (#flame... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for our application came from our own laziness and unwillingness to go to the doctors for anything. We wanted to create an application with machine learning and artificial intelligence models in order to improve the daily lives of the lazy. Our goal is to create an application to change ... | losing |
## Introduction
[Best Friends Animal Society](http://bestfriends.org)'s mission is to **bring about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets**
They have an ambitious goal of **reducing the death of homeless pets by 4 million/year**
(they are doing some amazing work in our local communities and definitely deserve m... | # ECG\_classification
Autoencoder for ECG Classification :heartbeat: :brain:
This repository contains code for an autoencoder implemented in Python using TensorFlow for ECG (Electrocardiogram) classification.
What is an Autoencoder? :thinking:
An autoencoder is a type of neural network that can be used for unsupervis... | ## 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... | winning |
# Hack Western 2015 - BitFor.me
## Process
1. User loads Bitcoin into webapp
2. User creates simple task that others can easily do, such as purchasing coffee.
3. Another user finds the task based on location, and accepts it.
4. That user then completes the task by, for instance, purchasing coffee and delivering it to... | ## 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
It takes over 9 months to train a guide dog. The issue is: dogs can't talk (sorry). What if your favorite furry friend could not only guide you, but also talk to you — and understand exactly where you need to go? This was the founding idea behind Rex. We were inspired to create a fantastically helpful p... | winning |
## Inspiration
The Office Of The President of the University of Ottawa challenged us to think about the social in online learning. Our team always found that the best learning is done gathered around a whiteboard in a group, so we committed to replicating that environment in a virtual all-in-one space
## What it does... | ## Inspiration
Given that students are struggling to make friends online, we came up with an idea to make this easier. Our web application combines the experience of a video conferencing app with a social media platform.
## What it does
Our web app targets primarily students attending college lectures. We wanted to ... | ## Inspiration
It's easy to zone off in online meetings/lectures, and it's difficult to rewind without losing focus at the moment. It could also be disrespectful to others if you expose the fact that you weren't paying attention. Wouldn't it be nice if we can just quickly skim through a list of keywords to immediately... | losing |
## Inspiration
Wanting to create an application that would benefit as many of our peers as possible
## What it does
Tracks and manages various information about jobs the user has applied to. Various sorting algorithms and easy to use forms to track new applications
## How I built it
Created an Express server conne... | ## Inspiration
Recent job search experience during which is was sometimes difficult to keep track of the status of the many applications that had been thrown out into the void
## What it does
Provides a simple, informative platform to help you keep track of whether your application is still floating around out there... | ## Inspiration
After being overwhelmed by the volume of financial educational tools available, we discovered how the majority of products are focused for institutions or expensive. We decided there needs to be an easy approach to learning about stocks in a more casual environment. Interested in the simplicity of Tinde... | losing |
## Inspiration
As a team, we've been increasingly concerned about the *data privacy* of users on the internet in 2022. There’s no doubt that the era of vast media consumption has resulted in a monopoly of large tech firms who hold a strong grasp over each and every single user input. When every action you make results... | ## Inspiration
As technology advances, our society is harnessing technology to acquire goods in more convenient ways than ever. With the rise of services such as Postmates, Caviar, Diner Dash, etc., it is now possible to have most basic necessities delivered in a timely fashion. However, one industry that appeals to u... | ## 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... | partial |
# imHungry
## Inspiration
As Berkeley students we are always prioritizing our work over our health! Students often don't have as much time to go buy food. Why not pick a food for other students while buying your own food and make a quick buck? Or perhaps, place an order with a student who was already planning to head... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to design a bottle that was as functional, and simultaneously creative, as possible
## What it does
Our design uses force-sensor technology and wireless interfacing, as well as the help of some intuitive logic, to create a system that actively keeps track and reports the number of pills in a... | ## Inspiration
Over the course of the past year, one of the most heavily impacted industries due to the COVID-19 pandemic is the service sector. Specifically, COVID-19 has transformed the financial viability of restaurant models. Moving forward, it is projected that 36,000 small restaurants will not survive the winter... | partial |
## Inspiration
Gait, the way that humans walk is a critical measurement of overall health condition, efficacy of rehabilitation, state of disease etc. This measure is significant for neurological diseases such as Parkinson's Disease, and other pathologies. At the clinical level, the gold standard of gait assessment (o... | ## **Inspiration**
In our current society, we recognize that financial literacy is often a privilege rather than a right. Many individuals and communities lack access to trusted and supported education for investment knowledge. In addition, the complexity of financial markets can be intimidating, leaving many to fear ... | ## Inspiration
With 528 million people worldwide affected by osteoarthritis and that number expected to surge by 2050, maintaining joint and muscle health is essential. From arthritis and sports injuries to daily joint pain, millions struggle with conditions that limit movement. While there may be no cure, research ha... | losing |
## Inspiration: Save Food, Give Food
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, “Forty percent of food in the United States is never eaten, amounting to $165 billion a year in waste, taking a toll on the country's water resources and significantly increasing greenhouse gas emissions”. Food, labor, space and o... | ## Inspiration
Food waste is a huge problem, especially in the US. It is estimated that 40% of the food supply is thrown away each year in this country. Reducing food losses by just 15% would be enough food to feed more than 25M Americans every year. We have also conducted interviews with various food banks and retail... | ## Inspiration
The biggest question asked in the resale of any item of value used to be about condition, functionality, and other tangibles. But now, in a world where counterfeits are so hard to spot and brand value reigns supreme, the single most important question has become “is it real?” As unfortunate as it is, wi... | losing |
## Inspiration
We wanted to do something fun and exciting, nothing too serious. Slang is a vital component to thrive in today's society. Ever seen Travis Scott go like, "My dawg would prolly do it for a Louis belt", even most menials are not familiar with this slang. Therefore, we are leveraging the power of today's m... | ## Inspiration
During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w... | ## Inspiration
Like everyone, we love music. So we wanted to make something simple, silly, and fun. This is our group's first hackathon so we wanted to make something visual and easy to use/implement.
## What it does
LyriCount scrapes the top artists from [billboard.com](https://www.billboard.com/charts/artist-100) ... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were recently introduced to the world of Explorable Explanations (by Nicky Case!) and were immediately enthralled by its educating yet engaging nature. Inspired, we decided to present the concept of quantum mechanics to better engage the youth who have not yet encountered this phenomenon in class.
#... | ## Inspiration
When coming up with the idea for our hack, we realized that as engineering students, and specifically first year students, we all had one big common problem... time management. We all somehow manage to run out of time and procrastinate our work, because it's hard to find motivation to get tasks done. Ou... | # cirkvito
Ever wanna quickly check your Intro to CS Logic course homework without firin' up the ol' Quartus-Beast? Love circuits, but hate Java applets? Or maybe you're dying to make yourself a shiny half-adder but don't have the time (or dexterity) to fashion one out of physical components?
## Inspo
Enter *cirkvit... | losing |
## Inspiration
Over 250,000 people live with spinal cord injuries in the US. 47% of injuries are quadriplegic -- paralysis of all four limbs and torso. We were inspired to bring motion to the motionless.
## What it does
HandsFree is proof of concept application that combines an EEG with signal processing to translat... | ## What it does
The player will receive gifts by adding virtual friends. The player can interact with the random gifts they receive. Some will be fun mini-games, while others provide mental health resources and tips on building healthy habits.
## How we built it
Gifts! is built with Java on Android Studio.
## What ... | Additional Demos:
<https://youtu.be/Or4w_bi1oXQ>
<https://youtu.be/VGIBWpB8NAU>
<https://youtu.be/TrJp2rsnL6Y>
## Inspiration
Helping those with impairments is a cause which is close to all of the team members in Brainstorm.
The primary inspiration for this particular solution came from a recent experience of one of ... | losing |
## Inspiration
We're computer science students, need we say more?
## What it does
"Single or Nah" takes in the name of a friend and predicts if they are in a relationship, saving you much time (and face) in asking around. We pull relevant Instagram data including posts, captions, and comments to drive our Azure-powe... | ## Inspiration
In today's fast-paced digital world, creating engaging social media content can be time-consuming and challenging. We developed Expresso to empower content creators, marketers, and businesses to streamline their social media workflow without compromising on quality or creativity.
## What it does
Expre... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by those with Asperger's, Sentimentex is the idea of Siyuan Liu, Faazilah Mohamed, and Saniyah Shaikh at PennApps xvi (Fall 2017). It aims to help those who have a hard time discerning the emotions from texts, emails, and other text-based media by using machine learning, natural language proces... | winning |
## My Story
I love the outdoors! I wanted to share that love with others and help people discover the gorgeous trails that exist in their own neighbourhoods. Nature is beautiful and we should appreciate Kingston for the incredible city it really is. This is my first ever hackathon, and I wanted to build a project that... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the Google Tango project, a project developing tablets that have 3D motion tracking, depth sensing, and an understanding of where it is in space.
With two Google Tango development kits in hand, we set out to create an Augmented Reality app that would allow two Tango tablets to work ... | ## welcome to Catmosphere!
we wanted to make a game with (1) cats and (2) cool art. inspired by the many "cozy indie" games on steam and on social media, we got working on a game where the cat has to avoid all the obstacles as it attempts to go into outer space.
**what it does**: use the WASD keys to navigate our cat... | losing |
## Inspiration:
We wanted to combine our passions of art and computer science to form a product that produces some benefit to the world.
## What it does:
Our app converts measured audio readings into images through integer arrays, as well as value ranges that are assigned specific colors and shapes to be displayed o... | ## Inspiration
After looking at the Hack the 6ix prizes, we were all drawn to the BLAHAJ. On a more serious note, we realized that one thing we all have in common is accidentally killing our house plants. This inspired a sense of environmental awareness and we wanted to create a project that would encourage others to ... | ## Inspiration
Humans. Bananas. Predator. Prey. So different, yet so alike; truly natural wonders of the modern world.
Humans worldwide eat over 100 million bananas per year. In fact, we're willing to bet that you ate a banana or two at HackTheNorth alone. Such a trivial and often overlooked fruit has demonstrated it... | winning |
# JARVIS-MUSIC
Have a song stuck in your head but can't sing it? Use our web app to play the music that's on your mind!
Overall, we are building a web application for users to find songs by lirycs or any information that is related to your song.
In our web home page, you press the audio recording button to sing your... | ## Inspiration
Growing up, music was a fundamental part of my life. Whether it was singing with my dad after he got off of work each day or blasting Billy Joel after I first got my driver's license; music has been fundamental to my development into a multilingual person.
Every time I become addicted to a song in a ta... | ## Inspiration
While we were thinking about the sustainability track, we realized that one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity is carbon emissions, global warming and climate change.
According to Dr.Fatih Birol, IEA Executive Director -
*"Global carbon emissions are set to jump by 1.5 billion tonnes this year.... | losing |
## Inspiration
As children some of us have been to the great barrier reef and it was an amazing experience. Now with the problems such as climate change and pollution that have effected these natural wonders, we were inspired to help people maintain land better in general. There has not been much advancements in the w... | ## Inspiration
With the excitement of blockchain and the ever growing concerns regarding privacy, we wanted to disrupt one of the largest technology standards yet: Email. Email accounts are mostly centralized and contain highly valuable data, making one small breach, or corrupt act can serious jeopardize millions of p... | ## Inspiration
Growing up in the early 2000s, communiplant's founding team knew what it was like to grow up in vibrant communities, interconnected interpersonal and naturally.
Today's post-covid fragmented society lacks the community and optimism that kept us going. The lack of optimism is especially evident through ... | partial |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by two main issues with medical data today. The first issue is during the development of medicines and treatments, there is almost always an underrepresentation of data of various demographic groups. For example, “ProPublica found that in trials for 24 of the 31 cancer drugs approved in... | ## Inspiration
We have a desire to spread awareness surrounding health issues in modern society. We also love data and the insights in can provide, so we wanted to build an application that made it easy and fun to explore the data that we all create and learn something about being active and healthy.
## What it does
... | # MediTrack: Smarter Medication, Safer Lives
## What Inspired Us
Prescription costs are skyrocketing, and for many patients with chronic illnesses, affording medication has become a struggle. The rising costs often lead to missed or delayed doses, which can have serious effects on patient outcomes. The alarming stati... | partial |
flywithdrake.firebaseapp.com
Just login with your Facebook account and Drave will give you the cheapest prices and recommendations for flights/hotel vacations from JetBlue's flight and hotel deals.
Access it via a web app or with Windows 10 Cortana. | ## Inspiration
[Nam's jetBlue Flight Price Tracker](http://flights.kevinnam.me/jetblue/) is the perfect website for users who want to regularly checkup on deals on flights in one easy and simple page. Other sites are often too hectic and messy, pushing users and potential customers away. It is usually by word of mouth... | ## Inspiration
Travelling can be expensive but data plans abroad can really push the expenses to a whole new level. With NavText, we were inspired to create an app fuelled by SMS messaging to do all the same services that might be useful while travellling. With this app, travelling can be made easy without the stress ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Gesture recognition is a powerful tool, and one of the fastest ways to learn something is with a teacher. With machine learning and gesture recognition, we can give feedback to players against an "instructor" set of data from one of our teammates, Kat, who has played tennis since she was three.
## What... | ## Inspiration
Many people have the habit of rubbing eyes, scratching, pulling hair etc., subconsciously. We wanted to help people overcome such habits by making them aware.
## What it does
It is trained to recognise certain gestures and alert the person.
## How we built it
We built a prototype of this device usin... | ## Inspiration
There are over 1.3 billion people in the world who live with some form of vision impairment. Often, retrieving small objects, especially off the ground, can be tedious for those without complete seeing ability. We wanted to create a solution for those people where technology can not only advise them, bu... | losing |
## Inspiration
Current non-custodial web3 wallet infrastructure like Phantom or MetaMask are all built in a way such that users are limited to the machines, on which the wallets are installed on. This however is directly prevention of long-term broad adaption of payments with crypto wallets. Adding to the problems is ... | ## Inspiration
As more and more people embrace the movement toward a greener future, there still remain many concerns surrounding the viability of electric vehicles. In order for complete adoption of these greener technologies, there must be incentives toward change and passionate communities.
## What it does
EVm co... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration was to provide a robust and user-friendly financial platform. After hours of brainstorming, we decided to create a decentralized mutual fund on mobile devices. We also wanted to explore new technologies whilst creating a product that has several use cases of social impact. Our team used ... | partial |
## Inspiration
We all felt that it is quite a difficult decision to make about choosing your career in your grade 12 year. There's not enough guidance provided to students to completely clarify which program or career choice is best for them and so students often try to search on websites like reddit or even private m... | ## Inspiration
Merely a week into freshman year, my teammates and I had realized how difficult it was to find classmates to work on problem sets together. Many of our classes had hundreds of students, and it wasn’t easy to find people who lived near us to work with. For each person talking about how happy they were th... | ## Project Title
**UniConnect** - Enhancing the College Experience
## Inspiration
🌟 Our inspiration stems from a deep understanding of the challenges that university freshmen encounter during their initial year on campus. Having personally navigated these highs and lows during our own freshman year last year, we fe... | losing |
## Inspiration
In this day and age, we recognize that it is difficult to find people to study with from your classes! Meet MA+CH, a solution to all of your study-buddy searches.
## What it does
MA+CH is a mobile community-building app that revolutionizes the way that college students find and meet potential study bu... | ## 🤯 Inspiration
As busy and broke college students, we’re usually missing semi-essential items. Most of us just suffer a little and just go without, but what if there was an alternative? Say you need a vacuum. More often than not, someone living in your hall has one they aren’t opposed to sharing! Building upon this... | ## Problem
In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult.
#... | losing |
## Inspiration
For our first ever attempt at mobile application development, we wanted to create something simple yet fun at the same time.
## What it does
It doesn't do anything, really. Just tap on Tappy to accumulate points and get that false sense of achievement.
## How we built it
We used Android Studio and J... | ## Inspiration
As university students, emergency funds may not be on the top of our priority list however, when the unexpected happens, we are often left wishing that we had saved for an emergency when we had the chance. When we thought about this as a team, we realized that the feeling of putting a set amount of mone... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by the Making the Mundane Fun prize category, our team immediately focused on helping users achieve long-term goals. We observed a surge in cooking at the start of lockdown, and wanted to keep that momentum going with a simple yet entertaining app to inspire users to enjoy cooking in the long t... | winning |
## 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... | ## Inspiration
Garbage in bins around cities are constantly overflowing. Our goal was to create a system that better allocates time and resources to help prevent this problem, while also positively impacting the environment.
## What it does
Urbins provides a live monitoring web application that displays the live cap... | ## Inspiration
Canadians produce more garbage per capita than any other country on earth, with the United States ranking third in the world. In fact, Canadians generate approximately 31 million tonnes of garbage a year. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 75% of this waste is recyclable. Yet, only 30% of... | winning |
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