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## Inspiration College students often times find themselves taking the first job they see. However this often leaves them with a job that is stressful, hard, or pays less than what they're worth. We realized that students don't have a good tool to discover the best job in their area. Job boards like LinkedIn and Glass...
## Inspiration We were frustrated with downloading the Hack Western Android app every time it updates. We figured it would be nice if there has an open-source library so that developer can change content in real-time; therefore, users don't have to re-download the app everytime it updates. ## What it does DynamoUI i...
## 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...
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## Inspiration We wanted to explore what GCP has to offer more in a practical sense, while trying to save money as poor students ## What it does The app tracks you, and using Google Map's API, calculates a geofence that notifies the restaurants you are within vicinity to, and lets you load coupons that are valid. #...
## Inspiration We recognized how much time meal planning can cause, especially for busy young professionals and students who have little experience cooking. We wanted to provide an easy way to buy healthy, sustainable meals for the week, without compromising the budget or harming the environment. ## What it does Sim...
## Inspiration As university students, we often find that we have groceries in the fridge but we end up eating out and the groceries end up going bad. ## What It Does After you buy groceries from supermarkets, you can use our app to take a picture of your receipt. Our app will parse through the items in the receipts...
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## Inspiration While our team might have come from different corners of the country, with various experience in industry, and a fiery desire to debate whether tabs or spaces are superior, we all faced similar discomforts in our jobs: insensitivity. Our time in college has shown us that despite the fact people's diver...
## Inspiration We've all been there - racing to find an empty conference room as your meeting is about to start, struggling to hear a teammate who's decided to work from a bustling coffee shop, or continuously muting your mic because of background noise. As the four of us all conclude our internships this summer, we’...
## Inspiration Did you know the average US worker spends **5 hours** a week in meetings and **4 hours** in preparation! This not only wastes company time, but company money as well. Minitum's goal is to help companies have more efficient meetings to create a more productive environment. ## What it does Minitum allow...
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## Inspiration 3-D Printing. It has been around for decades, yet the printing process is often too complex to navigate, labour intensive and time consuming. Although the technology exists, it is only used by those who are trained in the field because of the technical skills required to operate the machine. We want to ...
## Inspiration 💭 With the current staffing problem in hospitals due to the lingering effects of COVID-19, we wanted to come up with a solution for the people who are the backbone of healthcare. **Personal Support Workers** (or PSWs) are nurses that travel between personal and nursing homes to help the elderly and dis...
## Inspiration With the coming of the IoT age, we wanted to explore the addition of new experiences in our interactions with physical objects and facilitate crossovers from the digital to the physical world. Since paper is a ubiquitous tool in our day to day life, we decided to try to push the boundaries of how we int...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration stemmed from our interest in the topics of Artificial Intelligence and the limitless capabilities associated with such. We wanted to develop a project that would not only incorporate aspects of AI and speech-to-text recognition, but the implementation into something that students can use...
## Inspiration Everybody likes Bitmojis - so we wanted to game-ify recreating them! ## What it does BitLeague lets you create, browse, and vote on community recreations of Bitmojis. ## How we built it We kicked off by rapidly brainstorming and sketching out the user interface together. The rough draft is validated...
## Inspiration While caught in the the excitement of coming up with project ideas, we found ourselves forgetting to follow up on action items brought up in the discussion. We felt that it would come in handy to have our own virtual meeting assistant to keep track of our ideas. We moved on to integrate features like au...
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## Inspiration Every musician knows that moment of confusion, that painful silence as onlookers shuffle awkward as you frantically turn the page of the sheet music in front of you. While large solo performances may have people in charge of turning pages, for larger scale ensemble works this obviously proves impractica...
## Inspiration As avid readers, we wanted a tool to track our reading metrics. As a child, one of us struggled with concentrating and focusing while reading. Specifically, there was a strong tendency to zone out. Our app provides the ability for a user to track their reading metrics and also quantify their progress in...
## Inspiration 💡 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 ...
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## 🐤 Inspiration 🕒 As students, it's difficult for us to get into the flow state when studying, working, or anything in-between. In other times, we've been too focused/locked into the flow state and **forget to take breaks**. It's important to maintain a good balance between working and taking breaks. Why not make a...
## Inspiration As developers, we have noticed a lack of intuitive tools to develop CSS Animations. We decided to build a dev tools extension because we liked how chrome dev tools allows you to easily edit the CSS of an application. We also liked how cssgradient.io easily lets you export css code. There was also a supe...
## Inspiration In school, we were given the offer to take a dual enrollment class called Sign Language. A whole class for the subject can be quite time consuming for most children including adults. If people are interested in learning ASL, they either watch Youtube videos which are not interactive or spend HUNDREDS of...
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## Inspiration An abundance of qualified applicants lose their chance to secure their dream job simply because they are unable to effectively present their knowledge and skills when it comes to the interview. The transformation of interviews into the virtual format due to the Covid-19 pandemic has created many challen...
> > Domain.com domain: IDE-asy.com > > > ## Inspiration Software engineering and development have always been subject to change over the years. With new tools, frameworks, and languages being announced every year, it can be challenging for new developers or students to keep up with the new trends the technological in...
## Inspiration Lots of qualified candidates missed out great opportunities not because lack of skills, but because they missed common interview techniques (ex: facial expression, confidence, etc). We believe AI can help solved it. ## What it does It consists of two parts: Interview Preparation & Realtime Prompting. ...
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## Inspiration As all three of us are from China, we were particularly inspired by a recent technological initiative implemented in major cities. This initiative focuses on assisting elderly individuals in navigating the digital landscape for taxi calling services. In China, nearly all taxi services have transitioned ...
## Inspiration With current restrictions, there is a lot of opportunities for people to help each other out in regards to essential delivery. This application provides a way in which communities can come together with simple acts of kindness. ## What it does Connects people who are limited in regards to transportati...
## Inspiration Homelessness is a rampant problem in the US, with over half a million people facing homelessness daily. We want to empower these people to be able to have access to relevant information. Our goal is to pioneer technology that prioritizes the needs of displaced persons and tailor software to uniquely add...
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## Inspiration Food allergies are an oft-overlooked but extremely common chronic hidden disability. Studies have shown they may be linked to higher rates (between 1.6 and 2.3 times more likely) of depression, stress, and anxiety, leading to impaired quality of life. One in thirteen children has a food allergy, and 40%...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create a health-based solution (despite focusing on sustainability) due to the recent trend of healthcare digitization, spawning from the COVID-19 pandemic and progressing rapidly with increased commercial usage of AI. We did, however, want to create a meaningful solution with a larg...
## Slooth Slooth.tech was born from the combined laziness and frustration towards long to navigate school websites of four Montréal based hackers. When faced with the task of creating a hack for McHacks 2016, the creators of Slooth found the perfect opportunity to solve a problem they faced for a long time: navigatin...
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## Inspiration Proteins make up the human body and allow us to function. Unfortunately, these proteins also have the capability of causing great harm when they do not perform correctly, playing a major factor in diseases of modern society. To combat this and improve the physical welfare of modern society, we must bett...
## Inspiration Every year, the amount of data collected exponentially grows. As the abundance of data grows, so do the possibilities that come along with it. In conjunction with machine learning in Python, we decided to utilize the tools available to try to improve a critical aspect of the health industry: cancer diag...
## Inspiration Following the recent tragic attacks in Paris, Beirut, and other places, the world has seen the chaos that followed during and after the events. We saw how difficult it was for people to find everything they wanted to know as they searched through dozens of articles and sites to get a full perspective on...
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## Inspiration A couple of us started using Anki to study last term, and we quickly realized that one of the slowest parts of the process, especially when cramming for exams, is manually generating flashcards. The process is often repetitive, and when it involves media like PowerPoint slides or lecture recordings, it ...
## Inspiration As university students, we know that taking notes can be difficult especially during fast-paced lectures. Even worse, the fine details of what happens during a class can easily be forgotten. What if your friend asked you a question while the professor said something important? What do you do? Use Squirr...
## 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...
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## Inspiration The future of the blockchain will be **multi-chain**. Since each blockchain is an independent data island with its own ecosystem, it’s not easy to share data or assets across them. Despite the current solutions - bridges - that bridge ERC20 assets, there is still a big gap in NFTs. NFTs due to their col...
## Inspiration 💡 Buying, selling, and trading physical collectibles can be a rather tedious task, and this has become even more apparent with the recent surge of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). The global market for physical collectibles was estimated to be worth $372 billion in 2020. People have an innate inclination t...
## Inspiration As more and more blockchains transition to using Proof of Stake as their primary consensus mechanism, the importance of validators becomes more apparent. The security of entire digital economies, people's assets, and global currencies rely on the security of the chain, which at its core is guaranteed by...
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## Inspiration: seeing and dealing with rude and toxic comments on popular forums like youtube, reddit, and being aware that sometimes it might be you who leaves that rude comment, and you may not even realize it. ## What it does: This chrome extension warns you and reminds you not to be too heated if it finds that ...
## Inspiration Old technology always had a certain place in our hearts. It is facinating to see such old and simple machines produce such complex results. That's why we wanted to create our own emulator of an 8-bit computer: to learn and explore this topic and also to make it accessible to others through this learning...
## Inspiration In today's always-on world, we are more connected than ever. The internet is an amazing way to connect to those close to us, however it is also used to spread hateful messages to others. Our inspiration was taken from a surprisingly common issue among YouTubers and other people prominent on social media...
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## Inspiration I got the inspiration from the Mirum challenge, which was to be able to recognize emotion in speech and text. ## What it does It records speech from people for a set time, separating individual transcripts based on small pauses in between each person talking. It then transcribes this to a JSON string ...
## Inspiration COVID-19 has rapidly affected our day to day life, businesses, and also disrupted the world trade and movements. With such a drastic pause in our lives, we wanted to provide an easy to access COVID-19 data according to the user's needs, Covid-19 screening, new/headlines, facts, etc. for our discord user...
## Inspiration Not all hackers wear capes - but not all capes get washed correctly. Dorming on a college campus the summer before our senior year of high school, we realized how difficult it was to decipher laundry tags and determine the correct settings to use while juggling a busy schedule and challenging classes. W...
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# Resupplie (Pronounced 'reh-supp-lee') this is your number one cuisine companion! Resuppie recommends meal recipies inspired by the contents of your fridge & pantry. Resuppie prepares for future meals & shopping lists based on your tastes & preferences.
[project video demo](https://github.com/R1tzG/SignSensei/assets/86858242/40b4d428-f614-4800-8151-0d3d9c74f5af) ## Inspiration In an increasingly interconnected world, one of the most important skills we can acquire is the ability to communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and abilities. American ...
### Inspiration The way research is funded is harmful to science — researchers seeking science funding can be big losers in the equality and diversity game. We need a fresh ethos to change this. ### What it does Connexsci is a grant funding platform that generates exposure to undervalued and independent research thr...
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## Inspiration One of the biggest problems during this COVID-19 pandemic and these awful times in general is that thousands of people are filing for property and casualty insurance. As a result, insurance companies are receiving an influx of insurance claims, causing longer processing times. These delays not only hurt...
## Inspiration In Grade 10 at one point I played a game with my classmates where we all started with $10 000 in virtual currency and traded stocks with that virtual currency, trying to see who could make the most money. Even though most of us lost almost all our money, the game was a lot of fun. This is where the ide...
## Inspiration Virtually every classroom has a projector, whiteboard, and sticky notes. With OpenCV and Python being more accessible than ever, we wanted to create an augmented reality entertainment platform that any enthusiast could learn from and bring to their own place of learning. StickyAR is just that, with a su...
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For a given song, we fetched similar songs and performed topic modeling using LDA to extract common themes from the lyrics. These themes are representative of the emotion and mood of the song. We used this information to find art that match the extracted themes. We then used a machine learning technique called artistic...
## Inspiration As a team of high school students, we understand how challenging it can be to manage stress, anxiety, and other emotional challenges while balancing school, extracurricular activities, and personal life. Music has always been a powerful tool for emotional regulation, but we wanted to take it a step furt...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Wanted to better people's lives, making them happier and healthier. We thought this would be a great way to achieve such a task, and bring communities closer together in a sustainable way. ## What it does FoodMe takes your location and recommends recipes based on what local produce is currently in sea...
## Inspiration The world today has changed significantly because of COVID 19, with the increased prominence of food delivery services. We decided to get people back into the kitchen to cook for themselves again. Additionally, everyone has a lot of groceries that they never get around to eating because they don't know ...
## Inspiration The inspiration for Med2Meals sprang from the universal truth that food is more than just sustenance; it's medicine, comfort, and a catalyst for connection. In today's fast-paced world, we've seen an increasing reliance on pharmaceutical solutions to health issues, often overlooking the holistic benefit...
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## Inspiration * You can search for images with words (Google Search) * You can search for words with images (Google Image Search) * Why can't you *search for images with images???* ## What it does * Translates camera image to Giphy search query using Core ML Image Recognition * Keep tapping your screen to add more ...
## Inspiration Inspired by the recent success of apps like HQ, we wanted to capitalize upon the mass demand for instant gratification. After browsing reddit for a few hours, we realized that Snapchat uses selfies, Instagram uses pictures, Facebook uses text, and giphyr uses GIFs. ## What it does Enabling two types o...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Have you ever walked up to a recycling can and wondered if you can recycle your trash. With Trash MIT, we take a picture of your item and run it through our database to check if it's recyclable. ## What it does Trash MIT identifies what an object is using a webcam and checks it against our list of ite...
## Inspiration We inherently know importance of recycling, but we get lazy and sometimes forget. People often throw their waste in the wrong recycling bin (e.g. bottles for compost or food waste for landfill) which negates the entire purpose of recycling. Therefore, we wanted to create a project to solve this issue. ...
## Inspiration Waste Management: Despite having bins with specific labels, people often put waste into wrong bins which lead to unnecessary plastic/recyclables in landfills. ## What it does Uses Raspberry Pi, Google vision API and our custom classifier to categorize waste and automatically sorts and puts them into r...
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## Inspiration Have you ever finished up ECE lab or a small project like a PennApps hardware project and found that there were all of these screws, nuts, and resistors lying around everywhere? Or maybe you're just a hardware enthusiast but hate keeping track of all of your stuff (we like to do the old-fashioned way: t...
## Inspiration The other day, I heard my mom, a math tutor, tell her students "I wish you were here so I could give you some chocolate prizes!" We wanted to bring this incentive program back, even among COVID, so that students can have a more engaging learning experience. ## What it does The student will complete a ...
## Inspiration Memes have changed the way we communicate, the content we're looking for, and how we can express ourselves. In our personal experience, memes have allowed us to connect with each other and find joy and entertainment in a simple way. There's no meme-exclusive social media that provides the user with an e...
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The idea started with the desire to implement a way to throw trash away efficiently and in an environmentally friendly way. Sometimes, it is hard to know what bin trash might go to due to time or carelessness. Even though there are designated spots to throw different type of garbage, it is still not 100% reliable as yo...
## Inspiration Throughout the hackathon, our team was intrigued by staff members sorting through trash bins in order to ensure recycling, compost and landfill waste was separated. After further investigation and a quick staff member interview, we learned about San Francisco's "zero-waste" program. This program require...
## Inspiration Fashion has a waste problem. The fashion industry is responsible for 10% of annual global carbon emissions. The problem of excess product is endemic in the garment industry, now costing the US retail industry as much as $50 billion a year. It has led to constant discounting, dumping of unsold clothes to...
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## Inspiration 1 in 5 children in the United States have learning disabilities and attention disorders like dyslexia, ADHD, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) and Language Processing Disorder (LPD). Individuals with Dyslexia face significant challenges in educational settings, team presentatio...
## Inclusiv.ai: Empowering Accessibility ## Inspiration In a world where technology is a cornerstone of daily life, it's crucial that digital access is equitable. However, not everyone experiences technology in the same way. We took this challenge to heart and crafted Inclusiv.ai to revolutionize accessibility, ensur...
## Inspiration Everyone learns in a different way. Whether it be from watching that YouTube tutorial series or scouring the textbook, each person responds to and processes knowledge very differently. We hoped to identify students’ learning styles and tailor educational material to the learner for two main reasons: one...
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## Inspiration I got this idea because of the current hurricane Milton causing devastation across Florida. The inspiration behind *Autonomous AI Society* stems from the need for faster, more efficient, and autonomous systems that can make critical decisions during disaster situations. With multiple sponsors like Fetch...
## Inspiration In 2010, Haiti faced a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, which remains to this day one of the most devastating natural disasters of our century. An estimated 220,000 individuals lost their lives, with an additional 1.5 million losing their homes. At the center of the tragedy was poor building construction, prac...
## Inspiration Our inspiration for the disaster management project came from living in the Bay Area, where earthquakes and wildfires are constant threats. Last semester, we experienced a 5.1 magnitude earthquake during class, which left us feeling vulnerable and unprepared. This incident made us realize the lack of a ...
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## Inspiration Both chronic pain disorders and opioid misuse are on the rise, and the two are even more related than you might think -- over 60% of people who misused prescription opioids did so for the purpose of pain relief. Despite the adoption of PDMPs (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs) in 49 states, the US s...
## The problem it solves : During these tough times when humanity is struggling to survive, **it is essential to maintain social distancing and proper hygiene.** As a big crowd now is approaching the **vaccination centres**, it is obvious that there will be overcrowding. This project implements virtual queues which w...
## Inspiration The US and the broader continent is in the midst of a drug crisis affecting a large fraction of the population: the opioid crisis. The direct spark that led us to develop Core was the recent publication of a study that used a model to predict the effects of different intervention methods on reducing ove...
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## Inspiration It is difficult for university students to find the time and money to go to the gym. Although some YouTube videos teach exercises that can be done at home without weights, it's not always easy to self-correct without a gym buddy. ## What it does When a user works out at home, they can place their lapt...
## Inspiration After learning that deadlifts are of the most dangerous exercises responsible for serious injury, we wanted to create a product that could help track form of deadlifts. We wanted to make a wearable product that could notify the wearer when their angular velocity was changing too quickly, to reduce the r...
## 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...
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We built a platform that serves as a place to have high-fidelity discussions over the internet. Users can have access to topics that are of high importance to those in their local community. The aim of Full Circle is to move away from highly-polarized, sensationalized conversations and towards issues that affect the mo...
## Inspiration Today we're living in times wherein we have unparalleled access to information and its subsequent dissemination, which vastly increases the potential for rapid social change. However, modern political interaction is often characterized by plain indifference along with a general lack of interest in info...
## Inspiration The transition from high school to university is indeed a challenging phase wherein a student not only navigates through the curriculum but at the same time he/she/they are figuring out who they are as individuals, their passion etc. For students coming from culturally diverse backgrounds, things become...
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# What inspired us We are a team of passionate innovators who want to help you overcome the challenges of the hustle culture. This is the idea that you should always work hard and never stop, even if it means sacrificing your health and happiness[1](https://rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/life/work/hustle-culture). This cu...
Unhealthy study and work habits are common, and have only been worsened since the pandemic eliminated the social component of work and school. Furthermore, those living with ADHD may be suffering from poor mental health brought on by the lack of productivity. We wanted to build an app that helps users regulate their s...
## 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...
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## Inspiration With recent booms in AI development, deepfakes have been getting more and more convincing. Social media is an ideal medium for deepfakes to spread, and can be used to seed misinformation and promote scams. Our goal was to create a system that could be implemented in image/video-based social media platfo...
# We'd love if you read through this in its entirety, but we suggest reading "What it does" if you're limited on time ## The Boring Stuff (Intro) * Christina Zhao - 1st-time hacker - aka "Is cucumber a fruit" * Peng Lu - 2nd-time hacker - aka "Why is this not working!!" x 30 * Matthew Yang - ML specialist - aka "What...
## Inspiration -Inspired by baracksdubs and many "Trump Sings" channels on YouTube, each of which invests a lot of time into manually tracking down words. -Fully automating the process allows us to mass-produce humorous content and "fake news", bringing awareness to the ease with which modern technology allows for the...
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## Inspiration Knowtworthy is a startup that all three of us founded together, with the mission to make meetings awesome. We have spent this past summer at the University of Toronto’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s incubator executing on our vision. We’ve built a sweet platform that solves many of the issues surrounding ...
## 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...
## Inspiration One of our team members underwent speech therapy as a child, and the therapy helped him gain a sense of independence and self-esteem. In fact, over 7 million Americans, ranging from children with gene-related diseases to adults who suffer from stroke, go through some sort of speech impairment. We wanted...
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## Inspiration In the past 2 years, the importance of mental health has never been so prominent on the global stage. With isolation leaving us with crippling effects, and social anxiety many have suffered in ways that could potentially be impacting them for the rest of their life. One of the difficulties that people w...
## 💡 Inspiration 💡 So many people around the world are fatally injured and require admission to multiple hospitals in order to receive life-changing surgery/procedures. When patients are transferred from one hospital to another, it is crucial for their medical information to be safely transferred as well. ## ❓ What...
## What it does KokoRawr at its core is a Slack App that facilitates new types of interactions via chaotic cooperative gaming through text. Every user is placed on a team based on their Slack username and tries to increase their team's score by playing games such as Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, Battleship, and Rock Paper S...
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## Inspiration When we talk about mental health, we're talking about overall well-being. Good mental health is not only key to feeling good, but it also affects our physical health, energy, and activity levels. It influences our vitality, our relationships with others, and first, with ourselves, our desire to live. Th...
## Inspiration The motivation stemmed from one of our team member's problem having to cooking the same dish for myself everyday and do not have an easy way to discover new recipes. By simply snapping a picture of the ingredients, the app retrieves a potential list of recipes that you could draw inspirations from or le...
## Story Mental health is a major issue especially on college campuses. The two main challenges are diagnosis and treatment. ### Diagnosis Existing mental health apps require the use to proactively input their mood, their thoughts, and concerns. With these apps, it's easy to hide their true feelings. We wanted to f...
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## Inspiration Being disorganized can put a strain on your productivity and mental health. Since all of us have dealt with this before we wanted to create an application that would increase our productivity, while being user-friendly, and quick. If we knew what we had to do throughout the day, but it impedes with our ...
## Inspiration Finding and paying for parking sucks, so we made it better. ## What it does Spot is a parking assist mobile web app that removes the hassle of finding and paying for parking. Spot allows a user to set where they are going, and will show nearby parking spots, as well as meter time limits and cost per h...
Group Number: 81 ## Inspiration As students with busy schedules, we often forget to take breaks and skip meals when we are busy, and these things are vital for mental health. This also happens for many people who are also overworked and stressed such as people in the workforce, those juggling multiple responsibilitie...
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## Inspiration Tinder but Volunteering ## What it does Connects people to volunteering organizations. Makes volunteering fun, easy and social ## How we built it react for web and react native ## Challenges we ran into So MANY ## Accomplishments that we're proud of Getting a really solid idea and a decent UI #...
Copyright 2018 The Social-Engineer Firewall (SEF) Written by Christopher Ngo, Jennifer Zou, Kyle O'Brien, and Omri Gabay. Founded Treehacks 2018, Stanford University. ## Inspiration No matter how secure your code is, the biggest cybersecurity vulnerability is the human vector. It takes very little to exploit an end...
## Inspiration The ongoing effects of climate change and the theme of nature preservation motivated us to think about how can we promote sustainability on campus. A lot of initiatives have been taken by companies, people and universities to tackle this and promote a sustainable lifestyle, but they haven't been very im...
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## 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 Due to a lot of work and family problems, People often forget to take care of their health and food. Common health problems people know a day's faces are BP, heart problems, and Diabetics. Most people face mental health problems, due to studies, jobs, or any other problems. This Project can help people ...
## 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 ...
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## Inspiration Due to the pandemic, feelings of isolation have spiked resulting in mental health issues. We wanted to explore how we could help those struggling with mental health issues using music therapy. ## What it does The website allows for people to cope with feelings of sadness, frustration, etc. with the he...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a convenient, modernized journaling application with methods and components that are backed by science. Our spin on the readily available journal logging application is our take on the idea of awareness itself. What does it mean to be aware? What form or shape can mental health aware...
## Inspiration ``` We had multiple inspirations for creating Discotheque. Multiple members of our team have fond memories of virtual music festivals, silent discos, and other ways of enjoying music or other audio over the internet in a more immersive experience. In addition, Sumedh is a DJ with experience performing f...
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## FLEX [Freelancing Linking Expertise Xchange] ## Inspiration Freelancers deserve a platform where they can fully showcase their skills, without worrying about high fees or delayed payments. Companies need fast, reliable access to talent with specific expertise to complete jobs efficiently. "FLEX" bridges the gap, e...
## **1st Place!** ## Inspiration Sign language is a universal language which allows many individuals to exercise their intellect through common communication. Many people around the world suffer from hearing loss and from mutism that needs sign language to communicate. Even those who do not experience these condition...
## Inspiration What is one of the biggest motivators at hackathons? The thrill of competition. What if you could bring that same excitement into your daily life, using your speech to challenge your friends? Our app gamifies everyday conversations and interactions, letting you and your friends compete to see who projec...
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# Recipe Finder - Project for NWHacks 2020 ## The Problem About 1/3 of food produced in the world is lost or wasted in the year. There are many reasons for this, including not being able to cook with said food, not having time to cook this food or cooking food that does not taste good. Albeit this, food waste is a se...
## Inspiration As university students, we often find that we have groceries in the fridge but we end up eating out and the groceries end up going bad. ## What It Does After you buy groceries from supermarkets, you can use our app to take a picture of your receipt. Our app will parse through the items in the receipts...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from people who require immediate medical assistance when they are located in remote areas. The project aims to reinvent the way people in rural or remote settings, especially seniors who are unable to travel frequently, obtain medical assistance by remotely connecting them to medi...
## Inspiration Our journey with PathSense began with a deeply personal connection. Several of us have visually impaired family members, and we've witnessed firsthand the challenges they face navigating indoor spaces. We realized that while outdoor navigation has seen remarkable advancements, indoor environments remain...
## Inspiration Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. One in five deaths is a heart attack, and performing CPR immediately can greatly improve these odds, yet ambulances may only arrive so fast. This project aims to quickly help those in need by alerting nearby individuals with first-aid trai...
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## Inspiration Data analytics can be **extremely** time-consuming. We strove to create a tool utilizing modern AI technology to generate analysis such as trend recognition on user-uploaded datasets.The inspiration behind our product stemmed from the growing complexity and volume of data in today's digital age. As busi...
## Inspiration The inspiration for the project was our desire to make studying and learning more efficient and accessible for students and educators. Utilizing advancements in technology, like the increased availability and lower cost of text embeddings, to make the process of finding answers within educational materi...
## Inspiration Everywhere we hear, "(data) is the new currency." And yet our understanding of it is limited. As developers, we have decided to make it more accessible to the people we think need it most: people who have an illness. Often, medical information is not explicit to the general public, and we cannot grasp i...
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## Inspiration Currently, many hospitals still burn CD’s to give patient’s their medical images and records including MRI’s and CT scans. A recent study conducted by Life Image showed that nearly 40% of patients are still required to physically travel to pick up CDs if they want access to their medical records includ...
## Inspiration Our inspiration was a medical paper one of our teammates gave us that outlined the importance of digitizing healthcare infrastructure. We realized the risk of patient's confidential healthcare documents and files being leaked and stored in an unsecured location and wanted to change that. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration We wanted to make the world a better place by giving patients control over their own data and allow easy and intelligent access of patient data. ## What it does We have built an intelligent medical record solution where we provide insights on reports saved in the application and also make the personal...
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## Inspiration When I was interviewing at a ~20 person startup and reading through their introduction doc, I read that the co-founders would often spend lots of nights just catching up on docs from the prior week. To me, the last thing any employee, much less a founder, should be spending their time on is writing docs...
## Inspiration We’ve all had the experience of needing assistance with a task but not having friends available to help. As a last resort, one has to resort to large, class-wide GroupMe’s to see if anyone can help. But most students have those because they’re filled with a lot of spam. As a result, the most desperate c...
## 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...
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## 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 We wanted to reduce global carbon footprint and pollution by optimizing waste management. 2019 was an incredible year for all environmental activities. We were inspired by the acts of 17-year old Greta Thunberg and how those acts created huge ripple effects across the world. With this passion for a gree...
## Inspiration As busy students, we noticed that students loved “shooting” garbage into bins. When it came to throwing out garbage and waste, the bins that held the garbage had a small distance between each opening for each separate type of waste for the trash to go. This meant that students would have to walk long di...
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### Saturday 11AM: Starting Out > > *A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step* > > > BusBuddy is pulling the curtain back on school buses. Students and parents should have equal access to information to know when and where their buses are arriving, how long it will take to get to school, and be up-to-d...
## Inspiration After years of taking the STM (one of the many possible implementations that could make use of RailVision) and having one too many experiences of waiting in the freezing weather for a bus that would never come, the problem proposed by the RailVision challenge was one that was close to our hearts. Having...
## 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...
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# ObamaChart It all began three weeks ago when Charlie, Gerry, and Gene convinced Hector to join them in the hackathon. The idea was not born until late in the wee hours of the night when everyone was fed up with Charlie's "one way photo encryption" idea and instead wanted something more useful. Thus we decided visua...
## Inspiration Our team was inspired by how projects such as Waterloo Waterworks and forest fire maps were able to take data and give meaning to it through visualization. We were also inspired by the effect large collective data projects can have on people who feel emotionally isolated when they realize they are not a...
## 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...
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## Inspiration In today's fast-paced world, the average person often finds it challenging to keep up with the constant flow of news and financial updates. With demanding schedules and numerous responsibilities, many individuals simply don't have the time to sift through countless news articles and financial reports to...
## ✨ Inspiration Driven by the goal of more accessible and transformative education, our group set out to find a viable solution. Stocks are very rarely taught in school and in 3rd world countries even less, though if used right, it can help many people go above the poverty line. We seek to help students and adults le...
Though technology has certainly had an impact in "leveling the playing field" between novices and experts in stock trading, there still exist a number of market inefficiencies for the savvy trader to exploit. Figuring that stock prices in the short term tend to some extent to reflect traders' emotional reactions to new...
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## Inspiration 🍪 We’re fed up with our roommates stealing food from our designated kitchen cupboards. Few things are as soul-crushing as coming home after a long day and finding that someone has eaten the last Oreo cookie you had been saving. Suffice it to say, the university student population is in desperate need o...
## Inspiration In a lot of mass shootings, there is a significant delay from the time at which police arrive at the scene, and the time at which the police engage the shooter. They often have difficulty determining the number of shooters and their location. ViGCam fixes this problem. ## What it does ViGCam spots and...
## Inspiration We found that the current price of smart doors on the market is incredibly expensive. We wanted to improve the current technology of smart doors at a fraction of the price. In addition, smart locks are not usually hands free, either requiring the press of a button or going on the User's phone. We wanted...
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## Inspiration The idea addresses a very natural curiosity to live and experience the world as someone else, and out of the progress with the democratization of VR with the Cardboard, we tried to create a method for people to "upload" their life to others. The name is a reference to Sharon Creech's quote on empathy in...
## Our Inspiration We were inspired by apps like Duolingo and Quizlet for language learning, and wanted to extend those experiences to a VR environment. The goal was to gameify the entire learning experience and make it immersive all while providing users with the resources to dig deeper into concepts. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration With a vision to develop an innovative solution for portable videography, Team Scope worked over this past weekend to create a device that allows for low-cost, high-quality, and stable motion and panoramic photography for any user. Currently, such equipment exists only for high-end dslr cameras, is expe...
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## Inspiration Our inspiration for this project was born from the crucible of procrastinating large assignments until the last possible moment and the art of cobbling together passable submissions fueled only by Monster Energy and divine intervention. As college students, we have all experienced the overwhelming feeli...
### Our inspiration Technology is becoming smarter and more accessible each year but many studies have found that productivity has hasn't always increased with increased innovation. In fact, productivity has even decreased according to studies done by Harvard. Companies like Google and Apple have begun to try to help ...
## Inspiration One of our teammates had an internship at a company where they were exposed to the everyday operations of the sales and customer service (SCS) industry. During their time there, they discovered how costly and time consuming it was for companies to properly train, manage and analyze the performance of th...
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## Inspiration Autism is the fastest growing developmental disorder worldwide – preventing 3 million individuals worldwide from reaching their full potential and making the most of their lives. Children with autism often lack crucial communication and social skills, such as recognizing emotions and facial expressions ...
## 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 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...
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## Inspiration Estate planning may not be the first concern people think about with crypto, but as it is exploding into mainstream usage, it is more important than ever to ensure that there is a mechanism for your beneficiaries to have access to your crypto inheritance just in case. We first became aware of how pressi...
## Inspiration As students of Berkeley, we value websites like Gofundme in providing anyone with the opportunity to spend money on causes they believe in. One problem we realized however is that the goodwill and trust of the public could be taken advantage of because there is a lack of strict accountability when it co...
## Inspiration As college students who recently graduated high school in the last year or two, we know first-hand the sinking feeling that you experience when you open an envelope after your graduation, and see a gift card to a clothing store you'll never set foot into in your life. Instead, you can't stop thinking ab...
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## Inspiration A physically active lifestyle is the key to good overall health and to preventing chronic disease. A critical issue In Canada is the levels of physical inactivity and sedentary living among Canadians of different ages. People live sedentary lifestyles because it is **EASY** to do and it is **HARD** to f...
# Inspiration 🌟 **What is the problem?** Physical activity early on can drastically increase longevity and productivity for later stages of life. Without finding a dependable routine during your younger years, you may experience physical impairment in the future. 50% of functional decline that occurs in those 30 to 7...
## Inspiration A traditional African adage states that "If you want to go fast you go alone, if you want to go far you go together." Unfortunately, most Americans seem to be wanting to go fast but not very far when it comes to working out, as new studies have found that 56% of Americans go to the gym alone. As members...
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## Intelihelm - Never two-tired to keep you safe. ## What it does This helmet is engineered to improve bike safety and confidence while cycling. Our goal was to design a helmet that improves bike-user interaction by notifying the rider to changes in their surroundings, such as an approaching car, this will be display...
## Inspiration We wanted to create something that helped other people. We had so many ideas, yet couldn't stick to one. Luckily, we ended up talking to Phoebe(?) from Hardware and she talked about how using textiles would be great in a project. Something clicked, and we started brainstorming ideas. It ended up with us...
# unbiasMe > > An AI based search engine capable of identifying bias in news articles and promoting sources that are unbiased. > > > #### Story Behind the Project University student environments are filled with passionate discussion and debates of controversial topics. The recent Canadian federal election was the fi...
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## 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 it's really fucking cool that big LLMs (ChatGPT) are able to figure out on their own how to use various tools to accomplish tasks. for example, see Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools (<https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761>) this enables a new paradigm self-assembling software: m...
## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from the Telemarketing survey. We want to create a sort of "prank call" to people, especially to our friends where the call will be a super-realistic voice presenting a survey to them. At the end, we have decided to program a chatbot that will conduct a survey via phone and ask the...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for InstaPresent came from our frustration with constantly having to create presentations for class and being inspired by the 'in-game advertising' episode on Silicon Valley. ## What it does InstaPresent is a tool that uses your computer's microphone to generate a presentation in real-...
## Inspiration The biggest irony today is despite the advent of the internet, students and adults are more oblivious than ever to world events, and one can easily understand why. Of course, Facebook, YouTube, and League will be more interesting than reading Huffington Post; coupled with the empirical decrease in the a...
## 💡 Inspiration You have another 3-hour online lecture, but you’re feeling sick and your teacher doesn’t post any notes. You don’t have any friends that can help you, and when class ends, you leave the meet with a blank document. The thought lingers in your mind “Will I ever pass this course?” If you experienced a ...
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## Inspiration Beautiful stationery and binders filled with clips, stickies, and colourful highlighting are things we miss from the past. Passing notes and memos and recognizing who it's from just from the style and handwriting, holding the sheet in your hand, and getting a little personalized note on your desk are be...
## Inspiration 🌈 Our team has all experienced the struggle of jumping into a pre-existing codebase and having to process how everything works before starting to add our own changes. This can be a daunting task, especially when commit messages lack detail or context. We also know that when it comes time to push our ch...
## Inspiration While a member of my team was conducting research at UCSF, he noticed a family partaking in a beautiful, albeit archaic, practice. They gave their grandfather access to a google doc, where each family member would write down the memories that they have with him. Nearly every day, the grandfather would s...
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## What it does This project aims to generate detailed interview question prompts based on the user's input of job title, description, and require job skills. It can take a file of the user's verbal answer, turn it into text, and process it to be analyzed. ## How we built it We used Google Cloud's Speech-To-Text and...
## Inspiration Shohruz, the president of Hunter’s first CS Club, created this club to provide introductory-level educational content to all students interested in CS at Hunter College. Sumayia, the secretary of the club, noticed students struggling in their courses on the Discord server and began providing academic so...
## 💡 Inspiration 💡 Mental health is a growing concern in today's population, especially in 2023 as we're all adjusting back to civilization again as COVID-19 measures are largely lifted. With Cohere as one of our UofT Hacks X sponsors this weekend, we want to explore the growing application of natural language proce...
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Rapid Response aims to solve the inefficient method of locating the caller used today during 911 calls. Additionally, we aim to streamline the process of exchanging information from the user to dispatcher thus allowing for first responders to arrive in a more time efficient manner. Rapid Response utilizes the latitude,...
## Inspiration This project was a response to the events that occurred during Hurricane Harvey in Houston last year, wildfires in California, and the events that occurred during the monsoon in India this past year. 911 call centers are extremely inefficient in providing actual aid to people due to the unreliability of...
## Inspiration Witnessing the atrocities(protests, vandalism, etc.) caused by the recent presidential election, we want to make the general public (especially for the minorities and the oppressed) be more safe. ## What it does It provides the users with live news update happening near them, alerts them if they trave...
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## Inspiration After hearing a representative from **Private Internet Access** describe why internet security is so important, we wanted to find a way to simply make commonly used messaging platforms more secure for sharing sensitive and private information. ## What it does **Mummify** provides in-browser text encry...
## Inspiration Have you ever wanted to search something, but aren't connected to the internet? Data plans too expensive, but you really need to figure something out online quick? Us too, and that's why we created an application that allows you to search the internet without being connected. ## What it does Text your...
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/devpost/image/fetch/s--SLH6Xr3g--/c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco,w_900/v1/logistics/demo.gif) ## Inspiration 📚In our current knowledge economy, our information is also our most important valuable commodity. 💡 Knowledge is available in almost infinite abundance 📈, delivered direc...
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## Inspiration We wanted to find ways to make e-commerce more convenient, as well as helping e-commerce merchants gain customers. After a bit of research, we discovered that one of the most important factors that consumers value is sustainability. According to FlowBox, 65% of consumers said that they would purchase pr...
## Inspiration As students who just moved to San Francisco for their freshman year, we have experienced how dangerous it is sometimes to walk around the city, especially near Mission and Tenderloin areas. Since day 1, we are told to be careful and walk in groups to be safe. Statistically, there were reported more than...
## 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...
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#### Inspiration The Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School stated that 250,000 drivers fall asleep at the wheel every day in the United States. CDC.gov claims the states has 6,000 fatal per year due to these drowsy drivers. We members of the LifeLine team understand the situation; in no way are we goin...
## Inspiration We created this app to address a problem that our creators were facing: waking up in the morning. As students, the stakes of oversleeping can be very high. Missing a lecture or an exam can set you back days or greatly detriment your grade. It's too easy to sleep past your alarm. Even if you set multiple...
The inspiration for this project was to help decrease the amount of accidents that occur due to people driving large distances while tired. This largely applies to truck drivers who depend on driving long distances to make a living and can easily become bored or require driving late at night, both of which are known to...
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## Inspiration Through going to big lectures at Berkeley, we've always found that it was difficult for courses to keep track of our attendance. Professors have gone through countless methods to track student attendance, such as requiring students to buy pricy hardware. ## What it does Tracks student attendance **and...
## Inspiration Almost all undergraduate students, especially at large universities like the University of California Berkeley, will take a class that has a huge lecture format, with several hundred students listening to a single professor speak. At Berkeley, students (including three of us) took CS61A, the introductor...
## Inspiration Drawing inspiration from our personal academic journeys and identifying challenges faced by fellow students, we wanted to create a solution that resonated with students seeking motivation tailored to their unique circumstances. Reflecting on our own experiences, we acknowledged that attendance struggles...
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## Inspiration The system was Mostafa's idea. In a world with transparency has become more of a public concern in recent years, it was important to provide a medium to hold charities accountable for the money they received in good faith, and to encourage people with the means to donate. ## What it does Project Glass...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by one of the group member's grandmother and her friends. Each month, the grandmother and her friends each contribute $100 to a group donation, then discuss and decide where the money should be donated to. We found this to be a really interesting concept for those that aren't s...
## Inspiration Many students rely on scholarships to attend college. As students in different universities, the team understands the impact of scholarships on people's college experiences. When scholarships fall through, it can be difficult for students who cannot attend college without them. In situations like these,...
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🛠 Hack Harvard 2022 Ctrl Alt Create 🛠 🎵 Dynamic Playlist Curation 🎵 🌟 Highlights * Mobile application * Flutter SDK, Dart as Frontend and Python as Backend * Uses Spotify REST API * Facial recognition machine learning model to discern a person's emotional state * Playlist assorted based on emotional state, curren...
## Inspiration While video-calling his grandmother, Tianyun was captivated by her nostalgic tales from her youth in China. It struck him how many of these cherished stories, rich in culture and emotion, remain untold or fade away as time progresses due to barriers like time constraints, lack of documentation, and the ...
## Inspiration University can be very stressful at times and sometimes the resources you need are not readily available to you. This web application can help students relax by completing positive "mindfulness" tasks to beat their monsters. We decided to build a web application specifically for mobile since we thought ...
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## Inspiration * My inspiration for this project is the tendency of medical facilities such as hospitals lacking in terms of technology, with this virtual automated HospQueue app, we will be saving more lives by saving more time for healthcare workers to focus on the more important tasks. * Also amidst the global pand...
## Inspiration One of our team members, Andy, ended up pushing back his flu shot as a result of the lengthy wait time and large patient count. Unsurprisingly, he later caught the flu and struggled with his health for just over a week. Although we joke about it now, the reality is many medical processes are still run o...
## Inspiration As students of Berkeley, we value websites like Gofundme in providing anyone with the opportunity to spend money on causes they believe in. One problem we realized however is that the goodwill and trust of the public could be taken advantage of because there is a lack of strict accountability when it co...
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## Inspiration We wanted to ease the complicated prescription medicine process, especially for elderly people who have to juggle multiple prescriptions at the same time. ## What it does The AutoMed dispenses medication, at the right time, in the right quantity for the patient. It prevents the patient from taking the...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by a team member’s family, his grandparents always have to take medicine but often forget about it. Not only his grandparents forget the medicine also his mom. Although, his mom is very young but in a very fast paced society nowadays people always forget to do small things like...
## Inspiration **75% of adults over the age of 50** take prescription medication on a regular basis. Of these people, **over half** do not take their medication as prescribed - either taking them too early (causing toxic effects) or taking them too late (non-therapeutic). This type of medication non-adherence causes a...
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## 💡 Inspiration 💡 With back to school and back to work, planning outfits everyday is harder than ever. We've all been in the situation where we've ransacked our wardrobe, trying to decide what to wear. With each outfit we ask ourselves, does it look okay? It's a relatable experience for everyone and it's difficult ...
## Inspiration Toronto's temperature is extremely sporadic and as such, can sometimes get confusing when choosing clothes to wear. Sometimes its too hot for a thick jacket and too cold for a hoodie. We wanted to address this problem. ## What it does Through our mobile app, users are notified of what other people in ...
## 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...
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# SAFE -- THE APP THAT REVOLUTIONIZES SECURITY AND INFORMATION STORAGE ## What SAFE is all about In this day and age, the use of electronics have increased significantly. When it comes to banking, storing personal information and more….EVERYTHING IS ON OUR CELLPHONES NOW! The protection of personal information is s...
## Inspiration Moving out of residence is a tedious part for students. Why? Because we own a bunch of stuffs we no longer need and we don't know where or how to donate them. That is why our team create an app that students can share their food, shampoo, chair,.. anything to the others. ## What it does An individual ...
## Inspiration WristPass was inspired by the fact that NFC is usually only authenticated using fingerprints. If your fingerprint is compromised, there is nothing you can do to change your fingerprint. We wanted to build a similarly intuitive technology that would allow users to change their unique ids at the push of a...
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## Inspiration According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), credit fraud is the most common form of identity fraud. The increasing volume and frequency of trade pose a difficult challenge for firms in financial services to analyze real-time data to detect fraudulent transactions. A scalable and distributed data so...
## Inspiration The vicarious experiences of friends, and some of our own, immediately made clear the potential benefit to public safety the City of London’s dataset provides. We felt inspired to use our skills to make more accessible, this data, to improve confidence for those travelling alone at night. ## What it do...
## 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...
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## Inspiration Personally, I really enjoy listening to music, and to me visualizing audio always seemed like an interesting way to add to the experience. ## What it does Eye Hear A Song is a music visualizer. It allows users to select from a list of songs to play, and then displays visual output on a canvas in real ...
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## Inspiration We want to make everyone impressed by our amazing project! We wanted to create a revolutionary tool for image identification! ## What it does It will identify any pictures that are uploaded and describe them. ## How we built it We built this project with tons of sweats and tears. We used Google Visi...
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### 💡 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 The need for faster and more reliable emergency communication in remote areas inspired the creation of FRED (Fire & Rescue Emergency Dispatch). Whether due to natural disasters, accidents in isolated locations, or a lack of cellular network coverage, emergencies in remote areas often result in delayed r...
## Inspiration The inspiration behind Medisync came from observing the extensive time patients and medical staff spend on filling out and processing medical forms. We noticed a significant delay in treatment initiation due to this paperwork. Our goal was to streamline this process, making healthcare more efficient and...
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## Inspiration We were inspired to reduce the amount of time it takes to seek medical attention. By directing patients immediately to a doctor specific to their needs, one may reduce the wait time commonly associated with seeking medical aid. ## What it does Destination Doc asks a user how they are feeling at which ...
# Doctors Within Borders ### A crowdsourcing app that improves first response time to emergencies by connecting city 911 dispatchers with certified civilians ## 1. The Challenge In Toronto, ambulances get to the patient in 9 minutes 90% of the time. We all know that the first few minutes after an emergency occurs ar...
## Inspiration The current COVID-19 scenario has been our greatest inspiration. Our team members have considered the solution to the faced problems as the primary concern hence we can forward with this application which can help reduce the troubles being faced by the patients. ## What it does * We have made a platfo...
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## Inspiration 💡 **Due to rising real estate prices, many students are failing to find proper housing, and many landlords are failing to find good tenants**. Students looking for houses often have to hire some agent to get a nice place with a decent landlord. The same goes for house owners who need to hire agents to ...
## Inspiration Everybody struggles with their personal finances. Financial inequality in the workplace is particularly prevalent among young females. On average, women make 88 cents per every dollar a male makes in Ontario. This is why it is important to encourage women to become more cautious of spending habits. Even...
## Inspiration As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the...
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## Behind the site "Complicated" is a word many people use to describe politics. In a world filled with biased sources and a plethora of information, it's hard to find good information on your local representatives. We aim to make the researching process easier for voters by matching them with their local political ca...
## Inspiration Our team wanted to develop a application that made it easier for normal people to access information on their representatives and the policy they were pursuing. Our team initially set out to create a project that would bring all the necessary information to the citizen in one place. After brainstorming,...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by providing a solution to the problem of users with medical constraints. There are users who have mobility limitations which causes them to have difficulty leaving their homes. PrescriptionCare allows them to order prescriptions online and have them delivered to their homes on...
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## Inspiration Music is something inherently personal to each and every one of us - our favorite tracks accompany us through our highs and lows, through tough workouts and relaxing evenings. Our aim is to encourage and capture that feeling of discovering that new song you just can't stop listening to. Music is an auth...
## Inspiration Music is a universal language, and we recognized Spotify wrapped to be one of the most anticipated times of the year. Realizing that people have an interest in learning about their own music taste, we created ***verses*** to not only allow people to quiz themselves on their musical interests, but also q...
## 💡 Inspiration Manga are Japanese comics, considered to form a genre unique from other graphic novels. Similar to other comics, it lacks a musical component. However, their digital counterparts (such as sites like Webtoons) have innovated on their take on the traditional format with the addition of soundtracks, pla...
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> > Domain.com domain: IDE-asy.com > > > ## Inspiration Software engineering and development have always been subject to change over the years. With new tools, frameworks, and languages being announced every year, it can be challenging for new developers or students to keep up with the new trends the technological in...
## Inspiration Public speaking is a critical skill in our lives. The ability to communicate effectively and efficiently is a very crucial, yet difficult skill to hone. For a few of us on the team, having grown up competing in public speaking competitions, we understand too well the challenges that individuals looking ...
## Inspiration Knowtworthy is a startup that all three of us founded together, with the mission to make meetings awesome. We have spent this past summer at the University of Toronto’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s incubator executing on our vision. We’ve built a sweet platform that solves many of the issues surrounding ...
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## Inspiration We have family members that have autism, and Cinthya told us about a history including her imaginary friends and how she interacted with them in her childhood, so we started a research about this two topics and we came around to with "Imaginary Friends" ## What it does We are developing an application...
## 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...
## Inspiration Studies show that drawing, coloring, and other art-making activities can help people express themselves artistically and explore their art's psychological and emotional undertones [1]. Before this project, many members of our team had already caught on to the stress-relieving capabilities of art-centere...
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## Never plan for fun again. Just have it. Now, with CityCrawler. While squabbling over bars to visit in the city, we pined for a solution to our problem. And here we find CityCrawler, an app that takes your interests and a couple of other details to immediately plan your ideal trip. So whether it's a pub crawl or a ...
## Inspiration TripAdvisor and RoadTrippers ## What it does Our project gives community-based and calculated plans to users based on points of attraction and personal preferences, like staying longer in nature spots or museums. The app blends information of popular spots and visualizations to provide easy interpreta...
## Inspiration 💡 > > "An intoxication comes over the man who walks long and aimlessly through the streets. With each step, the walk takes on greater momentum [...] ever more irresistible the magnetism of the next street corner, of a mass of distant foliage, of a street name." - Walter Benjamin > > > It is our belief...
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## What Inspired Us A good customer experience leaves a lasting impression across every stage of their journey. This is exemplified in the airline and travel industry. To give credit and show appreciation to the hardworking employees of JetBlue, we chose to scrape and analyze customer feedback on review and social med...
## Inspiration In today's fast-paced world, the average person often finds it challenging to keep up with the constant flow of news and financial updates. With demanding schedules and numerous responsibilities, many individuals simply don't have the time to sift through countless news articles and financial reports to...
# Customer Feedback Sentiment Analyser ## yhack2019✈️ Being naturally fascinated by data science, our team was drawn to "Best Search of Customer Feedback" challenge. Through trial and error; often trying one methodology, library, or tool, only to have to switch to another, we persevered to collect tweet data from 201...
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## Inspiration We have to make a lot of decisions, all the time- whether it's choosing your next hackathon project idea, texting your ex or not, writing an argumentative essay, or settling a debate. Sometimes, you need the cold hard truth. Sometimes, you need someone to feed into your delusions. But sometimes, you nee...
## Inspiration Knowtworthy is a startup that all three of us founded together, with the mission to make meetings awesome. We have spent this past summer at the University of Toronto’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s incubator executing on our vision. We’ve built a sweet platform that solves many of the issues surrounding ...
## Inspiration 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...
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## Inspiration We had the idea to make a no touch keyboard mouse set-up from our experience at restaurant dining during the covid pandemic where many restaurants made customers sign in their informaiton onto an iPad or laptop to keep contact tracing data. With new health and safety procedures we thought that the check...
## Overview We designed fingerpaint, an app that utilizes visual image processing to implement a drawing tool through motion detection. Using OpenCV, we analyze video streams through a user's webcam footage and use that information to inform the user's interaction with a Canvas. This allows users to more easily whiteb...
## Inspiration It is nearly a year since the start of the pandemic and going back to normal still feels like a distant dream. As students, most of our time is spent attending online lectures, reading e-books, listening to music, and playing online games. This forces us to spend immense amounts of time in front of a la...
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## Inspiration We noticed that individual have difficulty achieving their fitness goals due to external factors such as work and sleep patterns. As a result, many fitness applications do not provide a realistic time frame for achieving said goal. We felt that having an application that customizes different fitness goa...
## Inspiration The three of us love lifting at the gym. We always see apps that track cardio fitness but haven't found anything that tracks lifting exercises in real-time. Often times when lifting, people tend to employ poor form leading to gym injuries which could have been avoided by being proactive. ## What it doe...
## Inspiration Our inspiration stems from the desire to craft something sustainable and innovative. Recognizing the significance of self-care, we set out to create a platform that embraces the uniqueness of each individual's journey to wellness. Our belief is grounded in the understanding that the path to well-being i...
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## ✨ Inspiration Driven by the goal of more accessible and transformative education, our group set out to find a viable solution. Stocks are very rarely taught in school and in 3rd world countries even less, though if used right, it can help many people go above the poverty line. We seek to help students and adults le...
# 🌍 FootPrint Mayhem ## 🚀 Inspiration Climate change is daunting, and it often feels like individual efforts don’t matter. That’s why we created *FootPrint Mayhem* – a fun, addictive way to turn eco-friendly actions into a game! Think Duolingo, but for saving the planet. --- ## 🎮 What It Does FootPrint Mayhem m...
## Inspiration Our main inspiration came from competing in stock market competitions. One of the best ways to find an edge was effectively manipulating a portfolio around up and coming news. In order to make this process more efficient myStocks serves as a tool to immediately compile reaction worthy news and sort betw...
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## Inspiration Our journey to creating this project stems from a shared realization: the path from idea to execution is fraught with inefficiencies that can dilute even the most brilliant concepts. As developers with a knack for turning visions into reality, we've faced the slow erosion of enthusiasm and value that ti...
## Where we got the spark? **No one is born without talents**. We all get this situation in our childhood, No one gets a chance to reveal their skills and gets guided for their ideas. Some skills are buried without proper guidance, we don't even have mates to talk about it and develop our skills in the respective fiel...
## Inspiration Promoting yourself for a professional opportunity can be intimidating to first time job seekers. We've all had those anxious encounters which we won't forget. We want to make it easier for the next cohort of interviewees. ## What it does The features of your project include : --> Finding communities o...
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## Inspiration The inspiration for "KAY/O" (Keep An Eye Out) came from the constant anxiety of leaving belongings unattended, even for a few minutes. The need for a reliable solution to watch over personal items during short absences sparked the idea behind this innovative security application. ## What it does KAY/O...
## Inspiration Love is in the air. PennApps is not just about coding, it’s also about having fun hacking! Meeting new friends! Great food! PING PONG <3! ## What it does When you navigate to any browser it will remind you about how great PennApps was!
## Inspiration As international students in the United States, we've faced the daunting challenge of navigating an unfamiliar and complex healthcare system. Far from home and family, we've experienced firsthand how expensive and difficult it can be to access proper healthcare. This struggle inspired us to create Vital...
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[project video demo](https://github.com/R1tzG/SignSensei/assets/86858242/40b4d428-f614-4800-8151-0d3d9c74f5af) ## Inspiration In an increasingly interconnected world, one of the most important skills we can acquire is the ability to communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and abilities. American ...
## Inspiration We wanted to provide an easy, interactive, and ultimately fun way to learn American Sign Language (ASL). We had the opportunity to work with the Leap Motion hardware which allowed us to track intricate real-time data surrounding hand movements. Using this data, we thought we would be able to decipher co...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a webapp that will help people learn American Sign Language. ## What it does SignLingo starts by giving the user a phrase to sign. Using the user's webcam, gets the input and decides if the user signed the phrase correctly. If the user signed it correctly, goes on to the next phras...
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## Inspiration We wanted to get home safe ## What it does Stride pairs you with walkers just like UBC SafeWalk, but outside of campus grounds, to get you home safe! ## How we built it React Native, Express JS, MongoDB ## Challenges we ran into Getting environment setups working ## Accomplishments that we're pro...
## Inspiration Our project is inspired by the sister of one our creators, Joseph Ntaimo. Joseph often needs to help locate wheelchair accessible entrances to accommodate her, but they can be hard to find when buildings have multiple entrances. Therefore, we created our app as an innovative piece of assistive tech to i...
## 💡Inspiration💡 According to statistics, hate crimes and street violence have exponentially increased and the violence does not end there. Many oppressed groups face physical and emotional racial hostility in the same way. These crimes harm not only the victims but also people who have a similar identity. Aside fro...
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## Inspiration Have you ever wanted to search something, but aren't connected to the internet? Data plans too expensive, but you really need to figure something out online quick? Us too, and that's why we created an application that allows you to search the internet without being connected. ## What it does Text your...
## Inspiration Our team identified two intertwined health problems in developing countries: 1) Lack of easy-to-obtain medical advice due to economic, social and geographic problems, and 2) Difficulty of public health data collection in rural communities. This weekend, we built SMS Doc, a single platform to help sol...
## Inspiration This was inspired from an article we read about the impact mobile devices were making in third world countries, such as Africa. Mobile development in these countries are increasing by the second and we wanted to take part in that development. ## What it does This app allows users to get answers to a l...
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## Inspiration: According to a journal article published by Nicole Rader in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology, 40% of Americans indicated that they were afraid to walk alone at night (Rader 2017). While a close friend or family member may not always be available to talk with you on your way home, Talk th...
## Inspiration We really wanted to use Computer Vision and AI to do something that might be beneficial to others. I wanted this app to be a reminder to be more self-conscious about what you are doing, but we made it so it relays data and lets your friends and family know as well. Imagine crunch time at 10 PM at night ...
## Inspiration We set out to create a tool that unleashes dancers' creativity by syncing their moves with AI-generated music that matches perfectly. Inspired by the vibrant dance scenes on TikTok and Instagram, where beats and moves are inseparable, we wanted to take it to the next level. Imagine dancing to music made...
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## Inspiration “People don’t actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath.” -Marshall McLuhan, 1920 Newspapers in that era served a purpose greater than just a medium to share news, they had a character. A character that could grow the reader's creativity with short stories and poems or ...
## Inspiration The media we consume daily has an impact on our thinking, behavior, and emotions. If you’ve fallen into a pattern of regularly watching or listening to the news, the majority of what you’re consuming is likely about the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. And while staying up to date on local and national ne...
## Inspiration Music is something inherently personal to each and every one of us - our favorite tracks accompany us through our highs and lows, through tough workouts and relaxing evenings. Our aim is to encourage and capture that feeling of discovering that new song you just can't stop listening to. Music is an auth...
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## Inspiration Prolonged covid restrictions have caused immense damage to the economy and local markets alike. Shifts in this economic landscape have led to many individuals seeking alternate sources of income to account for the losses imparted by lack of work or general opportunity. One major sector that has seen a b...
# 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...
## Inspiration "*Agua.*" These four letters dropped Coca-Cola's market value by $4 billion dollars in just a few minutes. In a 2021 press conference, Cristiano Ronaldo shows just how much impact public opinion has on corporate finance. We all know about hedge fund managers who have to analyze and trade stocks every wa...
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# seedHacks Drone-mounted tree planter with a splash of ML magic! ## Description **Our planet's in dire straits.** Over the past several decades, as residential, commercial, and industrial demands have skyrocketed across several industries around the globe, deforestation has become a major problem facing humanity. ...
## Inspiration' With the rise of IoT devices and the backbone support of the emerging 5G technology, BVLOS drone flights are becoming more readily available. According to CBInsights, Gartner, IBISworld, this US$3.34B market has the potential for growth and innovation. ## What it does **Reconnaissance drone software ...
## Inspiration Gun violence is a dire problem in the United States. When looking at case studies of mass shootings in the US, there is often surveillance footage of the shooter *with their firearm* **before** they started to attack. That's both the problem and the solution. Right now, surveillance footage is used as a...
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## Inspiration Do you wish something could really help you get up in the morning ## What it does Sleepful uses machine vision to assist your sleep. It tracks if you have actually gotten out of bed. ## How we built it OpenCV, MEAN, Microsoft Azure ## Accomplishments that we're proud of An application that can tra...
## Inspiration Personal finance and financial literacy are incredibly important topics that everyone waits to talk about until they're too scared to admit they don't understand it! We decided that using lego and hardware to teach financial literacy concepts would encourage children to learn the importance of finances ...
## Inspiration Our inspiration stems from the profound impact that early disease detection can have on exponentially improving survival rates. ## What it does Imagine a world where we can detect diseases early and save lives by treating them before they get out of control. According to the Canary Foundation, "Colon ...
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## Inspiration Our idea begins with the fact that travelers leave their own messages in scenery places. Why don’t we create an AR function that displays these messages whenever other travelers open their phones? We then extend our target to every person who wants a platform to share their current feelings with people ...
## Inspiration * Inspired by issues pertaining to present day social media that focus on more on likes and views as supposed to photo-sharing + We wanted to connect people on the internet and within communities in a positive, immersive experience * Bring society closer together rather than push each other away ## Wh...
# Catch! (Around the World) ## Our Inspiration Catch has to be one of our most favourite childhood games. Something about just throwing and receiving a ball does wonders for your serotonin. Since all of our team members have relatives throughout the entire world, we thought it'd be nice to play catch with those relat...
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## Inspiration **Machine learning** is a powerful tool for automating tasks that are not scalable at the human level. However, when deciding on things that can critically affect people's lives, it is important that our models do not learn biases. [Check out this article about Amazon's automated recruiting tool which l...
## Inspiration When it comes to finding solutions to global issues, we often feel helpless: making us feel as if our small impact will not help the bigger picture. Climate change is a critical concern of our age; however, the extent of this matter often reaches beyond what one person can do....or so we think! Inspired...
# unbiasMe > > An AI based search engine capable of identifying bias in news articles and promoting sources that are unbiased. > > > #### Story Behind the Project University student environments are filled with passionate discussion and debates of controversial topics. The recent Canadian federal election was the fi...
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## Inspiration We came into this not knowing what to do for this hackathon, but then it dawned on us, wouldn't it be nice if it were possible to see different type of information about the stock market, and stocks that you already own. That's when we thought of making **Ultimate Portfolio**! ## What it does Now you ...
## Inspiration I've always been interested in learning about the various methods of investing and how to generate multiple passive income streams. When I found out that 43% of millennials don't know where to get started in the stock market, I wanted to create an app that could educate individuals on why certain stocks...
## Inspiration We wanted to make an app that helped people to be more environmentally conscious. After we thought about it, we realised that most people are not because they are too lazy to worry about recycling, turning off unused lights, or turning off a faucet when it's not in use. We figured that if people saw how...
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## Inspiration Searching for specific information from notes and web pages was a challenge. Finding accurate answers while studying news or gathering data for projects was a time-consuming task.1 ## What it does AI solves the issues mentioned. AIP-S³ leverages Information Retrieval to give relevant information from ...
## Inspiration Watching boring, long YouTube videos ot those that turn out to be click baits is no fun. We thought of utilizing ## What it does SummarizeYT activates when it detects that the user is playing a YouTube video and automatically scrapes the DOM for the captions file. Then it displays a summary of the tra...
## Inspiration The biggest irony today is despite the advent of the internet, students and adults are more oblivious than ever to world events, and one can easily understand why. Of course, Facebook, YouTube, and League will be more interesting than reading Huffington Post; coupled with the empirical decrease in the a...
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## Inspiration In the time of corona, it can be great to interact with friends over group video chat, and especially to play games. Similarly to Cards Against Humanity or other collaborative games, we thought it would be great to implement Mafia in a virtual setting. ## What it does Mafia, or variants like One Night...
## Inspiration *Mafia*, also known as *Werewolf*, is a classic in-person party game that university and high school students play regularly. It's been popularized by hit computer games such as Town of Salem and Epic Mafia that serve hundreds of thousands of players, but where these games go *wrong* is that they replac...
## 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. #...
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## Inspiration We wanted to give virtual reality a purpose, while pushing its limits and making it a fun experience for the user. ## What it does Our game immerses the user in the middle of an asteroid belt. The user is accompanied by a gunner, and the two players must work together to complete the course in as litt...
## Inspiration There are very small but impactful ways to be eco-conscious 🌱 in your daily life, like using reusable bags, shopping at thrift stores, or carpooling. We know one thing for certain; people love rewards ✨. So we thought, how can we reward people for eco-conscious behaviour such as taking the bus or shopp...
## Inspiration We wanted to improve even more on the immersiveness of VR by using 3D maps based on the real world. We also wanted to demonstrate the power of AR as a medium for interactive and collaborative gaming. We also wanted to connect the physical world with the real world, so a player moves through the game by ...
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