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## Inspiration
Exercise is extremely important and is most effective and healthy when it is evenly applied to all important muscles in your body. However, as students, many of us don't have enough time to finish a complete workout routine that trains every important muscle, and so we split up our exercise routines ove... | ## Inspiration
Lockdown is hard for everybody and the uncertainty makes it extremely difficult to plan things in advance and stay motivated. The pandemic has also put a strain on our ability to communicate with one another and make friends. This inspires us to create SwoleMate, a mobile application intended to connect... | ## Inspiration
In the present state of 2022, as climate change is crashing upon us at an alarming rate, the environmental issues our world faces can no longer be ignored. Through a conversation our team had about our conscious eco footsteps as a member of Generation Z, we realized that we needed to change the current ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Shashank Ojha, Andreas Joannou, Abdellah Ghassel, Cameron Smith
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Clarity is an interactive smart glass that uses a convolutional neural network, to notify the user of the emotions of those in front of them. This wear... | ## Inspiration
*Do you have a habit that you want to fix?*
We sure do. As high school students studying for exams, we noticed we were often distracted by our phones, which greatly reduced our productivity. A study from Duke University found that up to 45% of all our daily actions are performed habitually, which is a h... | ## ❓The problem at hand.
How might we help lower the barrier of entrance for **aspiring actors** to join and thrive in the entertainment industry?
## 💭 Our inspiration?
Just as others are inspired to pursue careers as engineers, doctors, or lawyers, my aspirations were shaped by watching actors perform. From a youn... | winning |
## Inspiration
It’s insane how the majority of the U.S. still looks like **endless freeways and suburban sprawl.** The majority of Americans can’t get a cup of coffee or go to the grocery store without a car.
What would America look like with cleaner air, walkable cities, green spaces, and effective routing from plac... | ## Inspiration
The only thing worse than no WiFi is slow WiFi. Many of us have experienced the frustrations of terrible internet connections. We have too, so we set out to create a tool to help users find the best place around to connect.
## What it does
Our app runs in the background (completely quietly) and maps o... | ## Inspiration
* This July was the hottest month ever
* Trees are effective in cooling the city ([10˚ cooler than no-tree areas, 2-4x faster at cooling](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26768-w))
* But the bottleneck is knowing **specifically where** to plant trees (how do we know? [a city mayor said it in a... | winning |
## Inspiration
We are part of a generation that has lost the art of handwriting. Because of the clarity and ease of typing, many people struggle with clear shorthand. Whether you're a second language learner or public education failed you, we wanted to come up with an intelligent system for efficiently improving your ... | ## Inspiration
With elections right around the corner, many young adults are voting for the first time, and may not be equipped with knowledge of the law and current domestic events. We believe that this is a major problem with our nation, and we seek to use open source government data to provide day to day citizens w... | ## Inspiration
Oftentimes when we find ourselves not understanding the content that has been taught in class and rarely remembering what exactly is being conveyed. And some of us have the habit of mismatching notes and forgetting where we put them. So to help all the ailing students, there was this idea to make an app... | winning |
## Inspiration
We've all left a doctor's office feeling more confused than when we arrived. This common experience highlights a critical issue: over 80% of Americans say access to their complete health records is crucial, yet 63% lack their medical history and vaccination records since birth. Recognizing this gap, we ... | ## Inspiration
Some of have family members in healthcare and see the overwhelming hardships they experience looking to provide healthcare to members of society. We also witness how hard it can be for the average human being to receive basic healthcare without losing a lot of money.
## What it does
This product uses ... | ## Inspiration
An Annals of Internal Medicine study\* showed that of 430 physician office hours observed, only 27% was spent directly with patients whereas 49% of their time was spent on Electric Health Records (EHR). This is not including the additional 1-2 hours spent outside of office hours each day, dedicated prim... | losing |
## Inspiration
Hospitals have drastically cut nursing staff over the past decade with millions more patients flowing into the healthcare system. Around 300,000 patients die from medical mistakes, many of which are caused by chronic overwork & staffing shortages. Robots have the potential to minimize busywork for nurse... | ## Inspiration
While we were thinking about the sustainability track, we realized that one of the biggest challenges faced by humanity is carbon emissions, global warming and climate change.
According to Dr.Fatih Birol, IEA Executive Director -
*"Global carbon emissions are set to jump by 1.5 billion tonnes this year.... | ## Inspiration
Reading about issues with patient safety was... not exactly inspiring, but eye-opening. Issues that were only a matter of human error (understaffed or forgetfulness or etc) like bed sores seemed like things that could easily be kept track of to at least make sure patients could get a heightened quality ... | partial |
## Inspiration
My sister and I are both are very detailed oriented, organized, and heavily rely on our calendars. We wanted to build an app that could parse course outlines and automatically add important dates to our calendar.
## What it does
* You can upload a course outline to [www.coursecalendar.online](http://w... | ## Inspiration 💡
Back at university, we had a friend who couldn't see the professor's notes during lectures so he needed to take pictures, and often fell behind in class. But what if there was a way to take the pictures and convert them straight to notes? Introducing NoteSense, the fast and easy way to digitize captu... | ## Inspiration
To create an autonomous robot to help carry items.
## What it does
Tracks a wearable beacon on a person and follows it.
## How we built it
Build an ultrasound transmitting beacon with a tranducer and arduino nano. Use 2 ultrasound range sensors to detect differential range from beacon to know direct... | partial |
## Inspiration
False news. False news. False news everywhere. Before reading your news article in depth, let us help you give you a brief overview of what you'll be ingesting.
## What it does
Our Google Chrome extension will analyze the news article you're about to read and give you a heads up on some on the article... | ## Inspiration
Our mission is rooted in the **fight against fake news, misinformation, and disinformation,** which are increasingly pervasive threats in today’s digital world. As the saying goes, "the pen is mightier than the sword," which underscores the power of words and information. We aim to ensure that no one fa... | Live Demo Link: <https://www.youtube.com/live/I5dP9mbnx4M?si=ESRjp7SjMIVj9ACF&t=5959>
## Inspiration
We all fall victim to impulse buying and online shopping sprees... especially in the first few weeks of university. A simple budgeting tool or promising ourselves to spend less just doesn't work anymore. Sometimes we ... | partial |
## Inspiration
My friend and I needed to find an apartment in New York City during the Summer. We found it very difficult to look through multiple listing pages at once so we thought to make a bot to suggest apartments would be helpful. However, we did not stop there. We realized that we could also use Machine Learnin... | ## Inspiration
University gets students really busy and really stressed, especially during midterms and exams. We would normally want to talk to someone about how we feel and how our mood is, but due to the pandemic, therapists have often been closed or fully online. Since people will be seeking therapy online anyway,... | ## What inspired us:
The pandemic has changed the university norm to being primarily all online courses, increasing our usage and dependency on textbooks and course notes. Since we are all computer science students, we have many math courses with several definitions and theorems to memorize. When listening to a profes... | partial |
## 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.
#... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was our experience as students. We believe students need more a digestible feed when it comes to due dates. Having to manually plan for homework, projects, and exams can be annoying and time consuming. StudyHedge is here to lift the scheduling burden off your shoulders!
... | ## Inspiration
Positive cases are spreading really quickly on campus, and many students decide against going to dormitories because of ineffectively mask enforcements. We hope to make these places safer so college students can come back to university sooner and enjoy their precious student-life experience more!
## Wh... | winning |
## Inspiration
One of our team members was in the evacuation warning zone for the raging California fires in the Bay Area just a few weeks ago. Part of their family's preparation for this disaster included the tiresome, tedious, time-sensitive process of listing every item in their house for insurance claims in the ev... | ## Inspiration
It’'s pretty common that you will come back from a grocery trip, put away all the food you bought in your fridge and pantry, and forget about it. Even if you read the expiration date while buying a carton of milk, chances are that a decent portion of your food will expire. After that you’ll throw away f... | ## Inspiration
One of our original teammates was unable to attend PennApps due to evacuations in Florida. This got us down the track of building something relating the resources we could give others in emergency situations.
## What it does
It provides real time data relating to natural disaster zones and our service... | winning |
## Inspiration
Feeling major self-doubt when you first start hitting the gym or injuring yourself accidentally while working out are not uncommon experiences for most people. This inspired us to create Core, a platform to empower our users to take control of their well-being by removing the financial barriers around f... | ## Inspiration
Kevin, one of our team members, is an enthusiastic basketball player, and frequently went to physiotherapy for a knee injury. He realized that a large part of the physiotherapy was actually away from the doctors' office - he needed to complete certain exercises with perfect form at home, in order to con... | # Inspiration 🌟
**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... | winning |
## Introducing Nuisance
### Inspiration
When prompted with the concept of **Useless Inventions**, and the slight delay from procrastinating the brainstorming process of our idea, we suddenly felt very motivated to make a little friend to help us. Introducing **Nuisance**. A (not so friendly) Bot that will sense when ... | ## Inspiration
Cute factor of dogs/cats, also to improve the health of many pets such as larger dogs that can easily become overweight.
## What it does
Reads accelerometer data on collar, converted into steps.
## How I built it
* Arduino Nano
* ADXL345 module
* SPP-C Bluetooth module
* Android Studio for app
## C... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to make something that linked the virtual and real worlds, but in a quirky way. On our team we had people who wanted to build robots and people who wanted to make games, so we decided to combine the two.
## What it does
Our game portrays a robot (Todd) finding its way through obstacles that ... | partial |
# Echo Chef
### TreeHacks 2016 @ Stanford
#### <http://echochef.net/>
Ever wanted a hands-free way to follow recipes while you cook?
Echo Chef can guide you through recipes interactively, think of it as your personal assistant in the kitchen.
Just add your favorite recipes to our web interface and they'll be availab... | ## Inspiration
Travelling can be expensive but data plans abroad can really push the expenses to a whole new level. With NavText, we were inspired to create an app fuelled by SMS messaging to do all the same services that might be useful while travellling. With this app, travelling can be made easy without the stress ... | ## Inspiration
As a university student, we usually do not have a full fridge of groceries to cook with. Therefore we must scavenge and try to make something out of what we have. We created a cool Alexa skill that helps with exactly that.
## What it does
It prompts the user for what they have in the kitchen and provi... | winning |
## Inspiration
Often times we’ve seen people post live streams on social media, use video calling for a more personal touch to a conversation, and engage in activities which require extensive expression of emotion through language. However, with over 430 million people around the world having hearing disabilities and ... | **check out the project demo during the closing ceremony!**
<https://youtu.be/TnKxk-GelXg>
## Inspiration
On average, half of patients with chronic illnesses like heart disease or asthma don’t take their medication. Reports estimates that poor medication adherence could be costing the country $300 billion in increase... | ## 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... | winning |
# BlockOJ
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## What is BlockOJ?
BlockOJ is an online judge built around Google's Blockly library that teaches children how to code. The library allows us to implement a code editor which lets the user program with various blocks (function blocks, variable blocks, etc.).
# ClassX = Vision Pro + Classroom RAG + Generative 3b1b GIFs
* Fuse online + offline classes to ‘ultralearn’ (aka cram) class quickly!
* Best-in-class multi-query RAG (retrieval augmented generation) shows relevant TA notes, LaTeX ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Examining our own internet-related tendencies revealed to us that although the internet presents itself as a connective hub, it can often be a very solitary place. As the internet continues to become a virtual extension of our physical world, we decided that working on an app that keeps people connected... | ## Inspiration
During last year's World Wide Developers Conference, Apple introduced a host of new innovative frameworks (including but not limited to CoreML and ARKit) which placed traditionally expensive and complex operations such as machine learning and augmented reality in the hands of developers such as myself. ... | ## Inspiration
The current situation with Gamestop inspired us to create this project
## What it does
It allows the user to find subreddit posts about the memestock he is interested in and also to check which one are popular on reddit.
## How we built it
We build the app using python and the Reddit API.
## Challe... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our project is driven by a clear purpose: to make a real, positive difference in society using technology, especially by fixing how the government works. We're excited about using statistical and reinforcement learning to tackle big issues like the tax gap and to build tools that agencies like the IRS a... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration of this project came from one of the sponsors in **HTN (Co:here)**. Their goal is to make AI/ML accessible to devs, which gave me the idea, that I can build a platform, where people who do not even know how to code can build their own Machine Learning models.
Coding is a great skill to h... | ## Inspiration
As the world grapples with challenges like climate change, resource depletion, and social inequality, it has become imperative for organizations to not only understand their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts but also to benchmark and improve upon them. However, one of the most signific... | losing |
## Overview
AOFS is an automatic sanitization robot that navigates around spaces, detecting doorknobs using a custom trained machine-learning algorithm and sanitizing them using antibacterial agent.
## Inspiration
It is known that in hospitals and other public areas, infections spread via our hands. Door handles, in... | ## Inspiration
**Handwriting is such a beautiful form of art that is unique to every person, yet unfortunately, it is not accessible to everyone.**
[Parkinson’s](www.parkinson.org/Understanding-Parkinsons/Statistics) affects nearly 1 million people in the United States and more than 6 million people worldwide. For pe... | ## Inspiration
The failure of a certain project using Leap Motion API motivated us to learn it and use it successfully this time.
## What it does
Our hack records a motion password desired by the user. Then, when the user wishes to open the safe, they repeat the hand motion that is then analyzed and compared to the ... | partial |
## Inspiration
As college students learning to be socially responsible global citizens, we realized that it's important for all community members to feel a sense of ownership, responsibility, and equal access toward shared public spaces. Often, our interactions with public spaces inspire us to take action to help othe... | ## 💫 Inspiration
Inspired by our grandparents, who may not always be able to accomplish certain tasks, we wanted to create a platform that would allow them to find help locally . We also recognize that many younger members of the community might be more knowledgeable or capable of helping out. These younger members m... | ## Inspiration
Crime rates are on the rise across America, and many people, especially women, fear walking alone at night, even in their own neighborhoods. When we first came to MIT, we all experienced some level of harassment on the streets. Current navigation apps do not include the necessary safety precautions that... | winning |
## 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
Our inspiration came from a common story that we have been seeing on the news lately - the wildfires that are impacting people on a nationwide scale. These natural disasters strike at uncertain times, and we don't know if we are necessarily going to be in the danger zone or not. So, we decided to ease t... | ## Inspiration
We know the struggles of students. Trying to get to that one class across campus in time. Deciding what to make for dinner. But there was one that stuck out to all of us: finding a study spot on campus. There have been countless times when we wander around Mills or Thode looking for a free space to stud... | partial |
## Inspiration
We were interested in developing a solution to automate the analysis of microscopic material images.
## What it does
Our program utilizes image recognition and image processing tools such as edge detection, gradient analysis, gaussian/median/average filters, morphologies, image blending etc. to determ... | ## Inspiration
Being a student of the University of Waterloo, every other semester I have to attend interviews for Co-op positions. Although it gets easier to talk to people, the more often you do it, I still feel slightly nervous during such face-to-face interactions. During this nervousness, the fluency of my conver... | ## Inspiration
It has been increasingly evident that paper is becoming more and more obsolete in today's society. PaperVision is an innovation that will launch paper into the 21st century.
## What it does
PaperVision will inspire the people to draw their ideas on paper and see them on the computer. It creates a free... | winning |
## Inspiration
I like looking at things. I do not enjoy bad quality videos . I do not enjoy waiting. My CPU is a lazy fool. He just lays there like a drunkard on new years eve. My poor router has a heart attack every other day so I can stream the latest Kylie Jenner video blog post, or has the kids these days call it,... | ## What it does
Paste in a text and it will identify the key scenes before turning it into a narrated movie. Favourite book, historical battle, or rant about work. Anything and everything, if you can read it, Lucid.ai can dream it.
## How we built it
Once you hit generate on the home UI, our frontend sends your text... | ## Introduction
Hey! I'm William. I care about doing efficient Computer Vision and I think that this project highlights some great potential ideas for ensuring we can stay efficient.
## Inspiration
I've recently been very interested in making ML (and specifically Computer Vision) more efficient.
There exist [many](h... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to create an app that accessed and interconnected multiple APIs. With mental health being a very important issue, we wanted to create an app that at a glance can identify someone's mood. With the popularity of social media an easy way to tell someone's mood at a glance can be what they post. S... | ## Inspiration
Mental health has become an increasingly vital issue on our campus. The facade of the perfect Stanford student (Stanford Duck Syndrome) means that real emotions and struggles are often suppressed. It is heartwarming to be able to connect with people on campus and see how they feel, in a familiar, yet an... | ## 💡 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
As vaccines are being distributed, more and more organizations are considering the idea of a Covid-19 vaccination passport. A vaccination passport would allow individuals who have been vaccinated to access events and other activities that may present high risks to unvaccinated individuals, such as fligh... | ## Inspiration
Every year thousands of companies are compromised and the authentication information for many is stolen. The consequence of such breaches is immense and damages the trust between individuals and organizations. There is significant overhead for an organization to secure it's authentication methods, often... | ## Inspiration
Our game stems from the current global pandemic we are grappling with and the importance of getting vaccinated. As many of our loved ones are getting sick, we believe it is important to stress the effectiveness of vaccines and staying protected from Covid in a fun and engaging game.
## What it does
An... | losing |
## Inspiration
The current landscape of data aggregation for ML models relies heavily on centralized platforms, such as Roboflow and Kaggle. This causes an overreliance on invalidated human-volunteered data. Billions of dollars worth of information is unused, resulting in unnecessary inefficiencies and challenges in t... | ## 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
The inspiration for the project was to design a model that could detect fake loan entries hidden amongst a set of real loan entries. Also, our group was eager to design a dashboard to help see these statistics - many similar services are good at identifying outliers in data but are unfriendly to the use... | partial |
## Inspiration
Remember the thrill of watching mom haggle like a pro at the market? Those nostalgic days might seem long gone, but here's the twist: we can help you carry out the generational legacy. Introducing our game-changing app – it's not just a translator, it’s your haggling sidekick. This app does more than br... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | ## Inspiration
-Just under 50% of insurance clients have a home inventory prepared. Our goal was to simplify and speed up the process to encourage more people to be prepared
-Seeing that insurance policies may vary from company to company, people may not be covered as a result
-Especially with home insurance, this c... | winning |
# Course Connection
## Inspiration
College is often heralded as a defining time period to explore interests, define beliefs, and establish lifelong friendships. However the vibrant campus life has recently become endangered as it is becoming easier than ever for students to become disconnected. The previously guarant... | ## Inspiration
In large lectures, students often have difficulty making friends and forming study groups due to the social anxieties attached to reaching out for help. Collaboration reinforces and heightens learning, so we sought to encourage students to work together and learn from each other.
## What it does
Study... | ## Inspiration
Every college student has to take Gen-Ed classes to fulfill graduation requirements. Often, this process is complicated because there are way too many options and very little information on what Gen-Eds are useful and fun. Navigating Reddit and other sites is a waste of time, and there isn’t a single pl... | winning |
## Inspiration
As busy university students with multiple commitments on top of job hunting, we are all too familiar with the tedium and frustration associated with having to compose cover letters for the few job openings that do require them. Given that much of cover letter writing is simply summarizing one's professi... | ### Inspiration
Like many students, we face uncertainty and difficulty when searching for positions in the field of computer science. Our goal is to create a way to tailor your resume to each job posting to increase your odds of an interview or position.
Our aim is to empower individuals by creating a tool that seamle... | Applying to multiple roles with different requirements? Not enough space on your resume for all your content? Tailor.cv uses your LinkedIn profile to generate **resumes tailored to specific job descriptions**.
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## Inspiration
Previously, we've all built... | partial |
## Summary
OrganSafe is a revolutionary web application that tackles the growing health & security problem of black marketing of donated organs. The verification of organ recipients leverages the Ethereum Blockchain to provide critical security and prevent improper allocation for such a pivotal resource.
## Inspirati... | ## Off The Grid
Super awesome offline, peer-to-peer, real-time canvas collaboration iOS app
# Inspiration
Most people around the world will experience limited or no Internet access at times during their daily lives. We could be underground (on the subway), flying on an airplane, or simply be living in areas where In... | ## Inspiration
While the use cases for web3 expand every day from healthcare to polling systems, we wanted to explore the implementation of web3 in the entertainment sector. As the world of cryptocurrency expands, people would want to play games using crypto and win crypto.
## What it does
The user gets to draw a pi... | winning |
## Inspiration
Brought to you by kids who were literally sick days before the hackathon (and Chatime). We all know tea is a warm beverage that makes you feel warm and fuzzy when you drink it and can make you feel positive! Knowing that, we wanted to be positive and help others feel the same and spread some positiviTea... | # 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
We were inspired by Katie's 3-month hospital stay as a child when she had a difficult-to-diagnose condition. During that time, she remembers being bored and scared -- there was nothing fun to do and no one to talk to. We also looked into the larger problem and realized that 10-15% of kids in hospitals d... | partial |
## Inspiration
In the work from home era, many are missing the social aspect of in-person work. And what time of the workday most provided that social interaction? The lunch break. culina aims to bring back the social aspect to work from home lunches. Furthermore, it helps users reduce their food waste by encouraging ... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | ## Inspiration
Old-school text adventure games.
## What it does
You play as Jack and get to make choices to advance the adventure. There are several possible paths to the story and you will come across obstacles and games along the way.
## How I built it
Using Python.
## Challenges I ran into
Trying to use Tkint... | winning |
## Inspiration
Memory athletes retain large amounts of information using mnemonics, story-telling, and visualizations. Picture Pathway aims to emulate this studying methodology and bring it into the classroom!
## What it does
Picture Pathway is a student-teacher platform. Teachers submit the problem they would like ... | ## Inspiration
When visiting a clinic, two big complaints that we have are the long wait times and the necessity to use a kiosk that thousands of other people have already touched. We also know that certain methods of filling in information are not accessible to everyone (For example, someone with Parkinsons disease w... | ## Inspiration
In high school, a teacher of ours used to sit in the middle of the discussion to draw lines from one person to another on paper to identify the trends of the discussion. It's a very meaningful activity as we could see how balanced the discussion is, allowing us to highlight to people who had less chance... | winning |
## 💡 Inspiration
* The healthcare industry has an extreme lack of assistive devices for people who are blind or visually impaired.
* Only 2% to 8% of people who are visually impaired use white canes. From our research we learned that many people prefer not to use a cane because of the stigma associated with carrying ... | ## Inspiration
While shopping for school supplies, one of our team members observed that while only one book/textbook brand had a version in braille for blind people, the other 99% of other books were in English text only. We realized that the amount of information available to blind people to learn from was significa... | ## Inspiration
Small scale braille printers cost between $1800 and $5000. We think that this is too much money to spend for simple communication and it has acted as a barrier for many blind people for a long time. We plan to change this by offering a quick, affordable, precise solution to this problem.
## What it doe... | losing |
## Inspiration
The inspiration from merchflow was the Google form that PennApps sent out regarding shipping swag. We found the question regarding distribution on campuses particularly odd, but it made perfect sense after giving it a bit more thought. After all, shipping a few large packages is cheaper than many small ... | ## Inspiration
Imagine a world where the number of mass shootings in the U.S. per year don't align with the number of days. With the recent Thousand Oaks shooting, we wanted to make something that would accurately predict the probability that a place has a mass shooting given a zipcode and future date.
## What it doe... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the resilience of freelancers, particularly creative designers, during the pandemic. As students, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and not value our own work. We wanted to empower emerging designers and remind them of what we can do with a little bit of courage. And support.
## What it... | partial |
## Inspiration
* The COVID-19 pandemic has bolstered an epidemic of anxiety among students
* Frequent **panic attacks** are a symptom of anxiety
* In the moment, panic attacks are frightening and crippling
* In a time of isolation, Breeve is designed to improve users' mental health by identifying and helping them when... | ## Inspiration
In the “new normal” that COVID-19 has caused us to adapt to, our group found that a common challenge we faced was deciding where it was safe to go to complete trivial daily tasks, such as grocery shopping or eating out on occasion. We were inspired to create a mobile app using a database created complet... | ## Inspiration
Over the Summer one of us was reading about climate change but then he realised that most of the news articles that he came across were very negative and affected his mental health to the point that it was hard to think about the world as a happy place. However one day he watched this one youtube video ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Legal research is tedious and time-consuming, with lawyers spending hours finding relevant cases. For instance, if a client was punched, lawyers must manually try different keywords like “kick” or “slap” to find matches. Analyzing cases is also challenging. Even with case summaries, lawyers must still v... | ## Inspiration
When reading news articles, we're aware that the writer has bias that affects the way they build their narrative. Throughout the article, we're constantly left wondering—"What did that article not tell me? What convenient facts were left out?"
## What it does
*News Report* collects news articles by to... | ## Problem
Attendance at office hours has been shown to be positively correlated with academic standing. However, 66% of students never attend office hours. Two significant contributing factors to this lack of attendance are the time and location of the office hours. See studies [here](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/a... | partial |
## Inspiration
GeoGuesser is a fun game which went viral in the middle of the pandemic, but after having played for a long time, it started feeling tedious and boring. Our Discord bot tries to freshen up the stale air by providing a playlist of iconic locations in addendum to exciting trivia like movies and monuments ... | ## Inspiration
Falls are the leading cause of injury and death among seniors in the US and cost over $60 billion in medical expenses every year. With every one in four seniors in the US experiencing a fall each year, attempts at prevention are badly needed and are currently implemented through careful monitoring and c... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration that we drew when creating this discord bot was to personalize a bot that could do a plethora of different things. We wanted the main purpose of our bot to be entertainment sort of like an Airplane screen. To navigate PikaBot, only a single person is needed.
## What it does
When using ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Being a student of the University of Waterloo, every other semester I have to attend interviews for Co-op positions. Although it gets easier to talk to people, the more often you do it, I still feel slightly nervous during such face-to-face interactions. During this nervousness, the fluency of my conver... | ## Inspiration
Nowadays, the payment for knowledge has become more acceptable by the public, and people are more willing to pay to these truly insightful, cuttting edge, and well-stuctured knowledge or curriculum. However, current centalized video content production platforms (like YouTube, Udemy, etc.) take too much ... | **Track: Education**
## Inspiration
Looking back at how we learnt to code, we found that the most difficult aspect of the learning process was to "trace" through the code. By "tracing", we mean mentally single-stepping through lines of code and keeping track of various variables. With this application, we hope to sim... | winning |
## Inspiration
During this Covid-19 pandemic, our team has noticed the high demand in essentials such as face masks and the importance of lending a hand to those in most need. When people come together as a whole great things happen. What better way than to create an application to connect eager volunteers with organi... | ## Inspiration
We had originally planned on creating a healthcare management app, but we attended a brainstorming session on the first day of the hackathon and were immediately inspired by the idea of "Tinder for board games." We liked the idea because it was light-hearted and a fun entertainment project to work on, a... | # 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
I ran out of time RIP
## What it does
## How we built it
## Challenges we ran into
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
## What we learned
## What's next for Didn't Finish On Time | ## Inspiration
## What it does
## How we built it
## Challenges we ran into
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
## What we learned
## What's next for EduBate
World domination | ## Inspiration
this is a project which is given to me by an organization and my collegues inspierd me to do this project
## What it does
It can remind what we have to do in future and also set time when it is to be done
## How we built it
I built it using command time utility in python programming
## Challenges w... | losing |
## Inspiration
Life is short and fast-paced, filled with fleeting moments of joy, achievements, and connection. During Hack the North, our team met so many amazing and inspiring people in such a short amount of time. It struck us how easy it is to forget these meaningful interactions and experiences as life rushes on.... | ## Inspiration
The memory palace, also known as the method of loci, is a technique used to memorize large amounts of information, such as long grocery lists or vocabulary words. First, think of a familiar place in your life. Second, imagine the sequence of objects from the list along a path leading around your chosen ... | ## What it is 🕵️
MemoryLane is a unique and innovative mobile application designed to help users capture and relive their precious moments. Instead of being the one to curate an image for others, with a nostalgic touch, the app provides a personalized space for friends to document and remember shared memories ~ creat... | winning |
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var bae = require('love.js')
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## Inspiration
It's a hackathon. It's Valentine's Day. Why not.
## What it does
Find the compatibility of two users based on their Github handles and code composition. Simply type the two handles into the given text boxes and see the compatibility of your stacks.
## How I buil... | ## Inspiration
One of the most exciting parts about Hackathons is the showcasing of the final product, well-earned after hours upon hours of sleep-deprived hacking. Part of the presentation work lies in the Devpost entry. I wanted to build an application that can rate the quality of a given entry to help people write ... | ## Inspiration
When we got together for the first time, we instantly gravitated towards project ideas that would appeal to a broad audience, so music as a theme for our project was a very natural choice. Originally, our ideas around a music-based project were much more abstract, incorporating some notes of music perce... | partial |
## Inspiration
COVID revolutionized the way we communicate and work by normalizing remoteness. **It also created a massive emotional drought -** we weren't made to empathize with each other through screens. As video conferencing turns into the new normal, marketers and managers continue to struggle with remote communi... | ## Inspiration
While we were doing preliminary research, we had found overwhelming amounts of evidence of mental health deterioration as a consequence of life-altering lockdown restrictions. Academic research has shown that adolescents depend on friendship to maintain a sense of self-worth and to manage anxiety and de... | ## Inspiration ⛹️♂️
Regularly courts are getting many cases and currently, it is becoming challenging to prioritize those cases. There are about 73,000 cases pending before the Supreme Court and about 44 million in all the courts of India. Cases that have been in the courts for more than 30 years, as of January 2021.... | winning |
## \*\* Internet of Things 4 Diabetic Patient Care \*\*
## The Story Behind Our Device
One team member, from his foot doctor, heard of a story of a diabetic patient who almost lost his foot due to an untreated foot infection after stepping on a foreign object. Another team member came across a competitive shooter who... | ## 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
According to the National Council on Aging, every 11 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency room for falling, and every 19 minutes, an older adult dies from a fall. A third of Americans over the age of 65 accidentally fall each year, and this is estimated to cost more than $67.7 billion by ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Have you ever seen something really tasty on Instagram but didn’t know where to get it? Have you ever craved for something but couldn' t get it? Maybe it' s too far away from home, or too expensive.
We would like to make good food accessible to everyone. With Coquere, you will be able to make something ... | ## Inspiration
We wanted a way to promote a healthy diet and lifestyle during these trying times and we thought a great way to start that was to cook your own food instead of having take out.
## What it does
It's tinder but for recipes; you either like a recipe and we save it for you or you pass on it and we will re... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Let's start by taking a look at some statistics on waste from Ontario and Canada. In Canada, only nine percent of plastics are recycled, while the rest is sent to landfills. More locally, in Ontario, over 3.6 million metric tonnes of plastic ended up as garbage due to tainted recycling bins. Tainted rec... | ## Inspiration
Every year roughly 25% of recyclable material is not able to be recycled due to contamination. We set out to reduce the amount of things that are needlessly sent to the landfill by reducing how much people put the wrong things into recycling bins (i.e. no coffee cups).
## What it does
This project is ... | ## Inspiration 💥
Our inspiration is to alter the way humans have acquired knowledge and skills over the last hundred years. Instead of reading or writing, we devised of a method fo individuals to teach others through communication and mentoring. A way that not only benefits those who learn but also helps them achieve... | winning |
## Inspiration
Being a Cal Bear, it was a dream come true for us! Through personal experiences,
## What it does
Bind is a screening tool that evaluates one's state of mind in real time. It helps the user to figure out how he/she is feeling and what triggers theses feelings. Furthermore, it generates a report that ca... | ## Inspiration
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
Care.ai was inspired by our self-conducted study involving 60 families and 23 smart devices, focusing on elderly healthcare. Over three months, despite various technologies, families preferred the simplicity of voice-activated assistants like Alexa. This preference led us to develop an intuitive, user-f... | losing |
## Inspiration
We were inspired to create this project after seeing the workshop put on by Microsoft about their new technology that we had not seen before. Azure was new technology to us and we wanted to explore what we could create with this technology. Taking inspiration from the challenges given to us and the larg... | ## Inspiration
Coming out from across the country, we were struggling to find a team for the UC Berkley AI Hackathon. Although the in-person team formation process is helpful, it takes away from our precious hacking time and delays the ideation phase -- we don't want to miss a single minute that could be spent coding!... | ## 🚀**Inspiration**
Stakes, friendly fights, and fiery debates have followed since the 2022 FIFA world cup's impending ascent and enthusiasm. Our team made the decision to apply machine learning principles to real data in order to assess and forecast which side would win these matches.
## 🤔**What it does**
Our fro... | losing |
## Inspiration
The precise and confusing way in which network admin data must currently be found. The whole point of the project is to decrease the unnecessary level of burden for a given person to simply access and make sense of data.
## What it does
We made a Spark/Slack/Cortana/Facebook Messenger/Google Assistant... | ## Inspiration
Have you ever wished you had…another you?
This thought has crossed all of our heads countless times as we find ourselves swamped in too many tasks, unable to keep up in meetings as information flies over our head, or wishing we had the feedback of a third perspective.
Our goal was to build an **autono... | # Aqueduct
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## Inspiration
We read online that quizzes help people retain the information they learn, and we figured if we could make it fun then more people would want to study. Oftentimes it's difficult to get study groups together, but everyone is constantly on their phones so a quick mobile quiz wouldn't be hard to do.
## Wh... | ## 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... | Fujifusion is our group's submission for Hack MIT 2018. It is a data-driven application for predicting corporate credit ratings.
## Problem
Scholars and regulators generally agree that credit rating agency failures were at the center of the 2007-08 global financial crisis.
## Solution
\*Train a machine learning mod... | partial |
## Inspiration
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
Lectures all around the world last on average 100.68 minutes. That number goes all the way up to 216.86 minutes for art students. As students in engineering, we spend roughly 480 hours a day listening to lectures. Add an additional 480 minutes for homework (we're told to study an hour for every hour in ... | ## 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
For physical therapy patients, doing your home exercise program is a crucial part of therapy and recovery. These exercises improve the body and allow patients to remain pain-free without having to pay for costly repeat visits. However, doing these exercises incorrectly can hinder progress and put you ba... | ## 💡 Inspiration 💡
Have you ever wished you could play the piano perfectly? Well, instead of playing yourself, why not get Ludwig to play it for you? Regardless of your ability to read sheet music, just upload it to Ludwig and he'll scan, analyze, and play the entire sheet music within the span of a few seconds! Som... | ## Inspiration
Post-operation recovery is a vital aspect of healthcare. Keeping careful track of rehabilitation can ensure that patients get better as quickly as possible. We were inspired to create this project when thinking of elderly and single people who are in need of assistance when recovering from surgery. We i... | winning |
## Inspiration
We are both AI and self-driving car researchers at Brown University. We are especially passionate about making autonomous cars and robots more accessible through applying intelligent software to "dumb" and inexpensive sensors
## What it does
DeepDepth is a deep learning algorithm that can turn any 2D ... | ## Inspiration: A platform where people can share and read other stories
## What it does: We can post and share stories to everyone
## How I built it : I build it with the help of my team using python, django,html,css
## Challenges I ran into: I didn't have many ideas about teamwork so I had to go throgh many things... | ## Inspiration
With the recent Corona Virus outbreak, we noticed a major issue in charitable donations of equipment/supplies ending up in the wrong hands or are lost in transit. How can donors know their support is really reaching those in need? At the same time, those in need would benefit from a way of customizing w... | losing |
## Inspiration
The inspiration behind EcoNomNom stemmed from a collective desire to address the environmental impact of our daily choices, particularly in the realm of food consumption. We recognized the need for a tool that effortlessly integrates with users' existing habits, guiding them towards eco-friendly cooking... | ## Inspiration
Everyone loves to eat. But whether you’re a college student, a fitness enthusiast trying to supplement your gains, or have dietary restrictions, it can be hard to come up with meal ideas. LetMeCook is an innovative computer vision-powered web application that combines a scan of a user’s fridge or cupboa... | ## Inspiration:
Every year, the world wastes about 2.5 billion tons of food, with the United States alone discarding nearly 60 million tons. This staggering waste inspired us to create **eco**, an app focused on food sustainability and community generosity.
## What it does:
**eco** leverages advanced Computer Vision... | partial |
## 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
On the bus ride to another hackathon, one of our teammates was trying to get some sleep, but was having trouble because of how complex and loud the sound of people in the bus was. This led to the idea that in sufficiently noisy environment, hearing could be just as descriptive and rich as seeing. Theref... | ## Inspiration
The original idea was to create an alarm clock that could aim at the ~~victim's~~ sleeping person's face and shoot water instead of playing a sound to wake-up.
Obviously, nobody carries around peristaltic pumps at hackathons so the water squirting part had to be removed, but the idea of getting a plate... | partial |
## Inspiration
As students who listen to music to help with our productivity, we wanted to not only create a music sharing application but also a website to allow others to discover new music, all through where they are located. We were inspired by Pokemon-Go but wanted to create a similar implementation with music fo... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by JetBlue's challenge to utilize their data in a new way and we realized that, while there are plenty of websites and phone applications that allow you to find the best flight deal, there is none that provide a way to easily plan the trip and items you will need with your friends and f... | ## Inspiration
* While at the CalHacks venue, a team member, Jeffrey, took a picture of the city buildings and wondered, "How can we capture the vibe of this picture?". The team had previously wanted to work on an AI and music-related project, so we got to work in trying to successfully capture the VibeS.
## What it ... | partial |
## Inspiration
The inspiration for this project is the Covid crisis and the lack of medical assistance for the elderly.
## What it does
On the Blynk IoT app and website, Life's Assistant gives real-time temperature, blood pressure, and humidity statistics. A notification/email is sent to the user and the user's love... | ## Inspiration
One of our close friends is at risk of Alzheimer's. He learns different languages and engages his brain by learning various skills which will significantly decrease his chances of suffering from Alzheimer's later. Our game is convenient for people like him to keep the risks of being diagnosed with demen... | # BlockOJ
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## What is BlockOJ?
BlockOJ is an online judge built around Google's Blockly library that teaches children how to code. The library allows us to implement a code editor which lets the user program with various blocks (function blocks, variable blocks, etc.).
![Figure 1. Ima... | losing |
## About
Learning a foreign language can pose challenges, particularly without opportunities for conversational practice. Enter SpyLingo! Enhance your language proficiency by engaging in missions designed to extract specific information from targets. You select a conversation topic, and the spy agency devises a set of... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired not only by the difficulty of acquiring a new language, but also the doors, opportunities and personal relationships that we have established thanks to our efforts acquiring a foreign language.
## What it does
It makes learning a language a familiar experience by tying it to the world... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | losing |
# InstaQuote
InstaQuote is an SMS based service that allows users to get a new car insurance quote without the hassle of calling their insurance provider and waiting in a long queue.
# What Inspired You
We wanted a more convenient way to get a quote on auto-insurance in the event of a change within your driver profi... | ## Motivation
Coding skills are in high demand and will soon become a necessary skill for nearly all industries. Jobs in STEM have grown by 79 percent since 1990, and are expected to grow an additional 13 percent by 2027, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey. This provides strong motivation for educators to ... | # 🚗 InsuclaimAI: Simplifying Insurance Claims 📝
## 🌟 Inspiration
💡 After a frustrating experience with a minor fender-bender, I was faced with the overwhelming process of filing an insurance claim. Filling out endless forms, speaking to multiple customer service representatives, and waiting for assessments felt l... | winning |
## 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
**The Tales of Detective Toasty** draws deep inspiration from visual novels like **Persona** and **Ghost Trick** and we wanted to play homage to our childhood games through the fusion of art, music, narrative, and technology. Our goal was to explore the possibilities of AI within game development. We us... | ## Inspiration
All of us have gone through the painstaking and difficult process of onboarding as interns and making sense of huge repositories with many layers of folders and files. We hoped to shorten this or remove it completely through the use of Code Flow.
## What it does
Code Flow exists to speed up onboarding... | winning |
## Inspiration
Phreesia's challenge about storing medical data with a third-party software
## What it does
Allows users to analyze an image and see a prediction for skin cancer(benign or malignant), and allows upload of the image and the prediction into cloud storage
## How we built it
Tensorflow Lite and Andriod ... | ## Inspiration
Each year, more people are diagnosed with skin cancer than all other cancer's combined. It is also estimated that one in five people will develop skin cancer by the time they reach 70 years of age. Skin cancer is also one of the easiest to cure, if detected early. With this in mind, we were inspired to ... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for this app arose from two key insights about medical education.
1. Medicine is inherently interdisciplinary. For example, in fields like dermatology, pattern recognition plays a vital role in diagnosis. Previous studies have shown that incorporating techniques from other fields, such ... | partial |
## Inspiration
When we joined the hackathon, we began brainstorming about problems in our lives. After discussing some constant struggles in their lives with many friends and family, one response was ultimately shared: health. Interestingly, one of the biggest health concerns that impacts everyone in their lives comes... | ## Inspiration
In 2012 in the U.S infants and newborns made up 73% of hospitals stays and 57.9% of hospital costs. This adds up to $21,654.6 million dollars. As a group of students eager to make a change in the healthcare industry utilizing machine learning software, we thought this was the perfect project for us. Sta... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration came from the danger of skin-related diseases, along with the rising costs of medical care. DermaFix not only provides an alternative free option for those who can't afford to visit a doctor due to financial issues but provides real-time diagnosis.
## What it does
Scans and analyzes th... | winning |
## Inspiration: Global warming is a very big problem for the world. It has to be tackled correctly, or else it may create very bad outcomes
## What it does: Predicts the effects global warming will bring to the world by a year in the future
## How we built it: Using C++
## Challenges we ran into: Lots of data were r... | ## Inspiration
The awesome campuses of Berkeley (Go Bears!) and Stanford + a love for AR and computer vision shared by the both of us.
## What it does
Early-stage prototype of a Microsoft HoloLens app that allows wearers to access information "tagged" onto notable buildings, art installations, historical landmarks, ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for TRACY came from the desire to enhance tennis training through advanced technology. One of our members was a former tennis enthusiast who has always strived to refine their skills. They soon realized that the post-game analysis process took too much time in their busy schedule. We aim... | losing |
## MoodBox
### Smart DJ'ing using Facial Recognition
You're hosting a party with your friends. You want to play the hippest music and you’re scared of your friends judging you for your taste in music.
You ask your friends what songs they want to listen to… And only one person replies with that one Bruno Mars song th... | ## Overview
We created a Smart Glasses hack called SmartEQ! This unique hack leverages the power of machine learning and facial recognition to determine the emotion of the person you are talking to and conducts sentiment analysis on your conversation, all in real time! Since we couldn’t get a pair of Smart Glasses (*h... | ## Inspiration
I wanted to make a fun experience with an unconventional search method, and what I came up with was making a moodboard complete with GIFs and a Spotify playlist, all depending on what your current facial expression was.
## What it does
The user clicks to take a picture of their current facial expressi... | winning |
## Inspiration
As a group of indecisive people, our friends have always found it difficult to plan an outing. What we want to do and where we want to go are both questions that are met with people saying “anywhere” or “I don’t care”. There are many factors we need to consider when picking a spot and the endless choice... | ## Inspiration
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We were inspired by the conversation we had with one of the Kensho developers. He told us about how he studies the correlation between seemingly random pairs of events and the stock market--this led us to ask the same question but in a more physical sense. We wondered: what are the similarly random ... | <https://www.townsquares.tech>
Discord Usernames: `jkarbi#1190`, `Leland#1463`, `Dalton#6802`
Discord Team Name: `Team 13`, channel `team-13-text`
## Inspiration
Traditionally, citizens write to city counsellors or stage protests when they are unhappy with how their government is acting. Nowadays, citizens can use ... | losing |
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