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## Overview
We made a gorgeous website to plan flights with Jet Blue's data sets. Come check us out! | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the numerous Facebook posts, Slack messages, WeChat messages, emails, and even Google Sheets that students at Stanford create in order to coordinate Ubers/Lyfts to the airport as holiday breaks approach. This was mainly for two reasons, one being the safety of sharing a ride with oth... | ## Inspiration
Have you wondered where to travel or how to plan your trip more interesting?
Wanna make trips more adventerous ?
## What it does
Xplore is an **AI based-travel application** that allows you to experience destinations in a whole new way. It keeps your adrenaline pumping by keeping your vacation destina... | partial |
## Inspiration
Everyone gets tired waiting for their large downloads to complete. BitTorrent is awesome, but you may not have a bunch of peers ready to seed it. Fastify, a download accelerator as a service, solves both these problems and regularly enables 4x download speeds.
## What it does
The service accepts a URL... | ## Inspiration
You use Apple Music. Your friends all use Spotify. But you're all stuck in a car together on the way to Tahoe and have the perfect song to add to the road trip playlist. With TrainTrax, you can all add songs to the same playlist without passing the streaming device around or hassling with aux cords.
Ha... | ## 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,... | partial |
## Inspiration
Provide valuable data to on-premise coordinators just seconds before the firefighters make entry to a building on fire, minimizing the time required to search for and rescue victims. Reports conditions around high-risk areas to alert firefighters for what lies ahead in their path. Increase operational a... | ## Inspiration
In times of disaster, the capacity of rigid networks like cell service and internet dramatically decreases at the same time demand increases as people try to get information and contact loved ones. This can lead to crippled telecom services which can significantly impact first responders in disaster str... | ## Inspiration
Alex K's girlfriend Allie is a writer and loves to read, but has had trouble with reading for the last few years because of an eye tracking disorder. She now tends towards listening to audiobooks when possible, but misses the experience of reading a physical book.
Millions of other people also struggle... | partial |
## Overview of Siacoin
Sia is a decentralized storage platform secured by blockchain technology. The Sia Storage Platform leverages underutilized hard drive capacity around the world to create a data storage marketplace that is more reliable and lower cost than traditional cloud storage providers.
Your data is sliced... | ## Inspiration
As the lines between AI-generated and real-world images blur, the integrity and trustworthiness of visual content have become critical concerns. Traditional metadata isn't as reliable as it once was, prompting us to seek out groundbreaking solutions to ensure authenticity.
## What it does
"The Mask" i... | ## Inspiration
There are 1.3 billion iMessage users and 600 million Discord users. Furtermore, 65% of phones use SMS and SMS does not allow video sharing. File sharing is IMPORTANT! Unfortunately, these applications use cloud-sharing with heavy limitations, and other cloud based video-upload systems such as Youtube an... | partial |
## Inspiration
Have you ever had to stand in line and tediously fill out your information for contact tracing at your favorite local restaurant? Have you ever asked yourself what's the point of traffic jams at restaurants which rather than reducing the risk of contributing to the spreading of the outbreak ends up incr... | **Inspiration**
Toronto ranks among the top five cities in the world with the worst traffic congestion. As both students and professionals, we faced the daily challenge of navigating this chaos and saving time on our commutes. This led us to question the accuracy of traditional navigation tools like Google Maps. We won... | ## Inspiration
Ideas for interactions from:
* <http://paperprograms.org/>
* <http://dynamicland.org/>
but I wanted to go from the existing computer down, rather from the bottom up, and make something that was a twist on the existing desktop: Web browser, Terminal, chat apps, keyboard, windows.
## What it does
Maps ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Amidst the hectic lives and pandemic struck world, mental health has taken a back seat. This thought gave birth to our inspiration of this web based app that would provide activities customised to a person’s mood that will help relax and rejuvenate.
## What it does
We planned to create a platform that... | ## Inspiration
As students, we’ve all heard it from friends, read it on social media or even experienced it ourselves: students in need of mental health support will book counselling appointments, only to be waitlisted for the foreseeable future without knowing alternatives. Or worse, they get overwhelmed by the proce... | ## 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
Being students in a technical field, we all have to write and submit resumes and CVs on a daily basis. We wanted to incorporate multiple non-supervised machine learning algorithms to allow users to view their resumes from different lenses, all the while avoiding the bias introduced from the labeling of ... | # 🎓 **Inspiration**
Entering our **junior year**, we realized we were unprepared for **college applications**. Over the last couple of weeks, we scrambled to find professors to work with to possibly land a research internship. There was one big problem though: **we had no idea which professors we wanted to contact**.... | ## Inspiration
Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ... | partial |
## Inspiration
We want to fix healthcare! 48% of physicians in the US are burned out, which is a driver for higher rates of medical error, lower patient satisfaction, higher rates of depression and suicide. Three graduate students at Stanford have been applying design thinking to the burnout epidemic. A CS grad from U... | ## Inspiration
Our hack was inspired by CANSOFCOM's "Help Build a Better Quantum Computer Using Orqestra-quantum library". Our team was interested in exploring quantum computing so it was a natural step to choose this challenge.
## What it does
We implemented a Zapata QuantumBackend called PauliSandwichBackend to pe... | ## Inspiration
So many people around the world, including those dear to us, suffer from mental health issues such as depression. Here in Berkeley, for example, the resources put aside to combat these problems are constrained. Journaling is one method commonly employed to fight mental issues; it evokes mindfulness and ... | partial |
# 🤖🖌️ [VizArt Computer Vision Drawing Platform](https://vizart.tech)
Create and share your artwork with the world using VizArt - a simple yet powerful air drawing platform.
## 💫 Inspiration
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Ever wish you didn’t need to purchase a stylus to handwrite your digital notes? Each person at some point hasn’t had the free hands to touch their keyboard. Whether you are a student learning to type or a parent juggling many tasks, sometimes a keyboard and stylus are not accessible. We believe the futu... | ## Inspiration
## What it does
You can point your phone's camera at a checkers board and it will show you all of the legal moves and mark the best one.
## How we built it
We used Android studio to develop an Android app that streams camera captures to a python server that handles
## Challenges we ran into
Detecti... | winning |
# SlideDown
## Inspiration
Recently, we had to make a set of workshops for one of our organizations at school. We created all of the curriculum in Markdown, so that it could be reviewed and changed easily, but once we were done, we had 10+ Markdown files to convert into actual slidedecks. That was our inspiration for... | ## Inspiration
Having to prepare presentations is already dreadful enough. But also having to prepare slides to accompany it? So much worse. As students, we could not be any more familiar with this situation. While our speeches for English class may be a valid indicator of our English skills, the slides we make are no... | ## Inspiration
A brief recap of the inspiration for Presentalk 1.0: We wanted to make it easier to navigate presentations. Handheld clickers are useful for going to the next and last slide, but they are unable to skip to specific slides in the presentation. Also, we wanted to make it easier to pull up additional infor... | losing |
## Inspiration
"Thrice upon a time, our four incredible ninjas decided to attend a hackathon. After winning, some other salty ninjas decide to take them out. In order to get home and sleep after a long night of coding, our heroic ninjas must dodge incoming attacks to escape. "
## What it does
Sleepy ninja allows the... | ## Github REPO
<https://github.com/charlesjin123/medicine-scanner>
## Inspiration
We believe everyone deserves easy, safe access to their medication – yet the small fine print that often takes up hundreds to thousands of words printed on the back of medicine bottles is incredibly inaccessible for a huge market. Watc... | ## Inspiration
Growing up in the early 2000s, communiplant's founding team knew what it was like to grow up in vibrant communities, interconnected interpersonal and naturally.
Today's post-covid fragmented society lacks the community and optimism that kept us going. The lack of optimism is especially evident through ... | losing |
## Inspiration
While attending Hack the 6ix, our team had a chance to speak to Advait from the Warp team. We got to learn about terminals and how he got involved with Warp, as well as his interest in developing something completely new for the 21st century. Through this interaction, my team decided we wanted to make a... | We were inspired to create a tool that would make it easier for people to understand and learn from code, regardless of their experience level.
What it does:
Code Assistant is a Firefox extension that uses AI to provide simple, easy-to-understand explanations of any code you come across. With just a few clicks, you ca... | ## Inspiration
All of us have gone through the painstaking and difficult process of onboarding as interns and making sense of huge repositories with many layers of folders and files. We hoped to shorten this or remove it completely through the use of Code Flow.
## What it does
Code Flow exists to speed up onboarding... | losing |
## Inspiration
Physiotherapy is expensive for what it provides you with, A therapist stepping you through simple exercises and giving feedback and evaluation? WE CAN TOTALLY AUTOMATE THAT! We are undergoing the 4th industrial revolution and technology exists to help people in need of medical aid despite not having the... | ## Inspiration
A deep and unreasonable love of xylophones
## What it does
An air xylophone right in your browser!
Play such classic songs as twinkle twinkle little star, ba ba rainbow sheep and the alphabet song or come up with the next club banger in free play.
We also added an air guitar mode where you can play a... | # Inspiration 🌟
**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 |
## 💡 Inspiration
Generation Z is all about renting - buying land is simply out of our budgets. But the tides are changing: with Pocket Plots, an entirely new generation can unlock the power of land ownership without a budget.
Traditional land ownership goes like this: you find a property, spend weeks negotiating a p... | ## 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... | ## Introduction
Introducing **NFTree**, the innovative new platform that allows users to take control of their carbon footprint. On NFTree, you can purchase NFTs of a piece of a forest. Each NFT represents a real piece of land that will be preserved and protected, offsetting your carbon emissions. Not only are you mak... | winning |
## Inspiration
Too many impersonal doctor's office experiences, combined with the love of technology and a desire to aid the healthcare industry.
## What it does
Takes a conversation between a patient and a doctor and analyzes all symptoms mentioned in the conversation to improve diagnosis. Ensures the doctor will n... | ## Inspiration
What if you could automate one of the most creative performances that combine music and spoken word? Everyone's watched those viral videos of insanely talented rappers online but what if you could get that level of skill? Enter **ghostwriter**, freestyling reimagined.
## What it does
**ghostwriter** a... | ## 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 ... | partial |
## 💡Inspiration
Gaming is often associated with sitting for long periods of time in front of a computer screen, which can have negative physical effects. In recent years, consoles such as the Kinect and Wii have been created to encourage physical fitness through games such as "Just Dance". However, these consoles are... | ## Inspiration
MISSION: Our mission is to create an intuitive and precisely controlled arm for situations that are tough or dangerous for humans to be in.
VISION: This robotic arm application can be used in the medical industry, disaster relief, and toxic environments.
## What it does
The arm imitates the user in a... | ## Inspiration
The release of Google Cardboard in 2014 launched a movement of using inexpensive materials to create modules that complement existing, commonly available devices such as smartphones, to create revolutionary experiences for users. Thus, in the same vein, we decided to bring retro to the new age using up-... | partial |
## Inspiration
There are a lot of text-to-image, image-to-text AI generators, only a few image-to-video AI generators, but from our research, we couldn't find an AI generator that converted live images to video (.gif). We wanted to fill this void, since it has a few useful applications, and so we created Fleurish!
##... | ## Inspiration
* As ardent content consumers, we relish exploring links from influencers and content creators. However, the sheer volume of links often makes finding the right one a daunting task.
* For example, a Sephora beauty product can be buried under a maze of 30+ links, each with vague and unhelpful titles.
* O... | ## **Inspiration:**
Our inspiration stemmed from the realization that the pinnacle of innovation occurs at the intersection of deep curiosity and an expansive space to explore one's imagination. Recognizing the barriers faced by learners—particularly their inability to gain real-time, personalized, and contextualized ... | losing |
## Inspiration
eCommerce is a field that has seen astronomical growth in recent years, and shows no signs of slowing down. With a forecasted growth rate of 10.4% this year, up to $6.3 trillion in global revenues, we decided to tackle Noibu’s challenge to develop an extension to aide ecommerce developers with the impos... | ## Inspiration
It all started a couple days ago when my brother told me he'd need over an hour to pick up a few items from a grocery store because of the weekend checkout line. This led to us reaching out to other friends of ours and asking them about the biggest pitfalls of existing shopping systems. We got a whole v... | ## Inspiration
As a team, we had a collective interest in sustainability and knew that if we could focus on online consumerism, we would have much greater potential to influence sustainable purchases. We also were inspired by Honey -- we wanted to create something that is easily accessible across many websites, with r... | partial |
## Inspiration
COVID-19 has drastically transformed education from in-person to online. While being more accessible, e-learning imposes challenges in terms of attention for both educators and students. Attention is key to any learning experience, and it could normally be assessed approximately by the instructor from t... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind our machine learning app that can diagnose blood diseases runs deep within us. Both of us, as teammates, have been touched by the impact of blood diseases within our own families. Witnessing our loved ones facing the challenges posed by these conditions ignited a passion to create... | ## Inspiration
Disasters can strike quickly and without notice. Most people are unprepared for situations such as earthquakes which occur with alarming frequency along the Pacific Rim. When wifi and cell service are unavailable, medical aid, food, water, and shelter struggle to be shared as the community can only comm... | losing |
## What Is It
The Air Synth is a virtual synthesizer that can be played without the need for a physical instrument. By simply moving your fingers in the air, the Air Synth matches your motions to the correct pitches and allows you to practice, jam, and compose wherever and whenever you want.
## How It Works
The Air ... | ## Inspiration
Like most university students, we understand and experience the turbulence that comes with relocating every 4 months due to coop sequences while keeping personal spendings to a minimum. It is essential for students to be able to obtain an affordable and effortless way to release their stresses and have ... | ## Inspiration:
Our inspiration for the project was the rhythm video game Osu!.
## What it does:
The game operates like a regular Osu! game except it is controlled entirely through moving your fingers in front of your webcam. There will be notes that appear on the screen with an approach circle. You must hover the c... | partial |
## Inspiration
Vision is perhaps our most important sense; we use our sight every waking moment to navigate the world safely, to make decisions, and to connect with others. As such, keeping our eyes healthy is extremely important to our quality of life. In spite of this, we often neglect to get our vision tested regul... | ## Inspiration
Retinal degeneration affects 1 in 3000 people, slowly robbing them of vision over the course of their mid-life. The need to adjust to life without vision, often after decades of relying on it for daily life, presents a unique challenge to individuals facing genetic disease or ocular injury, one which ou... | ## Inspiration
Vision—our most dominant sense—plays a critical role in every faucet and stage in our lives. Over 40 million people worldwide (and increasing) struggle with blindness and 20% of those over 85 experience permanent vision loss. In a world catered to the visually-abled, developing assistive technologies to... | partial |
## Check out our site -> [Saga](http://sagaverse.app)
## Inspiration
There are few better feelings in the world than reading together with a child that you care about. “Just one more story!” — “I promise I’ll go to bed after the next one” — or even simply “Zzzzzzz” — these moments forge lasting memories and provide i... | ## Inspiration 🌈
According to mentalhealth.uk, over 45% of children asked said they felt lonely 'often' or 'some of the time'.
That is way too high in our team's opinion.
At Teddy.ai, our inspiration is simple yet powerful: to ensure that no child or individual ever feels lonely. We believe in harnessing the potent... | ## Inspiration
After playing Minecraft until 5am for the first time the weekend prior to YHack, I thought about building the basic features of Minecraft would be fun and challenging.
## What it does
This is a single player game where the camera is controlled by WASD keys for planar movements and cursor for rotation.... | partial |
## Inspiration
We were all chronically addicted to Reddit, and all the productivity extensions out there took a "cold turkey" approach. We felt like our method of gradual addiction treatment is more effective.
## What it does
Over time, we slowly remove elements on reddit that are addicting (CTA's, voting counters, ... | ## Inspiration
One of our team members, an international student from India, shocked us with troubling statistics about the organ donation infrastructure in his home country. Where 200,000 people need new kidneys and 100,000 need new livers each year, only **around 2%** actually receive them. This figure is a product ... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to allow financial investors and people of political backgrounds to save valuable time reading financial and political articles by showing them what truly matters in the article, while highlighting the author's personal sentimental/political biases.
We also wanted to promote objectivity and ne... | losing |
## Inspiration
We think improving cybersecurity does not always entail passively anticipating possible attacks. It is an equally valid strategy to go on the offensive against the transgressors. Hence, we employed the strategy of the aggressors against themselves --- by making what's basically a phishing bank app that ... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration came from the two women on the team, as the app is geared toward female security.
## What it does
A common issue and concern for women on dates is safety. Now that online dating sites are more popular, this raises the concern women may have about going out to meet their date-- is the p... | ## Inspiration
It sometimes feels so innate to find inspiration from everyday routine. One such case is when my teammates and I were on a group call when we discussed about how we got **calls from spammers \*\*almost every day and how convincing it seemed to everyone who talked to them for a while. As we discussed fur... | partial |
## Inspiration
Last year when I arrived at MIT, I was a fish out of water. I was lost in the whirlpool of deadlines, club events, and registration. I struggled to complete problem sets on time and didn't even consider making connections and friends. Thankfully, I quickly met my next dorm neighbor, Hassan. This experie... | ## Inspiration
We noticed a lot of stress among students around midterm season and wanted to utilize our programming skills to support them both mentally and academically. Our implementation was profoundly inspired by Jerry Xu's Simply Python Chatbot repository, which was built on a different framework called Keras. T... | ## Inspiration
Since the beginning of the hackathon, all of us were interested in building something related to helping the community. Initially we began with the idea of a trash bot, but quickly realized the scope of the project would make it unrealistic. We eventually decided to work on a project that would help eas... | losing |
## Inspiration
I like web design, I like 90's web design, and I like 90's tech. So it all came together very naturally.
## What it does
nineties.tech is a love letter to the silly, chunky, and experimental technology of the 90s. There's a Brian Eno quote about how we end up cherishing the annoyances of "outdated" te... | ## Inspiration
The best way to learn to code is usually through trial and error. As a team, we all know first hand how hard it can be to maintain the proper standards, techniques, and security practices necessary to keep your applications secure. SQLidify is a teaching tool and a security tool all in one, with the goa... | ## Inspiration
Ricky and I are big fans of the software culture. It's very open and free, much like the ideals of our great nation. As U.S. military veterans, we are drawn to software that liberates the oppressed and gives a voice to those unheard.
**Senate Joint Resolution 34** is awaiting ratification from the Pres... | partial |
# better.me, AI Journaling
## Project Description
better.me is an AI journaling tool that helps you analyze your emotions and provide you with smart recommendations for your well being. We used NLP emotion analytics to process text data and incorporated a suicidal prevention algorithm that will help you make better i... | ## Inspiration
1 in 2 Canadians will personally experience a mental health issue by age 40, with minority communities at a greater risk. As the mental health epidemic surges and support at its capacity, we sought to build something to connect trained volunteer companions with people in distress in several ways for con... | ## Inspiration
Whether you’re thriving in life or really going through it, research shows that writing down your thoughts throughout the day has many benefits. We wanted to add a social element to this valuable habit and build a sense of community through sharing and acknowledging each other’s feelings. However, even ... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by Pokemon Go and Duolingo. We believe that exploring the world and learning a new language pair up well together. Associating new vocabulary with real experiences helps you memorize it better.
## What it does
* Explore your surroundings to find landmarks around you.
* To conquer a la... | ## DnD PvP Mode - AI-Generated Text-Based Adventure/ PvP Game
Inspiration
The inspiration for DnD PvP Mode stemmed from our love for traditional tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. We wanted to create an immersive and dynamic experience where players could engage in turn-based combat using natural lan... | ## Inspiration
Imagine a world where your best friend is standing in front of you, but you can't see them. Or you go to read a menu, but you are not able to because the restaurant does not have specialized brail menus. For millions of visually impaired people around the world, those are not hypotheticals, they are fac... | losing |
## Inspiration
Students spend hours getting their resumes ready and then application portals ask them to rewrite it all on their terribly designed webform. Worst of all, autofill does not work! Making it a very tedious manual effort. So we designed a site that goes around this, and let's our users automatically apply ... | ## Inspiration
Recruiters typically spend only a few seconds scanning each resume before deciding whether to move forward with a candidate. Given the volume of applications they receive, they rarely have the time to thoroughly check each candidate’s GitHub and other supporting documents to verify their competency (Git... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to build an application that would make university students lives less stressful.
A common issue we heard about from students is navigating changes to their degree, whether it be courses, modules, or the entire degree itself. Students would have to go through multiple sources to figure out how... | partial |
## 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... | ## Inspiration
The whiteboard or chalkboard is an essential tool in instructional settings - to learn better, students need a way to directly transport code from a non-text medium to a more workable environment.
## What it does
Enables someone to take a picture of handwritten or printed text converts it directly to ... | ## Inspiration
Internet Addiction, while not yet codified within a psychological framework, is growing both in prevalence as a potentially problematic condition with many parallels to existing recognized disorders. How much time do you spend on your phone a day? On your laptop? Using the internet? What fraction of tha... | winning |
## Inspiration
Supreme brings spreadsheets into the modern era by enabling seamless interaction between spreadsheets and Python, D3, and other data science tools.
Excel is the most widely-used programming language in the world. While it doesn't look like other languages which developers use, its accessibility allows ... | ## 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
There should be an effective way to evaluate company value by examining the individual values of those that make up the company.
## What it does
Simplifies the research process of examining a company by showing it in a dynamic web design that is free-flowing and easy to follow.
## How we built it
It... | partial |
## Inspiration
* Smart homes are taking over the industry
* Current solutions are WAY too expensive(almost $30) for one simple lightbulb
* Can fail from time to time
* Complicated to connect
## What it does
* It simplifies the whole idea of a smart home
* Three part system
+ App(to control the hub device)
+ Hub(us... | ## 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
This project was heavily inspired by CANBus and its unique network arbitration method for devices on the network. However while CANBus requires a specialised circuit to be a part of the network, Monopoly Bus does not, and moreover only requires a single wire.
## What it does
Monopoly Bus allows device... | winning |
## Inspiration
To set our goal, we were grandly inspired by the Swiss system, which has proven to be one of the most functional democracy in the world. In Switzerland, there is a free mobile application, VoteInfo, which is managed by a governmental institution, but is not linked to any political groups, where infos ab... | ## 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
We were inspired by our own experiences and by those of our classmates. Despite having started our degree in-person, before the pandemic, most of our time in college has been spent online. We know people who started post-secondary studies during the pandemic and some of them have never even been to camp... | partial |
## Inspiration
Relationships between mentees and mentors are very important for career success. People want to connect with others in a professional manner to give and receive career advice. While many professional mentoring relationships form naturally, it can be particularly difficult for people in minority groups, ... | ## 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
Are you tired of the traditional and mundane way of practicing competitive programming? Do you want to make learning DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) more engaging and exciting? Look no further! Introducing CodeClash, the innovative platform that combines the thrill of racing with the challenge of s... | partial |
## Inspiration
We were inspired to build Loki to illustrate the plausibility of social media platforms tracking user emotions to manipulate the content (and advertisements) that they view.
## What it does
Loki presents a news feed to the user much like other popular social networking apps. However, in the background... | ## Inspiration
What if I want to take an audio tour of a national park or a University campus on my own time? What if I want to take an audio tour of a place that doesn't even offer audio tours?
With Toor, we are able to harness people's passions for the places they love to serve the curiosity of our users.
## What ... | ## Inspiration
Our team sometimes gets tempered when using a computer, and we set out to minimize that. Our initial idea was related to video games, as they can often be causes of frustration, especially online ones. But we realized this idea could be scaled to cover emotions throughout all computer usage, not just vi... | partial |
## 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... | ## Inspiration
I really like to make game using programming ang wanted to became a game developer in future
## What it does
This is a fun game made using python. In this game we have to help ninja to no to collide with obstacles so that it can pass easily ..
## How I built it
I built it using various modules of py... | ## Inspiration
This project inspires me to add what suitable feature which amaze to me
## What it does
It teaches me (reminds me) the basic thing in python and the importance of GUI for user to play it smoothly
## How we built it
I did it solely based on Python language, using Stack, loop, while loop and etc.. bas... | partial |
## Inspiration: We're trying to get involved in the AI chat-bot craze and pull together cool pieces of technology -> including Google Cloud for our backend, Microsoft Cognitive Services and Facebook Messenger API
## What it does: Have a look - message Black Box on Facebook and find out!
## How we built it: SO MUCH PY... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to solve a unique problem we felt was impacting many people but was not receiving enough attention. With emerging and developing technology, we implemented neural network models to recognize objects and images, and converting them to an auditory output.
## What it does
XTS takes an **X** and... | winning |
## Inspiration
In recent history, waste misplacement and ignorance has harmed countless animal, degraded our environment and health, and has costed us millions of dollars each year. Even with our current progressive education system, Canadians are still often unsure as to what their waste is categorized by. For this r... | ## Inspiration
Ask a student: do you know Van Gogh's art? Of course. Do you know advanced trig or Euler’s formula? Nah...not really a math student. Some students fear advanced topics in math. Current Apps offer lecture and practice problems at various levels. However, none intuitively shows the beauty of mathematics. ... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
When we thought about tackling the pandemic, it was clear to us that we'd have to **think outside the box**. The concept of a hardware device to enforce social distancing quickly came to mind, and thus we decided to create the SDE device.
## What it does
We utilized an ultra-sonic sensor to detect bod... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for the project stems from our experience with elderly and visually impaired people, and understanding that there is an imminent need for a solution that integrates AI to bring a new level of convenience and safety to modern day navigation tools.
## What it does
IntelliCane firstly emp... | ## What it does
flarg.io is an Augmented Reality platform that allows you to play games and physical activities with your friends from across the world. The relative positions of each person will be recorded and displayed on a single augmented reality plane, so that you can interact with your friends as if they were i... | partial |
## Inspiration
Our team’s mission is to create a space of understanding, compassion, and curiosity through facilitating cross-cultural conversations.
At a time where a pandemic and social media algorithms keep us tightly wound in our own homes and echo chambers, we’ve made a platform to push people out of their comfo... | Inspiration
Our project is driven by a deep-seated commitment to address the escalating issues of hate speech and crime in the digital realm. We recognized that technology holds immense potential in playing a pivotal role in combating these societal challenges and nurturing a sense of community and safety.
## What It ... | ## Inspiration
Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order.
## What it does
You inter... | losing |
## Inspiration
The lack of good music at parties is criminal. Pretty rare to find the DJs that are not absorbed in their playlist as well. Someone had to do it, so we did it.
## What it does
It looks at the movement of the crowd using computer vision and using Spotify's data-set of over 42000 songs we find the song ... | ## Inspiration
What inspired the beginning of the idea was terrible gym music and the thought of a automatic music selection based on the tastes of people in the vicinity. Our end goal is to sell a hosting service to play music that people in a local area would want to listen to.
## What it does
The app has two part... | ## What it does
flarg.io is an Augmented Reality platform that allows you to play games and physical activities with your friends from across the world. The relative positions of each person will be recorded and displayed on a single augmented reality plane, so that you can interact with your friends as if they were i... | losing |
## Bringing your music to life, not just to your ears but to your eyes 🎶
## Inspiration 🍐
Composing music through scribbling notes or drag-and-dropping from MuseScore couldn't be more tedious. As pianists ourselves, we know the struggle of trying to bring our impromptu improvisation sessions to life without forgett... | ## 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
I hate reading through job descriptions and trying to figure out what skills they are looking for in a developer amidst the shameless self-promotion and flagrant buzz-word spamming. So I decided to train a custom AI model to do so, and ended up building a whole AI training UI in the process!
## What it... | winning |
## Inspiration
While we were coming up with ideas on what to make, we looked around at each other while sitting in the room and realized that our postures weren't that great. You We knew that it was pretty unhealthy for us to be seated like this for prolonged periods. This inspired us to create a program that could he... | ## 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... | ## 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... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were inspired by how there were many instances of fraud with regards to how donations were handled. It is heartbreaking to see how mismanagement can lead to victims of disasters not receiving the help that they desperately need.
## What it does
TrustTrace introduces unparalleled levels of transpare... | # Inspiration
Traditional startup fundraising is often restricted by stringent regulations, which make it difficult for small investors and emerging founders to participate. These barriers favor established VC firms and high-networth individuals, limiting innovation and excluding a broad range of potential investors. ... | ## 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... | winning |
## Inspiration
At work, we use a tele-presence robot call the BEAM. It is a very cool piece of technology that works to enable more personal remote meetings between people, and increase the amount of "presence" a person may have remotely. However, upon checking the cost of such technology, the 2.5k USD to 15k+ USD pri... | ## Inspiration
The world is constantly chasing after smartphones with bigger screens and smaller bezels. But why wait for costly display technology, and why get rid of old phones that work just fine? We wanted to build an app to create the effect of the big screen using the power of multiple small screens.
## What it... | ## Inspiration
There are over 1.3 billion people in the world who live with some form of vision impairment. Often, retrieving small objects, especially off the ground, can be tedious for those without complete seeing ability. We wanted to create a solution for those people where technology can not only advise them, bu... | winning |
## Inspiration
For three out of four of us, cryptocurrency, Web3, and NFTs were uncharted territory. With the continuous growth within the space, our team decided we wanted to learn more about the field this weekend.
An ongoing trend we noticed when talking to others at Hack the North was that many others lacked know... | ## Inspiration:
We were inspired by the inconvenience faced by novice artists creating large murals, who struggle to use reference images for guiding their work. It can also help give confidence to young artists who need a confidence boost and are looking for a simple way to replicate references.
## What it does
An ... | ## Inspiration
Greenhouses require increased disease control and need to closely monitor their plants to ensure they're healthy. In particular, the project aims to capitalize on the recent cannabis interest.
## What it Does
It's a sensor system composed of cameras, temperature and humidity sensors layered with smart... | losing |
## 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
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
There should be an effective way to evaluate company value by examining the individual values of those that make up the company.
## What it does
Simplifies the research process of examining a company by showing it in a dynamic web design that is free-flowing and easy to follow.
## How we built it
It... | partial |
## 💡 Inspiration
We got inspiration from or back-end developer Minh. He mentioned that he was interested in the idea of an app that helped people record their positive progress and showcase their accomplishments there. This then led to our product/UX designer Jenny to think about what this app would target as a probl... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project comes from our own experiences as University students. As students, we understand the importance of mental health and the role it plays in one's day to day life. With increasing workloads, stress of obtaining a good co-op and maintaining good marks, people’s mental healt... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for the website was Discord.
Seeing how that software could bring gamers together. We decided we we wanted to do the same thing but with with coworkers, and friends giving them a place where people can relax and have a laugh with people during their free time from work, especially with t... | losing |
## Inspiration
When thinking about how we could make a difference within local communities impacted by Covid-19, what came to mind are our frontline workers. Our doctors, nurses, grocery store workers, and Covid-19 testing volunteers, who have tirelessly been putting themselves and their families on the line. They are... | ## Inspiration
Traffic is a pain and hurdle for everyone. It costs time and money for everyone stuck within it. We wanted to empower everyone to focus on what they truly enjoy instead of having to waste their time in traffic. We found the challenge to connect autonomous vehicles and enable them to work closely with ea... | Hello and thank you for judging my project. I am listing below two different links and an explanation of what the two different videos are. Due to the time constraints of some hackathons, I have a shorter video for those who require a lower time. As default I will be placing the lower time video up above, but if you ha... | partial |
## Inspiration
The time-consuming process of watching videos and taking notes can discourage students from retaining knowledge and staying engaged. By creating a notes, bullet point, or essay summary from any YouTube link, YouWrite is an efficient way for students to grasp knowledge from videos.
## What it does
Afte... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
Us college students all can relate to having a teacher that was not engaging enough during lectures or mumbling to the point where we cannot hear them at all. Instead of finding solutions to help the students outside of the classroom, we realized that the teachers need better feedback to see how they ca... | losing |
## Inspiration
As post secondary students, our mental health is directly affected. Constantly being overwhelmed with large amounts of work causes us to stress over these large loads, in turn resulting in our efforts and productivity to also decrease. A common occurrence we as students continuously endure is this notio... | ## Inspiration
The other day when we were taking the train to get from New Jersey to New York City we started to talk about how much energy we are saving by taking the train rather than driving, and slowly we realized that a lot of people always default to driving as their only mode of transit. We realized that becaus... | ## 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... | partial |
# Inspiration
Our inspiration for PennDrive came from the need to make meetings more accessible and productive. We often found ourselves missing important meetings due to conflicting schedules or other commitments, and catching up on what was discussed was a daunting task. We wanted to leverage the power of AI and tec... | ## Inspiration
Due to COVID-19, millions of students across the world have been forced to quickly adapt to video lectures and online education. To ease this transition and make studying more efficient, we wanted to help students by summarizing their lecture transcripts while also capturing the full lecture transcript ... | ## Inspiration
When I was in Grade 12 and planned to apply for universities, I was pretty confused at the beginning. I may have access to the information of many programs and universities through their official websites and webinars; however, it is still difficult to find the answers to many questions. How about stude... | partial |
## Inspiration
At reFresh, we are a group of students looking to revolutionize the way we cook and use our ingredients so they don't go to waste. Today, America faces a problem of food waste. Waste of food contributes to the acceleration of global warming as more produce is needed to maintain the same levels of demand... | ## Inspiration
We recognized that packages left on porch are unsafe and can be easily stolen by passerby and mailmen. Delivery that requires signatures is safer, but since homeowners are not always home, deliveries often fail, causing inconvenience for both homeowners and mailmen.
The act of picking up packages and c... | ## Inspiration
We love cooking and watching food videos. From the Great British Baking Show to Instagram reels, we are foodies in every way. However, with the 119 billion pounds of food that is wasted annually in the United States, we wanted to create a simple way to reduce waste and try out new recipes.
## What it d... | partial |
In their paper "A Maze Solver for Android", Rohan Paranjpe and Armon Saied devised a method to automate solving mazes with nothing but a picture of said maze. My partner and I decided that this would be cool to implement ourselves, and did so accordingly. Many of the things we found in the paper were absolutely crucial... | ## Inspiration
No matter where our families go, whether it be the supermarket or the next state over, they always insist on taking the most beautiful route. Driving by breathtaking scenery is one of life's finest pleasures, yet it is near impossible to find the prettiest route to take. Google Maps can get you from poi... | ## Inspiration
We got lost so many times inside MIT... And no one could help us :( No Google Maps, no Apple Maps, NO ONE. Since now, we always dreamed about the idea of a more precise navigation platform working inside buildings. And here it is. But that's not all: as traffic GPS usually do, we also want to avoid the ... | losing |
## Inspiration
We love traveling, but it's a great pity to travel somewhere, take a picture of it, then forget about it. Booking a tour guide to learn about local sites is too expensive, and tourist apps are a great hassle. We want to build a complete tourist companion app that is both informative and useful.
## What... | ## Inspiration
When looking at the themes from the Make-a-thon, one specifically stood out to us: accessibility. We thought about common disabilities, and one that we see on a regular basis is people who are visually impaired. We thought about how people who are visually impaired navigate around the world, and we real... | ## Inspiration
There were two primary sources of inspiration. The first one was a paper published by University of Oxford researchers, who proposed a state of the art deep learning pipeline to extract spoken language from video. The paper can be found [here](http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/%7Evgg/publications/2018/Afouras1... | losing |
## Inspiration
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... | ## Inspiration
With the effects of climate change becoming more and more apparent, we wanted to make a tool that allows users to stay informed on current climate events and stay safe by being warned of nearby climate warnings.
## What it does
Our web app has two functions. One of the functions is to show a map of th... | ## Inspiration
Billmastr was inspired by the team's quarantine hobbies. We were brainstorming and realized we had one quarantine activity in common. This is the high usage of streaming subscription services. We want to build an app to manage all the subscription services for users so that we can continue this activity... | partial |
## Inspiration
Other educational games like [OhMyGit](https://ohmygit.org/).
Some gameplay aspects of a popular rhythm game: Friday Night Funkin'
## What it does
Players will be able to select a topic to battle in and enter a pop-quiz style battle where getting correct answers attacks your opponent and getting inco... | # Inspiration
Roblox has been an integral part of our upbringing, a space where we connected with others and embraced the joy of gaming. As we transitioned into adulthood, our focus shifted from gaming to our passion for education and academic excellence. The traditional lecture-style learning transformed into digital... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project came from three of our members being involved with Smash in their community. From one of us being an avid competitor, one being an avid watcher and one of us who works in an office where Smash is played quite frequently, we agreed that the way Smash Bro games were matched... | partial |
## 💡 Inspiration
From farmers' protest around the world, subsidies to keep agriculture afloat, to the regular use of pesticides that kills organisms and pollutes the environment, the agriculture industry has an issue in optimizing resources. So, we want to make technology that would efficiently manage a farm through ... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was from the recent spread of pests throughout the U.S., such as Japanese beetles, which have wreaked havoc for crops and home gardens. We personally have gardens at home where we grow plants like cucumbers and tomatoes, and were tired of seeing half-eaten leaves and des... | # Inspiration
We came to Stanford expecting a vibrant college atmosphere. Yet walk past a volleyball or basketball court at Stanford mid-Winter quarter, and you’ll probably find it empty. As college students, our lives revolve around two pillars: productivity and play. In an ideal world, we spend intentional parts of ... | partial |
## 💫 Inspiration
It all started when I found VCR tapes of when I was born! I was simply watching the videos fascinated with how much younger everyone looked when I noticed someone unknown, present in the home videos, helping my mom!
After asking my mom, I found out there used to be a program where Nurses/Caretakers w... | ## 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
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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Have you ever wished to give a memorable dining experience to your loved ones, regardless of their location? We were inspired by the desire to provide our friends and family with a taste of our favorite dining experiences, no matter where they might be.
## What it does
It lets you book and pay for a m... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the increasing cost of eating out and the social pressure caused by having to accept such social invitations. We wanted to create a technology-enabled platform where individuals can plan a fun potluck with their friends and family with much of the burden of planning such an event eli... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
We started off having the idea of how people could progressively integrate technology into their lives, and with all the smart electronic device and household appliances, we want to further integrate technology into the textile industry. Our team is particularly interested in computer vision and image p... | ## Inspiration
Sometimes in lecture you need to point to something tiny on the presentation but no one really knows what you're pointing to. So we decided to build something that can read where you are pointing using a camera, and points a laser in that direction, which makes engagement in lectures and presentations m... | ## Inspiration
Our project, "**Jarvis**," was born out of a deep-seated desire to empower individuals with visual impairments by providing them with a groundbreaking tool for comprehending and navigating their surroundings. Our aspiration was to bridge the accessibility gap and ensure that blind individuals can fully ... | losing |
# 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.).
 and come over for a demo!
## Inspiration
The inspiration for EYEdentity came from the need to enhance patient care through technology. Observing the challenges healthcare prof... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the tedium of organizing tasks for our housemates.
## What it does
It is supposed to allow a group of friends/housemates/coworkers to requests favors or tasks from one another and keep track of who is working on what task.
## How we built it
We used react-native and Figma to desi... | partial |
## Inspiration
Inspired by leap motion applications
## What it does
User can their gesture to control motor, speaker, and led matrix.
## How we built it
Use arduino to control motor, speaker, led matrix and use Bluetooth to connect with computer that is connected to Oculus and leap-motion.
## Challenges we ran in... | ## Inspiration
We realized how visually-impaired people find it difficult to perceive the objects coming near to them, or when they are either out on road, or when they are inside a building. They encounter potholes and stairs and things get really hard for them. We decided to tackle the issue of accessibility to supp... | ## Inspiration
One of our friends is blind. She describes using her cane as a hassle, and explains that when she is often stressed about accidentally touching someone with her cane, doing two-handed tasks like carrying groceries or giving a friend a hug, and setting the cane down or leaning it against the wall when sh... | winning |
## Inspiration
Sexual assault survivors are in tremendously difficult situations after being assaulted, having to sacrifice privacy and anonymity to receive basic medical, legal, and emotional support. And understanding how to proceed with one's life after being assaulted is challenging due to how scattered informatio... | ## 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
Going home for winter break and seeing friends was a great time, but throughout all the banter, I realized that our conversations often took a darker turn, and I worried for my friends' mental health. During the school year, it was a busy time and I wasn't able to stay in touch with my friends as well a... | partial |
## 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... | ## Inspiration
Covid-19 has turned every aspect of the world upside down. Unwanted things happen, situation been changed. Lack of communication and economic crisis cannot be prevented. Thus, we develop an application that can help people to survive during this pandemic situation by providing them **a shift-taker job p... | **Previously named NeatBeat**
## Inspiration
We wanted to make it easier to understand your pressure, so you **really** are not pressured about what your heart deserves.
## What it does
**Track and chart blood pressure readings** 📈❤️
* Input your systolic and diastolic to be stored on the cloud
* See and compare ... | winning |
## Inspiration
While biking this week a member of our team fell onto the street, injuring his chin and requiring stitches. This experience highlighted how unsafe a fallen biker may be while lying in pain or unconscious on a busy street. Also, as avid hikers, our team recognizes the risk of being trapped or knocked unc... | ## Inspiration
Our team wanted to hack something that would promote public safety. A discussion on the length of the bus ride from UCLA to Cal introduced a discussion on how to safely drive long distances. There were two big problems to tackle: staying awake, and safely communicating.
## What it does
The MyoMessenge... | ## Inspiration
Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m... | losing |
## Inspiration
In today's world, Public Speaking is one of the greatest skills any individual can have. From pitching at a hackathon to simply conversing with friends, being able to speak clearly, be passionate and modulate your voice are key features of any great speech. To tackle this problem of becoming a better pu... | ## Inspiration
Many people feel unconfident, shy, and/or awkward doing interview speaking. It can be challenging for them to know how to improve and what aspects are key to better performance. With Talkology, they will be able to practice in a rather private setting while receiving relatively objective speaking feedba... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to solve a problem that was real for us, something that we could get value out of. We decided upon Vocally as it solves an issue faced by a lot of people during job interviews, presentations, and other occasions which include speaking in a clear and concise manner. The problem was that it take... | partial |
# 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
Every year hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur due to the lack of first aid knowledge in our societies. Many lives could be saved if the right people are in the right places at the right times. We aim towards connecting people by giving them the opportunity to help each other in times of m... | ## Inspiration
“Why do I have to go to school?” — a common complaint among both elementary and college students alike. Most of us are told that school is necessary for teaching us marketable skills; but when was the last time you recall hand-computing an integral? Or being forced to memorize a direct quote from a book... | winning |
## Inspiration
As we all know the world has come to a halt in the last couple of years. Our motive behind this project was to help people come out of their shells and express themselves. Connecting various people around the world and making them feel that they are not the only ones fighting this battle was our main ob... | ## Inspiration
As software engineers, we constantly seek ways to optimize efficiency and productivity. While we thrive on tackling challenging problems, sometimes we need assistance or a nudge to remember that support is available. Our app assists engineers by monitoring their states and employs Machine Learning to pr... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by hard working teachers and students. Although everyone was working hard, there was still a disconnect with many students not being able to retain what they learned. So, we decided to create both a web application and a companion phone application to help target this problem.
## What ... | losing |
## Inspiration
**Powerful semantic search for your life does not currently exist.**
Google and ChatGPT have brought the world’s information to our fingertips, yet our personal search engines — Spotlight on Mac, and search on iOS or Android — are insufficient.
Google Assistant and Siri tried to solve these problems b... | ## Inspiration
**The Immigration Story**
While brainstorming a problem to tackle in this challenge, we were intrigued by the lengths that many immigrants are willing to take for a new beginning. We wanted to come up with a way to try and ease this oftentimes difficult, intimidating transition to a new country and cul... | ## Inspiration
Have you ever wondered what's actually in your shampoo or body wash? Have you ever been concerned about the toxicity of certain chemicals in them on your body and to the environment?
If you answered yes, you came to the right place. Welcome to the wonderful world of Goodgredients! 😀
Goodgredients pro... | losing |
## Inspiration
Video games evolved when the Xbox Kinect was released in 2010 but for some reason we reverted back to controller based games. We are here to bring back the amazingness of movement controlled games with a new twist- re innovating how mobile games are played!
## What it does
AR.cade uses a body part det... | ## Inspiration
There is a growing number of people sharing gardens in Montreal. As a lot of people share apartment buildings, it is indeed more convenient to share gardens than to have their own.
## What it does
With that in mind, we decided to create a smart garden platform that is meant to make sharing gardens as ... | ## Inspiration
Like most of the hackathons, we were initially thinking of making another Software Hack using some cool APIs. But our team came to a mutual conclusion that we need to step outside our comfort zone and make a Hardware Hack this time. While browsing through the hardware made available to us, courtesy of M... | winning |
## Inspiration
This app is inspired by the Prompt feature from Instagram Story. A lot of people participated and share pictures, including videos around one topic but at the end of the day, those stories disappear. We want to be a platform for short-video that people can enjoy interacting and sharing their moments or ... | ## Inspiration
While we are gradually normalizing discussion surrounding burnout and productivity, it still feels like many of us find trouble in balancing ourselves and ambition. The drive to achieve has been deeply baked into our culture and education, and it is not unusual to resort to measuring ourselves with exte... | ## Inspiration
There are millions of people around the world who have a physical or learning disability which makes creating visual presentations extremely difficult. They may be visually impaired, suffer from ADHD or have disabilities like Parkinsons. For these people, being unable to create presentations isn’t just ... | losing |
## Inspiration
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We were inspired to work on this project to serve to aid the miscommunication that's all too present in our world today. Leaders, professors, and authority figures of all shapes and sizes throughout the ages have had to determine their audience's sentiment for one reason or another while they garne... | ## Inspiration
Imagine, for example, a situation where you're the manager of a call centre station, and you want to assure the quality of your workers' calls. But how do you measure the "quality" of each call? And how do you manage the quality of all the calls of all the workers (there may be a lot). This is where sen... | ## Inspiration
Too many times have broke college students looked at their bank statements and lament on how much money they could've saved if they had known about alternative purchases or savings earlier.
## What it does
SharkFin helps people analyze and improve their personal spending habits. SharkFin uses bank sta... | losing |
## Inspiration
We are a team of engineering science students with backgrounds in mathematics, physics and computer science. A common passion for the implementation of mathematical methods in innovative computing contexts and the application of these technologies to physical phenomena motivated us to create this projec... | ## Inspiration:
We wanted to combine our passions of art and computer science to form a product that produces some benefit to the world.
## What it does:
Our app converts measured audio readings into images through integer arrays, as well as value ranges that are assigned specific colors and shapes to be displayed o... | ## Inspiration
With two of our team members being musicians in the jazz and classical world since middle school, we've seen time and time again an overemphasis on enforcing a standardized approach toward teaching and assessing all student musicians. Yet we believe that with each student's musical journey being unique,... | winning |
## Inspiration
As post secondary students, our mental health is directly affected. Constantly being overwhelmed with large amounts of work causes us to stress over these large loads, in turn resulting in our efforts and productivity to also decrease. A common occurrence we as students continuously endure is this notio... | # Mental-Health-Tracker
## Mental & Emotional Health Diary
This project was made because we all know how much of a pressing issue that mental health and depression can have not only on ourselves, but thousands of other students. Our goal was to make something where someone could have the chance to accurately assess a... | ## Inspiration
There are two types of pets wandering unsupervised in the streets - ones that are lost and ones that don't have a home to go to. Pet's Palace portable mini-shelters services these animals and connects them to necessary services while leveraging the power of IoT.
## What it does
The units are placed in... | partial |
## Inspiration
The beginnings of this idea came from long road trips. When driving having good
visibility is very important. When driving into the sun, the sun visor never seemed
to be able to actually cover the sun. When driving at night, the headlights of
oncoming cars made for a few moments of dangerous low visibil... | ## Inspiration
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
I came up with these idea from two thoughts:
(1) We live in a world in which sensors are everywhere and on everything. In this world, coming up with an embedded system isn't as hard as it used to be. Rather, now the issue is what kind of sensor and how accurate the sensor is to retrieve the data from.
... | winning |
## Virality Pro: 95% reduced content production costs, 2.5x rate of going viral, 4 high ticket clients
We’re already helping companies go viral on instagram & TikTok, slash the need for large ad spend, and propel unparalleled growth at a 20x lower price.
## The problem: growing a company is **HARD and EXPENSIVE**
He... | ## Inspiration
In 2010, when Haiti was rocked by an earthquake that killed over 150,000 people, aid workers manned SMS help lines where victims could reach out for help. Even with the international humanitarian effort, there was not enough manpower to effectively handle the volume of communication. We set out to fix t... | ## Inspiration
The main inspiration for this project was to create a service that allows users, especially content creators, to be able to review their media and be sure of their content before uploading it onto the internet. Many people want to be sure that their content is quality or safe for the internet and our se... | winning |
## Inspiration
Have you ever turned on your car to a dashboard full of alarming, unspecific, flashing symbols ⚠️❗️❌? All of a sudden, you’re not sure if you just forgot to fill that windshield washer fluid💧 or if there’s a bigger problem that’s going to leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere. Modern dashboard sy... | ## Inspiration
As with many drivers, when a major incident occurs while driving, we are often left afraid, anxious, and overwhelmed. Just as many of our peers, we had little experience behind the wheel and barely understood how insurance claims worked and what steps we should be taking if an accident occurs. We decide... | ## Inspiration
We get the inspiration from the idea provided by Stanley Black&Decker, which is to show users how would the product like in real place and in real size using AR technic. We choose to solve this problem because we also encounter same problem in our daily life. When we are browsing website for buying furn... | losing |
## Inspiration 🌟
Creative writing is hard. Like really REALLY hard. Trying to come up with a fresh story can seem very intimidating, and if given a blank page, most people would probably just ponder endlessly... "where do I even start???"
## What it does 📕
Introducing **TaleTeller**, an interactive gamified experi... | ## Inspiration
In a world where screens and the passive consumption of content have become the norm, we sought to make a game that was fun while also allowing friends to work together and exercise their creative muscles to build stories together. We hoped to blend our passion for games and software development with ou... | ## Inspiration
Initially, we struggled to find a project idea. After circling through dozens of ideas and the occasional hacker's block, we were still faced with a huge ***blank space***. In the midst of all our confusion, it hit us that this feeling of desperation and anguish is familiar to all thinkers and creators.... | losing |
## Hack The Valley 4
Hack the Valley 2020 project
## On The Radar
**Inspiration**
Have you ever been walking through your campus and wondered what’s happening around you, but too unmotivated to search through Facebook, the school’s website and where ever else people post about social gatherings and just want to see... | ## Inspiration
Being frugal students, we all wanted to create an app that would tell us what kind of food we could find around us based on a budget that we set. And so that’s exactly what we made!
## What it does
You give us a price that you want to spend and the radius that you are willing to walk or drive to a res... | ## Inspiration
Currently, there is an exponential growth of obesity in the world, leading to devastating consequences such as an increased rate of diabetes and heart diseases. All three of our team members are extremely passionate about nutrition issues and wish to educate others and promote healthy active living.
##... | partial |
## Inspiration
How do you define a sandwich? According to your definition is hotdog a sandwich? Well, according to Merriam Webster it is and so are sliders and many other food items that you might or might not consider sandwiches yourself (check out the link for more details- <https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-... | ## Inspiration
Sign Language is what majority of the people who are part of the deaf and mute community use as a part of their daily conversing. **Not everyone knows sign language** and hence this necessitates the need for a tool to help others understand Sign. This basically emphasizes the possibility for the deaf an... | ## **Inspiration**
Ever had to wipe your hands constantly to search for recipes and ingredients while cooking?
Ever wondered about the difference between your daily nutrition needs and the nutrition of your diets?
Vocal Recipe is an integrated platform where users can easily find everything they need to know about hom... | losing |
## Inspiration
We got together a team passionate about social impact, and all the ideas we had kept going back to loneliness and isolation. We have all been in high pressure environments where mental health was not prioritized and we wanted to find a supportive and unobtrusive solution. After sharing some personal sto... | ## Inspiration
The project was inspired by looking at the challenges that artists face when dealing with traditional record labels and distributors. Artists often have to give up ownership of their music, lose creative control, and receive only a small fraction of the revenue generated from streams. Record labels and ... | ## Inspiration
Often as children, we were asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Every time we changed our answers, we were sent to different classes to help us embrace our interests. But our answers were restricted and traditional: doctors, engineers or ballerinas. **We want to expand every child's scope: ... | winning |
# 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
CookHack was inspired by the fact that students in university are always struggling with the responsibility of cooking their next healthy and nutritious meal. However, most of the time, we as students are always too busy to decide and learn how to cook basic meals, and we resort to the easy route and st... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to protect our laptops with the power of rubber bands.
## What it does
It shoots rubber bands at aggressive screen lookers.
## How we built it
Willpower and bad code.
## Challenges we ran into
Ourselves.
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
Having something. Honestly.
## What we lea... | partial |
## Inspiration
A recognized issue for our generation is mental health, specifically the intersection between social media toxicity and mental health. And yet, besides the universal solution ~therapy~, there are not many attractive options to choose from when struggling with mental health. Inspired by the community-fav... | ## Inspiration
Life’s swift pace often causes us to overlook meaningful experiences, leading to nostalgia and a sense of lost connection with friends. Social media exacerbates this by showcasing others' highlight reels, which we envy, prompting a cycle of negative comparison and distraction through platforms like TikT... | ## 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
... | losing |
## Inspiration
With everything going on nowadays, people are starting to feel less connected. While we are focused on physical illnesses during these times, we tend to forget to take care of our mental health. Our team wanted to make a game that would show a bit about how hard it is to live with depression to give a c... | ## Inspiration
We noticed there were a ton of mental health websites and resources available to students, but they were marketed in a boring and patronizing way (or not at all). Also, there were so many websites and apps that it could get overwhelming for someone seeking help. Our game hoped to be an interface that gr... | # Gait @ TreeHacks 2016
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Diagnosing walking disorders with accelerome... | losing |
## Inspiration
To introduce the most impartial and ensured form of voting submission in response to controversial democratic electoral polling following the 2018 US midterm elections. This event involved several encircling clauses of doubt and questioned authenticity of results by citizen voters. This propelled the id... | ## Inspiration
There are 1.1 billion people without Official Identity (ID). Without this proof of identity, they can't get access to basic financial and medical services, and often face many human rights offences, due the lack of accountability.
The concept of a Digital Identity is extremely powerful.
In Estonia, for... | ## Inspiration
A lot of the technology that we use today will become obsolete in future ( as it has been in the past ). However; with the current advancements in the field of cloud technology and AI, old hardware can now be transformed into their intelligent form. Which is what inspired us to build Jarvis as it would ... | winning |
## Inspiration
My recent job application experience with a small company opened my eyes to the hiring challenges faced by recruiters. After taking time to thoughtfully evaluate each candidate, they explained how even a single bad hire wastes significant resources for small teams. This made me realize the need for a be... | ## Inspiration 🤔
Has there ever been a topic you wanted to learn about, and wished there was a fun, digestible, educational video for it? Whether it's about Newton's laws of physics or Locke's social contract.
In today's age, kids consume hours upon hours of video content every week (AACAP, Statista). What if there w... | ## 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
We visit many places, we know very less about the historic events or the historic places around us. Today In History notifies you of historic places near you so that you do not miss them.
## What it does
Today In History notifies you about important events that took place exactly on the same date as t... | ## Inspiration
Many hackers cast their vision forward, looking for futuristic solutions for problems in the present. Instead, we cast our eyes backwards in time, looking to find our change in restoration and recreation. We were drawn to the ancient Athenian Agora -- a marketplace; not one where merchants sold goods, b... | ## Inspiration
A walk across campus looking at all the historical buildings and statues of the University of Pennsylvania.
## What it does
The project will be in the form of a web/mobile app. One or several locations are provided to the user. Along with each location an image is provided. The user aims to find the a... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were going to build a themed application to time portal you back to various points in the internet's history that we loved, but we found out prototyping with retro looking components is tough. Building each component takes a long time, and even longer to code. We started by automating parts of this p... | ## Inspiration
We, as passionate tinkerers, understand the struggles that come with making a project come to life (especially for begineers). **80% of U.S. workers agree that learning new skills is important, but only 56% are actually learning something new**. From not knowing how electrical components should be wired... | ## Inspiration
Our major source of motivation for leafy was an incident that took place recently. My mother and her friends are very enthusiastic about botany. My house has a big garden with innumerable plants. She usually spends a lot of her time catering to all their needs. Once my neighbour’s plant recently caught ... | winning |
## Inspiration 💭
We were up late at night brainstorming after eating a bunch of snacks. Then, someone picked up a piece of trash from the table, and... we knew what to do.
## What it does 🤷♀️
It's a mobile app that identifies trash in an image and sorts it to determine which bin it should go into (recycling, garb... | ## Inspiration
This system was designed to make waste collection more efficient, organized and user-friendly.
Keeping the end users in mind we have created a system that detects what type of waste has been inserted in the bin and categorizes it as a recyclable or garbage.
The system then opens the appropriate shoot (... | ## Inspiration
As university students, we and our peers have found that our garbage and recycling have not been taken by the garbage truck for some unknown reason. They give us papers or stickers with warnings, but these get lost in the wind, chewed up by animals, or destroyed because of the weather. For homeowners or... | losing |
## Background
Before we **don't** give you financial advice, let's go through some brief history on the financial advisors and the changes they've seen since their introduction.
Financial advisors have been an essential part of the financial world for decades, offering individuals tailored advice on everything from i... | ## Inspiration
Our project was inspired by the movie recommendation system algorithms used by companies like Netflix to recommend content to their users. Following along on this, our project uses a similar algorithm to recommend investment options to individuals based on their profiles.
## What Finvest Advisor does
... | ## Inspiration
My father put me in charge of his finances and in contact with his advisor, a young, enterprising financial consultant eager to make large returns. That might sound pretty good, but to someone financially conservative like my father doesn't really want that kind of risk in this stage of his life. The op... | losing |
## Hackers
Scott Blender and Jackie Gan
## Inspiration
This project was inspired by a book called "Hacking Healthcare". It discussed innovations and changes that were needed in the healthcare field and explained how human-centered design can make a positive impact in the field. This project seeks to use human-center... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration for this project was the technological and communication gap between healthcare professionals and patients, restricted access to both one’s own health data and physicians, misdiagnosis due to lack of historical information, as well as rising demand in distance-healthcare due to the lack ... | **Inspiration**
Brought up in his rural hometown of Faizabad in India, one of our team members has seen several villagers unable to access modern medical advice. This often led to unfortunate catastrophes that could have been prevented easily. To answer the medical information needs of the lower-income section of soci... | partial |
## Inspiration
Loneliness affects countless people and over time, it can have significant consequences on a person's mental health. One quarter of Canada's 65+ population live completely alone, which has been scientifically connected to very serious health risks. With the growing population of seniors, this problem on... | ## Inspiration
What is our first thought when we hear "health-care"? Is it an illness? Cancer? Disease? That is where we lose our focus from an exponential increasing crisis, especially in this post-COVID era. It is MENTAL HEALTH!
Studying at university, I have seen my friends suffer from depression and anxiety looki... | ## 🤔 Problem Statement
* 55 million people worldwide struggle to engage with their past memories effectively (World Health Organization) and 40% of us will experience some form of memory loss (Alzhiemer's Society of Canada). This widespread struggle with nostalgia emphasizes the critical need for user-friendly soluti... | losing |
## **Problem**
* Less than a third of Canada’s fish populations, 29.4 per cent, can confidently be considered healthy and 17 per cent are in the critical zone, where conservation actions are crucial.
* A fishery audit conducted by Oceana Canada, reported that just 30.4 per cent of fisheries in Canada are considered “h... | ## Inspiration Personal Experience
Save the global fish stocks from destruction by balancing hunger with overfishing!
## What it does
This is a Webgame that
## How we built it
Javascript, html, css, Google API
## Challenges we ran into
API and AI
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
AI for fish tracking
## ... | ## Inspiration
Recognizing the disastrous effects of the auto industry on the environment, our team wanted to find a way to help the average consumer mitigate the effects of automobiles on global climate change. We felt that there was an untapped potential to create a tool that helps people visualize cars' eco-friendl... | losing |
## Inspiration
As a result of the pandemic, most of the electric labs are moved online. Currently, we have software such as Multisim that can stimulate the circuits and aid the labs. However, we want to find a way to make the labs more "real" by allowing us to build actual circuits on the breadboard and implement an a... | ## Inspiration
As an Econ major and Education minor, I'm really interested in development of new pathways that improve the education of future generations. I also like puns. By combining this background with a desire to do something more out-of-the-box, I knew I had to go Beyond the Pail.
## What it does
Beyond the ... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Blockchain has created new opportunities for financial empowerment and decentralized finance (DeFi), but it also introduces several new considerations. Despite its potential for equitability, malicious actors can currently take advantage of it to launder money and fund criminal activities. There has bee... | ## Inspiration
At companies that want to introduce automation into their pipeline, finding the right robot, the cost of a specialized robotics system, and the time it takes to program a specialized robot is very expensive. We looked for solutions in general purpose robotics and imagining how these types of systems can... | ## Inspiration
Our time spent at home during COVID-19 caused us to have bad posture sometimes when sitting at our desks so we wanted to make an application to help keep us healthy and maintaining good posture.
## What it does
The application uses machine learning to monitor your body posture and track how long you s... | winning |
## What it does
MusiCrowd is an interactive democratic music streaming service that allows individuals to vote on what songs they want to play next (i.e. if three people added three different songs to the queue the song at the top of the queue will be the song with the most upvotes). This system was built with the int... | ## Inspiration 💡
*An address is a person's identity.*
In California, there are over 1.2 million vacant homes, yet more than 150,000 people (homeless population in California, 2019) don't have access to a stable address. Without an address, people lose access to government benefits (welfare, food stamps), healthcare,... | ## Inspiration
We feel really frustrated when we attend social events and have to listen to music that is really poorly suited to the occasion. Some of our most cherished memories like prom and social events in our senior year had poor music selection that really drained the energy of the event. We decided to create a... | winning |
## Inspiration
Let's face it: Museums, parks, and exhibits need some work in this digital era. Why lean over to read a small plaque when you can get a summary and details by tagging exhibits with a portable device?
There is a solution for this of course: NFC tags are a fun modern technology, and they could be used to ... | ## Inspiration
We are very interested in the intersection of the financial sector and engineering, and wanted to find a way to speed up computation time in relation to option pricing through simulations.
## What it does
Bellcrve is a distributed computing network that simulates monte carlo methods on financial instr... | ## Inspiration
With the number of candidates rising in the industry in comparison to the job positions, conducting interviews and deciding on candidates carefully has become a critical task. Along with this ratio imbalance, there are an increasing number of candidates that are forging their experience to gain an unfai... | winning |
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## 💥 - How it all started
Cancer is a disease that has affected our team quite directly. All of our team members know a relative or loved one that has endured or lost their life due to cancer. This make... | ## 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
This project came to us when one of our teammates mentioned his grandma struggling to keep track of her cholesterol and the medications she was taking to lower it. We realized that to help alleviate this, we would need to approach the problem from both sides.
High blood cholesterol causes **4.4 million... | winning |
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