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## Inspiration
As engineering students who attend public universities, class sizes of 300 are no rarity. Sadly, that also means that oftentimes, our most important classes can take weeks or months to supply us with feedback for our assignments, hamstringing the learning process and creating a larger disconnect between... | ## **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 ... | ## 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
Two of our teammates have personal experiences with wildfires: one who has lived all her life in California, and one who was exposed to a fire in his uncle's backyard in the same state. We found the recent wildfires especially troubling and thus decided to focus our efforts on doing what we could with t... | ## How we built it
The sensors consist of the Maxim Pegasus board and any Android phone with our app installed. The two are synchronized at the beginning, and then by moving the "tape" away from the "measure," we can get an accurate measure of distance, even for non-linear surfaces.
## Challenges we ran into
Sometim... | ## Inspiration
I love to play board games, but I often can't get a big enough group together to play. This led to my original idea: an AI-powered opponent in Tabletop Simulator who could play virtual board games against you after reading their rules books. This proved to be too ambitious, so I settled on a simplified ... | winning |
## Never plan for fun again. Just have it. Now, with CityCrawler.
While squabbling over bars to visit in the city, we pined for a solution to our problem.
And here we find CityCrawler, an app that takes your interests and a couple of other details to immediately plan your ideal trip. So whether it's a pub crawl or a ... | ## **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
40 million people in the world are blind, including 20% of all people aged 85 or older. Half a million people suffer paralyzing spinal cord injuries every year. 8.5 million people are affected by Parkinson’s disease, with the vast majority of these being senior citizens. The pervasive difficulty for the... | losing |
## What it does
XEN SPACE is an interactive web-based game that incorporates emotion recognition technology and the Leap motion controller to create an immersive emotional experience that will pave the way for the future gaming industry.
# How we built it
We built it using three.js, Leap Motion Controller for contro... | ## 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
One charge of the average EV's battery uses as much electricity as a house uses every 2.5 days. This puts a huge strain on the electrical grid: people usually plug in their car as soon as they get home, during what is already peak demand hours. At this time, not only is electricity the most expensive, b... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to do something fun and exciting, nothing too serious. Slang is a vital component to thrive in today's society. Ever seen Travis Scott go like, "My dawg would prolly do it for a Louis belt", even most menials are not familiar with this slang. Therefore, we are leveraging the power of today's m... | ## Inspiration
Being a student of the University of Waterloo, every other semester I have to attend interviews for Co-op positions. Although it gets easier to talk to people, the more often you do it, I still feel slightly nervous during such face-to-face interactions. During this nervousness, the fluency of my conver... | ## WebMS
**Inspiration**
The inspiration came from when one of our team members was in India, and experienced large floods. The floods disabled cell towers and caused much of the population to lose data capabilities. However, they maintained SMS and MMS capabilities, which was a viable asset that was ineffectively uti... | winning |
## 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 -
I got inspired for making this app when I saw that my friends and family who sometimes tend to not have enough internet bandwidth to spare to an application, and signal drops make calling someone a cumbersome task. Messaging was not included in this app, since I wanted it to be light-weight. It also a... | winning |
## Inspiration
While munching down on 3 Snickers bars, 10 packs of Welch's Fruit Snacks, a few Red Bulls, and an apple, we were trying to think of a hack idea. It then hit us that we were eating so unhealthy! We realized that as college students, we are often less aware of our eating habits since we are more focused o... | ## Inspiration
As we brainstormed areas we could work in for our project, we began to look for inconveniences in each of our lives that we could tackle. One of our teammates unfortunately has a lot of dietary restrictions due to allergies, and as we watched him finding organizers to check ingredients and straining to ... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the Instagram app, which set out to connect people using photo media.
We believe that the next evolution of connectivity is augmented reality, which allows people to share and bring creations into the world around them. This revolutionary technology has immense potential to help rest... | losing |
## Contributors
Andrea Tongsak, Vivian Zhang, Alyssa Tan, and Mira Tellegen
## Categories
* **Route: Hack for Resilience**
* **Route: Best Education Hack**
## Inspiration
We were inspired to focus our hack on the rise of instagram accounts exposing sexual assault stories from college campuses across the US, includ... | ## Inspiration
In the “new normal” that COVID-19 has caused us to adapt to, our group found that a common challenge we faced was deciding where it was safe to go to complete trivial daily tasks, such as grocery shopping or eating out on occasion. We were inspired to create a mobile app using a database created complet... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create an immersive virtual reality experience for connecting people and innovating on the many classic party games and gathering and wanted to bring a new twist to connecting with other people leveraging cutting-edge technologies like deep learning and VR.
## What it does
StoryBoxVR is a... | partial |
## 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
We wanted to find a space for collaborating in music via recording on our smartphones and computers. We also wanted this to be a very casual activity and emphasized the collaboration aspect on sharing through Facebook. Since Facebook doesn't have much of a presence in the world of music (like Spotify an... | winning |
## Inspiration
While our team might have come from different corners of the country, with various experience in industry,
and a fiery desire to debate whether tabs or spaces are superior, we all faced similar discomforts in our jobs: insensitivity.
Our time in college has shown us that despite the fact people's diver... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by hard working teachers and students. Although everyone was working hard, there was still a disconnect with many students not being able to retain what they learned. So, we decided to create both a web application and a companion phone application to help target this problem.
## What ... | ## Inspiration/What it Does
Kiva is a nonprofit organization that allows anyone to provide micro loans. We wanted to help loaners quantify the impact of their loans in the community of which they are loaning to.
## How I built it
Kiva Impact uses data points from World Bank and United Nations to determine the power ... | partial |
# 🍅 NutriSnap
### NutriSnap is an intuitive nutrition tracker that seamlessly integrates into your daily life.
## Inspiration
Every time you go to a restaurant, its highly likely that you see someone taking a picture of their food before they eat it. We wanted to create a seamless way for people to keep track of th... | ## Inspiration
Living in the big city, we're often conflicted between the desire to get more involved in our communities, with the effort to minimize the bombardment of information we encounter on a daily basis. NoteThisBoard aims to bring the user closer to a happy medium by allowing them to maximize their insights i... | # ENVISIONATE: HEAR 2 SEE
Believe it or not fellow Hackers, people go outside! And when they go outside, they can get hurt - especially if they have a visual impairment.
Some insight exists on the challenges that people with visual impairments face when it comes to accidents, though the research is only preliminary. ... | winning |
## My Story
I love the outdoors! I wanted to share that love with others and help people discover the gorgeous trails that exist in their own neighbourhoods. Nature is beautiful and we should appreciate Kingston for the incredible city it really is. This is my first ever hackathon, and I wanted to build a project that... | ## Inspiration
As students, we constantly are sitting in lectures and club meetings, struggling to juggle keeping up with a quick paced conversation and recording notes for future reference. Through our product, we eliminate half of the problem.
## What it does
Note-ify records and then transcribes all of your lectu... | ## Inspiration
When you think of the word “nostalgia”, what’s the first thing you think of? Maybe it’s the first time you tried ice cream, or the last concert you’ve been to. It could even be the first time you’ve left the country. Although these seem vastly different and constitute unique experiences, all of these ev... | losing |
## Inspiration
We wanted to get better at sports, but we don't have that much time to perfect our moves.
## What it does
Compares your athletic abilities to other users by building skeletons of both people and showing you where you can improve.
Uses ML to compare your form to a professional's form.
# Tells you imp... | ## Inspiration
Kevin, one of our team members, is an enthusiastic basketball player, and frequently went to physiotherapy for a knee injury. He realized that a large part of the physiotherapy was actually away from the doctors' office - he needed to complete certain exercises with perfect form at home, in order to con... | ## Inspiration
In an era dominated by information overload, the battle against misinformation is more critical than ever. Misleading articles permeate our digital landscape, driving political polarization and undermining informed discourse. To combat this, we believe in the power of critical thinking. However, the she... | winning |
## Inspiration
The idea for SlideForge came from the struggles researchers face when trying to convert complex academic papers into presentations. Many academics spend countless hours preparing slides for conferences, lectures, or public outreach, often sacrificing valuable time they could be using for research. We wa... | ## Inspiration
We are part of a generation that has lost the art of handwriting. Because of the clarity and ease of typing, many people struggle with clear shorthand. Whether you're a second language learner or public education failed you, we wanted to come up with an intelligent system for efficiently improving your ... | ## Inspiration
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... | winning |
## Inspiration
My Grandmother is from Puerto Rico, and she only speaks Spanish. She recently tried applying for passport, but she could not fill out the document because she does not understand English. After doing some research, there are about 45 million people in America alone with a similar issue. And in the world... | ## Inspiration
With elections right around the corner, many young adults are voting for the first time, and may not be equipped with knowledge of the law and current domestic events. We believe that this is a major problem with our nation, and we seek to use open source government data to provide day to day citizens w... | ## Inspiration
According to a 2015 study in the American Journal of Infection Control, people touch their faces more than 20 times an hour on average. More concerningly, about 44% of the time involves contact with mucous membranes (e.g. eyes, nose, mouth).
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging our populati... | winning |
## Inspiration
Shashank Ojha, Andreas Joannou, Abdellah Ghassel, Cameron Smith
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Clarity is an interactive smart glass that uses a convolutional neural network, to notify the user of the emotions of those in front of them. This wear... | ## Inspiration
A week or so ago, Nyle DiMarco, the model/actor/deaf activist, visited my school and enlightened our students about how his experience as a deaf person was in shows like Dancing with the Stars (where he danced without hearing the music) and America's Next Top Model. Many people on those sets and in the ... | ## Inspiration
One day, one of our teammates was throwing out garbage in his apartment complex and the building manager made him aware that certain plastics he was recycling were soft plastics that can't be recycled.
According to a survey commissioned by Covanta, “2,000 Americans revealed that 62 percent of responden... | winning |
## Inspiration
Social-distancing is hard, but little things always add up.
What if person X is standing too close to person Y in the c-mart, and then person Y ends up in the hospital for more than a month battling for their lives? Not finished, that c-mart gets shut down for contaminated merchandise.
All this happen... | ## Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from many of our own experiences with dealing with mental health and self-care, as well as from those around us. We know what it's like to lose track of self-care, especially in our current environment, and wanted to create a digital companion that could help us in our journey of u... | ### 🌟 Inspiration
We're inspired by the idea that emotions run deeper than a simple 'sad' or 'uplifting.' Our project was born from the realization that personalization is the key to managing emotional states effectively.
### 🤯🔍 What it does?
Our solution is an innovative platform that harnesses the power of AI a... | partial |
## **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... | ## Inspiration
Ordering delivery and eating out is a major aspect of our social lives. But when healthy eating and dieting comes into play it interferes with our ability to eat out and hangout with friends. With a wave of fitness hitting our generation as a storm we have to preserve our social relationships while allo... | ## Inspiration
I'm a musician, and I often get stumped when making new music because I feel like my ideas don't resonate with me, or my ideas don't motivate me to develop them further. I often have difficulties coming up with chord progressions that I can play melodies along to, as I often come up with a couple of cho... | winning |
## Inspiration
Since the start of the pandemic, the government has been creating simulations to predict the events of how the disease would progress. Although we can't create something to the degree of accuracy they were able to due to a lack of data and expertise in virology, we tried to create a logical model for di... | ## Inspiration
I dreamed about the day we would use vaccine passports to travel long before the mRNA vaccines even reached clinical trials. I was just another individual, fortunate enough to experience stability during an unstable time, having a home to feel safe in during this scary time. It was only when I started t... | ## Inspiration
As students of chemical engineering, we are deeply interested in educating students about the wonderful field of chemistry. One of the most difficult things in chemistry is visualizing molecules in 3 dimensions. So for this project, we wanted to make visualizing molecules easy and interactive for studen... | partial |
## Inspiration
In the future we would be driving electric cars. They would have different automatic features, including electronic locks. This system may be vulnerable to the hackers, who would want to unlock the car in public parking lots. So we would like to present **CARSNIC**, a solution to this problem.
## What ... | ## Inspiration
We found that the current price of smart doors on the market is incredibly expensive. We wanted to improve the current technology of smart doors at a fraction of the price. In addition, smart locks are not usually hands free, either requiring the press of a button or going on the User's phone. We wanted... | ## Inspiration
In online documentaries, we saw visually impaired individuals and their vision consisted of small apertures. We wanted to develop a product that would act as a remedy for this issue.
## What it does
When a button is pressed, a picture is taken of the user's current view. This picture is then analyzed ... | partial |
## Inspiration
We got our inspiration from the countless calorie tracking apps. First of all, there isn't a single website we could find that tracked calories. There are a ton of apps, but not one website. Secondly, None of them offered recipes built in. In our website, the user can search for food items, and directly... | ## 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... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind Lexi AI is to provide personalized support for legal advising. We wanted to create a solution that could democratize legal advice, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to understand their rights and options, regardless of financial resources.
## What it does
Lexi AI serves as a... | winning |
Pokemon is a childhood favourite for the 90s kids.
What better way to walk down memory lane (and possibly procrasinate on whatever obligations you have) by looking up your all-time favourite pokemon? This virtual pokedex includes its pokemon type, its base statistics, its attack abilities, an accompanying picture and ... | ## Inspiration
Our Inspiration for this project was discord bots as we always wanted to make one that anyone have fun using. We also wanted to implement our knowledge of API calls which we learned from our courses to get a real understanding of API calls. We also loved Pokemon and decided creating a discord bot that a... | ## Inspiration
Kevin, one of our team members, is an enthusiastic basketball player, and frequently went to physiotherapy for a knee injury. He realized that a large part of the physiotherapy was actually away from the doctors' office - he needed to complete certain exercises with perfect form at home, in order to con... | losing |
## Inspiration
Moodly's cause -- fostering positive mental health -- is one very close to my own heart. I struggled with my own mental health over the last year, finding that I wasn't the best at figuring out how I was feeling before it started to impact my day. When I eventually took up journaling, I realized that I ... | ## Inspiration
Mental Health is a really common problem amongst humans and university students in general. I myself felt I was dealing with mental issues a couple years back and I found it quite difficult to reach out for help as it would make myself look weak to others. I recovered from my illness when I actually got... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
Travel planning is a pain. Even after you find the places you want to visit, you still need to find out when they're open, how far away they are from one another, and work within your budget. With Wander, automatically create an itinerary based on your preferences – just pick where you want to go, and w... | ## Inspiration
We know the struggles of students. Trying to get to that one class across campus in time. Deciding what to make for dinner. But there was one that stuck out to all of us: finding a study spot on campus. There have been countless times when we wander around Mills or Thode looking for a free space to stud... | ## What does it do?
Our app loads walking tours using Yelp API data stored on a Cockroach DB database. The tour spots get displayed on a map with pictures and short descriptions of the attraction.
## How We Built It
1. Coded an express.js API for serving json files
2. Connected server to cockroach DB
3. Developed fr... | winning |
## Inspiration
The global renewable energy market was valued at **USD 1.21 trillion in 2023** and is projected to grow at a **compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.2% from 2024 to 2030**.
This growth is reflected in the **Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) market**, valued at **USD 12.72 billion in 2023**, which i... | ## Inspiration
The cryptocurrency market is an industry which is expanding at an exponential rate. Everyday, thousands new investors of all kinds are getting into this volatile market. With more than 1,500 coins to choose from, it is extremely difficult to choose the wisest investment for those new investors. Our goal... | ## 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... | partial |
## Inspiration
In last few years, the world has faced a lots of natural calamities.
The U.S. has sustained 298 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2021). The total cost of these 298 events exceeds $1.975 trillion.
In 2021 (as... | ## Inspiration
During sweltering summer days, cars can be become very hot very fast. Many people accidentally leave their dogs, or even young children and infants, in their vehicles, while picking up groceries or shopping. Even though they expect to be gone for only 20 minutes or less, during this time, car temperatur... | # MemoryMatch
## Inspiration 💡
We all have that one cherished childhood photo that holds a special place in our hearts. It's a snapshot that we long to recreate, a moment frozen in time. With MemoryMatch, we aim to turn this dream into reality. Our app not only helps you reminisce about your favorite childhood memor... | partial |
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[Money](https://med... | ## Inspiration; We want to test the boundaries of Virtual Reality and real life. We want to know if you can immerse yourself so strongly in a Virtual environment that your sensory perception is affected. Can you \_ feel \_ the wind from the virtual environment? Ask yourself if you have goosebumps because of how cold th... | ## Inspiration
How long does class attendance take? 3 minutes? With 60 classes, 4 periods a day, and 180 school days in a year, this program will save a cumulative 72 days every year! Our team recognized that the advent of neural networks yields momentous potential, and one such opportunity is face recognition. We uti... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our solution was named on remembrance of Mother Teresa
## What it does
Robotic technology to assist nurses and doctors in medicine delivery, patient handling across the hospital, including ICU’s. We are planning to build an app in Low code/No code that will help the covid patients to scan themselves a... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration came from working with integrated BMCs on server motherboards. These devices are able to control servers remotely without the need of an operating system on the server. This is accomplished by streaming the servers' VGA input and attaching a keyboard via USB. The major pain points about ... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind this hack was going back through lecture videos before a midterm and wishing there was a way to store notes directly onto the video as opposed to taking notes on paper and then having to figure out what time of the video they correspond to. We wanted something that would move with... | winning |
## Inspiration
Before the hackathon started, we noticed that the oranges were really tasty so we desired to make a project about oranges, but we also wanted to make a game so we put the ideas together.
## What it does
Squishy Orange is a multiplayer online game where each user controls an orange. There are two game ... | ## Inspiration
The Riff Off idea comes from the movie series Pitch Perfect. Our game works similar to the Riff Off in the movie, except players select the songs from our song bank and play from there to earn points instead of sing.
## What it does
It is a multiplayer mobile application that works on both iOS and And... | ## Inspiration
## What it does
2D fighter game in which shouting out your enthusiasm is the only way to become stronger!
## How I built it
Android and web app connected through Syncano API.
## Challenges I ran into
* Converting raw microphone data into useful information
* Linking mobile and web app through 3rd p... | partial |
## Inspiration
I read a paper on an app named fingerIO that would use active Sonar and two microphones to trilaterate(length based triangulation) to map where a hand moved. I thought that if you just had the source attempting to identify itself you could take it a step further.
## What it does
It will track in 3D sp... | ## Inspiration
One of our team members, Nicky, has a significant amount of trouble hearing (subtle) noises! The name behind our application, Tricone, was first canned because of the triangular, hat-like shape of our hardware contraption, which resembled a tricorn. Later, we changed the name to Tricone because of the t... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to use Livepeer's features to build a unique streaming experience for gaming content for both streamers and viewers.
Inspired by Twitch, we wanted to create a platform that increases exposure for small and upcoming creators and establish a more unified social ecosystem for viewers, allowing t... | losing |
## Inspiration
Customer reward loyalty programs are becoming more and more centralized, with reduced use of paper coupons that were able to be traded among people and the creation of more app-based claiming platforms (think Starbucks, Chipotle, Snackpass). In addition, with the pandemic, customers and the businesses t... | ## Ark Platform for an IoT powered Local Currency
## Problem:
Many rural communities in America have been underinvested in our modern age. Even urban areas such as Detroit MI, and Scranton PA, have been left behind as their local economies struggle to reach a critical mass from which to grow. This underinvestment has... | ## Inspiration + Impact
This project was inspired by a team member’s sibling who underwent cancer treatment, which limited his ability to communicate. American Sign Language (ASL) enabled the family to connect despite extenuating circumstances. Sign language has the power of bringing together hearing, hard-of-hearing,... | partial |
## Inspiration
The MIT mailing list free-food is frequently contacted by members of the community offering free food. Students rush to the location of free food, only to find it's been claimed. From the firsthand accounts of other students as well as personal experience, we know that it's incredibly hard to respond fa... | ## Inspiration
AI is a super powerful tool for those who know how to prompt it and utilize it for guidance and education rather than just for a final answer. As AI becomes increasingly more accessible to everyone, it is clear that teaching the younger generation to use it properly is incredibly important, so that it d... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind our innovative personal desk assistant was ignited by the fond memories of Furbys, those enchanting electronic companions that captivated children's hearts in the 2000s. These delightful toys, resembling a charming blend of an owl and a hamster, held an irresistible appeal, becomi... | losing |
## My Samy helps:
**Young marginalized students**
* Anonymous process: Ability to ask any questions anonymously without feeling judged
* Get relevant resources: More efficient process for them to ask for help and receive immediately relevant information and resources
* Great design and user interface: Easy to use pla... | ## 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
Dietary restrictions and allergies make our community more diverse. However, equality is not shared between people with allergies and people without. It is unfair that people with allergies need to spend an extensive amount of time, effort, and worry to safely explore the universe of flavors. We are ins... | winning |
## Inspiration
Emergency situations can be extremely sudden and can seem paralyzing, especially for young children. In most cases, children from the ages of 4-10 are unaware of how to respond to a situation that requires contact with first responders, and what the most important information to communicate. In the case... | ## 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
We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin... | partial |
## Inspiration
University gets students really busy and really stressed, especially during midterms and exams. We would normally want to talk to someone about how we feel and how our mood is, but due to the pandemic, therapists have often been closed or fully online. Since people will be seeking therapy online anyway,... | ## Inspiration
A study recently done in the UK learned that 69% of people above the age of 65 lack the IT skills needed to use the internet. Our world's largest resource for information, communication, and so much more is shut off to such a large population. We realized that we can leverage artificial intelligence to ... | Ever wonder where that video clip came from? Probably some show or movie you've never watched. Well with RU Recognized, you can do a reverse video search to find out what show or movie it's from.
## Inspiration
We live in a world rife with movie and tv show references, and not being able to identify these references ... | partial |
## Inspiration
Metaverse, vision pro, spatial video. It’s no doubt that 3D content is the future. But how can I enjoy or make 3d content without spending over 3K? Or strapping massive goggles to my head? Let's be real, wearing a 3d vision pro while recording your child's birthday party is pretty [dystopian.](https://y... | ## Inspiration 💥
Let's be honest... Presentations can be super boring to watch—*and* to present.
But, what if you could bring your biggest ideas to life in a VR world that literally puts you *in* the PowerPoint? Step beyond slides and into the future with SuperStage!
## What it does 🌟
SuperStage works in 3 simple ... | ## Food.C
Like taking pictures of your food? Have Food.C track what you eat to help you eat healthier. We use Keras to detect the content of the photos you take, then match it against its nutrition facts, so you can eat healthier while instagramming your meal. We even use facial recognition to track user profiles and ... | winning |
## Inspiration and What it does
We often go out with a lot of amazing friends for trips, restaurants, tourism, weekend expedition and what not. Every encounter has an associated messenger groupchat. We want a way to split money which is better than to discuss on the groupchat, ask people their public key/usernames and... | ## Inspiration
We're tired of seeing invasive advertisements and blatant commercialization all around us. With new AR technology, there may be better ways to help mask and put these advertisements out of sight, or in a new light.
## What it does
By utilizing Vueforia technologies and APIs, we can use image tracking ... | # FaceConnect
##### Never lose a connection again! Connect with anyone, any wallet, and send transactions through an image of one's face!
## Inspiration
Have you ever met someone and instantly connected with them, only to realize you forgot to exchange contact information? Or, even worse, you have someone's contact ... | partial |
## Inspiration
When working in the kitchen, we have to handle many different ingredients, wet foods, and big messes. Constantly searching for the small things you need constantly takes time and is often frustrating. Even more so, to switch back and forth between wet and dry ingredients means frequent hand washing. Mes... | ## Inspiration
We recognized how much time meal planning can cause, especially for busy young professionals and students who have little experience cooking. We wanted to provide an easy way to buy healthy, sustainable meals for the week, without compromising the budget or harming the environment.
## What it does
Sim... | ## What it does
DocBook provides an easy-to-use web app for patients to easily book a doctor's appointment from the comfort of their own homes. We understand that booking an appointment by phone or in-person can at times be time-consuming or undesirable for self-conscious patients. However, with DocBook, patients can ... | winning |
# HeadlineHound
HeadlineHound is a Typescript-based project that uses natural language processing to summarize news articles for you. With HeadlineHound, you can quickly get the key points of an article without having to read the entire thing. It's perfect for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with the news but does... | ## Inspiration
Why is science inaccessibility such a problem? Every year, there are over two million scientific research papers published globally. This represents a staggering amount of knowledge, innovation, and progress. Yet, around 91.5% of research articles are never accessed by the wider public. Even among those... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to create a new way to interact with the thousands of amazing shops that use Shopify.
## What it does
Our technology can be implemented inside existin... | losing |
## Inspiration
We wanted to create a fun and easy way for students to sell items on campus.
## What it does
Pusheen Sell allows users to browse items currently for sale and sell items of their own. Not only is the app quick and easy to use, but it also gives more information about the items on sale through short vid... | ## 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
Social media has been shown in studies that it thrives on emotional and moral content, particularly angry in nature. In similar studies, these types of posts have shown to have effects on people's well-being, mental health, and view of the world. We wanted to let people take control of their feed and ga... | partial |
## Inspiration
Homelessness is a rampant problem in the US, with over half a million people facing homelessness daily. We want to empower these people to be able to have access to relevant information. Our goal is to pioneer technology that prioritizes the needs of displaced persons and tailor software to uniquely add... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration for this project came from the group's passion to build health related apps. While blindness is not necessarily something we can heal, it is something that we can combat with technology.
## What it does
This app gives blind individuals the ability to live life with the same ease as any... | ## MoodBox
### Smart DJ'ing using Facial Recognition
You're hosting a party with your friends. You want to play the hippest music and you’re scared of your friends judging you for your taste in music.
You ask your friends what songs they want to listen to… And only one person replies with that one Bruno Mars song th... | partial |
## How to use
First, you need an OpenAI account for a unique API key to plug into the openai.api\_key field in the generate\_transcript.py file. You'll also need to authenticate the text-to-speech API with a .json key from Google Cloud. Then, run the following code in the terminal:
```
python3 generate_transcript.py
... | ## Inspiration
When attending crowded lectures or tutorials, it's fairly difficult to discern content from other ambient noise. What if a streamlined pipeline existed to isolate and amplify vocal audio while transcribing text from audio, and providing general context in the form of images? Is there any way to use this... | ## Inspiration
For University of Toronto students, the campus can be so large, that many times it can be difficult to find quiet spaces to study or louder spaces to spend some time with friends. We created UofT SoundSpace to help students find quiet and loud spaces around campus to help reduce conflicts between those ... | partial |
## Inspiration
## What it does
Buddy is your personal assistant that monitors your device's screen-on time so you can better understand your phone usage statistics. These newfound insights will help you to optimize your time and understand your usage patterns. Set a maximum screen-on time goal for yourself and your p... | 
## Inspiration
Two weeks ago you attended an event and have met some wonderful people to help get through the event, each one of you exchanged contact information and hope to keep in touch with each other. Neither one of you contacted each oth... | ## About the Project
### TLDR:
Caught a fish? Take a snap. Our AI-powered app identifies the catch, keeps track of stats, and puts that fish in your 3d, virtual, interactive aquarium! Simply click on any fish in your aquarium, and all its details — its rarity, location, and more — appear, bringing your fishing memori... | partial |
## 💡 Inspiration 💡
The idea for Foodbox was inspired by the growing problem of food waste in our society. According to the United Nations, one-third of all food produced globally is wasted, which not only has a significant environmental impact but also a social one, as so many people are struggling with food insecur... | ## Inspiration
We recognized how much time meal planning can cause, especially for busy young professionals and students who have little experience cooking. We wanted to provide an easy way to buy healthy, sustainable meals for the week, without compromising the budget or harming the environment.
## What it does
Sim... | ## Inspiration
The alarming surge in suicide rates among farmers in developing countries begs the question: What is driving these individuals to such a desperate point? Their relentless pursuit of higher yields has led many to employ excessive quantities of fertilizers and pesticides, with the hope of boosting their c... | winning |
## Inspiration
We were motivated to tackle linguistic challenges in the educational sector after juxtaposing our personal experience with current news.
There are currently over 70 million asylum seekers, refugees, or internally-displaced people around the globe, and this statistic highlights the problem of individual... | ## Inspiration
We created ASL Bridgify to address the need for an interactive real time pose-estimation based learning model for ASL. In a post-pandemic world, we foresee that working from home and more remote experiences signals the need to communicate with individuals with hearing disabilities. It is a feature that ... | ## Inspiration
The original inspiration behind Bevrian was the Webtoon “Tacit”, by KimDazzi. In the story, the characters could control their drones with their minds to fight zombies, deliver supplies, etc. Of course, the technology behind the mind-controlled drones was never fully explained. Our initial plan was to m... | partial |
## Inspiration
It’s difficult to practice languages and speaking in general without having natural conversations. It's even harder to gauge improvement accurately and consistently. These factors make it extremely difficult to commit to learning a language, even if one has the will to do so. Parla aims to ameliorate th... | ## About
Learning a foreign language can pose challenges, particularly without opportunities for conversational practice. Enter SpyLingo! Enhance your language proficiency by engaging in missions designed to extract specific information from targets. You select a conversation topic, and the spy agency devises a set of... | ## Inspiration ✨
Seeing friends' lives being ruined through **unhealthy** attachment to video games. Struggling with regulating your emotions properly is one of the **biggest** negative effects of video games.
## What it does 🍎
YourHP is a webapp/discord bot designed to improve the mental health of gamers. By using... | losing |
## Inspiration
The idea addresses a very natural curiosity to live and experience the world as someone else, and out of the progress with the democratization of VR with the Cardboard, we tried to create a method for people to "upload" their life to others. The name is a reference to Sharon Creech's quote on empathy in... | ## 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: Recent earthquake in Turkey & Syria where more than 28,000 people lost their lives, 85000 injured and 1.3 million displaced. People still alive and buried under the debris could not be rescued timely.
## What it does: The project can be used to provide timely information to the rescuers so that disaste... | winning |
# HearU
## Inspiration
Speech is one of the fundamental ways for us to communicate with each other, but many are left out of this channel of communication. Around half a billion people arou... | ## Inspiration
About 0.2 - 2% of the population suffers from deaf-blindness and many of them do not have the necessary resources to afford accessible technology. This inspired us to build a low cost tactile, braille based system that can introduce accessibility into many new situations that was previously not possible... | ## Inspiration
At the heart of our vision for the **U**niversal **P**rivy **C**ompass app was a simple yet powerful belief: everyone's educational journey should be as seamless and stress-free as possible. We recognized that something as basic as locating a washroom on a sprawling campus can be a source of unnecessary... | partial |
## Inspiration
Witnessing the atrocities(protests, vandalism, etc.) caused by the recent presidential election, we want to make the general public (especially for the minorities and the oppressed) be more safe.
## What it does
It provides the users with live news update happening near them, alerts them if they trave... | ## 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
**The Tales of Detective Toasty** draws deep inspiration from visual novels like **Persona** and **Ghost Trick** and we wanted to play homage to our childhood games through the fusion of art, music, narrative, and technology. Our goal was to explore the possibilities of AI within game development. We us... | partial |
## Inspiration
We have all faced it and yes, the struggle is real. So much that I'm doing the project alone :`) We badly need a teammate finder application for hackathons. And it doesn't just do that. It is an all in one app to build your skills as well as help you along the way in the hackathon.
## What it does
Thi... | ## Inspiration
As Chinese military general Sun Tzu's famously said: "Every battle is won before it is fought."
The phrase implies that planning and strategy - not the battles - win wars. Similarly, successful traders commonly quote the phrase: "Plan the trade and trade the plan."
, let's call him Marth, had a crush on a girl who was a big fan of guitar music. He decided to impress her by playing her favorite song on the guitar, but there was one problem - Marth had never played the guitar before.
Determined to win... | partial |
## 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
The world today has changed significantly because of COVID 19, with the increased prominence of food delivery services. We decided to get people back into the kitchen to cook for themselves again. Additionally, everyone has a lot of groceries that they never get around to eating because they don't know ... | ## Inspiration
While there are several applications that use OCR to read receipts, few take the leap towards informing consumers on their purchase decisions. We decided to capitalize on this gap: we currently provide information to customers about the healthiness of the food they purchase at grocery stores by analyzin... | losing |
## Inspiration
Understanding and expressing emotions can be a complex and challenging journey. Many people struggle to connect and identify with their feelings, which can be overwhelming and confusing. Let It Out was born from the desire to create a supportive space where users can explore and engage with their emotio... | ## Inspiration
In today's world, the mental health crisis is on the rise, and finding a therapist has become increasingly difficult due to factors like the economy, accessibility, and finding the right fit. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to overcome their mental health challenges and have meaningful c... | ## Inspiration for Creating sketch-it
Art is fundamentally about the process of creation, and seeing as many of us have forgotten this, we are inspired to bring this reminder to everyone. In this world of incredibly sophisticated artificial intelligence models (many of which can already generate an endless supply of a... | losing |
## Inspiration
As victims, bystanders and perpetrators of cyberbullying, we felt it was necessary to focus our efforts this weekend on combating an issue that impacts 1 in 5 Canadian teens. As technology continues to advance, children are being exposed to vulgarities online at a much younger age than before.
## What ... | ## Inspiration
We are part of a generation that has lost the art of handwriting. Because of the clarity and ease of typing, many people struggle with clear shorthand. Whether you're a second language learner or public education failed you, we wanted to come up with an intelligent system for efficiently improving your ... | ## Inspiration
JARVIS is the famous virtual assistant of Tony Stark, and it displays whatever Tony requests in a physically interactive hologram. While we are limited in that we do not have access to physically interactive holograms, we are able to replicate JARVIS's creativity, visualization and understanding with...... | winning |
## Inspiration
iPonzi started off as a joke between us, but we decided that PennApps was the perfect place to make our dream a reality.
## What it does
The app requires the user to sign up using an email and/or social logins. After purchasing the application and creating an account, you can refer your friends to the... | # About the Project: U-Plan
## Inspiration
We're from Arizona, and yes—it really is incredibly hot. Having lived here for 2.5 years, each year seems to get hotter than the last. During a casual conversation with an Uber driver in Boston, we chatted about the weather. She mentioned that even the snowfall has been decr... | ## Inspiration 🎀
Reduce stress and make womans lives a bit simpler
Many woman suffer from the complications that come from periods. We wanted to develop a web page that gives woman personlised advice that they could impliment in their daily lives and reduce the symptoms that they have to deal with during before or af... | partial |
## 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... | ## 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 ... | ## Inspiration
Insurance companies have access to mostly negative data: (crashes, tickets, and more) leaving some drivers without the opportunity to prove themselves. We wanted to develop a win-win program to reduce distracted driving by incentivizing responsible drivers with lower insurance rates while providing insu... | winning |
### **Carely: Connecting Seniors and Their Families, Supporting Caregivers at Every Step**
#### **Understanding the Silent Crisis: Dementia and Loneliness**
🌍 **A Growing Global Challenge:**
Dementia is swiftly becoming a global health emergency, currently affecting approximately 55 million individuals worldwide. T... | # 🌿Send this link to a friend to video call :)) <http://bit.ly/tryme-nwhacks>
## Inspiration 💡
Unprecedented times, unpresidented times, it's no secret that there's a lot going on right now.
Devastating stories about the declining mental health of seniors in long-term care ring all too familiar to us (ref. [this](... | ## 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... | losing |
## Inspiration
We set out to transport the quintessential college student experience to anywhere you like, in a portable package. We were frustrated that ramen noodles are not convenient to pack as a to go meal. We set out to make instant noodle into any time noodle, and make a product useful for a useless and improba... | ## Inspiration
The inspiration behind FightBite originated from the Brave Wilderness youtube channel, particularly the [Bites and Stings series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJHJ0i86ts&list=PLbfmhGxamZ83v9OKDa4eV_IlY2W-PLK6X). When watching the series, we were terrified by the amount of destruction that could be c... | ## Inspiration
With the recent Corona Virus outbreak, we noticed a major issue in charitable donations of equipment/supplies ending up in the wrong hands or are lost in transit. How can donors know their support is really reaching those in need? At the same time, those in need would benefit from a way of customizing w... | losing |
We were inspired by the Robo-dog that was taking the world by storm, with its quadruped shape and its complex systems that allowed its legs to move rapidly and fluidly.
It is an eight-legged animatronic that is able to move around and grab objects for you, scare off your friends, and even pick up things from the groun... | ## Inspiration:
As a group of 4 people who met each other for the first time, we saw this event as an inspiring opportunity to learn new technology and face challenges that we were wholly unfamiliar with. Although intuitive when combined, every feature of this project was a distant puzzle piece of our minds that has b... | ## 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
The post-COVID era has increased the number of in-person events and need for public speaking. However, more individuals are anxious to publicly articulate their ideas, whether this be through a presentation for a class, a technical workshop, or preparing for their next interview. It is often difficult f... | ## Inspiration
In the wake of a COVID-altered reality, where the lack of resources continuously ripples throughout communities, Heckler.AI emerges as a beacon for students, young professionals, those without access to mentorship and individuals seeking to harness vital presentation skills. Our project is a transformat... | ## Inspiration
During this COVID-19 pandemic time, most of us are working or studying at home. We've all had moments where we wanted to go to the library to study but we can't; or wanted to go and hang out with friends and chat about life, but we can't. The number of covid cases is declining steadily, but how about ou... | winning |
## Inspiration
With summer time around the corner, it was natural that new problems would arise. One idea that we liked a lot was our struggles to find ice cream truck ice cream. Those soft serve cones, SpongeBob popsicles, and name brand ice cream sandwiches are awesome, but it's often hard to find these trucks. At t... | ## Inspiration
Picture this, I was all ready to go to Yale and just hack away. I wanted to hack without any worry. I wanted to come home after hacking and feel that I had accomplished a functional app that I could see people using. I was not sure if I wanted to team up with anyone, but I signed up to be placed on a UM... | ## Inspiration
While searching for ideas, our team came across an ECG dataset that was classified and labeled into categories for normal and abnormal patterns. While examining the abnormal patterns, it was observed that most seizure patterns had a small window that transitioned from a typical pattern to a seizure patt... | losing |
## Inspiration
We have firsthand knowledge from our close family and friends who are doctors serving in rural communities across America. They have shared with us their experiences of burnout due to the extensive manual back-office tasks they are required to handle, such as patient pre-authorization claims (PAs), in a... | ## our why
Dialects, Lingoes, Creoles, Acrolects are more than just words, more than just languages - there are a means for cultural immersion, intangible pieces of tradition and history passed down through generations.
Remarkably two of the industry giants lag far behind - Google Translate doesn't support translatio... | If we take a moment to stop and think of those who can't speak or hear, we will realize and be thankful for what we have. To make the lives of these differently ables people, we needed to come up with a solution and here we present you with Proximity.
Proximity uses the Myo armband for sign recognition and an active v... | partial |
# GitCheck
## Inspiration
As a student, it was a big life adjustment for me when I began my first technical internship. And to make things more difficult, the coding standard at my company was entirely different from any coding I've done at hackathons or for my school projects! There are many industry standards for c... | ## 💡 Inspiration
Whenever I was going through educational platforms, I always wanted to use one website to store everything. The notes, lectures, quizzes and even the courses were supposed to be accessed from different apps. I was inspired by how to create a centralized platform that acknowledges learning diversity. ... | ## Inspiration
Our spark to tackle this project was ignited by a teammate's immersive internship at a prestigious cardiovascular research society, where they served as a dedicated data engineer. Their firsthand encounters with the intricacies of healthcare data management and the pressing need for innovative solutions... | losing |
# Food Cloud
Curbing food waste for a sustainable future
## Inspiration
The awareness vertical - Every year food companies throw away an excess amount of food. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “roughly one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every ye... | ## Inspiration
Today’s education system is flawed. Since birth, children have been told to learn by doing and being curious. Once at the age of 5, this all changes. Children are pushed into classrooms and are expected to consume spoon fed information, instead of learning it themselves. This causes children to grow out... | ## Inspiration
We both love karaoke, but there are lots of obstacles:
* going to a physical karaoke is expensive and inconvenient
* youtube karaoke videos not always matches your vocal (key) range, and there is also no playback
* existing karaoke apps have limited songs, not flexible based on your music taste
## Wha... | losing |
## Inspiration
We took inspiration from the multitude of apps that help to connect those who are missing to those who are searching for their loved ones and others affected by natural disaster, especially flooding. We wanted to design a product that not only helped to locate those individuals, but also to rescue those... | ## Inspiration
Natural disasters do more than just destroy property—they disrupt lives, tear apart communities, and hinder our progress toward a sustainable future. One of our team members from Rice University experienced this firsthand during a recent hurricane in Houston. Trees were uprooted, infrastructure was dest... | ## Inspiration
Artificial Intelligence is the defining innovation of our time. We wanted to see how this technology could be used to supplement and optimize education.
## What it does
Lotus is a place where you can neatly store all your course materials - text, docs, pdfs, image scans, and even lecture audio! Lotus ... | winning |
## Inspiration
After spending some time in the hospital last year, I quickly became aware of just how isolating and scary the experience can be. And after hearing one of my good friend’s stories of her own experience being hospitalized, I was sure that I could use our experiences to help other patients, and other peop... | ## Inspiration 🌎
One of the challenges in our multicultural country is providing healthcare to non-verbal or non-English speaking patients.
Health care professionals often face a challenge when communicating with these patients. Bedside workers are not provided a translator and often rely on the patient's family for... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by the Instagram app, which set out to connect people using photo media.
We believe that the next evolution of connectivity is augmented reality, which allows people to share and bring creations into the world around them. This revolutionary technology has immense potential to help rest... | partial |
## Contributors
Andrea Tongsak, Vivian Zhang, Alyssa Tan, and Mira Tellegen
## Categories
* **Route: Hack for Resilience**
* **Route: Best Education Hack**
## Inspiration
We were inspired to focus our hack on the rise of instagram accounts exposing sexual assault stories from college campuses across the US, includ... | ## Inspiration
I, Jennifer Wong, went through many mental health hurdles and struggled to get the specific help that I needed. I was fortunate to find a relatable therapist that gave me an educational understanding of my mental health, which helped me understand my past and accept it. I was able to afford this access ... | ## Inspiration
Health and fitness are gaining an ever-increasing relevance in the field of technology.
With the wave of health and workout trends, we want to target what this underdeveloped field lacks with our first hackathon project.
We wanted to create an app that records users' workout plans and tracks their
prog... | partial |
## Inspiration
Insurance Companies spend millions of dollars on carrying marketing campaigns to attract customers and sell their policies.These marketing campaigns involve giving people promotional offers, reaching out to them via mass marketing like email, flyers etc., these marketing campaigns usually last for few m... | ## Inspiration
When we first read Vitech's challenge for processing and visualizing their data, we were collectively inspired to explore a paradigm of programming that very few of us had any experience with, machine learning. With that in mind, the sentiment of the challenge themed around health care established relev... | ## Inspiration
In 2019, close to 400 people in Canada died due to distracted drivers. They also cause an estimated $102.3 million worth of damages. While some modern cars have pedestrian collision avoidance systems, most drivers on the road lack the technology to audibly cue the driver if they may be distracted. We wa... | partial |
## Inspiration
There’s simply no quality control for most online recipes. One day, we came across a NY Times beef stew recipe with 5.0 stars at over 17,000 ratings. You think it’d be perfect, right? Nope, every review essentially boiled down to “It was great after I added XXX” or “Wonderful after I subbed YYY for XXX.... | ## Inspiration
During our brainstorming, we were thinking about what we have in common as students and what we do often.
We are all students and want to cook at home to save money, but we often find ourselves in a situation where we have tons of ingredients that we cannot properly combine. With that in mind, we came u... | ## Inspiration
Before the hackathon started, we noticed that the oranges were really tasty so we desired to make a project about oranges, but we also wanted to make a game so we put the ideas together.
## What it does
Squishy Orange is a multiplayer online game where each user controls an orange. There are two game ... | losing |
## Inspiration
We saw the sad reality that people often attending hackathons don't exercise regularly or do so while coding. We decided to come up with a solution
## What it does
Lets a user log in, and watch short fitness videos of exercises they can do while attending a hackathon
## How we built it
We used HTML ... | ## Inspiration
We love the playing the game and were disappointed in the way that there wasnt a nice web implementation of the game that we could play with each other remotely. So we fixed that.
## What it does
Allows between 5 and 10 players to play Avalon over the web app.
## How we built it
We made extensive us... | ## Inspiration:
The inspiration behind Pisces stemmed from our collective frustration with the time-consuming and often tedious process of creating marketing materials from scratch. We envisioned a tool that could streamline this process, allowing marketers to focus on strategy rather than mundane tasks.
## Learning:... | partial |
## Inspiration
Across the globe, a critical shortage of qualified teachers poses a significant challenge to education. The average student-to-teacher ratio in primary schools worldwide stands at an alarming **23:1!** In some regions of Africa, this ratio skyrockets to an astonishing **40:1**. [Research 1](https://data... | ## Inspiration
COVID revolutionized the way we communicate and work by normalizing remoteness. **It also created a massive emotional drought -** we weren't made to empathize with each other through screens. As video conferencing turns into the new normal, marketers and managers continue to struggle with remote communi... | Investormate is a automated financial assistant for investors, providing them financial data
Investormate provides a simple, easy-to-use interface for retrieving financial data from any company on the NASDAQ. It can retrieve not only the prices, but it also calculates technical indicators such as the exponential movin... | winning |
## Inspiration
With everything being done virtually these days, including this hackathon, we spend a lot of time at our desks and behind screens. It's more important now than ever before to take breaks from time to time, but it's easy to get lost in our activities. Studies show that breaks increases over overall energ... | ## Inspiration
As a startup founder, it is often difficult to raise money, but the amount of equity that is given up can be alarming for people who are unsure if they want the gasoline of traditional venture capital. With VentureBits, startup founders take a royalty deal and dictate exactly the amount of money they ar... | # JARVIS-MUSIC
Have a song stuck in your head but can't sing it? Use our web app to play the music that's on your mind!
Overall, we are building a web application for users to find songs by lirycs or any information that is related to your song.
In our web home page, you press the audio recording button to sing your... | winning |
## Inspiration
Have you ever used a budgeting app? Do you set budgets for each month?
I use a budgeting app and when I check my weekly spending, I always realize I spent a $100 too much!
So, we decided to make something proactive rather than reactive that will help you immensely in your spending decisions.
## What it... | ## 💡Inspiration💡
According to statistics, hate crimes and street violence have exponentially increased and the violence does not end there. Many oppressed groups face physical and emotional racial hostility in the same way. These crimes harm not only the victims but also people who have a similar identity. Aside fro... | ## Inspiration
Not all hackers wear capes - but not all capes get washed correctly. Dorming on a college campus the summer before our senior year of high school, we realized how difficult it was to decipher laundry tags and determine the correct settings to use while juggling a busy schedule and challenging classes. W... | partial |
This device uses the Google Cloud Vision and Text To Speech APIs to identify obstacles in the path of someone using the device. Foresight is intended to be worn as a guide for the visually impaired so that they can feel safer travelling on their own without the need of a caretaker or a white cane. | ## Inspiration
1) We have created a unique device that allows the blind to walk freely and notice obstacles similarly to how a person with functioning senses would
2) Blind people commonly use walking canes (probing canes) for avoid colliding with obstacles. Carrying the cane around can be a nuisance and does not free... | Copyright 2018 The Social-Engineer Firewall (SEF)
Written by Christopher Ngo, Jennifer Zou, Kyle O'Brien, and Omri Gabay.
Founded Treehacks 2018, Stanford University.
## Inspiration
No matter how secure your code is, the biggest cybersecurity vulnerability is the human vector. It takes very little to exploit an end... | losing |
## Introduction
[Best Friends Animal Society](http://bestfriends.org)'s mission is to **bring about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets**
They have an ambitious goal of **reducing the death of homeless pets by 4 million/year**
(they are doing some amazing work in our local communities and definitely deserve m... | ## 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
Domain Name: voicebase.tech
We were inspired by the fact that there are over 466 million people in the world with disabling hearing loss and globally the number of people of all ages visually impaired is estimated to be over 285 million. (WHO, 2018 & 2010, respectively) Yet, despite this pandemic creat... | winning |
## 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
A close friend of ours was excited about her future at Stanford and beyond– she had a supportive partner, and a bright future ahead of her. But when she found out she was unexpectedly pregnant, her world turned upside down. She was shocked and scared, unsure of what to do. She knew that having a child r... | ## Inspiration
Many hackers cast their vision forward, looking for futuristic solutions for problems in the present. Instead, we cast our eyes backwards in time, looking to find our change in restoration and recreation. We were drawn to the ancient Athenian Agora -- a marketplace; not one where merchants sold goods, b... | losing |
# Stegano
## End-to-end steganalysis and steganography tool
#### Demo at <https://stanleyzheng.tech>
Please see the video before reading documentation, as the video is more brief: <https://youtu.be/47eLlklIG-Q>
A technicality, GitHub user RonanAlmeida ghosted our group after committing react template code, which ha... | ## Inspiration
In a lot of mass shootings, there is a significant delay from the time at which police arrive at the scene, and the time at which the police engage the shooter. They often have difficulty determining the number of shooters and their location. ViGCam fixes this problem.
## What it does
ViGCam spots and... | ## Inspiration
We really enjoy playing the game minesweeper, so we decided to try to implement a version of it ourselves.
## What it does
The current implementation doesn't fully work.
## How we built it
We used a 2D tile array to create a board and track user movements to follow the game minesweeper.
## Challeng... | winning |
## Inspiration
We're avid hackers, and every hack we've done thus far has involved hardware. The hardest part is always setting up communication between the various hardware components it's -- like reinventing the internet protocol everytime you make an IoT device. Except the internet protocol is beautiful, and your c... | ## 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
I love playing the guitar, and I thought it would be interesting to have a teleprompter for guitar sheet music, as it could double as a metronome and a replacement for standard paper sheet music. Guitar sheet music, or *tab*, is much simpler than standard sheet music: It's presented in a somewhat unstan... | winning |
## Inspiration
A therapeutic app that's almost as therapeutic as it was to make, "dots" is a simple web app that only takes your name and as input, and outputs some positive words and reassuring energy.
## What it does
This app will quell your deepest insecurities, and empower you to carry on with your day and do yo... | ## Inspiration
With many people's stressful, fast-paced lives, there is not always time for reflection and understanding of our feelings. Journaling is a powerful way to help reflect but it can often be not only overwhelming to start on a blank page, but hard to figure out even what to write. We were inspired to provi... | ## What it does
Take a picture, get a 3D print of it!
## Challenges we ran into
The 3D printers going poof on the prints.
## How we built it
* AI model transforms the picture into depth data. Then post-processing was done to make it into a printable 3D model. And of course, real 3D printing.
* MASV to transfer the... | losing |
## Inspiration
## What it does
PhyloForest helps researchers and educators by improving how we see phylogenetic trees. Strong, useful data visualization is key to new discoveries and patterns. Thanks to our product, users have a greater ability to perceive depth of trees by communicating widths rather than lengths. T... | ## 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
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**In 9th grade, we were each given a cup of a clear liquid. We were told to walk around the class and exchange our cup of liquid with three other people in the class.**
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\_One person in our class had a chemical that would cause the mixed liquid to turn red once two liquids were combined. ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Imagine a world where the number of mass shootings in the U.S. per year don't align with the number of days. With the recent Thousand Oaks shooting, we wanted to make something that would accurately predict the probability that a place has a mass shooting given a zipcode and future date.
## What it doe... | ## Inspiration
In the aftermath of the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, our prayers are with the 59 people who lost their lives and the 527 people who were badly injured.
But are our prayers sufficient? In this technology age, with machine learning and other powerful AI algorithms being invented and used heavily in... | ## Inspiration
## What it does
## How we built it
## Challenges we ran into
## Accomplishments that we're proud of
## What we learned
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## Inspiration
According to the Washington Post (June 2023), since Columbine in 1999, more than 356,000 students in the U.S. have experienced gun violence at school.
Students of all ages should be able to learn comfortably and safely within the walls of their classroom.
Quality education is a UN Sustainable Developm... | ## Inspiration
In the aftermath of the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, our prayers are with the 59 people who lost their lives and the 527 people who were badly injured.
But are our prayers sufficient? In this technology age, with machine learning and other powerful AI algorithms being invented and used heavily in... | ### Inspiration
We were inspired by the power of storytelling in children's development. We wanted to create an interactive platform that fuels kids' imaginations, allowing them to craft their own stories through simple voice or text inputs, bringing their creativity to life with visuals and narration.
### What it do... | partial |
## Inspiration
LookAhead's goal is to **enhance the lives of visually impaired people** by improving and simplifying their daily experiences. At Hack the North 2023, we were also granted **a unique opportunity** to work with **AdHawk's powerful eye-tracking technology** for free. Recognizing this as a special opportun... | ## Inspiration
With many vaccines having time constraints when taken out of storage, we made a solution to notify users when they can receive a vaccine in their area! In addition we made a way to track and confirm a user's vaccine.
## What it does
The user downloads an app and will be prompted to fill in his health ... | # Nexus, **Empowering Voices, Creating Connections**.
## Inspiration
The inspiration for our project, Nexus, comes from our experience as individuals with unique interests and challenges. Often, it isn't easy to meet others with these interests or who can relate to our challenges through traditional social media plat... | losing |
## Inspiration
I came to this hackathon wanting to expand my front-end development skills. I asked around and people recommended me to check out the React framework from Facebook. I was undecided whether to try Angular 2 or React but after doing some light research I decided upon React. This project was more of a lear... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by our collective experiences as college students always struggling to find a way to use ingredients that we have at home but it's always hard to find what's doable with the current inventory. Most times, those ingredients are left to waste because we don't know how to incorporate diffe... | ## Inspiration
More creators are coming online to create entertaining content for fans across the globe. On platforms like Twitch and YouTube, creators have amassed billions of dollars in revenue thanks to loyal fans who return to be part of the experiences they create.
Most of these experiences feel transactional, h... | losing |
## Inspiration
As university students and soon to be graduates, we understand the financial strain that comes along with being a student, especially in terms of commuting. Carpooling has been a long existing method of getting to a desired destination, but there are very few driving platforms that make the experience b... | ## Inspiration
As lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control features are becoming more available in commercial vehicles, we wanted to explore the potential of a dedicated collision avoidance system
## What it does
We've created an adaptive, small-scale collision avoidance system that leverages Apple's AR technolo... | ## **Inspiration**
In our current society, we recognize that financial literacy is often a privilege rather than a right. Many individuals and communities lack access to trusted and supported education for investment knowledge. In addition, the complexity of financial markets can be intimidating, leaving many to fear ... | winning |
# Rune
A flexible gesture-motion controller for IoT devices, allowing you to intuitively interface with your newest smart products. Leveraging a custom machine learning model deployed on TensorFlow and the communication capabilities of both the Qualcomm DragonBoard and NodeMCU, the system is capable of discerning betw... | ## Inspiration
During a school-funded event for individuals with learning disabilities, we noticed a communication barrier due to students’ limited ability to understand sign language. The current solution of using camera recognition fails to be feasible since pulling out a phone during a conversation is impractical a... | ## Inspiration
I was walking down the streets of Toronto and noticed how there always seemed to be cigarette butts outside of any building. It felt disgusting for me, especially since they polluted the city so much. After reading a few papers on studies revolving around cigarette butt litter, I noticed that cigarette ... | losing |
## Inspiration
Our inspiration was to provide a robust and user-friendly financial platform. After hours of brainstorming, we decided to create a decentralized mutual fund on mobile devices. We also wanted to explore new technologies whilst creating a product that has several use cases of social impact. Our team used ... | ## Inspiration
We wanted to do something fun and exciting, nothing too serious. Slang is a vital component to thrive in today's society. Ever seen Travis Scott go like, "My dawg would prolly do it for a Louis belt", even most menials are not familiar with this slang. Therefore, we are leveraging the power of today's m... | # SteakAI
### Introducing SteakAI, a web application that uses machine learning to correctly identify the doneness of your steak
*OUR STORY:*
Lousy steak is an issue that we have been personally affected by, and we wanted to create a solution that combats the violation of beautiful cuts of beef. Using a cutting-edge ... | winning |
## Inspiration
We wanted to make an app that helped people to be more environmentally conscious. After we thought about it, we realised that most people are not because they are too lazy to worry about recycling, turning off unused lights, or turning off a faucet when it's not in use. We figured that if people saw how... | ## Inspiration
SustainaPal is a project that was born out of a shared concern for the environment and a strong desire to make a difference. We were inspired by the urgent need to combat climate change and promote sustainable living. Seeing the increasing impact of human activities on the planet's health, we felt compe... | ## Inspiration
Save plate is an app that focuses on narrowing the equity differences in society.It is made with the passion to solve the SDG goals such as zero hunger, Improving life on land, sustainable cities and communities and responsible consumption and production.
## What it does
It helps give a platform to fo... | winning |
## Inspiration
Have you ever wanted to go tandem biking but lacked the most important thing, a partner? We realize that this is a widespread issue and hope to help tandem bikers of all kinds, including both recreational users and those who seek commuting solutions.
## What it does
Our project helps you find a suitab... | ## Inspiration
As we were brainstorming ideas that we felt we could grow and expand upon we came to a common consensus. Finding a roommate for residence. We all found the previous program was very unappealing and difficult, during our first year we heard so many roommate horror stories. We felt providing a more modern... | ## Inspiration
We got the idea for this app after one of our teammates shared that during her summer internship in China, she could not find basic over the counter medication that she needed. She knew the brand name of the medication in English, however, she was unfamiliar with the local pharmaceutical brands and she ... | losing |
## Problem
Attendance at office hours has been shown to be positively correlated with academic standing. However, 66% of students never attend office hours. Two significant contributing factors to this lack of attendance are the time and location of the office hours. See studies [here](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/a... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired by a [recent article](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-man-heart-stops-toronto-airport-1.5430605) that we saw on the news, where there was a man who suffered a cardiac arrest while waiting for his plane. With the help of a bystander who was able to administer the AED and... | # Emotify
## Inspiration
We all cared deeply about mental health and we wanted to help those in need. 280 million people have depression in this world. However, we found out that people play a big role in treating depression - some teammates have experienced this first hand! So, we created Emotify, which brings back ... | winning |
## Inspiration
Despite being a global priority in the eyes of the United Nations, food insecurity still affects hundreds of millions of people. Even in the developed country of Canada, over 5.8 million individuals (>14% of the national population) are living in food-insecure households. These individuals are unable to... | ## Inspiration
We recognized how much time meal planning can cause, especially for busy young professionals and students who have little experience cooking. We wanted to provide an easy way to buy healthy, sustainable meals for the week, without compromising the budget or harming the environment.
## What it does
Sim... | ## Inspiration
We all feel strongly about a wide variety of issues, but often fail to support organizations fighting for causes close to us. Our inspiration for this project was this feeling: we wanted to find a way to encourage donating to nonprofits in the easiest way. What better way to do this than through somethi... | winning |
## Inspiration
I, Jennifer Wong, went through many mental health hurdles and struggled to get the specific help that I needed. I was fortunate to find a relatable therapist that gave me an educational understanding of my mental health, which helped me understand my past and accept it. I was able to afford this access ... | ## Inspiration
**A lot of people have stressful things on their mind right now.** [According to a Boston University study, "depression symptom prevalence was more than 3-fold higher during the COVID-19 pandemic than before."](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770146)
Sometimes it’s hard to ... | ## What it does
Tickets is a secure, affordable, and painless system for registration and organization of in-person events. It utilizes public key cryptography to ensure the identity of visitors, while staying affordable for organizers, with no extra equipment or cost other than a cellphone. Additionally, it provides ... | partial |
## Inspiration
All of our team members are deeply passionate about improving students' education. We focused on the underserved community of deaf or hard-of-hearing students, who communicate, understand, and think primarily in ASL. While some of these students have become accustomed to reading English in various conte... | ## Inspiration
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, while the rest of the world has moved online, ASL speakers faced even greater inequities making it difficult for so many of them to communicate. However, this has to come to an end. In the pursuit of finding accessibility, I created a tool to empower ASL speakers to speak... | ## The Gist
We combine state-of-the-art LLM/GPT detection methods with image diffusion models to accurately detect AI-generated video with 92% accuracy.
## Inspiration
As image and video generation models become more powerful, they pose a strong threat to traditional media norms of trust and truth. OpenAI's SORA mod... | partial |
## Inspiration
During our brainstorming phase, we cycled through a lot of useful ideas that later turned out to be actual products on the market or completed projects. After four separate instances of this and hours of scouring the web, we finally found our true calling at QHacks: building a solution that determines w... | ## Inspiration
A couple of weeks ago, 3 of us met up at a new Italian restaurant and we started going over the menu. It became very clear to us that there were a lot of options, but also a lot of them didn't match our dietary requirements. And so, we though of Easy Eats, a solution that analyzes the menu for you, to s... | ## Inspiration
We were inspired mainly by Buzzfeed's personality quiz, and we wanted to see if we could use more open-ended prompts powered by Openai's api.
## What it does
Aistrology is a personality quiz which takes your personality traits and outputs your personality based on what you provided.
## How we built i... | winning |
## Inspiration
Currently, Zoom only offers live closed captioning when a human transcriber manually transcribes a meeting. We believe that users would benefit greatly from closed captions in *every* meeting, so we created Cloud Caption.
## What it does
Cloud Caption receives live system audio from a Zoom meeting or ... | ## Coinbase Analytics
**Sign in with your Coinbase account, and get helpful analytics specific to your investment.**
See in depth returns, and a simple profit and cost analysis for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
Hoping to help everyone that uses and will use Coinbase to purchase cryptocurrency. | ## Inspiration
TerraRium was born from our desire to make staying fit fun and adventurous. In a world where most of us spend too much time sitting, we wanted to create something that would inspire people to get up and move by turning exercise into an exciting game.
## What it does
TerraRium is an app that transforms... | partial |
## Inspiration
With new developments in AI and growing considerations about both how we will introduce education technology to the classroom, and how we will refine computer science education, it begs the question of how to design with students in mind. As a computer science major who is studying child policy research... | ## Inspiration
Problems we as students encounter. We thought of the problem "What would help me in my school life and work ethic?"
## What it does
Still fairly empty and holds a bunch of dummy data. However it would,
-Scrape the Web for similar assignment questions for the course
-Chat with a tutor one-on-one to gai... | ## Inspiration
In the fast-paced world of networking and professional growth, connecting with students, peers, mentors, and like-minded individuals is essential. However, the need to manually jot down notes in Excel or the risk of missing out on valuable follow-up opportunities can be a real hindrance.
## What it doe... | losing |
## Inspiration
While a member of my team was conducting research at UCSF, he noticed a family partaking in a beautiful, albeit archaic, practice. They gave their grandfather access to a google doc, where each family member would write down the memories that they have with him. Nearly every day, the grandfather would s... | ## 🤔 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... | ## Inspiration
The opioid crisis is a widespread danger, affecting millions of Americans every year. In 2016 alone, 2.1 million people had an opioid use disorder, resulting in over 40,000 deaths. After researching what had been done to tackle this problem, we came upon many pill dispensers currently on the market. How... | partial |
A long time ago (last month) in a galaxy far far away (literally my room) I was up studying late for exams and decided to order some hot wings. With my food being the only source of joy that night you can imaging how devastated I was to find out that they were stolen from the front lobby of my building! That's when the... | ## Inspiration
The failure of a certain project using Leap Motion API motivated us to learn it and use it successfully this time.
## What it does
Our hack records a motion password desired by the user. Then, when the user wishes to open the safe, they repeat the hand motion that is then analyzed and compared to the ... | ## Inspiration
When challenged by TreeHacks🌲 to think of a way to promote sustainability, we thought there was no better way to bring awareness to car pollution than by "converting" your car's daily commute into **trees**🌲. Everyone on the team has lived in So Cal, so we are all too familiar with long commutes by ca... | winning |
## Inspiration
We take our inspiration from our everyday lives. As avid travellers, we often run into places with foreign languages and need help with translations. As avid learners, we're always eager to add more words to our bank of knowledge. As children of immigrant parents, we know how difficult it is to grasp a ... | ## Inspiration
**75% of adults over the age of 50** take prescription medication on a regular basis. Of these people, **over half** do not take their medication as prescribed - either taking them too early (causing toxic effects) or taking them too late (non-therapeutic). This type of medication non-adherence causes a... | ## Inspiration
Ever find yourself occupied reading lengthy Terms & Conditions on websites, or worse agreeing to those conditions without reading them through?! Is there a better way?
Our project aims to solve this mundane, everyday nuisance through the use of intuitive (and eventually standardized) symbols.
## What ... | winning |
## Inspiration
As the council jotted down their ideas, the search for a project to better our lives came to an end when the idea of garbage sorting came to us. It's not uncommon that people tend to misplace daily objects, and these little misplays and blunders add up quickly in an environment where people tend to give... | ## Inspiration
Incorrectly sorted garbage is costing Canada's recycling programs millions of dollars per year. Furthermore, Canada is struggling to meet the standard for the amount of contamination in recyclables set by China (0.5%), the world's biggest importer of recyclable materials. All of these are costing Canada... | ## Inspiration
For this hackathon, we wanted to build something that could have a positive impact on its users. We've all been to university ourselves, and we understood the toll, stress took on our minds. Demand for mental health services among youth across universities has increased dramatically in recent years. A R... | losing |
## 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
Between 1994 and 2013 there were 6,873 natural disasters worldwide, which claimed 1.35 million lives or almost 68,000 lives on average each year. In many of these disasters, people don't know where to go, and where is safe. For example, during Hurricane Harvey, many people learned about dangers such as ... | Tabasco is a humanitarian project aimed to help victims of disasters. It is designed to process aerial-view images from drones and search autonomously for human faces, allowing more victims to be rescued and decreasing workload on rescue dispatchers.
Tabasco was built using Microsoft's Bing API and HP's Haven OnDemand... | winning |
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