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https://devpost.com/software/stab-io

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Just felt like making a game. What it does: - Connects clients through websockets to allow them to play together. How we built it: - We used the Phaser.js game dev framework to implement game logic and rendering. Communication and game syncing was handled through websockets and a node.js backend Challenges we ran into: - Our idea shifted multiple times What we learned: - Games are harder to make than we thought. We learned a lot about Phaser.js Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/news-ticker-sm1qf9

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: What it does: - Display the top headlines from CNN on an Android Things LED. You could adjust the speed of the ticker by tapping the buttons on the device. How I built it: - I am using newsapi.org as the API to load the CNN headline. I am using Retrofit on Android to load data from the API. The program is running on the pico pro maker kit. Challenges I ran into: - I was planning on displaying data on the screen. However, during the hackathon I stepped on the screen and cracked it. This is what lead me to the idea of using a news ticker, as the LED was still working. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - By using newsapi.org I am able to easily swap CNN for another news site. What I learned: - How to handle network transactions on Android in the background. This is used to make sure that that LED does not freeze as the app is loading the news. What's next for News Ticker: - I plan on supporting more news sources at the same time. The buttons would be used to switch between different article and different news sources. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/pulse-bot

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - discord bots What it does: - sends messages How I built it: - python Challenges I ran into: - everything Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - it works What I learned: - a lot What's next for Pulse Bot: - ????????? Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/hdhrgo

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I wanted to use my HDHR device outside of the local network What it does: - My program creates the FFMPEG command and then executes it which allows for transcoding the MPEG2-TS stream into a FLV container suitable for HLS streaming How I built it: - I built it by referencing the json files that the HDHR local device page exposes in addition to looking up how to manage local processes with Go Challenges I ran into: - not having enough time Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - Making something that worked What I learned: - Programming cool things takes a lot more time than I previously expected. What's next for hdhrGo: - Web interface for the 3 command line arguments, viewing of the stream with JWPlayer Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/walking-buddy-ptzr2u

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: What it does: How we built it: Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for Walking Buddy: - N/A Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/femail

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We were inspried by women in the workplace who needed a space to work and collaborate with each other. What it does: - Femail is a social networking platform for women and gender non-conforming people where they can connect with each other and create mentor/mentee relationsips How we built it: - The platform was built with visual studio and visual basic. Challenges we ran into: - A few of our team members had little to no coding experience and none of us have ever built a website before. There was a large learning curve in developing our platform. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Integrating a user database was a massive accomplishment for out team. What we learned: - We learned how to work together and use different skills to create a diverse product with different strengths. What's next for Femail: - We aim to integrate more complex user profiles and data, as well as more functionality to the system. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/team8-14ntdy

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Take consideration of the current difficulties under the pandemicUnderprivileged pregnant women are at higher risk of physical and mental health problems during and after pregnancy. They lack proper medical attention and information for a healthy pregnancy. What it does: - It provides pregnant women with scientific information, connection with other pregnant women communities, and consultation with registered doctors at a lower cost. How we built it: - We created the UI/UX using Pigma Challenges we ran into: - Making it accessible and affordable while providing quality care and information for these underprivileged women. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - It is rare to find pregnancy care apps that create a community and make it easier for them to find doctors. What we learned: - UI/UX design, creating an efficient product that will cater to our clients’ needs What's next for Team8: - Machine learningAdd more language to fit people from various culturesAdd module for fathers Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/wo-meet

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Our program specifically focuses on women who are facing poverty (which includes period poverty, period health issues and safeness) What it does: - Response and located from women community who wants to send help, and women who needs help in material deprivation , period poverty, women that felt like they're in threat How we built it: - We uses figma to design our GUI, and python as back end to run a list of information about the users, and whether that person needs help on any materials or not Challenges we ran into: - We find it difficult to install pip and import geolocation library to located using datas in google maps . Instead, we think of a easier way is that getting the user's fixed location at the beginning Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Though we didn't have much technical skills, we're proud of coming up ideas that will further help women community to expands and stays healthy, stays strong What we learned: - We've learn how to create UI, and come up with ideas to solve recent problems What's next for Wo.meet: - Update in location and responses (faster and more efficient) Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/cythara

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Creating music is the most beautiful and exciting experience! But, not everyone can do that, usually because of the lack of technology to help them create. So, we made an application that could reach out to people and make them experience the beauty of creating music! What it does: - Cythara is a game/creative app that makes people race against time, to create the best out of the music auto-generated by Artificial Intelligence. It's a wonderful way of getting rid of the stresses that everyday life brings to us, and create something that will inspire many others to do the same. How we built it: - We built the application by collaborating over Discord and GitHub for the coding and the designing of the project. Our team was new to ReactJS and Django for the website front-end and back-end development. We divided the work equally between the three of us and tried our best to demonstrate our ideas to the best of our knowledge. Challenges we ran into: - We ran into many issues while trying to integrate the front-end JavaScript and the back-end Django. But, we finally figured a way out of it!We couldn't complete the Social Interactions Page for the app due to time constraints. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The fact that we learned two completely new frameworks within a short span of time and implemented them to create a functioning website and the idea itself that we try to put forth are the accomplishments that we are proud of. What we learned: - We learned to implement two of the major Web Development Frameworks:- - Django - REST frameworkReactJS What's next for Cythara: - The UI of the app can surely be made better and adding more features to the App itself. We had ideas of making a Social Interactions Page display the popular submissions so far and unfortunately, we couldn't complete it because of time constraints. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/interakt-7tnlwc

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - A bit of inspiration from Mission Control and most of our inspiration from comp sci and phy classes where people refuse to answer the questions ma'am asks What it does: - Encourages students to interact in class through a scoring system and fun reward the students can redeem with their scores How we built it: - Using python, qt, and Firebase Challenges we ran into: - Learning firebase and how to integrate it with python and how to integrate the ui and the backend Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Our versatility, and our ability to adapt to the requirements of the project What we learned: - Time management is Key and not to give up on a idea and to keep trying What's next for interakt: - Updates increasing the comfort in the ui, fixing bugs when they come to light and new features like the school calendar and task scheduling Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/releaf-mgcltu

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We took inspiration from apps like Cred which reward you for good money management. We wanted to incentivize environmental consciousness. What it does: - ReLeaf is a platform that rewards individuals who take the initiative of planting and continuously nurturing saplings. They must regularly upload photos of their plant and receive J1 (The name of our Crypto on the Ethereum blockchain) and they can use this to avail awesome gifts How we built it: - We used HTML, CSS, PHP, and Python for the website's frontend and Solidity to create the contracts for the Token Challenges we ran into: - The time constraint paired with the exams and assignments we had during the Hackathon prevented us from devoting our full time to it. We were also faced with the unfamiliarity of using two new programming languages PHP and Solidity. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We worked together well as a team and collaborated and split our work to complete the project. We are very pleased with the idea even if our execution was not up to the standards we set at the beginning of the Hackathon What we learned: - We learned to work as a team and were able to get a grasp of the two languages we were introduced to. We were also fascinated by the interesting technology that is Blockchain What's next for ReLeaf: - We wish to be able to add value to the token we created. We also wish to make the transfer of the token to the receiver automatic. We also wish to improve the UI and UX of the website. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/food-tinder

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Inspired by Jac's 1-hour food selection. What it does: - Make the whole selection process fun! How we built it: - The Ninja Net and Kevin =) Challenges we ran into: - Being totally noob, except Kevin. What's next for Food Tinder: - Get more funding from Philip to further the development. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/21-u8tvci

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Nabil is lonely and needs more friends. What it does: - To connect individuals to communities that they can identify with easily. How we built it: - Coding through our sleepless nights and just learning Flutter and Firebase then connecting them together! Challenges we ran into: - Lack of sleep and time. Also, dried fruits ran out too quick :/ Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Just making the app together and being able to tell our friends that we created an app! What we learned: - Working together while also learning Flutter, Firebase and more about Git! What's next for 21?: - Hopefully more updates to the functionalities that were planned but not ready at the time of submission. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/aeromeet

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The need for social distancing has made each one of us feel disconnected from our family, friends, colleagues. This lack of connectedness isn’t only a detriment to employee satisfaction and wellbeing. When you consider that collaboration truly hinges on the interpersonal magic of teammates working together, it’s easy to see how the retreat to WFH could run the risk of eroding team productivity and innovation. Over here, video conferencing platforms come into the picture, to feel us more connected. What it does: - AeroMeet mobile application is an online video meeting platform that powers all of your communication needs, including video meetings, one-on-one chat, audio calls, webinars, and online events. How I built it: - Mobile apps have become one of the important parts of our life that connects us with people living in different places just by sitting at home hence, I decided to develop a mobile application so that it allows users to access the application on the go.For frontend development, I have used Flutter, which helps to create cross-platform applications. For backend development, I have used Firebase. After deep analysis, Agora SDK was chosen as the most suitable real-time engagement platform. Challenges I ran into: - During the development process I faced the following challenges: - Choosing the video conferencing API. Having a lot of resources available in the market, it was really difficult to make a choice. After a lot of research, compatibility, and user experience as prime factors during consideration, I finally decided to go ahead with Agora SDK.Memory Management. Passing appropriate data between different pages and avoiding any memory leaks seemed like an issue during the scheduling of meetings due to continuous debugging I was able to resolve that issue.Backend. For the very first time, I was working with the backend side hence, I was worried about the database integration and management. However, with the help of online communities such as Stackoverflow, I was able to manage this situation.AeroMeet's feature list. During the design phase, I wanted to build a perfect application by embedding all the features available to me, but I had to narrow down the number of features to buy some time. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - This project was all about challenging my comfort zone and it only helped me to transform from a person who just knew how to make static UI to a person who can build full-stack mobile applications. What we learned: - Following are my learnings from this project: - Break the work down into the smallest chunks and smaller wins in the scrum methodology make bigger wins easier, This is the most significant takeaway from this project.Got insights about the real-time video conferencing software such as WebRTC, Twilio, and SDKs like Agora, Jitsi_Meet SDK.Model View Controller(MVC) Architecture, helped to differentiate these(Model, View, Controller) three basic components of a project to write neat and modular code. Following this approach helped me to work on each feature separately without affecting the other one.Practiced Firebase Could Firestore queries in terms of multilevel collections and documents. What's next for AeroMeet: - Increasing more interactive features for users to enhance the real-time engagement experience such as collaborative whiteboard, recording sessions, live streaming the meetings, breakout rooms, and much more. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/team-lancers

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: Knowing that it doesn't matter what you studied as a woman, you can still make it in the dev world as a full stack developer: What it does: The solution is to help japotech with its current inability to track sales and employee performance and also give the company visibility of sales and revenue.: How we built it:we built it through hard work,research and teamwork.a couple of sleepless nights too.we used HTML,CSS,bootstrap,node js,express,javascript: Challenges we ran into Different work schedules, having to learn everything from scratch as we were all new to code: Accomplishments that we're proud of: Proud of emerging as the winning team on this project: What we learned: Persistence and resilience is great, teamwork is very key: What's next for Team Lancers: We open to the greater opportunities the universe has to offer: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/cypher-stars

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We are inspired by the thought of being able to design a system in theory and practice from scratch. There's a lot to learn from the teammates. Additionally, this is a final requirement for certification after a 3-month Code Queen Bootcamp training by Eucating The Children in conjuction with the Innivation Village after 2 months of learning how to code. What The Project does: - The web-based system track the sales throughout the whole sales process & client journeyIt is customisable (with abilities to edit or add information), responsive and not limited by device size - (computers/laptops or a smartphone). It is aimed at automating existing activities;• data collection – from clients & by sales agents• client tracking – by agents & team lead • updates – by team lead How we built it: - We used html, Javascript and css mostly. As first time coders/beginners/learners, we relied on Bootstrap and w3schools for some guidance. We were trained as we learnt coding basics to use Github and Visual Studio Code. We also employed express js, node js, Mongo DB and other such aides. Challenges we ran into: - We are learners at the very 1st beginner level so we haven't mastered much and struggled to figure out how to do most of the things we desired or designed in theory It was time and resource consuming (considering Ugandan data rates and associated taxes)There were connectuvity issues that hindered us as team working remotelyThe 3 team mates each had a lot of other things going on in our lives including the loss of loved ones and ill health amidst work, other courses/studies and other Covid-19 effects such as presidential restrictions Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Coming up with our first project after only 2 months of coding amoidst all the challengesWorking in a team as ladies lifting ladiesAll the learning that comes with desgining in terms of coding/computer skills The personal growth in terms of traits/skills honed by interacting with others and working in a high pressure situation. What we learned: - We learned different coding languages, platforms and more about ourselves as individuals in terms of strengths and weaknesses What's next for Cypher Stars: - We hope to continue learning and discovering new things about coding. We hope to win the Hackathon or at least get scouted for other specialities, abilities or talents we possess. We hope to be able to confidently design and pitch projects independently for future hackathons or businesses we create or jobs we get after this. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/fridge-finder-8yjl0v

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: The Team: Inspiration: - The only way to know information about the community fridges in Boston is through either word of mouth or following each Instagram page of the fridge. However, fridge finder makes this solution more accessible to individuals who may not have Instagram with an online web application. What it does: - Simply, it connects individuals to community fridges in Boston in several ways: How we built it: - Prototyped with Figma and attempted to construct the app with a react-native front end and flask backend. Design Process: - We did research to find any competitors or resources that offer the same service and there was no direct competitor exactly, however, our app did take inspiration from other community impactful apps such as food pantries Challenges we ran into: - Learning react-native for the first time for my part. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We are proud of creating a great concrete design of an impactful project What we learned: - We learned more in depth about the design though process and creating a project without leaving the scope of our mission.I learned a lot about react-native and I find it fun to use and learn. I also learned how to connect flask and react together. What's next for Fridge Finder: - There is a lot more to be done with Fridge Finder in terms of design, such as making user surveys, and finding out what other feature may be needed to make this app a bit more accessible. Other features that would need to be designed include how people can volunteer, such as their time, collecting bulk donations, and cleaning the fridge. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/health_prescription-app

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: What it does: How we built it: Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for Health_Prescription app: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/bullet-bots-mayhem

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: The Concept: - The core concept of this game is that it is a fighting game where every enemy defeat gives you a chance to upgrade your own stats. There is no healing, no leveling up; a player can only become stronger by defeating stronger enemies, and claiming those stats as their own. The challenge is that the enemies can do this, too. If defeated, a players own stats are up for the taking, allowing enemies to steal the players stats and replace them with their own. Thus, players are encouraged to strategize which enemies they go after, and where (and when!) they die. Inspiration: - I'm a graduate student at Simmons, with a degree in Information Technology and studying Library and Information Science... but I've always loved gaming, and started my college career in a game design major. Last semester, I spent some time learning Unity and C# for an independent study course, and though it was a lot of work, and struggle, it was also really fun when I managed to figure out how to get things to work. - The concept for this game itself came to be quite randomly while laying in bed--but it reminds me a lot of Feeding Frenzy and agar.io which may have been subconscious inspirations. What it does: - So far, it's just a concept and a mechanical demo. It's hard to build a whole game in a weekend, especially if you've got work and school going on. But I'm quite proud of the functionality it does currently have: How we built it: - I used a concept map (available on Github) to plan out the steps I needed to take with my code, and then implemented it step by step. I began with creating movement, moving the player and having enemies follow, and then added the shooter elements. These were necessary before I could begin working on the key concept mechanics. Challenges we ran into: - I'm still very much learning how to make games, and so I spent a lot of this project searching the web for information and looking at other people's work to figure out solutions for my own problems. A big issue was determining how to set the direction a player or enemy is facing, to ensure bullets fire in the proper direction; both objects needed different scripts to achieve this. Additionally, though it's not implemented, mapping out how the game itself would proceed--when are enemies spawned? with what stats? where?--was a challenge that, unfortunately, can't be answered so simply. A game would really need playtesting to finalize those sorts of mechanics. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Making something that runs and is playable, even if it's not very fun yet, is achievement enough! What's next for Bullet Bots Mayhem: - The next step in the game is to add some passive enemy movement--right now, enemies only move if the player is within a certain distance--and, perhaps, to have the enemies fight each other. Enemy spawning would be another step. I'll need to spend some time coming up with a complex series of if statements to determine the nature of what enemies are spawned and when to give the game more flair. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/jenna-fanpage

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - My cat Jenna What it does: - It shows some of Jenna's favorite things and links to her Instagram and favorite foods. How we built it: - Replit with HTML and CSS Challenges I ran into: - Learning Replit, HTML, and CSS; time constraints Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Making my website work and link properly using platforms I was unfamiliar with What we learned: - Replit, HTML, CSS What's next for Jenna Fanpage: - I plan to practice my HTML and CSS skills with this website to link this to my cat Instagram Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/helioscope

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The inspiration for this project is my interest in astrology. What it does: - Helioscope gives an overview of the sun signs of the Zodiac - both the general information and the more specific details of each sign. How we built it: - HTML provides the framework for the text of the site, and CSS gives it the visual details. The art for the backgrounds was created with Procreate. Challenges we ran into: - I struggled to pick an initial format for the project. I started with a Renpy game, but it wasn't feeling right so I switched over and started from the ground up with not a lot of time. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - I'm proud of the aesthetic I was able to produce with the site. What we learned: - I learned a lot more about how CSS and HTML works. I'd only coded two HTML pages previously so I learned a lot. What's next for Helioscope: - I want to expand this to include moon and rising signs as well as sun signs. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/stay-connected

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - What inspired us was the clear need to help people still feel connected during the COVID-19 pandemic. After a whole year of isolation and a decrease in use of our in-person interpersonal skills, the need to still feel connected to people is as prevalent as ever. We want to provide people in work settings or school settings to be able to take a break whenever they can and find a way to stay connected to their fellow classmates or colleagues without the stress of thinking about the work they need to do. What it does: - "Stay Connected" is an artificial intelligence based website that allows people to virtually come together and do mindfulness practices, physical exercises, or fun icebreakers together by providing either guided videos or instructions on different types of ice breaker games. How we built it: - We designed a website using HTML and CSS. Then, we implemented the random video selection and icebreaker functionality using Javascript. To increase efficiency, the website gives users the option to upload a screenshot of zoom participants’ name list taken from the zoom meeting. Tesseract API was used to recognize the texts on images and filter out only names. The image processing was done on an express app. Express framework was used to handle http requests for our website. Ajax was also used to send and retrieve data from a JSON file and perform the required actions. In addition, the JavaScript Fetch API was used to get data from other file types. Challenges we ran into: - The main challenge was finding a way for all of us to come together and find times to meet. Our team of 3 is spread out between three different time zones with a 10-hour time difference. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We're proud of the functionality of the website, the aesthetic, and the research done to provide the content for the website. What we learned: - We learned a lot about web development technologies, particularly how HTML, CSS, and Javascript work together to put together a website. We also learned about new technologies like Tesseract, Express and different File manipulation APIs. What's next for Stay Connected: - The next thing for "Stay Connected" is to give users the opportunity to make their own accounts so that they can make their own lobbies with those that they regularly work with or play with. We would also like to improve the UI of the entire site, since we focused on the actual functionality during this hackathon. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/toureasy-78ksu6

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Tour with TourEasy: - Inspiration - I believe in making something that adds up making our lives easier. Who doesn't like things when they're more simplified. To be honest, the motivation behind our project is trip gone wrong incidents. When the sat in my room to brainstorm ideas, I realized that it was not just me but all of us had some pretty bad travel experiences solely due to misinformation and lack of guidance. I felt that the help of a native person could've made our travel experiences effortless. So here I am, attempting to build something that can assist a lot more people and make their tour easier. - What it does - In short, TourEasy is a brand new website for looking into your favorite locations, getting current updates and making your travel super easy! Staying on track helps you plan your time and pack your luggage accordingly. You can go over our top picks for guidance, if you like them, click on them and check them out. Get notified of the current information and plan your stay however it suits you. It's a platform completely made for user's comfort and coziness. - How I built it - Since I don't have any Hackathon experience, this is my first project. I am really excited to present it to the panel. I've put in hours of hard work and managed to make the final product come out clean and sharp looking. The login and register webpage is made to collect the user credentials for logging into the website. This feature allows trusted reviews about a particular place that the user has already visited. Tourists who are visiting the place for the first time might have numerous issues. They can make use of this particular aspect to get trusted solutions for the problems that they face. The query is sent as a mail to whoever visited that place before through SMTP. APIs such as finding the location of that place and also to fetch the weather conditions are also implemented. I've used Twitter bootstrap to enhance the user experience and for sleek transitions. - Challenges I ran into - During the initial stages of our development, there were plenty of obstacles, I had to refer and learn some coding concept from scratch. The weather API used in the project was a difficult task to do from the beginning. I wanted every part of the site to look personalized and reflect my unique programming style and not snatched. The backend process was tedious nevertheless when I split the work and taught myself, the task at hand became facile. This experience gave me a lot of excitement and sprinkled some confidence for a beginner. - Accomplishments that I'm proud of - Continuing from the previous point I learnt something new from this project. Knowing I had support in finishing the project on time with all the specs I wanted our site to have. I never thought I'd be making APIs and putting together an entire platform within the speculated time. The database I created was an entirely new concept to us. I watched a lot of tutorial videos and went through plenty of sample codes. Even though I really want to win and hope the project tips the scales in our favor, I am absolutely content with the type and quality of the final submission. - What I learned - Before making the project I didn't know how to use phpMyAdmin or MySql, I got an opportunity to learn about making our own customized database. I emphasized on the event being a learning experience . And that's when I knew I set my priorities straight. Locating the cities on the map with respect to their coordinates and linking them into the index file was quite a bit of a challenge. When I resolved it I learned how to move forward by myself. - What's next for TourEasy - Seeing the insufficient number of platforms and value of sites like TourEasy I plan to expand the target locations all around the globe and provide a wide array of dream destinations. The accessibility factor adds more uniqueness to the project. Considering all this, I've decided to work on the betterment of TourEasy and promote it. No muss, No fuss, Not a single cuss! - Code snippets - ** index HTML ** - <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-2 col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-6"> <a href="london.html" class="mini-box"> <i><img src="assets/images/work-process-item-01.png" alt=""></i> <strong>London</strong> <span></span> </a> </div> <div class="col-lg-2 col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-6"> <a href="paris.html"class="mini-box"> <i><img src="assets/images/work-process-item-01.png" alt=""></i> <strong>Paris</strong> <span></span> </a> </div> - ** JS file for weather** - const listItems = list.querySelectorAll(".ajax-section .city"); const listItemsArray = Array.from(listItems); if (listItemsArray.length > 0) { const filteredArray = listItemsArray.filter(el => { let content = ""; //Input city- Paris, fr if (inputVal.includes(",")) { if (inputVal.split(",")[1].length > 2) { inputVal = inputVal.split(",")[0]; content = el .querySelector(".city-name span") .textContent.toLowerCase(); } else { content = el.querySelector(".city-name").dataset.name.toLowerCase(); } } else { // For Paris content = el.querySelector(".city-name span").textContent.toLowerCase(); } return content == inputVal.toLowerCase(); }); Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/cher-s-closet

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration:: - My programs are based on the theme of productivity. Research shows that people spend over 5 days in total every year trying to choose an outfit. This could be made easier with a program that makes it for youMy project was inspired by one of my favourite chickflicks, Clueles. The main charcter Cher has an online automatic wardrobe which creates outfits for her. When it comes to programming, I know the basic of python and html, so maniuplated these together in order to make my own version of this, made specfically for my client Cher How I built it:: - Initally, I made a simple python program, where it asks for your name. If you are either Cher or one of her friends Dion or Tai, it'll show you the weather today (so you know to wrap up warm or wear suncream) and a random outfit from a list of choices to match this. To do this I used conditional statements and imported a package called pandas which allowed me to create my own weather data using a dictionary and make this into a dataframe. I also used the random package to give me random choices What I learned:: - Initally I spent a very long time trying to set up python on visual studios as this was new to me. After more reaearch I decided I wanted to use the pandas package which was difficult to install, but rewarding once I did because I learnt how to subset the data in the dataframes I made. - The inital program I did was boring so I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to use tkinter. On a pop up window, you are asked your name and the date. With the correct name and a given date, you are taken to another window on top of this which has subsetted information from the weather data from the pandas dataframe. As well as this there is a button that takes you you to a html website of that days outfit. - On the webstie, which I uploaded using github, you can again see the weather and what specific outfit should be worn as well as photos with it. The site is very bright and colourful as I thought this matched the personality of the client. Underneath this there are acessories to help add to the look. When hovering over this there is a translucent overlay, which adds extra color to the whole site. You could also see tomorrows forecast and outfit in addition lookbook of Cher's favourite outfits from the film What's next for Cher's Closet:: - This is just a prototype for something that could develop into a very useful product widely used not only in the fashion industry, but also domestically when technology has advanced for this Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/covid-19-choropleth

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I have a data science and machine learning background, so I thought I'd put that to good use to allow people to visualise the extent of the coronavirus pandemic globally. What it does: - It allows you to see information about the COVID-19 pandemic on a country level on a choropleth map. How we built it: - Using three python frameworks: Pandas, Dash and plotly. Challenges we ran into: - So many: Learning a new framework is never easy, and especially so when front end design is a huge weakness, and while on a deadline. However, I managed to get over them and the app is in semi-good condition. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Managing to make the front end look decently good, considering how clunky Dash could sometimes be. What we learned: - How to use dash and bootstrap, as well as general design: my experience is almost exclusively in back-end, command line applications, so being forced to produce something half presentable was a great learning opportunity. What's next for the COVID-19 Map: - Introduce more interactive features, data points, and hopefully a live updating data feed to give current data. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/survive-the-deadly-virus

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The themes given were social good, productivity, and covid-19. I decided to use the theme of covid-19 as it has had a significant impact on everyone's lifestyle. It has played an important role in changing society to what it is now. Furthermore, I haven't coded in over a year and so this hackathon was a great opportunity for me to do so. What it does: - This is a text-based adventure game. It includes different aspects of life in a pandemic for example wearing masks and having hand sanitizer. It is for entertainment for children and for them to understand a sense of sequence. How we built it: - I have built this on python. I have created a text file to store the username and password at the beginning of the game. It can allow you to log in for the next time you play. Furthermore, creating a username and password, can create a more user-friendly interface and create a personalized experience. After I created different variables called health and gold that keeps track of the money and health you have throughout the game. I assigned 100 health points and health points can be gained by choosing the right options throughout the game. They can also be deducted. You have 1000 gold to buy things at the beginning of the game to aid you in completing the obstacles. Once you have completed the obstacles, you reach the final destination in which you have to collect different items in order to unlock the computer to read the secret message. Challenges we ran into: - There are many challenges that I ran into, but I have used stack overflow to help aid me. At first, the text files that I linked to python always produced an error as the information that was typed in by the player did not show up on the text file. However, in the end, I found out you have to open the file by using (a, for add) and then write in. This was one of the first challenges I faced. Furthermore, throughout the program, there were many syntax errors, such as the indentation of the iteration and selection statements. These were easily sorted out by reading over the code again and indenting and commenting out the different sections. The most difficult challenge was linking different subprograms to each other, as it kept saying that the variable was undefined. I figured out how to do it in the end, by putting the variables in brackets. This created the iteration effect that I wanted. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The biggest accomplishment I'm proud of is the use of different subprograms that link together. This created an iteration loop and if the wrong choice was selected, it could go back to the section. The use of different subprograms accounted for the different choices that could be made by the user. If they typed something accidentally, it would repeat the same question or inform the player that the selection was invalid. What we learned: - This hackathon has helped me to realize that you can do a lot on python. I learned that you can open and add information to text files in python. Furthermore, you can delay the time at which the text is printed by using time.sleep(). The most fascinating thing I learned has to be the use of different subprograms that use each other. At the end of the decisions, you are able to go back to the same decision but choose a different option. What's next for SURVIVE THE DEADLY VIRUS: - To improve on my game, I could have included more challenge questions within the game. This will allow the user to have more fun while it being educational at the same time. Also, another improvement to my game could be to include more scenes. This will allow the game to be longer. If I had more time. I would create a scoreboard, using the username entered at the beginning and use the health points as a form of a score. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/day-planner-dkpsi3

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: What it does: How I built it: Challenges I ran into: Accomplishments that I'm proud of: What I learned: What's next for Day planner: - (i'm really sorry, i don't really have enough time to fill this out. Really the only thing worth mentioning is that this is the first time I've touched python for 2 years, and probably the first time I've actually made a project with it, so I was frantically googling everything I used here. But honestly, I'm really glad I went through this - it's given me a lot of confidence as someone who's always liked this stuff!) Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/covid-19-play

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Covid-19 Play: - This is what I am planning to submit for the Hackathon Lathacks. I would like to say sorry for not uploading a video on what I did and how I did it. That is why I have written the following below in compensation for not uploading that video. If you'd like you could also try out the link below which shows where I actually did the work. Thanks for watching my short film Covid-19 Play! Inspiration: - I was inspired by the current situation and how it caused people to do some things.What I mean by this is how it caused some people to disobey the rules set by the Government and how it brought out helpful, kind personalities in others. What it does: - It's more of an entertainment sort of thing. How I built it: - I drew through Blush ( and programmed through Scratch ( Challenges I ran into: - My team didn't join me in the first place, so I spent a lot of time waiting for them to join. In the end, they didn't join anyway. On top of that, the problem I encountered was the fact that I couldn't figure out where the problem came from. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - I'm proud of spending just over 10 hours on this project and doing it all on my own. What I learned: - I learned how to use Blush for the first time and how it feels to work non-stop for 7 hours on Scratch. What's next for Covid-19 Play: - Not sure...But I might do a sequel after I correct all mistakes on this part. - Thanks again for watching Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/food-bank-collection-service

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Many people are having trouble making enough money for food so use foodbanks. They usually have to line up outside the foodbank to collect food. the program we have made allows people to order their packages online and easily collect their food packages without waiting. Challenges we ran into: - Trying to debug the 100+ lines of code. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Learning how to code and using subroutines. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/charity-chat

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - With this project, I wanted to create an easily usable app that would help anyone when choosing charities to donate to. A lot of charities have inspiring impacts and truly contribute to a good cause, but unfortunately, some are also not. And with this in mind, I wanted to create a project that would help people to make better, informed choices when donating. The app includes key information about Canadian charities, as well as more simple features to help anyone when donating. Some key information I sought to include was “demonstrated impact”, “results reporting” and “cents to the cause”, which are important to understanding the transparency and actual impact of each of the charities.As well, I wanted to create the app with a design that was more creative and different from previous charity database apps. I wanted to use a “chat”, because, for myself and others, chats are more fun to use and understandable then attempting to search through seventeen filters for a good charity. Finally, I included Canadian charities in the app, as it’s sometimes more difficult to find charity databases dedicated to Canada. I believe it’s important to donate, not only internationally, but also to important local causes. What it does: - The app is very simple, with just a chat and a database. The chat is a chatbot, to allow for instant responses and quick navigation. It relies on keywords from the user to be able to respond, but the commands are intuitive and very easy to understand. For example, to receive a few important key notes about a charity, the user can just send “info [charity]” and can instantly receive the information. As well, not only can you find donation information, you can also “ask” for general advice on making donations, a feature that many only-database apps don’t have.The database is to offer an alternative for anyone who would rather not type out commands and access the information quickly and easily. In the database, there is a list of all the charities currently available on the app. There are not many at this time, but it can continue to expand as more charities are added. Each charity has key information, which is the same as the chat, as well as buttons to access the charity’s page on charityintelligence.ca and donation pages on the respective websites. Both the chat and the database have the same functionality, essentially, but are geared towards different audiences to their liking. How we built it: - I used android studio and Kotlin to make the app. As well, all the charity information was found from charityintelligence.ca. Challenges we ran into: - I found myself running into a repeated problem with my computer being unable to handle the workload of android studio. It was difficult to complete the app with the constant freezing and crashing of my computer, but I’m very happy that I overcame that challenge.As well, I’m still working on comprehending Kotlin, and navigating android studio in general, so it was still challenging to continue to learn. While I have used the language and the program before, I still am a beginner to coding in general, and thus, it was still a challenge for me. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - While the app has a very simple design and functionalities, I’m proud that I created this, especially in the timeframe. The design was a bit of a struggle to do, and I have not worked too much with Kotlin, so I am very happy about completing it :)I am also proud of what I was able to learn in this project, which was a lot, not only about creating projects, but also about charities and more real-world skills. What we learned: - Even before I created the app, while I was considering what to make for the app, I found myself learning more about the functionalities of android studio, and Kotlin. The things I learned were very interesting, but ultimately, I settled on the current design for the app. However, I have learned far more about the program through this project.As well, in general, I have learned more about programming and coding. With every new hackathon I participate in, and every new project I submit, I have learned more about my own journey in programming, even if my projects aren’t the most flashy or best. Something that I learned that is not expressly part of the programming of the program was more about charities in Canada. While the charities I chose to add into the database at this time were randomly chosen, I researched a lot more about other charities. A goal of mine is to create positive change in the world, and thus, I believe donating to good charities is crucial, and this project has sparked my interest again in this goal.As well, I have learned more about time management and not procrastinating. With the tight deadline, I needed to work quickly and efficiently to build the project, and overall, I’m glad that I finished. This experience was overall very rewarding, not only in learning about programming, but in other aspects of my life. What's next for Charity Chat: - I hope to add more charities into the app, as there are a lot of Canadian charities. As well, I hope to expand the features of the app to perhaps include more useful tools and features of people, such as a financial calculator, more in depth research about each of the charities, etc.If possible, I would hope to learn about actually turning the chatbot into a real “chat” with an AI, which would rule out any edge cases and errors in the chatbot. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/decrisis

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Introduction: - DeCrise is an online platform that acts as an aggregator for public support/utility services for fast-response during a major crisis or disaster. It brings Crisis Management as an important aspect of the "Save the Planet" motto. We utilize the power of social media, which acts as a warehouse for important information during the sudden onset of a natural or manmade disaster. We bring together the concepts of both continual and federated learning to create a volunteer-supported, learning system for the quick response and integral information retrieval. We employed Flask and Heroku to deploy a backend, which incorporates the federated averaging algorithm to learn from models trained across multiple volunteer systems. Which is then deployed on Streamlit with easy to understand UI to allow newcomers to navigate DeCrise easily. Our model uses continual learning to keep a progressing learning feed so as to learn features from the recent most events. Finally, the tweets are scraped using the Twitter-API and a feed-forward neural network classifies them across 5 different classes. What it does: - DeCrise uses both continual and federated learning as a form of distributed learning for model training. One of the most important aspects of crisis management models is their implementation fails beyond similar events, leading to false predictions and mislabelling, therefore we utilize continual learning to keep our model updated across different crisis events. Our volunteer support method expects individuals to train models at their local systems after labelling a small sample space of tweets, our idea is to use the federated averaging algorithm across various users to build a successful aggregate model. We utilise regularisation to alleviate catastrophic forgetting in the target neural networks. At the local/volunteer level we expect the users to train the model using dimensionally compressed GloVe embeddings across 5 classes. - The classes include: - Displaced people and evacuationsInfrastructure and utility damageInjured or dead peopleMissing or found peopleUnrelated - Our analysis focuses on three disaster events for analysis: - Cyclone IdaiGreece WildfiresMaryland Floods - This can allow public support systems such as police officers, firefighters and rescue operatives to gauge a better understanding of the situation as well as keep track of various public safety records. How we built it: - We used Streamlit for creating our website. Our goal with the site was to create an easy to understand and navigate website. We used a minimalistic design coupled with a backend hosted on Heroku. Our backend allows volunteers/support systems to push locally trained models for aggregation on the central server at Streamlit. At the central server, the regularization function is used to check for variational changes, from previously trained models. If found, we send the aggregated model for further analysis on a test set, however, if within limits we apply it as the new model. - The aggregation is done using the federated averaging model. At the local training step of the federated methodology, a regularization function taken from Learning without Forgetting - Li and Hoiem is used for training the model and to prevent overfitting on recent/new training data. The model was deployed and trained over PyTorch so as to increase transperancy and ease of use between the central host server and the volunteers training the model. - We used he HumAID Twitter dataset which consists of several thousands of manually annotated tweets that have been collected during 19 major natural disaster events including earthquakes, hurricanes, wildfires, and floods, which happened from 2016 to 2019 across different parts of the World (Alam et al., 2021). Challenges we ran into: - Word Embeddings are memory intensive and we used Effective Dimensionality Reduction for Word Embeddings - Vikas Raunak et al. to reduce memory demand. In our utilization of the above library, we also contributed to the open-source community by creating an executable Python3 version of it. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Creating a continual and federated learning algorithm for crisis management is a novel approach. Although proposed before it utilised sentence encoders which are high computation and memory intensive making it impossible to deploy. Therefore, we used GloVe embeddings and further contracted their effective dimensions following Raunak et al.'s Effective Dimensionality Reduction for Word Embeddings. - Deploying an online/life-long learning NLP model for crisis management. The utilization of a volunteer system, further crowdsources the learning capacity of the model, making it more diverse and learn across a lot more samples than individual contributors could ever do. - A project which potentially could save lives or make resource management easier and more efficient during a real crisis or natural/man-made disaster. - A minimalistic easy to navigate UI for crisis management, which does not bog down users with complex theory and alleviates unnecessary stress. What we learned: - Some of the key take-aways from developing this project underline our newfound love for developing community projects for crisis management. Developing a project which could potentially save lives or make resource management easier. We also learnt a lot about NLP tools for crisis management and how they lose focus as they learn across different disaster events, therefore we employed continual learning. The volunteer system, allowed us to analyze federated learning in crodsourcing light insteead of its traditional privacy based utility. Finally, we learnt about compressing word embeddings from Effective Dimensionality Reduction for Word Embeddings, Raunak et al.. What's next for DeCrisis: - n our developments for this project, we focused on maintaining a scalable nature for our product. We hope to further improve the scalability of the model by introducing concept of sketching - FetchSGD: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning with Sketching (Rothchild et al.). Finally, we would also like to explore architectural continual learning. - Check out our code @ - And App @ Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/heart-failure-classifier

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - As one of the leading causes of death globally, we need to be able to assess the risk of an individual for Cardiovascular Disease in order to help prevent further development that might end their life. What it does: - We developed a model that classifies individuals for whether they will develop a cardiovascular disease and additionally provides a probability for severity and future risk assessment. How we built it: - First we began with a k-Means model to justify the spatial separability of the data. After verifying that our features were spatially relevant, we used more advanced decision trees in this case Random Forest and then we boosted our model with AdaBoost for greater performance. Challenges we ran into: - Feature selection is a very difficult challenge and tuning the hyperparameters for each model takes a lot of time, so picking the right features that in our experience are the most impactful let us achieve these results in a manageable time. Another challenge was getting our model to improve by using AdaBoost and unfortunately the results were fairly similar between Random Forest and AdaBoost; however, on the bright side, the results were still exciting. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We really did well developing the model and we are most proud of how much we were able to accomplish given such a short timespan, and how our model could potentially help millions of people that could suffer from cardiovascular disease. What we learned: - We learned a lot about hyperparameter searches and data manipulation in order to plot the data in a way that is not only aesthetic, but also informative. We learned about the quality of data and how some datasets need far more work than others to get the data in a form that we can analyze and What's next for Heart Failure Classifier: - The next steps are hypothesis testing to remove features that are less relevant to increase the accessibility of the model for use in developing countries where certain tests may not be widely available. We would also like to engineer features to better separate the data spatially alongside testing a wider range of support vector machines and decision trees to see which would perform better. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/eat-with-me-71lek5

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Sahithi and I often forget to eat. We're the kind of people that don't really feel hungry until hours after we were supposed to eat, and we forget to eat entirely when we are caught up in our work. Because of this, we end up going out to eat instead of cooking healthy meals and we have inconsistent diets. Through this chrome extension, we hope to help other UT students like us who struggle to eat on time eat properly and create a more consistent diet. What it does: - Do you often forget to eat, and by the time you're hungry, you're too hungry to cook so you have to go eat out? Well then this chrome extension is for you! Often times, people, especially UT students, are so caught up in their work that they forget to eat and forget to cook prior to eating. This chrome extension notifies the user when it is time to start cooking and if they aren't in the mood to cook, gives them a restaurant to go to in the Austin area. Through this app, we hope to help UT students create more consistent eating habits and therefore lead healthier lives. How we built it: - We used the Chrome Extension documentation and countless tutorials to build our chrome extension. We mainly used JavaScript for this product. Challenges we ran into: - Initially, it was very difficult to learn the rules of chrome extensions because they were different than regular JavaScript. Additionally, we struggled with getting our Yelp API to work for a while and also struggled with getting our notifications to work. Shout out to Kyle for all his help! Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We are proud that we got the option to get a random restaurant when you are hungry to work. What we learned: - We learned that it is useful to already have the skills to build what you are trying to build before the hackathon begins. What's next for Eat With Me!: - This chrome extension is currently only able to either notify a user that it is time to start cooking or of a restaurant to go to in the Austin area when they are feeling hungry. We hope to expand this functionality to achieve our originally goal of sending reminders of when to start cooking automatically in addition to a place to go if they weren't able to cook. Through this app, we hope to help UT students create more consistent eating habits and therefore lead healthier lives. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/envisage-m0yti9

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - With the recent surges in Asian American violence across America, we felt that it was necessary to bring some positivity to the Asian American community. Asian Americans are often overlooked or branded with certain stereotypes in society. We hope to be altering that and minimizing the marginalization that is perpetuated on Asian Americans. Our goal: - Envisage is a platform for spreading awareness of anti-Asian hate. Through the publication of unique Asian cultural assets and facts/figures that depict the obstacles and burdens past and present Asian Americans face, we will spotlight Asian Americans who have created a positive impact for their own community. - Initially, we attempted to find API’s that had any relation to the Asian American community. Since we couldn’t find any, we decided to showcase the talents that many Asian Americans are capable of producing. Our app is designed in vanilla javascript, html, and css due to our rudimentary knowledge of full-stack web development. What it does: - Web app shows spotlight articles of Asian Americans. - EnvisageBot answers general queries about anti-Asian hate and clears up misunderstandings about Asian Americans. Testing: - a. Web - b. Telegram - c. Line How we built it: Challenges we ran into: - Most of us have no experience in chatbot development and we spent a lot of time learning the basics. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We built a functional prototype! What we learned: - We learned a lot about conversational design and Dialogflow integration with different communication apps. What's next for Envisage: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/micommunity

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - With social media being omnipresent these days, it can often be a triggering and overwhelming experience. We propose a way to improve the experience. What it does: - Our project aims to create a better social media experience for users. We build on existing research and propose solutions to the pain points users face on Instagram Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/greenergy-jvxaup

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Computer tasks require loads of power! and power generation emits pollution, so why not greenify and optimize our emission levels What it does: - Given you IP address and computer power profile and tasks, gives you the carbon footprint of your computing tasks and emission level along with fuel mix for the power you consumed. Provides alternatives for a greener way to perform your task How we built it: - We used data from the EPA and statistics related to emissions from power generation for all states, and combined this with grid level data and stored the collected data on mongodb. Then we setup google cloud function serverless backend to generate the findings from user input and the collected data. Challenges we ran into: - time! we ran out of time before integrating the frontend and backend Accomplishments that we're proud of: - the basic functionality works What we learned: - we gained a lot of knowledge about power generation and the ecological footprint of computer related tasks What's next for Greenergy: - better integration, maybe release an npm module or pip package Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/smart-budget

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - 1/3 of the young adults in the world are financially illiterate, and over 84% of the adults in the US are indifferent to cryptocurrency. Smart Budget seeks to not only close this financial illiteracy gap, but introduce users to the world of cryptocurrency and investing. What it does: - Smart Budget is linked to the user’s choice bank account. After creating an account, monthly limits on spending are set by the user. If the user is close to spending over their monthly limit, warnings will be sent from the app to reduce overspending. Successfully keeping within the budget awards user with the choice to invest the rest (or a percentage of it) into their desired cryptocurrencies. What's next for Smart Budget: - Articles, up-to-date news, and market status updates regarding available cryptocurrencies to better educate users on the current state of their favorite cryptocurrencies. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/mapability-3ihak0

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I was inspired by an article I read that mentioned how over 40% of locations are inaccessible to those with disabilities and those employing wheelchairs -- MapAbility is now ready to address this concern. What it does: - MapAbility is an innovative, useful, and feasible-to-implement web application allowing indivusals with and without disabilities to converse, share, and act upon inaccessible locations for PwD. MapAbility and Climate Change: - We're also involved with the fight against climate change -- those with disabilities are particularly hurt by the effects of climate change and MapAbility will educate people about climate justice through its discussion feature! How we built it: - MapAbility was built with HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, Java, Atom, Notepad++, and a variety of other tools. Challenges we ran into: - One of the biggest challenges we ran into was ensuring the proper implementation of a location-based service -- using a geolocation API, MapAbility was able to address this issue. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - I'm proud of the fact that I was able to create an application that hasn't been created before and is ready to fulfill a long-lasting concern. What we learned: - I've learned about the application of computer science for social good, and have been able to explore different languages like HTML, JavaScript, and Java. What's next for MapAbility: - MapAbility is looking to now expand into more locations and to conduct customer discovery with potential users -- all of these are goals that would be best fulfilled with the funding HackCDM could offer. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/disastersai-q0xpkd

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - This past summer wildfires spread through thousands of acres across Northern California, leaving people with no other choice than to evacuate. It is crucial for these disasters to be predicted on short notice and with great accuracy, in order to ensure not only public safety, but the safety of our environment and Earth. Currently there are thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth, however, only less than 10 of them can detect wildfires, and because of these scarcely small number, wildfires have continued to persist as a huge issue for years on end. This immense problem led me to create DisastersAI, a Real Time Wildfire Detection system that uses AI to instantaneously detect wildfires around the globe from satellite imagery, in order to instantly alert citizens to evacuate, as well as predict the negative consequences of the event. What it does: - DisastersAI takes a user inputted satellite image, and utilizes a deep learning model to determine the predicted probability, mask, CO2 emission, total burnt area, and the amount of daily electricity power will be wasted during the event of the inputted wildfire. How I built it: - First I used satellite images of wildfires to train the deep learning model. The model created was a simple architecture with 17 input features, the first hidden layer with 64 neurons, the second hidden layer with 32 neurons, and the final regression node. The final model was then saved on s3 and deployed on the front-end which was developed using python's streamlit API. Challenges I ran into: - Having to develop both front and back end given the short timeframe. The deep learning model was what consumed most of my time. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - Creating the model and utilizing a regression output within the timeframe of the hackathon. What I learned: - I improved my knowledge on front-end development and learned more about deep-learning. What's next for DisastersAI: - Potentially a more robust UI and live integration with satellite feeds. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/climavisual

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I was inspired to build this project after seeing so many flat charts regarding the concerning impacts of climate change; I felt as if the average person lacks an interactive, accessible tool that can show the current state of our planet with respect to climate change. What it does: - The app displays a live, interactive view of the planet’s current temperature levels. How we built it: - The app uses various technologies, such as ARKit and RealityKit, in order to deliver the experience. The global temperature data is provided through Climate Reanalayzer and NOAA, which requires ClimaVisual to fetch the latest satellite data in order to provide the most up-to-date experience. Challenges we ran into: - As this was my first time making an AR app, I was challenged in a few places along the development process. Most notably, I struggled to convert a downloaded image into a texture for the globe, and then animate the globe due to my unconventional approach of modifying the globe’s texture using the latest NOAA data in code, rather than having a premade 3D model file. - This approach also made the rotation of the globe more difficult, since it again did not obey convention due to the aforementioned reason. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - I am proud to have made my first app using AR \ud83c\udf89Learning more about how to make apps in AR is the one of the best accomplishments of developing this app. I’m also happy to have created a tool which can help remind the world about the urgency of the climate crisis in a unique and interactive way. What I learned: - I learned how to interface with the RealityKit and ARKit APIs, how to modify 3D objects in code, and how to programmatically animate those objects. In general, learned a lot about developing AR apps for IOS. What's next for ClimaVisual: - I believe that ClimaVisual can have great potential as an application based on Apple’s future mixed reality system, which is reportedly in the prototype stage as of the time of writing. With such technology, people can use ClimaVisual more naturally than on a mobile device. For example, the Earth model could be placed at the entrance to an office building, where all the employees who wear a mixed reality device can view the map as they walk in and out of the building, serving as a reminder to take good care of our fragile planet. - Please note the Install Link below may not work Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/educa-e-06ab5i

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Inspiration What it does: How I built it: Challenges I ran into: Accomplishments that I'm proud of: What I learned: What's next for Educa+e: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/4ward

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The Quaker Spices of community and integrity inspired us to make a judgement free space where people could come together voice their honest opinions. What it does: - 4WARD is a website that people can visit when they have complaints, concerns, or general thoughts they need to share. This program creates forums where users can anonymously share their thoughts regarding issues with injustice and mental health. Users also have the choice to join smaller forums focused on subcategories that fit under the umbrellas of mental health and injustice. After the user submits their thought, they are able to view others’ anonymous responses. How we built it: - Using Python, we used files and methods to create the 4WARD program. Methods help users navigate forum choices, and files are used to store users’ input. Github was used to move our python code onto our website, which was made using Html. Challenges we ran into: - With Html and GitHub being completely new to the three of us, it was a hassle trying to teach ourselves the basics in one day. Each error and new idea we encountered was followed by hours of research. The main struggle we had was transferring our python code into our website, which was resolved with a lot of trial and error. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - In only 6 hours, we were able to create a functioning website utilizing two completely new languages. What we learned: - We learned two new languages, Html and GitHub, to create a website. What's next for 4WARD: - Adding new categories and reporting features could be good additions to 4WARD. A profanity checker and choosing to post anonymously or not are also ideas for what’s next.Looking forward, we would implement reporting features and new discussion topics. Whenever people are given anonymity, there will always be those who choose to abuse it. That's why we would write a profanity checker into our program. We would also make anonymity optional, in case people want their names attached to their stories. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/quakerism-discord-bot

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We wanted to create a server bot that helps to create a positive online community by preventing cyberbullying and adding fun features into discord. What it does: - The bot searches the discord chat for specific words or phrases. When it finds these words or phrases it triggers events in the chat. for example if you post hello the bot will type hello back or if someone chats the word "stupid" the bot will delete the message and post a friendly quaker inspired message in its place. How we built it: - We used the discord developer portal to generate a discord token for our bot and then hosted the bot using repl.it. Once we where able to integrate the bot we began to play around with the syntax and through trial and error(mostly error), and lots of online libraries/articles we where able to get a handle on basic bot programming. Challenges we ran into: - Our biggest challenge was the fact that we both came into the project with next to no knowledge on bot programming and had to teach ourselves from the ground up. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We coded using a variety of commands that we had never used before and integrated much of what we learned in class from loops to the .lower function. What we learned: - We learned the importance of saving and testing CONSTANTLY. We often found that 1 small error would give us a page of error messages and that hastily writing code will just cause you more grief in the long run. What's next for Quakerism Discord Bot: - We hope to test our bot on a larger server and to see how it handles with a massive amount of input in multiple text channels. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/connectu-ckwn5j

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We were inspired by all the members in our community, whether they be teachers, volunteers, and students. We wanted to do something could help all of them so we created ConnectU. What it does: - ConnectU is an application that helps people by providing them with good news. It is based around the idea of preserving mental health and random acts of kindness. There is a rewards feature that rewards people for sharing random acts of kindness, and then provide a RAK coin indicator at the top. There is a filtering option so that students can see all the different services offered by our website, as well as a chat function so that people can reach out to members across the community. How we built it: - We used html, css, and js in order to create a website where people could communicate with each other. Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for ConnectU: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/mobile-carbon-footprint-calculator

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - My inspiration for making CE Calculator was I wanted to know my exact carbon emissions, but all of the apps out there that calculate that are either incredibly over-complicated or are lacking in features. So I made CE Calculator as the happy medium, it has just about everything you need and absolutely nothing you don't need. What it does: - CE Calculator is an app that calculates your carbon dioxide emissions from certain tasks such as driving a car and heating your house. Simply put in your usage information from your bills and CE Calculator will do all the hard math for you, even going as far as to automatically total all of your emissions in one place. How I built it: - I built it using Thunkable's functionality to quickly and easily switch between multiple preset screens. Challenges I ran into: - I really wanted to add the ability to switch between metric and imperial measurements, but I didn't come up with this idea until it was too late into the weekend and I was forced to drop it due to time constraints. The other main issue I encountered was the prettiness of the UI, I am by no means an artist and if I am to continue with this project in the future I will absolutely ask a friend who is knowledgeable in color design for a hand. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - This is a huge achievement in many different categories for me1: This is the first mobile app I have ever made2: This is the first Thunkable app I have ever made3: This is the first non-game program I have ever made to the point where it is useable What I learned: - I really learned a lot, not just about mobile development, but also about global warming as I needed to get all of the statistics for the app to function What's next for CE Calculator: - I would love to keep developing it into something I may even release to the wider public. IMPORTANT: - This app is designed with the intention of being used with Thunkable's live test function while in your browser, not shared to your phone. Any issues that occur due to using this app in any other way are in no way my fault as I was unable to test it on any other devices. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/climate-change-tracker

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration:: - My teammates and I (Christina, Sophia, and myself) were inspired to do this project because climate change is a pressing issue for our generation so we thought that we should make something that would hopefully help get more people informed in a more visual way by using graphs and charts from reliable resources such as NASA, and The European Commission Joint Research Centre. What it does:: - It shows people a forty year timeline of how much climate change How we built it:: - We built it using Thunkable and made the graphics using a 3d software called Blender and Procreate. Challenges we ran into:: - Learning Thunkable and getting used to the interface was hard because there's only so much that you can do with the UI but I think that it worked out in the end. Accomplishments that we're proud of:: - Learning how to get the page layout to work the way we wanted to. What we learned:: - How to adapt to new platforms (Thunkable) quickly and turn out something we're proud of. What's next for Climate Change Tracker:: - To refine the prototype and transfer our skills and what we learned in Thunkable to our future endeavours. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/arsenses-sixth-sense-for-connected-vehicles-via-ar

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Why should only premium cars like Tesla have advanced detection system? Everyone deserves to be safe on the road. Hence ARSenses was designed. What it does: - Detect the person, vehicle or obstacles in driver’s blind spots and notifying it on the AR before it’s too late. [Check first image slide]Indicates you about other vehicle’s next turn if you are in their blind spot region & alerts you to take actions to avoid a collision on AR display. [Check second image slide]Potential collision? ARSenses saves the day. How I designed it: - Enthusiasm Illustrator Challenges I ran into: - To learn to design in Illustrator. Accomplishments that I'm proud of & What I learned: - Learn IllustratorExplored in and out in AR industry for vehicles. What's next for ARSenses, sixth sense for connected vehicles via AR: - Work with the industry leaders to bring imagination into action. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/hackfrost

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Based on a previous project I worked on. I wanted to create an app that would allow people to hire others to shovel snow using geolocation. I used this project and this hackathon to access my ability. What it does: - It serves two purposes: it allows home owners to hire freelance shovelers to shovel their driveway and street. Inversely, it allows people who are interested in making a few extra bucks, be able to grab their shovels and use the apps. How I built it: - I built it using the Ionic Framework, which allows you to deploy Android and IOS apps using html, css and javascript Challenges I ran into: - Time was probably the biggest challenge. I didn't have enough time to flush out all of the features, like verification. There are also a lot of bugs and holes to patch up. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/a-play-on-colors

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - A post on HH regarding the color chuck norris. What it does: - It gives you the color for an arbitrary value. How I built it: - I used javascript + a color api Challenges I ran into: - converting hexadecimals Accomplishments that I'm proud of: What I learned: - how to convert hexadecimals What's next for a play on colors: - if the color is dark then the text becomes camouflaged. Need to fix that. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/winners-and-losers-of-covid

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We were inspired by the Covid 19 pandemic's impact on stock market. We wanted to see which companies benefited most from pandemic. Example: Ecommerce stocks like AMZN benefit a lot. Airlines stocked dropped a lot. What it does: - We built a website in 6-7 hours. The site allows shows the winners and losers (companies) from pandemic. Also, we analyzed the wealth increases of richest people (elon musk, jeff bezos, etc.). That was quite interesting as well. Also, we provide way of viewing our data using Flask. How we built it: - Flask + dataprep + Python + matplotlib Challenges we ran into: - Time. Just time. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Getting the thing done. And the graphs are super cool. What we learned: - A lot about the stock market. And literally had to learn dataprep in like an hour. What's next for winners-and-losers-of-covid: - Not sure. If I had more time, I would have liked to show more graphs for each company. and figure out more trends with actual models. Cool to allow user to pick number of stocks or relative ranks. also showing percentage gain for rich people. and make graphs interactive. currently, they are just pngs. also, user could perform some selections on the site and we render graphs in realtime. just no time to implement all that. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/dataprep-ar

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Augmented reality is a growing market with lots of potential. Inspired by devices such as the Microsoft HoloLens, we wanted to create a project in the field. What it does: - HoloFly takes data in collects through Connector and visualizes it in AR. How we built it: - We used DataPrep to gather the data, Flutter to create the mobile application, and ARCore for the AR. Challenges we ran into: - We worked in the opposite areas we are experienced in, and we both also have no experience building projects with AR. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Working through areas we are not as skilled in while still coming out with a functional product. What we learned: - Rapid prototyping. What's next for HoloFly: - Increasing functionality for the one use case we have. Also increasing the number of APIs supported and the potential ways we can visualize the data. - Watch the demo here: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/discord-karaoke-bot

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Rythm bot was our inspiration to create the bot. We wanted to create a bot that can easily allow you to do Karaoke with the DataPrep library and Python in a Discord Server. What it does: - It let's the user call the bot and play music by grabbing the Youtube Video for the song, as well as fetch the lyrics through an API. How we built it: - We used Python with Repl.it and some API from Youtube and MusixMatch to get the video and the lyrics. Of course, using the DataPrep library to grab data and Discord to test the bot commands. Challenges we ran into: - Configuring the files and learning how to setup the bot. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Creating commands for the Discord bot to fetch the lyrics and select a random or specific song to play. What we learned: - Setting up the Discord bot as well as making it run continuously without it sleeping. In addition, using the DataPrep library to collect the data used for the bot. What's next for Discord Karaoke Bot: - Creating more chat functionality as well as a search function for the users to get music tabs or notes for instruments they might want to play alongside the song like the guitar or piano. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/average-yelper

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Once we saw how the Yelp API can be used to access information of different businesses in an area, we thought of some whimsical ways we could take advantage of this cool feature. Thus, who would have thought to get the average location of various food establishments in any city? Apparently, us. What it does: - The program searches various restaurant types in a given city and then gets the average of their longitude and latitude, which is then written into a convenient text file. How we built it: - We used Python, the Yelp API, and Dataprep Connector to get all the information of the resturants, then put the coordinates into Google Maps for visualization. Challenges we ran into: - We encountered some trouble as we were not very experienced in APIs or Python and had some trouble getting started with the vast wealth of information that could be gathered with Dataprep. Thankfully we had some good mentors that pointed us in the right direction. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Since we all had very little experience, the fact that we got something done make us very proud. Also, the pure whimsy of using data in such a way was a fun experience. Being able to point at a place and say "That is the most average sushi place in Vancouver" is very cool What we learned: - We learned how APIs and dataframes work, and how they can be used to create some cool statistics. What's next for Average Yelper: - Who knows? Maybe we'll try and find the average restaurant rating at given location next! Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/pillar-8yrgp7

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Millions of new eyecatching thumbnails are posted on YouTube every day. That means more people may become distracted and procrastinate for hours on end by watching pointless YouTube videos. We wanted to create a website that would allow people to browse through YouTube without unnecessary distraction and to become the most productive they can be! What it does:: - People often spend a lot of time browsing for a video to watch. Our app helps users to search a video faster by removing the thumbnail which cuts down on distractions and shows only relevant information: title and description. How we built it: - built with python Flask framework, dataPrep python library, and ES6 JavaScript Challenges we ran into: - Understanding how to use connector API. Linking information returned from API to webpage Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Working prototype! What we learned: - Learned how the connector API works. Learned about the pandas dataframe What's next for Pillar: - Continue to add additional features such as history logs, tracker that shows how long you spent watching youtube.Mobile application Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/self-driving-ai

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - ever-evolving ai and different ml tech What it does: - a car that uses ai to avoid sand and traverse the two corners of the window How we built it: - using python and PyTorch Challenges we ran into: - the maths while creating the layers Accomplishments that we're proud of: - a finally built product What we learned: What's next for Self Driving AI: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/webclash

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration-: - The AECHackathon is a fantastic, world-class event and attracts the best community in the building industry. Each team member brought enthusiasm and ideas on why this product should be brought to the market place. It is inspiring to learn and talk about the industry all the while combining the industry design and building processes with technology. What it does-: - This web and mobile app is targeted for the AEC Industry. It can be used during both the Design and Construction Phases. It is a 3D Model Real-Time Clash Prevention Plug In for VIM and eventually Forge Autodesk and other products. How we built it-: - We fully embraced the Mashup Challenge and the Previous Hack Challenges by using July 2020 AECHackathon Revit program developed by Luis Otero. VIM seized the opportunity by wrapping the code to use for their prototype as a plug-in. Forge assisted Luis with the mobile app. in order to meet the AECHackathon v2 requirements. Challenges we ran into-: - To learn about new and re-familiarize ourselves with these technologies, the various languages including tech-speak, Spanish and English (no one felt the need to speak French even when two members are Canadian). Accomplishments that we're proud of-: - Our dedication and technical expertise to make this AEChackathon a completely enjoyable experience as well as being able to assist and motivate VIM, an on-going sponsor for the AECHackathon in the development of real-time 3D clash detection. It was a real pleasure working with them. They added another layer of excitement to the event. VIM's new clash detection plug-in is now able to load very quickly for the large amount of data. Luis's number one goal of making the plug-in real-time was achieved through VIM's development. What we learned-: - We quickly learned to trust the AECHackathon format, about the companies that we collaborated with, our individual abilities, expertise and learn to trust how the process always works out perfectly. What's next for Webclash-: - Webclash will pitch on Sunday, will determine if we can continue to work together as a team on this product or the next-big-thing. Luis, the original developer of the code would like to continue to develop this code for other providers in need of clash prevention such as Autodesk Forge and Civil3D. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/covid-bim

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The pandemic has disrupted people's daily lives. As the nations are slowly opening offices, schools, and other indoor spaces, we do not know how an infectious person affects the environment. Buildings have different occupancy characteristics, density, HVAC, and varying building parameters. These factors affect the spread of COVID indoors. We use BIM data to simulate the spread of viral particles in the buildings and improve decision making. What it does: - We extended the BIM-to-DEVS API from the previous AEC hackathon to incorporate COVID spread models. We used the BIM-to-DEVS API for data extraction. In this hackathon, we created new models using Cell-DEVS that considers scientific data from published papers to project the spread of viral particles indoors. We use Autodesk Forge for BIM data extraction and visualization. CADMIUM (Cell-DEVS) tool for Discrete Event Simulation of COVID models. - COVID Model:Our labs' simulator, Cadmium, was used to build the indoor viral particle spread model. We can classify every cell as a different type, impermeable structure (used for walls), VP sources (the source of the viral particles), VP Receivers (healthy occupant/susceptible), chairs (used for occupants sitting down), and air cells. The chairs start as unoccupied and get converted to viral particle sources or receivers when the occupants sit down. The viral aerosols spread depending on their location in the scenario, i.e., if the infectious person is sitting in front of a vent, the particles will get pushed in the direction of the airflow. After an uninfected person inhales too many particles over a period of time, they become infected. - Visualization:For visualization purposes, geometries were grouped and plotted by their x-y coordinates. Geometries were built based on cell type. If the cell represented virus particles, THREE.Geometry and/or THREE.BoxGeometry was used alongside THREE.PointCloudMaterial. When the cell represented a human, THREE.BufferGeometry was used since a sprite had to be created. Therefore, to visualize a cell, proper geometry and material had to be considered. The coloring for the virus particles was done through D3.js, whereas the human sprites' coloring was through THREE.js. When a user runs the visualization, a color gradient legend (D3.js) emerges to reflect the color change of the virus particle concentration level in different time frames. How I built it: - We built it using a cloud based developer tool, Forge API. The programming languages we used are JavaScript, Python, Cadmium and C++. Challenges I ran into: - Cell-DEVS Model:In the DEVS model, we faced challenges when assigning a direction to the cells in front of the ventilation systems. It was particularly difficult to distribute particles based on airflow. Through vector manipulation and cadmium simulator’s powerful features, we managed to assign each ventilation system its own airflow field and weight for particle distribution. - Visualization: Autodesk Forge Viewer integrates a customized version of THREE.js r71 (March 2015) for data visualizations. The current version of THREE.js is r121 (Oct 2020). Due to the lack of documentation, and support for new extensions, a lot of troubleshooting was required to work with outdated/buggy code—for example, THREE.PointCloudMaterial (r71) in Forge Viewer would not load textures onto point clouds, whereas in the newer THREE.js (r121), THREE.PointsMaterial loads textures just fine. The only way to load textures onto geometries was to use THREE.BufferGeometry. In this case, the textures were called sprites and required custom shaders and/or very precise RGB values when trying to manipulate sprite's characteristics. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - By the end of the hackathon project, we were able to successfully visualize COVID spread within buildings. This accomplishment will enhance facility management in the future. There were definitely challenges in the beginning, but through perseverance and much problem-solving, we skillfully produced and implemented our first prototype. What I learned: - We are a pro now and we had fun. What's next for COVID-BIM: - The COVID spread model could be extended through adding parameters such as coughing, and sneezing. The new parameters could also be applied to much larger BIM models. To load simulation data for much larger BIM models, we would need to consider writing code for a file chunker since web browsers limit the size of blobs being uploaded. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/cargol

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiració: - Donada la pandèmia de la Covid-19 i la dificultat d'adaptar-se a les noves tecnologies, les grans botigues digitals han dilapidat el comerç local, deixant a les petites botigues de la ciutat nues d'avant la crisi. What it does: - Hem definit una moneda local anomenada cargol$, la qual sols pot ser utilitzada en els comerços de la ciutat de lleida.Aquesta moneda va acompanyada d'una app mòbil que mostra on es pot gastar i el llistat de productes que té la botiga en qüestió. També tenim un front end amb el que podem consultar el desenvolupament de la moneda per poder fer-ne un seguiment en temps real How we built it: Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Tot i la falta de temps hem aconseguit u MVP de l’app mòbil la qual mostra les botigues i permet pagar a través del sistema de QR. Un backend totalment funcional, el quan permet crear transaccions i obtenir dades a temps real de què està passant. - També hem aconseguit una web on podem ensenyar que està passant, per poder demostrar l'eficàcia real de la solució - Per últim hem aconseguit crear un docker-compose el qual fàcilment aixeca tots els recursos necessaris per poder córrer el projecte en pocs segons. What we learned: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/shareme-n07md4

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Buscavem una app que fos útil pels ciutadans What it does: - Posa en contacte als ciutadans de lleida per a que puguin compartir objectes How we built it: - Amb android studio Challenges we ran into: - Fer adaptadors i manejar fragments Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Que hagi compilat el codi What we learned: - manegament de fragments, adaptadors, material design i card view What's next for ShareMe: - Millorar l'aplicació en general Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/sombrita-express

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Sombrita express: - En que nos inspiramosnuestra inspiración vino de que vivimos en Lleida, y como debéis de saber, en las calles de Lleida, en verano, al sol... hacen calor excesivo, y el sol asaría a casi cualquier persona, así que... porque no hacer un mapa con las zonas de sombra? Pensamos, y bueno, esa idea fue la que quisimos desapoyar. - impedimentosteníamos un pequeño impedimento, en este caso el que seamos estudiantes de primer y segundo cursos de sistemas microinformaticos y redes, en el cual apenas hemos tocado un poco de html y css, así que no podemos decir que tengamos grandes dotes de programación, pero aun así nos las intentamos apañar para hacer nuestro proyecto - como avanzamosel principio fue fácil, ya que obtuvimos la idea de una forma muy rápida, ya que fue algo que nos gustó a todos los participantes del equipo, y por ello pudimos comenzar rápido, que pasa, que luego intentamos mirar como desarrollar la web, e intentamos hacerla nosotros desde cero, pero nos dimos cuenta de que no nos daría tiempo, ya que no somos muy hábiles aun en el tema, así que cogimos una plantilla de un trabajo echo anterior mente por uno de nosotros. Y de allí cogimos la base con la cual trabajar, luego teníamos que mirar como hacerlo todo, pero... teníamos un problema, que no sabíamos como integrar el mapa, y no solo eso, sino poder editar el mapa para resaltar las zonas de sombra, así que como aún no tenemos los conocimientos decidimos poner una imagen a cambio del mapa, mejor dicho 3, una de mañana una de tarde y una de medio día (aunque en ese último no hay mucha sombra que digamos...) y posterior mente si el proyecto llega a terminarse, hacerlo de una mejor forma con más tiempo Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/efficient-ly

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Remote working nowadays is quite distracting due to the person being on the computer all the time. The computer is filled with distractions like video games to social media sites and people tend to go to the path to the least resistant and end up going on these instead of working thus reducing productivity. So we thought of our app. What it does: - A chrome extension that blocks websites on a timer to make sure you are not visiting websites that are not helping you be productive. How we built it: - It is a chrome extension built with bootstrap, html, css and javascript. Challenges we ran into: - Getting the timer to work in the background was very difficult, in the end we struggled to fully implement it so timers don't always work when you don't have the extension open Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The app overall achieves what we set out to do and are really proud of what we produced in the amount of time and only having 3 people What we learned: - How to make a chrome extension. None of us had made one before so was great experience for that! What's next for Efficient.ly: - There's lots of ways it could be improved upon!Adding presets information such as a preset websites of black listed websites,Adding statistics such as what sites you've been looking at for how long,Tips to help keep you focused,Expanding to more platforms.As well as many other possiblities. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/quackinjection-vroom

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We had the idea to make fast and easily accessible live video conferencing without the need for installing applications, with a lot of space for future functionality and bigger conferencing. What it does: - Our website allows you to do a video call together with one another person at the moment, though with a bit more work it can be extended to more people. How we built it: - We built it using Node.JS, Vite, WebRTC, HTML/CSS, and Bootstrap. Challenges we ran into: - We originally sought out to make a website where people can edit videos together, to allow video editors to work together from home without needing to send stuff back and forth. But then because of the scope of that project we shifted to making an online video conferencing platform with a focus on future functionality.We made it so thats is possible to call with one other person, however because we are all in different countries we were not able to get it working with the networks. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Learned Vite for using in the project, which is very difficult to use. What we learned: - Don't try to learn new environments during a hackathon, its often better to stick with what you know or have experience with. We also spent a lot of time switching between different great ideas, which were often groundbreaking ideas but too great in scope. What's next for QuackInjection - Vroom: - We would like to fix the video conferencing feature, while also extending the functionality for including more members in a video call. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/remoteworktipbot2051

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Bot citizens of the internet. What it does: - It gives remote working tips in the form of random images from the interwebs How I built it: - Python 3.8, Bing API Challenges we ran into: - bugs Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - first bot What I learned: - there will be bugs, give yourself time to fix bugs What's next for RemoteWorkTipBot2051: - Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/lifecycle-ai

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - People get really surprised when they learn plastic cups are on the whole better for the environment than paper cups. I found this quite surprising and unfortunate that there is this whole body of knowledge out there on lifecycle analysis and other related topics that isnt making its way into the general public. Therefore, I hope through Lifecycle.AI, we are able to make LCAs easier and more accessible for everyone so that people can make the best decision. What it does: - Lifecycle.AI using natural language processing (NLP) to analyse and extract data from the several thousands of published academic papers and reports currently available to build a database of parameters and operations needed to conduct an LCA. With this database, new LCAs can be constructed readily for various processes and products. - We can then use machine learning (ML) analyse the results from the various studies studies and better understand trends at different scales e.g. has a process become more environmentally friendly over time. ML can also be used to predict how users can modify their process / product to reduce its environmental impact. What's next for Lifecycle.AI: - A first prototype Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/yun

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I was inspired by the idea of transfer learning. Using previous experience to transfer capabilities without complete retraining from the start. What it does: - This project demonstrates the possibility of using a machine learning neural network to make more data. Whilst the data is not perfect, it can be used to train a flood prediction model that is then fine tuned using real life data. How we built it: - This was built based initially on MATLAB's Neural Network Fitting Application and modified with scripts. Challenges we ran into: - The lack of data was super difficult to accept and led to this project challenge! Accomplishmentsthat we're proud of: - Successfully obtaining comparable results after the training, what an unexpected surprise. What we learned.: - There exists many problems to be solved with more problems being created everyday, there is no time to lose! What's next for Yun: - Sleep. Time zone differences are really bad for health when doing hackathons. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/mlivin-it

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The communicable disease COVID-19 has impacted all of our lives. However, one must not forget that the world still faces the issue of non communicable diseases, the dark horse which threatens to disastrously ruin our lives. COVID-19 has exacerbated existing issues, such as the mental wellbeing of employees and their decline in productivity, as more and more people work from home, by necessity, for the collective good of public health. With the balance between work and life being disrupted, people are now clamouring for the ability and the means to take charge of their lives and seize the day for themselves in the most productive way possible. Coupled with the recent focus on physical health in the age of sedentary lifestyles and diets which are too rich in calories and the twin evils of salt and sugar, there exists the need for a master app that is able to harness the power of machine learning and use it for the betterment of mankind. While there are apps that exist to boost productivity and physical wellbeing, there are no apps that integrate both - this is what has driven us to embark on this heroic endeavour. - We aim to use Machine Learning to integrate the tripartite relationship between productivity, diet and lifestyle, and achieve personalized productive health. - We are proud to showcase our app in a demo video and accompanying slide deck! What it does: - MLivin’ It is a phone app that aims to boost user productivity and health. It aggregates user data from multiple sources to provide a holistic Productive Health Score from a Health Score that measures physical and mental health, and a Productivity Score that measures daily productivity. Powered by multi-modal machine learning, the app analyzes data collected from digital wearables, app usage, meal photos and user input, over time, to build up an accurate profile of the user’s health and productivity. MLivin’ It identifies factors that boost or affect user productive health, and suggests actions that can be taken to raise the Productive Health Score. - MLivin’ It does not share data with external parties. User data will be encrypted and anonymised before being safely sent to the server for machine learning analysis. How we built it: - MLivin’ It was built in Adobe XD, with background code for the dietary image classification coded in Python using the pytorch library. You can find source code for our image classification model at the MLivin’ It Github repo, along with more details about the model itself and our app development process! - We employ a transfer learning approach to tackle the challenge of starting with a small input dataset, and achieve a very decent 93% accuracy with our vaildation set! Once classified, nutritional data is then pulled from databases such as HPB's FOCOS dataset, the 1972 East Asian Food Composition table as well as Nutritionix, the world's largest verified nutrition database. Challenges we ran into: - Due to the short nature of the hackathon, we weren’t able to build the full ML model that we envisioned since we lacked the comprehensive dataset that we required for our input. However, we’re glad to be able to provide a portion of our model through the development of a computer vision model! In our implementation, images of local foods were sourced from google images manually - this process can be further optimized by data mining images directly from the google images api to automate the dataset population process, and increase the efficacy of our model training to accommodate a much greater number of classes. We are extremely pleased to be able to showcase a working prototype of the app in time for this project submission. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We successfully ran a preliminary test with the machine learning algorithm using a sample of 30 food images randomly sourced online and achieved ~90% accuracy identifying the correct food based on photos. We also developed an application (demo video) to provide a glimpse into the simple user interface of MLivin’ It and at the same time, showcasing a vision for novel data analysis output customisable for an optimal user experience. What we learned: - Creating MLivin’ It has raised our awareness of how powerful machine learning can be in harnessing readily available personal data to improve personal health and productivity. We have learned more about design thinking and how to successfully apply the different concepts in a practical manner to achieve a successful and desirable outcome. We have learned to innovate and harness each other’s skillsets (app creation, machine learning, etc.) to tackle our identified problem and construct a novel, working solution within the tight time frame. - In this day and age of social isolation where everyone is physically far apart from one another, we have experienced the challenges associated with mental wellbeing and productivity. Furthermore, due to increasing digitalisation and the pervasiveness of sedentary lifestyles, we have also realised the importance of physical health and how our health is linked to our work performance. These have enabled us to empathise with our target audience and learn about how we can design the app to suit their needs. What's next for MLivin' It: - We seek to improve the machine learning algorithm in calculating Health and Productivity Scores by altering the weightage assigned to specific parameters in different ‘day modes’. We also plan to incorporate more parameters from data that could be collected from the wearable devices/mobile phones in the algorithm to provide Smart Scores and Suggestions that are more nuanced and insightful. In addition, we hope to be able to integrate a greater number of nutritional databases into the model, to support a greater number of different cuisines beyond our current database of common and local Singaporean dishes! Finally, to ensure sustainability, we propose a subscription-based business model that allows subscribing users to access more in depth trend analysis of their Productive Health on a monthly and yearly basis. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/deepfuse

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I collaborated with biologists in an ML project and realized how difficult it is to collect data or ask for data from others. It appears to me most experimental data are sparse and also expensive to collect, using these data is also subject to regulations. I am tempting to start a platform where collaboration can be made without sharing raw data. What it does: - DeepFuse is a machine learning platform that can train models collaboratively while maintain the data privacy, in other words, others have no access to your data but together a better model is built. This is achieved by having an open algorithm with shared model. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/ai-for-polarizability-based-biosensors

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Polarization-based biosensors have achieved single-molecule sensitivity, but in the process, the specificity of the sensor signal data has been compromised. This project aims to decode the sensor signal data by using predictive models rooted in physics. What it does: - The new project tmm-sensors on GitHub couples classical and quantum approaches through the polarizability tensor of single molecules to model the far-field radiation patterns of single molecules above complex materials. The polarizability tensor for small organic molecules (up to 23 atoms in size) can be obtained from the QM7-X database. What's next for AI for Polarizability-Based Biosensors: - To improve the range of molecules that can be studied using tmm-sensors, I propose to explore the correlation between molecular structure and polarizability with machine learning models and extrapolate the QM7-X database to simulate larger organic molecules, whilst preserving quantum simulation accuracy. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/mynteract

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Mynteract: - This project aims to provide a social media solution to create an ecosystem for 3D photorealistic data mining. This app targets everyday consumers of social media as well as businesses and researchers who need 3D photorealistic data. Users are incentivised to scrape and mine for 3D objects and they are scanned using 3D photogrammetry. The platform also enables businesses and researchers with specific 3D data needs to list their dataset requirements and users can get paid to mine the 3D data for them. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/voice-to-sign-language-interactive-app

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - People with hearing disability have a hard time understanding and communicating with the normal people around them. What it does: - It helps to provide augmented reality experience of the person opposite such that the opposite person will be mapped to perform the respective hand gestures. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/covid-virus-particle-animation

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I wanted to show how the COVID infection occurs using an interactive demonstration. What it does: - It can show you how COVID particles enter cells, and how they replicate, all in a 3D environment! How I built it: - I used WebXR and echoAR to build our project. Challenges I ran into: - EchoAR had a new data format so we had to adjust to that. Additionally, WebXR needs a lot of optimization Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/fdsfds

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - My main inspiration that made me make this app is when I went to my grandfather's farm in India. I observed how most of the farmers had terrible skin conditions due to the long hours of working and the highly exposed UV radiation. UV radiation and exposure does not correlate with the temperature or heat during the day. This makes high amounts of UV radiation to be undetected throughout the day in various parts of the world. I wanted to develop an application that allowed users to understand the dangers of UV radiation and increase their skincare. What it does: - The app returns the UV value and a trained dataset of certain clothing articles and information based on the given UV index of the location. It can return virtually any UV index in the world based on a web-scrapping algorithm that I used to return the coordinates of a certain location. How I built it: - I based the overall frontend of the application on React Native Expo while building the backend with a REST API and a Python 3. Since I only had a few hours to learn React Native Expo, I needed a method to connect the frontend of React Native through some sort of backend based on Python. This is where I implemented my custom-built REST API through Flask. The FLASK API returns back a JSON formatted response on any location. I used OpenWeather API for the UV index and values and used Beautiful Soup and HTMLSession to scrap coordinates of certain locations on Google's search algorithms. With the coordinates and the UV index, I made my own trained JSON dataset of various clothing articles to wear as well as other information. Based on the UV index it returned its designated headers and responses of the JSON dataset. The frontend was based on React Native and using JSX for the UI of the app. To connect both sides of the frontend and the backend I had to use the fetch function to get perform API calls. Challenges I ran into: - The main challenge that I ran into was building the frontend of the application. I had a few hours to learn the overall React Native based on their documentation and other advanced reference websites. Yet, in the end I built a well-performing UI. The other main challenge was connecting the frontend and the backend. The javascript function was not letting me get API calls from locally hosted API. This was due to the Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) policy that I had in the app. Though this I was not able to fully complete the app itself. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - Some of the accomplishment that I am proud of is finding a method to connect both React Native and a Python backend. In addition, I am proud how this hackathon enabled to learn new skills such as React Native and cross-origin sharing between two distinct technologies. I even built a clean looking UI by learning React Native in under 24 hours. What I learned: What's next for PraesidioUV: - After this hackathon ends I wish to complete the app between the frontend and the backend. I wish to implement a better machine learning model into the app to return custom based outputs to the users. I was planning on using a collaborative-filter algorithm, yet ran out of time to implement this. I also wish to create user authentication through Firebase and improve the UI design. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/cyano

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: What it does: - Cyano is a program that takes a picture of algae from any source, such as a phone or database and analyzes that photo. That photo will be analyzed as a normal algae or a toxic cyanobacteria. How we built it: - We built it using google teachable. We take pictures of algae and personally classify them. We then take these classified images as models and use the google AI to classify the pictures for the user. Challenges we ran into: - The challenge we faced was finding pictures that were exactly algae or exactly cyanobacteria. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We are very proud and finally being able to make a functional AI that is accurate and works well. Most AIs are hard to calibrate. What we learned: - I learned how to make a good functional AI and how to use the new sashido program. What's next for CyaNo: - We plan to maybe release the product and get a sponsor so we can make the product widely available. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/tokabot

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - My inspiration was the Dank Memer discord bot. I thought that it was difficult to take images off of Reddit, but it was easier than i thought it was. What it does: - It steals images off of Reddit and posts it to the bot as an Embed. How I built it: - I went around google and pieced together everything and recoded it. What you learned: - I learned about how praw works and api tokens. Whats next?: - I can probably add a few more subreddits. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/spooky-themed-quiz

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The inspiration was from Buzzfeed quizzes since they're so fun and addicting to do! We made it our own by adding a spooky twist. What it does: - The website asks you some simple questions and then you will get two suggested Halloween related movies for you to check out! Process: - We started with some simple questions and then explored HTML functions. We loved the idea of buttons so we decided to incorporate them. Then we figured out the logic and tried to improve our project as much as possible in terms of aesthetics :) Challenges: - We could not figure out how to display pictures after a certain button was clicked. It took a lot of experimenting but we are happy with our final product. Accomplishments: - This is our first project in the HTML language and we were able to accomplish more than what we had set out to in the beginning of this hackathon. We are excited to improve for future hackathons and create bigger and better projects. What I learned: - A lot of basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript What's next for Spooky themed quiz: - Adding videos and jump scare gifs and some creepy audio. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/random-images

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: What it does: - When you click buttons on the webpage, image will changes randomly. Image can scare or laugh you. How I built it: - I used JS and HTML/CSS Challenges I ran into: - Animation of bottom small images was challenge to me because I never made animation like that before. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - Made animation and select images randomly. What I learned: - I could review JS and html animation What's next for Random images: - I am planning to make its animation more smoothly and other language project. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/natural-intelligence

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We wanted to change the world. Since it's difficult to do this, we decided to make our own world and change that instead (terraforming). What we did: - We designed a world defined by 4 state parameters: Atmosphere, Plant Life, Animal Life, and Water. The initial state of the planet has bad atmosphere quality and life, so we deploy an agent that can take actions to optimize the state of the planet. We also did some simple predictive modeling on real-life phenomena, such as rain and CO2 in the atmosphere. How we built it: - We employed Q-Learning to learn the optimal policy to optimize the planet's state. In addition to this, we used matplotlib and Processing to build our visualizations. Challenges I ran into: - As the team worked together very well, there were no major challenges that we faced. One minor challenge was that we found it difficult to implement Q-Learning over a continuous state space. Although there were other, perhaps better, options, we decided to discretize the state space to employe Q-Learning to solve this. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - By reinterpreting our initial goal, we came to an idea that was very interesting and fun to work on. The Q-Learning was very successful, as was the predictive modeling. What I learned: - We learned to implement Q-Learning from scratch as well as other fundamental principles of reinforcement learning. Conclusion: - Our project has shown that reinforcement learning can change the world as long as you can quantitatively express the state of the world and define a set of actions the agent can take. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/kthai_hackathon

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Table of Contents: About The Project: - This repo is oriented to a project called Bazinga, developed for the KTHAI society hackathon, the objective is to build an LSTM model capable of generating sarcasm. - Built With - Installation - Clone the repositorygit clone Python packagespip install requirements.txt Usage: - If you want to run the server you just need to execute this inside the chatbot folder: - python manage.py runserver Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/traap

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Analytic methods require a lot of data. Analysing travel data gives very interesting insights because it can be helpful for several different parties like transportation companies, accommodation companies and the traveller himself/herself. However, data about how people spend their free time might be considered as private by some, making people more cautious when sharing these data. Traap – the TRAvel mAP wants to tackle this issue of convincing the user to share his/her travel data. The user of Traap and the entity running Traap should mutually benefit. What Traap Does: - Traap, the TRAvel mAP, shows the travel history of users. A user can log in to enter their travel data which will not be shared without consent (destination, arrival date and departure date). Traap then finds the coordinates of the travel destinations and displays these destinations on a world map. The travel destinations are marked with a circle of which its size varies according to how long this user stayed at that travel destination. Value Proposition of Traap: - The main idea of Traap is to collect people's travel data to use them for future analytical tasks. The data are kept anonymised. To convince more people to provide their data, Traap should have a strong network effect where people want to use the application because the critical mass has been reached. This critical mass can be reached by integrating Traap into existing social media services. Over there, users should be motivated to share their travel history with others and proudly present which travel destinations they have already visited. Besides letting others enjoy the travel diary of the user, users can also find experts for places where they want to go. - The range of data which is collected by Traap can be extended. Users should be encouraged to provide information not only about the travel destination of each trip but also about the activities performed at each travel destination, with each activity being given a rating. Traap provides different functionalities from the currently available products such as TripAdvisor because it has the ability to pair dates with activities and therefore provide the possibility to search for recommended activities in a certain time period. - To convince the user to provide even more data, Traap offers more possibilities to classify and visualise a huge amount of data. The map can have different categories such as work and travel. Then, a user could not only share where he/she travelled to but also where he/she has been to for work. - To motivate the user to continuously use Traap, gamification methods can be used. The user can increase his/her level with rating more travel destinations and providing more travel data. - To summarise the proposed value for the users, users can share their travel history in an appealing manner, find experts for specific locations and get recommendations based on the other users’ input. How Collected Data Can Be of Value: - First and foremost: Data is very valuable and can always be sold (assuming that the data is reliable). - Besides selling the data, a simple dashboard can give information about where users travelled to the most or when and where they preferred to perform certain activities. Also, the historical development of the quality of each activity can be tracked, as the average rating of the activity can be considered as the activity quality. - To do more advanced analytics, the different data can be combined (time, destination and activity) to find ideal travel destinations or routes. Users can give some information about their intended trip and Traap tries to fill the remaining information based on the data provided by all the users. The ideal trip should be planned based on the information about suitable activities at a certain location in a particular season. How Traap Is Built: - The whole system is built with the programming language Java. It runs on a web server and is available in a web browser. The application can also be installed as a PWA. The application frame is realised with Spring Boot and the frontend is implemented with the framework Vaadin Flow. The MVP of the hackathon does not use any database and the data is just stored in a hash map. The coordinates for the travel destination are requested from the OpenCage Geocoder API. The map in the frontend is implemented with the Vaadin plugin Leaflet4Vaadin. Challenges at Hackathon: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/steam-tunnels

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I was inspired by the legend of the tunnels below Iowa State, and the frame-shifting style of display was inspired by the original Legend of Zelda. What it does: - This is a basic dungeon crawling game where you have to navigate the steam tunnels (basically a maze) to find a key, and then leave through one of the exits. There are guards represented as red dots that will chase you, although slowly, and only do so after they're activated. If enough turns are taken, the player will automatically lose. How we built it: - Graphics are done with tkinter and turtle native python3 modules, and I used Visual Studio Community as a debugger for the project. Its not polished, but OOP was attempted to keep the programming contained. Challenges we ran into: - The biggest challenge was creating graphics using turtle. This is because in the turtle module, coordinates are defined on a 2D axis with the origin (0, 0) in the center of the screen. This is different from most computer graphics where the origin is in the top left corner. The matrix I used to draw the screen works naturally with the origin being in a corner, but I had to adapt this to work with turtle. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - I'm proud of being able to create a working product in just a few days. It isn't super flashy, but it does seem complete (even though more features would be awesome!). I also haven't really used python before, so it was interesting using another language. What we learned: - I learned how to use python syntax and modules. I am extremely pleased that I was able to figure out graphics alignment with my game matrix, and this was pretty new to me as I haven't done it before. What's next for Steam Tunnels: - The turtle module seems to be very slow, and I would look for another module to use for graphics next time. This should make the game much more responsive. I'm also looking towards more tile types, such as different kinds of guards and hot steam vents that blast steam on cycles. The level encoding is limited to 10 different data types, but this could be changed to allow for more. It would be could to make the game real-time, so game cycles occur without the player moving. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/snowy-day

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Snow popped up first when I heard this month hackathon topic is winter. And I chose to make simple animation that snowflakes are falling. What it does: - Snowflakes are falling with random size, places, speed and color. How I built it: - I used my knowledge what I learned during Javascript workshop days and I watched a few Youtube videos. Challenges I ran into: - I ran into that snowflakes can't move as an animation if there is other structures in the canvas which means I can't update every times because others can be deleted to show snowflakes are moving as intended. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - I'm proud of that I made snowflakes are falling as intended with random variables. What I learned: - I learned a lot of things about Javascript, I learned a lot of new code functions, methods and syntax. What's next for Snowy Day: - I want to make other projects using Javascript like snake game, and other animation with interactions. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/avalanche-survival-not-finished

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I played games like Epic Minigames in Roblox that have a minigame called Avalanche. What it does: - Your goal is to survive as long as you can by large balls of avalanche snow. How I built it: - Creating simple sprites, add some movement controls, collision sensors, and background control. Challenges I ran into: - Fixing some variable bugs and collision bugs. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - Learning again on how to do collision. What I learned: - It's hard to do something that you stopped going long time ago. What's next for Avalanche Survival(Not Finished): - Just some needed updates to fix some bugs. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/printing-shop

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - fijwifjwifjwifjiwjfiwji What it does: How I built it: Challenges I ran into: Accomplishments that I'm proud of: What I learned: What's next for Printing Shop: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/web-page-support

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Our favourite software What it does: - Help people in difficult situations How we built it: - Simply Challenges we ran into: - Stack overflow downtime Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Yes What we learned: What's next for Web Page support: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/solve-global-warming

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - f What it does: How we built it: Challenges we ran into: Accomplishments that we're proud of: What we learned: What's next for SOLVE GLOBAL WARMING: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/honour

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - In an attempt to see if a non-tech student can be taught how to program in Python with then IDE Vim. What it does: - The student in question was able to make a simple program with if statements and external libraries. How we built it: - Starting with the fundamentals of Python and Vim working up until there were comfortable. Challenges we ran into: - Lack of experience and running out of sweets. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The student's program worked flawlessly. What's next?: - The student can now use these skills to develop further their technical abilities. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/orderpay

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Inspired by the dissertation project. What it does: - Annoys but it's in a fun way. * promise * How we built it: - Using Adobe XD. Challenges we ran into: - To make it so worse. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Made it so worse. What we learned: - Things can always be improved for the worse. What's next for OrderPay: - To be shown as a "bad example". Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/singularity-r6khin

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - A real time series database, in homage to FlitDB. What it does: - Stores numeric values in a portable format, that has a Python client to render the numeric values on a MatPlotLib graph. How we built it: - C and Python. Challenges we ran into: - Storing raw bytes within a file. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The translation of data interchanged between Python and C. What we learned: - Binary writing. What's next for Singularity: - Polish the API, and allow for nominal data insertion... Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/brad-s-cleaning-adventure

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Memes What it does: - Memes How we built it: - Poorly Challenges we ran into: - Not Remembering how to use this library Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/distance-io-qdujyz

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: How do try it. PLEASE TRY THE WHOLE THING OUT: - Download zip file from Github link --> Drag the folder into Android Studio --> Click run(Make sure you switch to "App" instead of "m2", check the 2nd image**) Inspiration: - The prevention of Covid-19 inspired me to create this project and this Android Application, Distance.io. Covid-19 has been going on for a year now and it has been devastating the people globally and has disabled our social, financial and economic activities. Many deaths were caused and hospitalizations too. The quality of life of people completely slumped due to this pandemic. I researched and found that social-distancing is by far the best way to prevent Covid-19 from reaching and contaminating other people. SO I created this app, an app that warns people and remind people to have a good social-distancing habit so that I can decrease Covid-19 cases and allow the health, finances, and economies to prosper again. What it does: - My app is consisted of 2 sensors; the Location sensor/API and the proximity sensor. First, the proximity sensor measures how close one person is to the user(which is you). If the person(your friend or family) steps into a certain range(gets too close to you), the proximity sensor will be triggered and the colour will change to warn the user. When the proximity sensor is triggered, the location sensor will be triggered as well. The location sensor marks where exactly the user's phone is located and it records it onto the phone. So the app shows 2 things. The time you didn't social-distance/the time the user got too close to someone and the location of where the user didn't social-distance. This will give them a better idea of where and when the user got possibly exposed to Covid-19 which will help them figure out who it is and get checked out immediately and also get a better habit of social distancing.The app has a notification feature and an audio feature. The app automatically notifies and creates a beep sound if the user is not social distancing. How we built it: - Used Android Studio with Java. Incorporated sensor systems and an API. Challenges we ran into: - The GPS Api was a struggle. To incorporate it, it took a lot of time and to actually understand how it works was complicating. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The application worked perfectly at the end! What I learned: - I learned how to use Android studio better, I figured out how to add APIs and sensors into my app. I now am an intermediate android developer and I am proud to learn a new thing! What's next for Distance.io: - Better UI for convenience and satisfactionPossibly a human tracker(Shows which person the user interacted with if they weren't social-distancing) to check whether or not that person had Covid or not. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/toureasy-tnmwpf

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Tour with TourEasy: - Inspiration - I believe in making something that adds up making our lives easier. Who doesn't like things when they're more simplified. To be honest, the motivation behind our project is trip gone wrong incidents. When the sat in my room to brainstorm ideas, I realized that it was not just me but all of us had some pretty bad travel experiences solely due to misinformation and lack of guidance. I felt that the help of a native person could've made our travel experiences effortless. So here I am, attempting to build something that can assist a lot more people and make their tour easier. - What it does - In short, TourEasy is a brand new website for looking into your favorite locations, getting current updates and making your travel super easy! Staying on track helps you plan your time and pack your luggage accordingly. You can go over our top picks for guidance, if you like them, click on them and check them out. Get notified of the current information and plan your stay however it suits you. It's a platform completely made for user's comfort and coziness. - How I built it - Since I don't have any Hackathon experience, this is my first project. I am really excited to present it to the panel. I've put in hours of hard work and managed to make the final product come out clean and sharp looking. The login and register webpage is made to collect the user credentials for logging into the website. This feature allows trusted reviews about a particular place that the user has already visited. Tourists who are visiting the place for the first time might have numerous issues. They can make use of this particular aspect to get trusted solutions for the problems that they face. The query is sent as a mail to whoever visited that place before through SMTP. APIs such as finding the location of that place and also to fetch the weather conditions are also implemented. I've used Twitter bootstrap to enhance the user experience and for sleek transitions. - Challenges I ran into - During the initial stages of our development, there were plenty of obstacles, I had to refer and learn some coding concept from scratch. The weather API used in the project was a difficult task to do from the beginning. I wanted every part of the site to look personalized and reflect my unique programming style and not snatched. The backend process was tedious nevertheless when I split the work and taught myself, the task at hand became facile. This experience gave me a lot of excitement and sprinkled some confidence for a beginner. - Accomplishments that I'm proud of - Continuing from the previous point I learnt something new from this project. Knowing I had support in finishing the project on time with all the specs I wanted our site to have. I never thought I'd be making APIs and putting together an entire platform within the speculated time. The database I created was an entirely new concept to us. I watched a lot of tutorial videos and went through plenty of sample codes. Even though I really want to win and hope the project tips the scales in our favor, I am absolutely content with the type and quality of the final submission. - What I learned - Before making the project I didn't know how to use phpMyAdmin or MySql, I got an opportunity to learn about making our own customized database. I emphasized on the event being a learning experience . And that's when I knew I set my priorities straight. Locating the cities on the map with respect to their coordinates and linking them into the index file was quite a bit of a challenge. When I resolved it I learned how to move forward by myself. - What's next for TourEasy - Seeing the insufficient number of platforms and value of sites like TourEasy I plan to expand the target locations all around the globe and provide a wide array of dream destinations. The accessibility factor adds more uniqueness to the project. Considering all this, I've decided to work on the betterment of TourEasy and promote it. No muss, No fuss, Not a single cuss! - Code snippets - ** index HTML ** - <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-2 col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-6"> <a href="london.html" class="mini-box"> <i><img src="assets/images/work-process-item-01.png" alt=""></i> <strong>London</strong> <span></span> </a> </div> <div class="col-lg-2 col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-6"> <a href="paris.html"class="mini-box"> <i><img src="assets/images/work-process-item-01.png" alt=""></i> <strong>Paris</strong> <span></span> </a> </div> - ** JS file for weather** - const listItems = list.querySelectorAll(".ajax-section .city"); const listItemsArray = Array.from(listItems); if (listItemsArray.length > 0) { const filteredArray = listItemsArray.filter(el => { let content = ""; //Input city- Paris, fr if (inputVal.includes(",")) { if (inputVal.split(",")[1].length > 2) { inputVal = inputVal.split(",")[0]; content = el .querySelector(".city-name span") .textContent.toLowerCase(); } else { content = el.querySelector(".city-name").dataset.name.toLowerCase(); } } else { // For Paris content = el.querySelector(".city-name span").textContent.toLowerCase(); } return content == inputVal.toLowerCase(); }); Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/covid-cases-popup

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - I could see that people nowadays are very foolish and not paying attention to the rising number of cases of corona virus. What it does: - It notifies the number of new cases and deaths in India. How we built it: - Using webscraping Accomplishments that we're proud of: - can easily extract data from desired website Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/snake-game-0mad8b

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - The inspiration was the standard snake game, we did not make any changes with it. Also since it is a very simple game we decided to make it. What it does: - The length of the snake increases as it touches an apple and if it hits the boundaries or if it hits the snake again then the game is over How I built it: - Used a lot of help from Youtube and the pygame documentation. Tried to make many functions and learned a lot of logic from youtube as well. Challenges I ran into: - One of the main difficulties was how to increase length of snake and also how to know if the snake has ran into itself. Accomplishments that I'm proud of: - We are proud of finishing the game since it wasn't very easy. What I learned: - We learned the importance of for loops and also functions. What's next for Snake Game: - Saving scores. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/escaping-covid

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - 2020/Covid/Social Distancing What it does: - It's an endless runner game. How we built it: - Unity, C#, Adobe Creative Suite Challenges we ran into: - I got locked out of my Unity account, so I couldn't access more appropriate background music to add into my game, unfortunately. Also, the video upload is very grainy. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Making it work throughout the challenges. What we learned: - Making the best of what you have in a limited amount of time. What's next for Escaping Covid: - Finishing the app and possibly launching it in the app store. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/blockchain-simulation

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - We were all interested in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and we wanted to learn how blockchains can be used to implement our own cryptocurrency. What it does: - Users use our Discord interface to pay, send, and play games to earn our crypto coin. A very high level overview is that in our Discord server, a bot maintains a public ledger where it tracks all the transactions and creates a block for every set of transactions and commits it to our chain. How we built it: - We used python to implement our own cryptocurrency using Blockchains and then used the Discord API to implement our interface. Challenges we ran into: - We had a hard time with setting up a Discord bot that uses our Blockchain, as well as having it interact and communicate with our Blockchain. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - We were able to successfully implement some of the core features of our Blockchain and getting the Discord bot to work with our Blockchain. I'm so incredibly proud of our team, even though they were new to this programming language and concept, they still were committed the whole time. What we learned: - We learned the core features of Blockchains like how its a decentralized technology and how the chain is immutable due to the way its implemented. We also learned about hashing algorithms and how its used to make the chain really secure. Additionally, we also learned how to use the Discord API as an interface for our Blockchain. What's next for Blockchain Simulation: Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/sugooji

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many people’s lives have been and continue to be affected by this respiratory virus. It has altered daily routines, has led to financial fear, and forced social isolation. - News outlets and social media have focused heavily on the implications of the virus in regard to physical health and giving recommendations on how to preserve physical well-being. These guidelines include wearing masks out in public, social distancing, and limiting outings to only essential matters. Since the start of quarantining, people have been hit with a new reality, one very different from the reality they felt comfortable in previously.But an issue that has been overlooked is the mental health decline that has accompanied the pandemic. The feeling of worry and stress are normal human responses when people are in a state of danger or threat; and this whole pandemic has caused widespread despair and feelings of vulnerability. - - What it does: - Webscrapes articles/pages for quotes/authors. Transfers information into a JSON file via Python, which ReactJS takes and displays to the user that's easy to interact with. How we built it: - Using visual studio code, we implemented Resources library to webscrape information from the URL provided. Challenges we ran into: - Making it look nice, as well as using ReactNative to do what we want. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - Implementing random and different images in our code, as well as making it look really minimal and clean. What we learned: - Our group members all learned different things, such as webscraping (for Rasheed and Chathuri), and Johann learned a bunch of small factors like refreshing the file in order to view changes. What's next for Sugooji: - Adding more media and features and AI to tailor tastes. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/hocus-locus

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Developer: - How I built it - I built the project in React Native with Expo using Firebase as a simple backend. - Challenges I ran into - The main challenge I faced was learning how asynchronicity would work with location checking and other functions which needed to happen synchronously. - What I learned - I learned the basics of React Native as well as how to use various geolocation API’s. - What's next for Hocus Locus - I hope to improve the user interface moving forward, such as including photo handling, map address picking, and DM chats. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/match-avocado

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - A simple game for fun. What it does: - Inspired by the traditional matching game, but with some (hopefully) Bruin-like symbols! How we built it: - React-native, Expo, React Navigation Challenges we ran into: - Pass parameters between screenReplace emojis with images Accomplishments that we're proud of: - The game works! What we learned: - React-native, Expo, React Navigation What's next for Match Avocado: - Create a scoreboardReplace emojis with imagesCustomize grid sizes Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/bullet-xyortf

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Over quarantine, there have been certain things that I've been wanting to do every single day, such as play basketball, do my skincare routine, or practice piano. One day, while I was scrolling on Reddit like every CS major does, I came across a really cool Studio Ghilbli themed bullet journal that someone made to help keep track of their day-to-day activites. I started to do the same thing with my own bullet journal, and I used it to make this app! What it does: - Right now it does not do much. The idea is there but much if not all the functionality has not been implemented yet. What it will hopefully eventually be able to do is allow you to keep track of said day-to-day activities by simply tapping the day in the calendar. How we built it: - I built it in Visual Studio Code by using React Native. I also imported some React Navigation components to help navigate between screens. Challenges we ran into: - As this was my first time coding in React Native, one of the biggest challenges was making sure I had all the packages installed. I would often get bugs because a package wasn't installed, or because I installed a package more than once. Accomplishments that we're proud of: - I was not sure if I was going to be able to figure out how to easily navigate between screens, but after a lot of Google and a lot of reviewing of the recordings, I was pleased to be able to figure out how to create a nested navigator. What we learned: - I learned so much through this experience. I am a lot more familiar with flexbox and components, with importing and exporting between files, with props and states, and with React Navigation. What's next for Bullet: - Hopefully over Spring Break or whenever I have time, I'll be able to finish Bullet's functionality. If I am able to successfully implement this app in the way I dream of, it'll be something that I use on a day-to-day basis. Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]

https://devpost.com/software/unchewedfood

Please evaluate the following project description based on two criteria on a 10-point scale: Novelty and Usefulness. Novelty: How unique and original is the project's concept, approach, or solution? Does it introduce new ideas, methods, or perspectives that are significantly different from existing ones? Usefulness: How practical and appropriate is the project in addressing the problem, situation, or challenge it targets? Does it effectively solve a real-world issue or meet a specific need? Project Description: Inspiration: - Often, I find myself and other peers forced to throw out rotten food because we forget about what we have or we buy excess when at the grocery store. Upon further research, I found out how incredibly wasteful most households are when it comes to food. This food can be redirected to those in need. What it does: - The application reminds users of food that is about to get expired. It will also suggest recipes with the ingredients you currently have. How we built it: - NodeJS and EJS Challenges we ran into: - I worked solo and didn't have the entire hackathon to work on the project, so I couldn't finish as much of the product as I wanted to. What's next for UnchewedFood: - Implementing the suggestions AI system Please provide your answers in the following format with reasons after the scores: Novelty: [score] Usefulness: [score]