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Friday, October 26, 2018

TeenTechSF Global Civic Hackathon

This past weekend, Computer Science and Hackathon Clubs attended the TeenTechSF Global Civic Hackathon to develop IT solutions to solve Community Problems. They were given 5 prompts concerning Civic issues such as energy consumption and waste, homelessness, human rights, food scarcity, and sexual harassment.

Our three teams worked for 14 hours to design their IT solutions to one of these problems. All worked hard and learned new things they had not explored in their programming courses. All presented their ideas to a panel of industry judges. All received positive comments.

Advithi Kethidi, Siddharth Krishna, and Kaleb Paul created an App to inform users of the UN Human Rights document and ways to petition governments to accept the document.

Pranav Krishna, Saikrishna Mittapalli, and Holland Pleakac created and App for users to call for help. The app utilizes the community as a whole to mobilize and offer aid to those around them until Paramedics and police arrive.

Jacob Robertson, Julian Sta Cruz, and Taylor Chin created an app to calculate an individuals energy consumption and detail the amount of carbon footprint that was created. It then offers suggestions for reduction of the carbon footprint and uses game theory to incentivize users to make changes to their energy usage.

In the end one of our teams won.

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