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A wearable bracelet with features such as pushing a button of some sort to call 911. Pushing the button a certain number of times to text friends your location as well as for a fake emergency call: a call that gives you an excuse to leave a dangerous situation. It will have the additional feature of being able to ... Read More

The problem we decided to create a solution for is the education gap due to poverty, specifically for children within the city of Chicago. The main issues within this problem that we decided to focus on is that many children born into poverty lack the resources or help they need to be successful in school. As a result, they ... Read More

The biggest issue that we identified on campus was a difficulty with setting up plans on campus. One of the pain points we identified was that its hard to get imsa students to meet up, and group chats are incredibly confusing because they can get flooded. Our target audience is imsa students, for obvious reasons. Our solution is an app ... Read More

Our lead project is about turning microbial fuel cells from plants into power that lower-income suburbs of Chicago can utilize. Many low-income places in the Chicago suburbs live without power and may not have access to electricity or certain technologies. Places of work, schools, and hospitals may need to utilize technology that they don’t have access to. That can ... Read More

As the number of wildfires in America increases, so do the extinction rates for many animals living in high wildlife risk areas. In the state of Washington, there exists a population of pygmy rabbits that are a crucial addition to the shrub-steppe ecosystem there. The pygmy rabbits are important for they help act like prey and burrowers for the ecosystem, ... Read More

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal that our group has chosen is #6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Water is vital to human survival. Unfortunately, throughout certain areas of the world, water sources have been contaminated making it difficult for humans to consume. This has occurred in the US, where a major substance that has been polluting the water is ... Read More

Food shortage is a growing problem in Illinois, with 1 in 7 people from Cook County facing food insecurity this year. Estimates show that U.S. schools waste a total of 530,000 tons of food per year. Impoverished families have a harder time putting food on the table, which has a detrimental impact on people's health and well-being. The lack ... Read More

Our group decided to focus on addressing the 13th UNSDG, climate action. With climate change approaching, more solutions to save our planet need to be implemented. During the research phase, we found that droughts are becoming increasingly common. In California, especially the Bay Area, droughts harm the environment and daily lifestyles. Droughts also reduce water supply for people inhabiting ... Read More

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia, and It lies on the northwest coast of the island of Java. Jakarta is home to around 10 million people, but it is estimated that by 2050 95% of Jakarta will be submerged in water. Jakarta’s ground levels are sinking due to the excessive extraction of groundwater using aquifers for their daily needs. ... Read More

Conserve is a water preservation and quality measuring device that can be easily added or screwed on to shower-heads, sinks faucets, and numerous other sources of water. It will display the amount of gallons used in a day/run and the alkalinity of the water that is being used. This will all be displayed through a screen extrusion, a part ... Read More

The problems that our service will be addressing is the inconvenience that IMSA students have every time they have room inspections, and their need for service hours to graduate. We aim to address this by providing a trash service that will pick up trash bags from students’ dorm rooms and bring them out to the dumpsters for them on ... Read More

We believe that everyone deserves access to clean water resources. Unfortunately, worldwide nearly 1.1 billion people do not have access to it. UN SDG 6 is focused on clear water and sanitation, so our group has decided to focus on this for our service. More specifically, farmers across the world have limited access to water sources and therefore cannot ... Read More

What is Jute?

Jute is an online classroom managing platform. Posting assignments and assessments are made easier by students being able to see what their file looks like before they submit it, a problem we face when submitting assignments every day. This allows students to check if their files are corrupt or formatted properly.

Jute also simplifies communication by ... Read More

KAJ coin is a cryptocurrency alternative that is backed by your money and the price doesn’t fluctuate. The beauty of it is that it is easier to mine meaning that you make money by doing nothing and since it’s easier to mine it is less environmentally damaging. KAJ coin can be mined on computers, phones, tablets, and most electronic ... Read More

IMSA students tend to face a lot more stress than the typical high school student. However, there are limited resources the IMSA administration offers students to cope with these great amounts of stress. As a result, The Positive Point was developed. The Positive Point is a resource that students can utilize to help cope with school mentally as well ... Read More

Our project, TIMEly, is an all-in-one service app targeted towards high school and college student populations, that can not only track one’s assignments and other work through the built-in planner, but can also schedule quick and easy study groups/sessions through our comprehensive peer network that is centralized around the campus or school you attend.

Alongside such applications, students and ... Read More