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Team America
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by Claudio Bryla 9 years, 1 month ago
Our Ideas:
- Smarter Course Registration
- Course registration app should know the classes you've taken and the classes you need to take.
- It should make suggestions based on your current progress.
- It should try and auto complete your schedule.
- It should pull in info from RateMyProfessor, etc.
- Carpool App for Campuses
- Sort of like Uber or Lyft.
- App will match students based on location and first/last class times.
- Saves students money on gas and parking.
- Students can split on gas and parking.
- Students can pay the driver right in the app.
- Helping out the environment.
- Campus Security Idea
- A website and an app to make campus security more opaque.
- Students will be able to see where cameras are located on campus.
- Students will be able to see which areas of campus are patrolled by campus police (inc. undercover officers)
- "Green zones" can be highlighted to point out areas with the most security or traffic.
- Students can make suggestions on where they'd like to see more security.
- Students can notify the campus police of a crime right from the app (maybe, people could abuse this).
- Abandoned House Project w. Homeless
- (This may already be a thing.)
- Obtain abandoned houses from the city.
- Offer homeless free residences on the condition that they renovate the home.
- Provide materials for renovation.
- Possibly pay people money during the renovation so that they can eat, have utilities, etc.
- Train people how to renovate.
- Renovations would be supervised (check in, etc.)
- Upon succesful renovation, the person who renovated the home can keep it.
- Would help people get back on their feet, provide shelter, etc.
- Traffic Lights (Detroit traffic) (This idea is sort of meh, maybe we should scrap it?)
- There was a traffic study (that I can't find) discussing how many traffic lights are no longer needed.
- Traffic lights in construction areas (esp. Woodward) need to be smarter.
- City would save on energy, people could get where they want to faster.
- Campus Tunnel System
- Some buildings on campus are already connected underground.
- Expand this tunnel system to connect more buildings.
- Students can avoid bad weather and traffic at some intersections by traveling to class underground.
- If there's room, study areas or vending machines can be added.
- This is probably really expensive.
- Making Email More Secure
- Millions (maybe billions) of people rely on email.
- Email is pretty insecure at the moment.
- You can't verify the sender, it's not encrypted, etc.
- A lot of people don't know that appending "This email is confidential blah blah blah" is a non-binding contract, it's meaningless.
- This can be solved using protocols like OpenPGP.
- Make protocols like OpenPGP easily accessible to anyone by removing all the crypto lingo.
- Have it built into popular email clients or create a client to do this.
- Helping 8th grades become more proficient in reading
- Only 7 percent of 8th grades in Detroit are proficient in reading.
- Focus more on skills instead of comprehension.
- Student choose the type of reading material.
- Exhibiting low teacher expectations.
- We could motivate them, by first giving them what they want such as more extracurricular activities, sports, better school lunches, etc.
- Allow parents join their kids in classes.
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