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 8^th grades become more proficient in reading
• Only 7 percent of 8^th 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.