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In response to our Challenge Brief, Bullying and Bystanders. The app we envision in this solution is a social tool to encourage group members to get to know and work with each other. It is intended primarily for high school students but would work with any large group. It works first by giving app users points/rewards ... more
Stick With It! is a comprehensive program to help teens change or maintain a desired behavior. Using a customizable personal ‘Plan of Attack’ – an in the moment support tool – combined with supporting and reliable health related information, Stick With It! will offer teens the opportunity to not only acquire the information and the ... more
SnapFresh.org is a free sms-based app that helps food stamp recipients find healthy places that accept SNAP (food stamps). Most recipients have money in their accounts, but many are embarrassed to go to farmers markets and nice stores and ask if they accept SNAP. ... more
Our idea: We’ve developed an App that teaches young children to count from 1 to 9. Strong educational foundations are necessary for academic success and young age is obviously the time when kids build them. Despite their best efforts, many families often lack the time to do that teaching themselves. Some may believe that their ... more
Remás enables immigrants to save on money transfer fees, access the financial mainstream, and increase opportunities for themselves and their communities here and abroad. ... more
Our idea: At Goodwill, we create solutions to poverty through the businesses we operate. In addition to being a network of re-used good retail stores, we offer a number of comprehensive resources that provide employment opportunities, job trainings, a number of social services – even programs to help youth from underserved communities reach their true ... more
Our idea: Most people use the most efficient pathways from work to home every day. This is a highly established behavior and automatic routine. Healthy Commute endeavors to surface information about healthy options along the way and help people make healthy choices with a minimal additional effort. We show people a beneficial healthy food or ... more
Our idea: For our sustainable business MBA class, we decide to build application for FAFSA. Our business plan will primarily focus on increasing access to Federal Student Aid for low-income young adults in the United States. Our plan is to simplify the student financial aid application process and increase accessibility by offering an alternative to ... more
Our idea: edRover is a location-aware mobile app that makes school fundraising fun while helping drive the local economy. edRover allows parents, students and educators to find nearby businesses that offer funds for school supplies and special benefits to the user just for checking-in to sponsored locations. Users can also shop through the app to ... more
MobileSaver is a mobile web portal for the management of an Individual Development Account. ... more
Our idea: Nexercise is a free mobile game that rewards users with virtual medals, coupons, and free merchandise for being active. The app can be used with ANY physical activity such as walking your dog, cycling and even weightlifting. In the game you earn game points and medals that qualify you to win real prizes ... more
Students and busy individuals need help managing their goals, that’s what “Goal Setting Application” is for. It helps users set short term goals as well as long term goals. People have very constrained schedule and struggles to keep on track with their goals. By using the Goal Setting application they can keep track of short term ... more
People are lazy, all too often fast food just seem like a good decide. Sometimes they just don’t know how to prepare their own food, for the latter, there’s Teach me. This app will help people discover how to make their own food and give them healthier and that tastes better. With a ton of ... more
Green Bank is a bank assistance and management mobile app that will help people access and manage their money. With in the app, individuals will be able to access their bank accounts from their phones. Along with basic banking actions, like transferring funds to different accounts, looking your balance, and viewing your withdrawals, you will also be able to find ... more
Biking is a fun way to get exercise, its also a economic and environmentally friendly form of transportation. But some times its hard to find your way around the city or to find a nice trail for the weekend. Even trying to find a bike shop can be hard sometimes. Bike City is a Peer ... more
If your on a camping trip and have a bite or a rash, you can use our app on your iphone to help diagnose and treat it.To use our app, first you take a picture of the inflicted area, then you check off or write a description of your symptoms, after a short time evaluating things, the app with help ... more
Internships are critical for building work skills and connections for teens in seattle, but they can be hard to find sometimes. Since there are a large number of teens with smart phones, with more and more getting them mouth, there should be an app that ties internship finding with smart phones. Using smart phones ability to connect ... more
My app is designed to help students with their learning but it also has tools that will help them with their school work and tone their stress down. This is a comprehensive app, with many smaller apps inside of it. It’ll have lots of tools that will help students understand what they are learning in ... more
Bill is 15, he’s currently in the 10th grade, he doesn’t mind taking care of his brothers. Bill enjoys helping his family around the house. He helps his parents make food for his grand parents and siblings. It can some times be hard for Bill and his family to prepare food on their budget. Gotta ... more
Our idea: Get on a mission to better health! Nutrition Missions helps broaden palates by introducing a range of delicious, nutrient dense foods. Learn more about healthy eating, and start a conversation on Twitter about the road to good health. Missions – Complete steps of varying difficulty, through fun and healthy Missions. Tips – Get ... more
Our idea: We build fun and educational games for young children on the mobile technology. Children grasp technology faster than adults, unfortunately, there are few children’s apps/games that promote this in a fun way. The founder, Ahmed Siddiqui, was an ESL student in Kindergarten. Back then, paper, pencils, and books were the normal format for ... more
Our idea: The mobile application encourage people to ride bike to work. By registring their bike into the stolen bike registry, it provide place for people to report their bike stolen. Any mobile device that has this app installed can be used to help find the missing bike. The mobile app provide photo and location ... more
Pickup Sports is an idea using mobile and web platform to crowd source local pickup games activities. Potential Users: People who wants to find and play pickup games in their neighborhood. Games such as basketball, football, running partner, hiking, etc. The app is build for those who wants to Trim the Fat or wants to ... more
This would be a game application for those interested in taking the Food Stamp challenge from the movie.. The idea is that given current conditions, it can be pretty tough to make ends meet on a food stamp or SNAP budget. This app could help one plan and complete the challenge as well as share ... more
FOOD STAMPED (based on the documentary FoodStamped) is a comprehensive mobile application designed to assist individuals eligible for or already receiving food stamps eat a healthy, well-balanced diet. The application would include several components that address access and affordability of healthy food, nutrition and cooking education. The application could include some or all of the ... more
If you watch the TED Talk by Cynthia Breazeal here, you’ll see a very cool idea at about the 9:15 mark. It’s a robot that helps coach you to lose weight. View the entire video to see the reasons that a robotic coach might be more effective than just a mobile phone application. Dr. Breazeal ... more
App to use existing data sources to move food stamp usage to groceries with healthier food. Addresses the market failure known as food deserts. ... more
With over 750,000 teen pregnancies annually in the United States, nearly a third of them not carried to term, Nine – a contemporary and courageous new scripted series produced by the Public Internet Channel will examine the all too real consequences of this life changing phenomenon from a teen father’s point of view. http://pic.tv/9ine/ Along ... more
Use RFID to create a time-saving attendance monitoring system. At the same time, include ways to further involved parents in their childrens’ education. ... more
KidsAmazed has developed a suite of games on the Android marketplace with a web-based educational and gameplay monitoring component. This allows children to play the games that appeal to them using age appropriate content. KidsAmaze allows us or the childs parent or teacher to monitor each child’s activity to provide help and guidance where the child most needs it. ... more
If kids need jobs and kids are on Facebook, then it seem like that is a natural place for an app that helps a kid land a job. ... more
Trim the Fat starts with smarter, more informed grocery shopping. Game the Groceries is a smart phone application that uses the camera to identify products by bar codes as you shop in the grocery, and then: Keeps running total of the current bill, with the ability to remove items (with store involvement) Identifies WIC-approved items ... more
Students in lower income areas attend schools that are often unable to afford the cost, time and risk to implement new technology. Our proposal offers a way to reach these students with cutting edge mobile educational technology and confirm its usefulness. The leading Open Source learning management system (LMS) is Moodle (1.2m registered teachers and ... more
More people would use banks if they could find the best deals. ... more
This tool will illustrate the costs of payday lending and check cashing versus traditional banking. Before individuals decide to use alternative financial services, they will be able to use this tool to understand the costs associated with each service. This tool will make the costs associated with the alternative financial services more transparent and shed ... more
The Healthy Eating Reminders (HER) application will target low-income and low-literacy audiences that are disproportionately impacted. This mobile application will help users remember to eat the recommended five-to-six, mini-meals daily (breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, and snack). It will allow the user to enter the times to be reminded to eat, as well as provide ... more
Sometimes, little johnny, try as we might not to, we just need some extra divs. There there, dear, I know. I know.
