Congratulations to our 2019 Award winners! Prizes were awarded in three categories:
Moonshot Award for Technical Ambition
Impact Award for Social Good
Shark Tank Award for Business Acumen
Many forms of social media don't give their users enough privacy or ownership of their posts. Other forms of social media also provide a lack of safety to their users. Our app idea is called Honeycomb and it solves these issues by using a peer to peer network rather than being server based. It gives users complete ownership over their posts and allows for better security because only the users friends can see what they post. It also creates a safer environment because unlike a social media network like instagram where you can just type people's names in and find their page, Honeycomb makes it so you can only type in a users ID to find their page. This makes it safer for the user because only specific people will be able to find the users page.
Tucker Kupfer
Aleksandr Stevens
Sierra Fisher
We named our project accessiPlay. Our project was a choose your own adventure game built in Scratch that was controlled by head movements as a way to make gaming more accessible to those who can’t use a controller. Our controller was extremely cheap to make; it was a cardboard headband taped together with brightly colored post-it notes used as beacons for the webcam on our computer to identify what was input by the player. We built our project because we wanted to provide a proof of concept that gaming could be much more accessible much more cheaply. Because of how easy the headband was to assemble, it isn’t only accessible to differently abled people, but also to people who can’t afford super expensive setups that will support their abilities.
Ayler Fielder
Eitan Prins-Trachtenberg
Taj Melhuish
Josh Daneshrad
A screen time app that uses a point based system to persuade kids to get off their devices.
Sydney Mitchell
Maya Naito
Brandon Melamed
Nick Aurino
WatchTogether is a project that allows users to watch a video while chatting with users and friends in order to react to the video. It could be used as an educational app as students or users could use the app to study with each other and express their concerns about the content. The users would have the app for personal, business, and educational uses.
Leyna Amin
Eric Yoon
Connor Youshaei
Brandon Lim
Vaughn Eknoyar
Games for Good is an app that anyone can use. It has several mini games, in which you can earn both points that can be used to customize an avatar, and points called charity points. When you collect enough charity points, you can donate them to charity, and we donate real money to charity.
Jordana Goldstein
Ryan Ortega
Daniel James
Levi Gilbert-Adler
A costume gaming company that makes headphones that recognizes your parents voice and you can only hear their voice /your music
Owen Cazenave
Joshua Huang
Maurice Young