## Inspiration

For the last 4 years of being a college student, I've often wandered across some leftover food from an event (or worse, empty boxes that used to have Panera in them!) and wanted an app to let me know when there was free food near me. As an event organizer, I've also desperately tried to get people to eat all the free food at my events when they are woefully under attended. We've been meaning to make this app for years, and have even said to each other "shoulda FoodReconned that!" to our friends when we get to the extra food before they did. It was James Whittaker who gave us the idea for the special sauce we could add to FoodRecon to make it an app for the future.

## What it does

FoodRecon not only shows you all the places around you with free food at the moment - it notifies you as soon as you walk in the vicinity of free food without you ever having to look at your phone.

## How We built it

FoodRecon is a Windows 10 Universal app. It will run on any phone, PC, tablet, or DeLorean running Windows 10. It also can pair with a Microsoft Band to send notifications directly to your wrist when you enter the geofence of a free food location. FoodRecon uses an Azure database on an Azure Mobile Service with push notifications on the back end. FoodRecon is even accessible to Master Chief via voice commands to Cortana.

## Challenges I ran into

Stitching Azure Mobile Services, push notifications, Windows 10 Universal apps (without full documentation yet), Microsoft Band SDK, geofences, and Cortana was mainly the difficult part. Eating cookies was the easy part.

## Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Finishing.

## What I learned

All hail Visual Studio 2015.

## What's next for FoodRecon

Making iOS and Android clients soon, all with the same back end.
## Inspiration

When the first experimental COVID-19 vaccine became available in China, hundreds of people started queuing outside hospitals, waiting to get that vaccine. Imagine this on a planetary scale when the whole everybody has to be vaccinated all around the world. There's a big chance while queuing they can spread the virus to people around them or maybe get infected because they cannot perform social distancing at all. We sure don't want that to happen.

The other big issue is that there are lots of conspiracy theories, rumors, stigma, and other forms of disinformation simultaneously spread across our social media about COVID-19 and it's vaccine. This misinformation creates frustrations for users many asking, we really don't know which one is right? Which one is wrong?

## What it does

Immunize is a mobile app that can save your life and save your time. The goal is to make the distribution of mass-vaccination become more effective, faster, and less crowded. With this app, you can book your vaccine appointment based on your own preference. So the user can easily choose the hospital based on the nearest location and easily schedule an appointment based on their availability.

In addition, based on the research we found that most of Covid-19 vaccines requires 2 doses given in 3 weeks apart to achieve that high effectiveness. And there's a big probability that people can forget to return for a follow-up shot. We can minimize that probability. This app will automatically schedule the patient for the 2nd vaccination so there is a less likelihood of user error. The reminder system (as notification feature) that will remind them in their phone when they have appointment that day.

## How we built it

We built the prototype using flutter as our client to support mobile. We integrated radar.io for hospital search. For facial recognition we used GCP and SMS reminders we used twilio. The mobile client connected to firebase: using firebase for auth, firebase storage for avatars and firestore for user metadata storage. The second backend host used datastax.

## Challenges we ran into

Working with an international team was very challenging with team members 12+ hours apart. All of us were learning something new whether it was flutter, facial recognition or experimenting with new APIs. Flutter APIs were very experimental, the camera API had to be rolled back two major version which occurred in less than 2 months to find a viable working version compatible with online tutorials

## Accomplishments that we're proud of

The features:

1. **QR Code Feature** for storing all personal data + health condition, so user don't need to wait for a long queue of administrative things.
2. **Digital Registration Form** checking if user is qualified of COVID-19 vaccine and which vaccine suits best.
3. **Facial Recognition** due to potential fraud in people who are not eligible for vaccination attempting to get limited supplies of vaccine, we implemented facial recognition to confirm the user for the appointment is the same one that showed up.
4. **Scheduling Feature** based on date, vaccine availability, and the nearby hospital.
5. **Appointment History** to track all data of patients, this data can be used for better efficiency of mass-vaccination in the future.
6. **Immunize Passport** for vaccine & get access to public spaces. This will create domino effect for people to get vaccine as soon as possible so that they can get access.
7. **Notification** to remind the patients every time they have appointment/ any important news via SMS and push notifications
8. **Vaccine Articles** - to ensure the user can get the accurate information from a verified source.
9. **Emergency Button** - In case there are side effects after vaccination.
10. **Closest Hospitals/Pharmacies** - based on a user's location, users can get details about the closest hospitals through Radar.io Search API.

## What we learned

We researched and learned a lot about the facts of COVID-19 Vaccine; Some coronavirus vaccines may work better in certain populations than others. And there may be one vaccine that seems to work better in the elderly than in younger populations. Alternatively, one may work better in children than it works in the elderly. Research suggests, the coronavirus vaccine will likely require 2 shots to be effective in which taken 21 days apart for Pfizer's vaccine and 28 days apart for Moderna's remedy.

## What's next for Immunize

Final step is to propose this solution to our government. We really hope this app could be implemented in real life and be a solution for people to get COVID-19 vaccine effectively, efficiently, and safely. Polish up our mobile app and build out an informational web app and a mobile app for hospital staff to scan QR codes and verify patient faces (currently they have to use the same app as the client)
## Inspiration

Everybody eats and in college if you are taking difficult classes it is often challenging to hold a job. Therefore as college students we have no income during the year. Our inspiration came as we have moved off campus this year to live in apartments with full kitchens but the lack of funds to make complete meals at a reasonable price. So along came the thought that we couldn't be the only ones with this issue, so..."what if we made an app where all of us could connect via a social media platform and share and post our meals with the price range attached to it so that we don't have to come up with good cost effective meals on our own".

## What it does

Our app connects college students, or anyone that is looking for a great way to find good cost effective meals and doesn't want to come up with the meals on their own, by allowing everyone to share their meals and create an abundant database of food.

## How we built it

We used android studio to create the application and tested the app using the built in emulator to see how the app was coming along when viewed on the phone. Specifically we used an MVVM design to interweave the functionality with the graphical display of the app.

## Challenges we ran into

The backend that we were familiar with ended up not working well for us, so we had to transition over to another backend holder called back4app. We also were challenged with the user personal view and being able to save the users data all the time.

## Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of all the work that we put into the application in a very short amount of time, and learning how to work with a new backend during the same time so that everything worked as intended. We are proud of the process and organization we had throughout the project, beginning with a wire frame and building our way up part by part until the finished project.

## What we learned

We learned how to work with drop down menus to hold multiple values of possible data for the user to choose from. And for one of our group members learned how to work with app development on the full size scale.

## What's next for Forkollege

In version 2.0 we plan on implementing a better settings page that allows the user to change their password, we also plan on fixing the for you page specifically for each recipe displayed we were not able to come up with a way to showcase the number of $ sign's and instead opted for using stars again. As an outside user this is a little confusing, so updating this aspect is of the most importance.