## 🌍 Background

Unlike the traditional profit-orientated approach in financial investing, responsible investing is a relatively new concept that expressly recognizes the importance of environmental, social, and governance aspects to the investor and the long-term health and stability of the market (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, 2021). However, currently, ESG does not have a standardized evaluation system that allows investors to quickly determine the potential of the financial products.

## ❣️ Inspiration

More recently, some have claimed that ESG standards, in addition to their social value, might protect investors from the crises that arise when businesses that operate in a hazardous or immoral manner are finally held responsible for their effects. Examples include the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster by BP and the billion-dollar emissions scandal at Volkswagen, which both had a negative impact on the stock values of their respective corporations. (Investopedia, 2022). Therefore, the demand of creating an easy-to-use ESG evolution tool for everybody is essential to address the stigma that investing, saving, and budgeting are only for privileged populations.

## ⚙️ Solution

Inspired by the current uncertainty about ESG evaluation methods, our team proposed and implemented an online ESG evaluation platform with our recently developed algorithms called Stock Stalker that allow investors to search, manage, and see the overall ESG performance of the selected stocks associated with a built-in recommendation system.

To See. To Learn. To Apply. To Earn. To Contribute. Stock Stalker redefines what it means to earn profits while ensuring the investment is making positive impacts on the environment, society, and governance. Using React, REST API, and our developed algorithms, Stock Stalker offers investors both access to real-time financial data including the ESG rating of the stocks, and a platform that illustrates the ESG properties of the store without providing those hard-to-understand technical details. After using our product, the investor can have a deeper understanding of ESG investments without the need to learn about professional finance knowledge. As a result, these investors are now able to make accurate ESG investments based on their interests.

## 🗝️ Key Product Features

·Allow users to search and save the selected stocks based on the input of stock symbols.
·Access to real-time financial data such as the Earning Per Share (EPS) and the current stock price trend.
·Provide numerical ESG ratings in different aspects with our developed algorithms.
·Illustrate ESG properties of the stocks through an easy-to-understand recommendations system.

## ⚙️ Tech Stack

·The prototype was designed with Figma while the front end was built on React
·We used Tailwind CSS, framer-motion and various libraries to decorate our web page
·The backend data was stored on JSON-Server, cors and axios
·Notifications are sent out using Twilio
·Functionalities were built with tradingviewwidget

## 🔥 What we're proud of

Even though we faced difficulties in the back-end implementation, we still figured out the techniques that are required for our site via collaboration. Another accomplishment is that our team members not only learned the programming techniques but also, we learned so much finance knowledge during the hack. Additionally, given that we were primarily a front-end team with no experience in dealing with the back-end, we are incredibly proud that we were able to take up the new concepts in very little time (big thanks to the mentors as well!).

## 🔭 What's Next for Stock Stalker

Looking to the future for Stock Stalker, we intend on implementing functions that connect our ESG evaluation site to the actual stock-buying organizations. Further implementation includes an additional page that provides the estimated price of the stock selected from the site with the buying options from different stock buying platforms so that the investors can compare and purchase the stock in a more convenient way.

## 🌐 Best Domain Name from Domain.com

As a part of our project, we registered stockstalkertech using Domain.com! You can also access it [here](https://www.stockstalker.tech/).
## Inspiration

It's more important than ever for folks to inform themselves on how to reduce waste production, and the information isn't always as easy to find as it could be. With GreenShare, a variety of information on how to reduce, reuse and recycle any product is just a click away.

## What it does

Allows you to scan by barcode or object any product, and then gives you insight on how you might proceed to reduce your waste

## How we built it

Using a Flutter barcode scanner and image recognition package, and firebase for our database

## Challenges we ran into

The image recognition proved to be more finicky than anticipated

## Accomplishments that we're proud of

Having produced a nice UI that has all the basic functionality it needs to be the start of something new

## What we learned

To never underestimate the roadblocks you'll come across at any time! Also lots of Flutter

## What's next for GreenShare

Implementing some more communal aspects which would allow users to collaborate more in the green effort

## Ivey business model challenge

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## Inspiration

As a group of passionate millennials, we look to support companies that align with our personal values. In addition, we have investment ideas that we get from interactions in our everyday lives. Building a portfolio of socially responsible companies that includes these ideas and testing those ideas, is a difficult process.

## How does it work?

We took a simplified approach by putting the power into your hands, literally. You can seamlessly start with an investment ideas with our Android app. From there our machine learning trained models map those ideas to companies around the idea. A portfolio is then built which you can adjust and view back tested performance on. There is also the moral compass rating which tells you how ethical the business is and other relevant portfolio metrics.

## What does it do?

* Uses an investment theme you have to curate a portfolio of companies relevant to it
* Provides a score which tells you how ethical a business is for investment considerations
* Allows you to backtest portfolios and see how they perform over time
* Additional portfolio metrics are provided using the BlackRock API to tell you risk and volatility

## Challenges

* Storing historical price data for all NYSE and NASDAQ listed equities and quickly accessing it from the database for charting
* Creating the algorithms to map ideas to relevant companies with accuracy
* Using general information from websites to do sentiment analysis and generate an ethical score
* Large amounts of keyword search data is hard from scraped website
* Working with Android UI components and getting it identical to our mockups
* Incorporating dates properly for use with the time series data