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Meal Good Feel Good: Meal Replacement Bar to Reduce Obesity Ben Janda, Natalia Miranda, Sharon Nguyen, & David Zhang

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

The goal of our project is to develop an affordable meal replacement bar to help mitigate the rising obesity rates, specifically in college students. Moreover, our proposed solution is a meal replacement bar that would provide an adult person with all of the necessary nutrients (protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals) needed in a given

Development of an Artificial Implantable Nanoparticle Carrying-Defibrillator Device to Treat Forms of Heart Arrhythmia Sky Moraino, Danny Meisel, Jordan Silver, Ishaan Shah

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

While the majority of heart arrhythmias have been treated through implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) or orally through medication, many of these treatments have not provided fast-acting relief from an arrhythmia, and have led to malfunctions in sensing of ICD and damage to organs by Amiodarone. Our goal for our project takes a two-pronged approach, which

Developing a Classification Algorithm for Pedestrians and Street Signs Aviv Zohman, Eric Wasserman, Darron Kotoyan

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our grand challenge is to lower traffic accidents by using autonomous vehicles. To achieve this in the scope of our GCI project we created a machine learning algorithm that classifies street signs and pedestrians. This grand challenge contributes to the problem of car accidents. We wrote a machine learning algorithm that is trained to detect

An Intuitive Application for COVID-19 Education and Contact Tracing Amanda Tabb, Andrea Sandoval, Delilah Schuerman, Josie Dillard, Michael Bertagna, and Stella Anderson

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

The grand challenge that the Pandemitrack team aimed to address was the management of disease outbreak, specifically the novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). With the spread of COVID-19, there have been multiple resources providing information and as a result, people were misinformed. The proposed solution was to create an app to identify local cases in

Sustainability in Ubiquitous Computing Megan Barajas, Maya Cheav, Kate Hartshorn, Jacqueline Villarosa, Micaela Wilcox, Christopher Youn

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our group took on the GCI challenge presented by Dean Lyon to find sustainability in a world of ubiquitous computing. We found a number of green approaches to accomplishing this goal and researched the advantages and disadvantages of each one. Analyzing our research we have determined which solutions would be viable options to implement on

The H.E.R.O. Program: Creating a Generation of Safe Thinkers Michael Ortiz, Lily Annen, Sarah Connolly, Andriana Agrusa, and Logan Jett

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Over the last decade, the United States has seen an unacceptable amount of school related gun violence. In order to solve this grand challenge, our team has partnered with Safe Kids Inc. to assist them with the development and distribution of their violence prevention programs. We have created and distributed two surveys that will provide

Single Use PLA Biodegradable Water Bottle McKenna Bakken, Johanna Daerendinger, Bridgette Kohl, Leeyette Lolich, Grace Yang

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Consumption of single use water bottles has significantly increased which has negatively affected the environment. PLA (Polylactide) plastic is an alternative to conventional plastics because of biodegradability. Our grand challenge is to minimize plastic pollution. One solution to this problem could be replacing conventional plastics with biodegradable PLA plastic. We created a biodegradable single use

COVID-19 and Obesity: The Relationship Between Two Pandemics Alex Baker, Nataly Reyes, Ricardo Espinoza Hernandez

May 10, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Understanding how COVID-19 can further extort preexisting complications in obese patients is our primary goal. This is a problem because patients who are obese or are at risk of obesity should be informed of ways they can help themselves and how COVID-19 will affect them. COVID-19 and Obesity: The Relationship Between Two Pandemics Poster

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