Teaching Cybersecurity Best Practices David Aarhus, Lucas Torti, Gabriel Garcia, Christopher Chang
Our goal is to improve poor cybersecurity behavior via a multi-lesson educational website. Teaching Cybersecurity Best Practices Poster
Single Use PLA Biodegradable Water Bottle McKenna Bakken, Johanna Daerendinger, Bridgette Kohl, Leeyette Lolich, Grace Yang
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
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
Saving the Endangered Mountain Gorillas Gabriella Levy, Jillian Fahey, and Ethan Slade
We share 98% of our DNA with gorillas. A lot of the mountain gorillas residing in Africa get sick and die from human transmitted illnesses. This is a problem because without gorillas, entire forests wouldn’t exist as they help disperse seeds. With more animals going extinct, it is human’s responsibility to save the ones we
Reforming the Electoral College Hari Kumar, Chris Carlton, Jordan Bruce
Our team’s goal is to reform the Electoral College to better represent the American people. The current Electoral College system discourages citizens to vote and does not accurately represent citizens’ wants. Reforming the Electoral College Poster
Positive news website: an alleviation of depression Bella Li; Jane Kim; Jasmine Mendez
The negatively biased information from news leads to a negative mood in people such as anxiety and depression, creating even biased perspectives. To alleviate the negative mood and improve the positive psychological health, we decided to create a website that brings positive information to our website users, providing positive information that relieves their negative bias.
Tackling the Santa Ana Homelessness Crisis Abigail Baggelaar, Sydney Carlson, Kristiene Jumig, Emily McHorney, Caleb Wilkins, Nina Wolf
Our idea is to use our $1.4 billion budget to create low income, transitional housing communities which would act as a bridge between homelessness and independence by providing homeless people with access to shelter, as well as mental health facilities and therapy offices. We would also like to implement resources like job fairs, financial advising,
Welcome to the 2021 Virtual GCI Showcase! Live Q&A with Student Teams May 14
Welcome to this year’s virtual GCI Showcase! Projects will be online for viewing and judging all week, with live Q&A with student teams on Friday, May 14. Our program kicks off at 1 p.m. with welcoming remarks from Dr. Greg Goldsmith, Director of the Grand Challenges Initiative before attendees are invited to disperse into breakout
Duck curves & flywheels: Solving the energy crisis with mechanical energy storage Curren Taber, Gary Zeri, Jackson Goldberg, Thomas Hernandez, Zachery Baker
For society to transition to a fully renewable power grid without dependence on slowly dwindling fossil fuel energy sources, a means of renewable energy storage is required. Renewable energy production fluctuates pertinent to the time of day, such as in the case of solar power, where large amounts of solar power are generated during the
Educating Chapman University about Air Quality Caitlin Felts, Ariel Gutierrez, Lena Khalidi, Saniya Syed
The goal of our project is to bring awareness and educate the general population about indoor air quality and the harmful effects that high particulate matter concentrations can have on us. We believe it is important to learn about indoor air quality because there is statistical evidence that shows indoor air quality can be worse