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Improving Nurse Education with VR

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

The challenge that our team sought to resolve is the fact that nurses and other medical practitioners often have to face heavy fees and hurdles in order to gain hands-on experience and education in the classroom through standardized patients. These paid actors can be expensive and limited, and as a result, we decided to develop

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Mellow Fellows - An Interactive Pet Caretaking App

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our project, Mellow Fellows, began with the goal of tackling the challenge of mental health issues. We concentrated specifically on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) because of the prevalence and severity of the illness in society today. By creating a relaxing, fun, and simple pet care video game, we hoped to use the positive effects of

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Pocket Portfolio: Personalizing Education in the Modern Age

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our project combats the outdated interface of my.chapman, which is difficult to navigate and visually unappealing, by redefining the student learning experience that it cultivates. We have made an app that is more user-friendly and aims to make the learning experience unique and more helpful to them based on how they digest information. This takes

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Detecting DeepFakes by Comparing Facial Action Units

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

A DeepFake is a digitally altered face intended to mimic another person. This technology is advancing rapidly, with the amount of DeepFakes increasing by 84% in 2019. Traditional detection methods that observe artifact and pixel inconsistencies fail to keep up. To combat this issue, our team developed a DeepFake detection software that: analyzes facial data

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Addressing the Decline in Pollinator Populations

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our grand challenge addresses the decline in Apis mellifera populations and proposes a solution for preserving this species of pollinator by providing them with a more nutritious diet. As a team, we have conducted research to identify four plants that show potential for providing bees with novel health benefits. The four plants we chose to

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Improving Mental Health with Safebubble VR

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Our Grand Challenge attempts to tackle the topic of mental health with the use of virtual reality, or VR. There has been a lot of stigma surrounding mental health that resulted in people neglecting their mental wellness due to a lack of information and accessible treatment programs. We have researched aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy

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COVID-19, University Opening Policies, and Political Influence

May 11, 2021 by Grand Challenges Initiative | Student presentations

Universities across the United States closed down in the beginning of 2020 due to an outbreak of COVID-19. Universities adapted by developing ranging plans to continue educational instruction, varying between fully online instruction, opening schools completely, or a hybrid combination. It is critical to understand how these ranging policies impacted COVID-19 outcomes across the U.S.

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Meal Good Feel Good: Meal Replacement Bar to Reduce Obesity

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

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Development of an Artificial Implantable Nanoparticle Carrying-Defibrillator Device to Treat Forms of Heart Arrhythmia

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

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Developing a Classification Algorithm for Pedestrians and Street Signs

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

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