The excessive disposal of plastics has caused an unfathomable accumulation of plastics in cities, sewage systems, landfills, oceans etc., and is threatening ecosystems and their inhabitants all over the globe. With the absence of a sustainable and environmentally friendly means of properly disposing these plastics, this experiment was geared towards solving this challenge. In this
Working with Wastewater is a 2-4 player educational board game designed for ages 12 and up hosted on Tabletopia. Each player is a wastewater treatment company looking to maximize profits while minimizing the waste produced by treating wastewater. Companies will start with a distinct wastewater treatment facility with different assets. Purchase additional wastewater treatment technologies
Our application’s purpose is to provide an opportunity to the average person in educating themselves on how their habitual tendencies effect their mental health and encourage healthy practices. hAppy: Mental Health Application Poster
Our Grand Challenge Initiative throughout the past three semesters has been to create ways to reduce transmission of HIV, as well as create ways in which adolescents are more drawn to learning about sexual health. Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Eradicating the Stigma Poster
Ocean acidification is a phenomenon that results from increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions on land. As carbon dioxide is absorbed, a series of chemical reactions causes an increase in acidity. This leads to many detrimental effects on marine organisms reverberate up the food chain. One reason ocean acidification remains a grand challenge is because of
Our challenge was harnessing AI to be used in depression therapy. AI Chatbots In Therapy For Depression Poster
When the concept of causality is thought of within a non-physics based context, it is typically thought of as the relationship between “cause” and “effect” or simply as the idea that something results in a subsequent event occurring. However, when brought into the context of physics, one must account for the two types of mechanics
Over the past couple of years, more and more schools have continuously cut funding for music programs around the country. This increase in budget cuts can be seen affecting students by not allowing students at a young age to be creative, which discourages them as they continue their education to think within boundaries consistently. The
Our goal is to increase empathy for people that are colorblind and work towards positive social change by creating an educational virtual reality (VR) game. In our VR game, there are multiple mini-game scenarios in which the player must complete an everyday task as someone who is colorblind, such as distinguishing between traffic light colors
Our group focused on the declining bee population, which has been a source of concern for the agricultural industry. Although pollinators are made up of a diverse variety of species, bees perform a majority of pollination, specifically in agriculture. The decline of bee pollinators inevitably has decreased crop yield, which is disadvantageous from an environmental