Currently entrepreneurs in the maritime industry are facing the problem of finding funding opportunities efficiently with disparate messy online resources with high charges. Our Blue Funder Portal provides one central location for maritime innovators to find and search for a wide range of funding opportunities sponsored by the Washington State Department of Commerce. These entrepreneurial projects flourish and further help to grow the “blue” business in the pacific northwest maritime industry.

Blyp is a digital curation tool intended for those at end-of-life. People death plan in various ways--from cleaning social media profiles, to leaving predated emails for loved ones. Existing social media platforms focus on what is happening now, but not much on what happens after we pass. With Blyp, users can preserve memories through photo and text media, specify a location, and decide when loved ones can access their blyps. Blyp gives those close-to-death a platform to leave stories behind, while at the same time creating conversation around and de-stigmatizing death. Blyp is available as an iOS mobile application.

Imagine yourself suspended ten feet in the air, fingers losing grip, and bracing for your inevitable fall, all because you can’t tell the difference between two rocks. At rock climbing gyms, boulders are color-coded to represent the level of difficulty which is a disadvantage for colorblind individuals. Our team saw a need to help this user group participate in this sport with relative ease. Bold Colors is a free mobile web application that uses object recognition and color detection to help users autonomously see their routes before they scale the wall.

ChirpOut gives employees the ability to anonymously ‘chirp out’ serious issues that they are impacted by and to do so without fear of retribution–they are “canaries in a mine.” Companies can then view these aggregated claims as indicators in data visualizations and address them to create a higher standard for handling workplace concerns and improve the overall quality of the workplace.

Students who choose to learn programming through non-traditional routes face more obstacles introduced by predominantly remote learning. The CodeBreakers (coding bootcamp) website promises that coaches will be available 24/7—a large and demanding commitment. By developing a LeetCode Chrome extension and Slackbot for Codebreakers students, the addition of these tools will assist in offloading some of that weight, streamlining teaching processes, and lessening pain points. We can track impact by analyzing differences in CodeBreakers’ graduates' success rates prior to and after implementing our solution, as well as the feedback from surveys completed by students, usage rates, and performance in mock interviews.

Community Credit Lab (CCL) partners with non-profits and other organizations to create and source custom loan programs for disadvantaged communities. However, the in-person training and onboarding process for partners can be time and resource-intensive, bottlenecking the number of communities CCL can help. Community Credit Lab Courses (CCL Courses) is a custom proprietary online training and onboarding platform for Community Credit Lab (CCL) partnerships. This platform enables CCL to generate and publish training course materials, which can then be consumed by prospective partners. In this way, CCL can flexibly deliver pertinent information to their partners using a centralized and persistent platform.

With the current public health crisis of COVID-19 at hand, some communities in the King County area are at a higher risk and are more vulnerable to the effects of this pandemic. CounterCOVID is a risk assessment tool that assists these communities by reducing misinformation and easing their fears through a targeted and personalized approach. CounterCOVID takes in symptom information from the user and returns personalized information about the next best steps, with a focus on the King County area. The goal is to be a reliable and centralized tool for King County residents, specifically the at-risk communities.

With the current public health crisis of COVID-19 at hand, some communities in the King County area are at a higher risk and are more vulnerable to the effects of this pandemic. CounterCOVID is a risk assessment tool that assists these communities by reducing misinformation and easing their fears through a targeted and personalized approach. CounterCOVID takes in symptom information from the user and returns personalized information about the next best steps, with a focus on the King County area. The goal is to be a reliable and centralized tool for King County residents, specifically the at-risk communities.

We set out to research how intermediate programming students could achieve a more intuitive understanding of computer science data structures so that they can make better design decisions when creating software and utilize these concepts in future work. Based on feedback from programming instructors and user testing, we determined that our product, destructure.io, is successful in breaking down learning barriers and cultivating strong mental models of common data structures. Our product will allow more students to feel confident in their programming skills and succeed in various technical roles.

The John Wott Slide Collection was originally intended to support academic reference and research, and it is now combined with 35mm slides created by Joy Spurr. Through this project, we intend to set up an organized foundation for the Elisabeth C. Miller Library to digitize these materials on a manageable budget and make them available to support teaching and research in a more modern era of technology. Deliverables include a weeded, organized, and cataloged slide collection, an online exhibit established in Omeka, and a research paper discussing digitization, preservation, funding, and budget options for the collection materials.