Digimed is a patient health literacy application that simplifies complicated medical terms and helps educate patients about their condition or treatment and helps them get better. We use computer vision algorithms to process the picture of a pill bottle label and break the text down into understandable terms. Our conversations, presentations and tests/trials to people have received great feedback about the problem being addressed and the easy to use application for setting up their electronic medical cabinet. With Digimed, patients will always be informed of whats really going on in their medical treatment process.

Dumb Ways to Die… On Mars is a STEAM program, modified and designed to make STEAM programming accessible to underserved and low-income communities. Each component of the project can be done at little to no cost, and participants learn about the engineering process, write a letter to NASA, build a Mars rover, and expand on critical problem-solving skills all to answer the question: how do we, as humans, survive on Mars? The project includes lesson plans, an in-depth PowerPoint presentation, and ELA and math standards, all downloadable for free from an easily-accessible website. Website: http://dumbwaystodieonmars.wordpress.com

Mazama Science is a consulting group that brings together a wide variety of experience in support of web-based access to scientific data and information. We believe the world will be a better place when rich datasets and vetted analyses are easily available through the power of visualizations.   The project involves redesigning Mazama’s existing databrowser, port the visualizations along with other interactive visualizations with rich readability. Through careful design, the project progressed from creating a pipeline to homogenize the raw data, create interactive visualization and finally culminating to a website which will help people interact with energy data in new ways.

The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) would like to launch the first interactive program where families read a picture book with a corresponding art work in the galleries. Currently, SAM is unsure about how to create a program involving literacy and programming. The skills I acquired at the iSchool will be beneficial from a library information perspective. I created a teaching plan that included my philosophy on best practices, two new book/art pairings, and a survey that will help the museum launch a successful, ongoing literacy program that will promote art appreciation, diversity, and encourage creative freedom in children.

Our project address the problem of the communication of material from scientists to the general public about information that impacts their lives. Working with Grey Matters, a neuroscience journal, our solution is the development of an phone application that hosts informational content about neuroscience, and a dashboard to easily upload content to the app. With this application and dashboard, information about neuroscience will be accessible to a wider audience and increase the knowledge and understanding of the field to the general public. It will also extend the reach and influence of scientists through the content Grey Matters produces.

Seeking online help shouldn’t be a chore. Websites like Yahoo Answers are antiquated, and even the modern apps that people turn to don’t provide adequate resources for seeking or providing help. Text alone isn’t sufficient to communicate problems. HALP solves this by allowing users to visually communicate the problem. Users can snap a photo from their phones, edit it in-app, and directly upload it to the topic board. Other users can share their expertise by providing photos of their own.

Hidden Gem is a resource for people looking to discover new places and activities in the Pacific Northwest. Instead of having the same list of 'touristy' activities pop up from the current databases, people can view and contribute to a growing list of unique and interesting experiences. Our resource will allow users to continuously awe themselves and create a closer connection between them and their city. Hidden Gem brings the lesser-known places to life and provides people with the information they need to plan their next adventure.

Many organizations utilize Excel to track valuable data. Often times, these spreadsheets grow out of hand with information stored inconsistently and in random areas. This results in a loss of data integrity and the inability to extract information holistically. We teamed up with SightLife, a global health organization to build a dynamic database with powerful data analytics by incorporating existing Microsoft technologies. With a standardized and streamlined data management process, Sightlife now has the ability to ask their data questions and discover the answers. Utilizing their information’s full potential brings them one step closer to eliminating corneal blindness

This project set out to create a linked dataset using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model, describing Historical Children’s Literature volumes from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. The dataset describes both physical items and digital surrogates accessible via UW’s CONTENTdm digital collections platform, including many volumes digitized by a 2017 MLIS capstone group. The publishing of bibliographic datasets using the RDF model has the potential to bring greater exposure to library collections as this structured data can be queried across institutional and subject-area boundaries to connect users to content in new ways.

Making Connections at the UW Women's Center serves Seattle high-school students with tutoring, mentoring and college preparation. There are hundreds of alumni, the majority of whom are first-generation college women pursuing careers in STEM fields. Although alumni want to network with each other, Making Connections does not have an efficient system to do this. Our web application provides users with a detailed alumni directory and community platform that allow users to network and share resources about job & internship opportunities, scholarships and more. Facilitating alumni networking will help students access resources & feel like part of the Making Connections community.