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.

From developing news stories to fake news, satirical posts to outright deceitful information, there is a lot of misinformation out there. For students and young adults, it can be difficult to understand how these revolve around your life and how they impact you. Alongside the Center for an Informed Public, we set out to build a supplemental educational platform that teaches high school and college-age students about how misinformation impacts their life in an interactive, reflective, and engaging way.

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.

Developing data literacy skills at a young age can dramatically improve workforce preparedness. However, not all middle schoolers are being taught data literacy. Through our user research, we learned that students are much more likely to learn these important skills if the data being used is directly related to their daily lives. Therefore, our team created Data Diary, a tool that helps build data visualizations that use data that is directly based on student-provided data. Data Diary teaches data literacy by gamifying the process of data collection and data analysis to increase student interest and participation.

The ability to read, analyze, and question data is becoming so crucial in today’s workforce and is considered a 21st century technical skill across all industries. However, our current education systems utilize traditional curriculum methods that fail to provide students with the comprehensive skills to interact with digital information. Data Viz Kids is a free interactive and interdisciplinary curriculum for middle school teachers to educate and bring data literacy into classrooms. Through the five modules, teachers will cover a wide range of data literacy skills in order to better prepare their students for higher education and the workforce.

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.

Save the planet in Minecraft! We use Minecraft, a game familiar to hundreds of millions, as a learning environment where students work together to explore and learn about their environmental impact. Teachers can use our collaborative experience to instruct their students digitally, augmenting their instruction with our simple, modular lesson plans, and interactive Minecraft Education experience. Students can explore our virtual village, Tree Town, and work together to save the village from climate change, all the while learning about environmental issues and developing critical thinking skills. Saving Tree Town will help kids develop the skills necessary to save the planet.