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iSchool Capstone

2023

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NutriPath: Interactive Food Progress Tracking and Educational Grocery Planning

NutriPath is a practical app tailored for college students, particularly international and out-of-state ones, to effectively manage their groceries and uphold a healthy diet. It serves to guide inexperienced students towards healthier lifestyles with user-friendly educational resources, a handy meal-planning feature, and an interactive shopping list equipped with a progress bar to encourage balanced dietary choices. NutriPath promotes responsible consumption habits and equips users with essential skills in grocery shopping and meal planning. Our mission is to cultivate a self-reliant, health-conscious generation, better prepared for independent living with a mindful approach to dietary management.
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Pantry Pals

Pantry Pals is a mobile app addressing the pressing issue of food waste and its impact on the environment. The app enables users to effortlessly build personalized meal plans, keep track of their pantry inventory, and provide valuable information on sustainable eating in order to reduce food waste. Through extensive data analysis, Pantry Pals also provides personalized tips, such as meal planning suggestions based on preferences and waste reduction tips, empowering individuals to reduce their environmental impact while improving their overall health. PantryPals promotes responsible consumption, fosters a sustainable food system, and contributes to a greener future for our planet.
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Psycare: Cultural Approach to Manage ADHD Symptoms

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common yet underdiagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders in the US. Research suggests that more than a million people are undiagnosed and untreated because of constraints such as time and money. Psycare provides free support to both diagnosed and undiagnosed ADHD patients by providing non-pharmaceutical interventions to improve anxiety, concentration, and restlessness. It adds a unique angle to the market by drawing upon traditional wisdoms of several Asian cultures and introduces these ancestral practices to a wider audience.
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reflect: a full-length smart mirror for pregnant and postpartum individuals

Experiences of dissatisfaction are a pervasive issue in today's society, however, there are few information solutions available that specifically address this within pregnant or postpartum individuals. Recognizing that negative body perception can cause significant distress to both the parent and their child, Team U has developed a solution that fundamentally prioritizes mental health and well-being: reflect. reflect is a full-body smart mirror that integrates daily check-ins, intention setting, breathing exercises, reflection time, and mirror exposure therapy. Our goal is to encourage users to slow down, cultivate healthier relationships with themselves, and ultimately, help improve their quality of life.
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Simplifying Lab Creation and Management for Educators

Traditionally, creating and publishing labs in Azure Lab Services has required technical expertise, creating a barrier for non-technical educators to easily utilize the platform's powerful capabilities for their classroom needs. Our project simplifies the lab creation process for educators, making it easy to create and manage labs with minimal technical expertise. Our solution has achieved a 60% reduction in lab setup time and an estimated 30% increase in Azure lab adoption and usage. Our solution empowers educators to provide equal opportunities for all students to learn and succeed, promoting equity and accessibility regardless of their technical background.
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Smash: Building Career Pathways in Tech through Real-World Project-Based Learning

The high cost of traditional education and career-switching makes it challenging for people to break into the tech industry. Smash is a startup that addresses this problem by providing underserved learners with accessible project-based learning opportunities. Our platform allows users to get paid by participating in projects from leading tech companies, personalize their learning experience with surveys, and track their progress with a dashboard and auto-filled resume. Our mission is to help learners acquire in-demand tech skills to succeed while creating a more diverse tech industry by providing access to real-world experiences and career and networking opportunities for all.
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Texas Tech University Library Renovation

Our capstone project intends to transform how Texas Tech University uses student feedback to improve the campus environment and positively impact students’ lives. The project promotes student engagement and gives them authority to shape restoration projects by implementing a thorough feedback mechanism using a survey to collect and analyze student feedback on suggested modifications, assuring alignment with their requirements and goals. We have found that students would prefer new study rooms, upgrade connectivity via Wi-Fi, quiet areas, free printing, and improvised study pods in extra space. Our project enhances students' lives and builds a healthy campus community through this approach.
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The Future of Abbey Arts: Developing a Next Generation Website for a Performing Arts Nonprofit

As the performing arts industry evolves, so too must the virtual presence of organizations in the space. The goal of our Capstone is to develop a next generation website for Abbey Arts, a local nonprofit with limited resources to invest in modernizing its digital marketing. After conducting user testing, we built our solution utilizing Webflow with custom integrations for a seamless migration from the current tech stack. This new website will enable Abbey Arts to attract more attendees and performers, bolster its venue rental reputation, improve its search engine optimization, and better connect the Seattle community to accessible performing arts.
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Transplanting Grapevine: Updating the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Employee Intranet

Grapevine, the Puget Sound Regional Council’s intranet, is a resource rich with HR documents, historical records, and more. However, it is inconvenient to access, requiring VPN login, and challenging to navigate. For my Capstone, I began planning to update and rebuild Grapevine using Microsoft SharePoint. I conducted a survey to learn how staff currently use Grapevine and researched how to build a SharePoint intranet site to meet PSRC’s needs. Utilizing my findings, I drafted a site map and a SharePoint hub for future user-testing. This project will help the PSRC Library Manager build a better organized and more user-friendly Grapevine.
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US Election Dashboards

Our goal was to consolidate metrics across several US election-related projects into centralized dashboards for the Lafayette Group’s Election Security & Resilience team. They maintain several important datasheets related to their engagements, products, and other aspects of election administration in the US. It was a challenge for them to find information quickly, create static visualizations manually, and make informed decisions with stakeholders. To address this, our team built interactive, user-friendly PowerBI dashboards that drastically reduce their task times (from 30 minutes to 30 seconds!), enabling them to easily derive insights for data-driven decisions, and helping them communicate effectively with stakeholders.