Lucy Guo

Awarded 1st place by Myo for our portable version of Dance Dance Revolution. Just strap a Myo onto your shin and start dancing. We built a custom iOS app that generates arrows based on the beats per minute of the song. We detected what direction you were tapping your foot in by using machine learning and figuring out the acceleration differences between left, right, top, and bottom taps.

Awarded 2nd place prize for Codify, a crowdsourced multiplayer coding translation game. Codify pairs people up to translate code from one language to another. User A can post an API she wants translated from python to java. We crowdsource the code translations through a competitive game, checking to see if the code compiles and testing inputs to make sure the original code and translated versions have the same output. If they do, we assume the translated code is correct.

Awarded first place sponsor prize from Indiegogo and 3rd place sponsor prize from Dropbox for EduGames. EduGames is a native iOS platform that allows teachers to create, without any programming knowledge, multiplayer, real time iOS educational games tailored to their curriculum. We created two working game templates and a web-app that pairs up with the iPad app.

Awarded favorite app of Facebook. uStudy - iOS application. Create study groups for classes and find new friends to study with. Twilio used for mass group invite texts. Facebook API used for events. Firebase backend.

Spontaneity - iOS application. Randomly generates events and finds people to invite
nearby you based on interests. Yelp API used to find the best restaurants, bars, clubs,
etc. Firebase used for realtime updates. Twilio used for mass group invite texts. Facebook
API used for events. Pinterest API used to generate random recipes for “baking” interest.
Competed with 1000+ hackers.

Awarded Sponsorship Prize by Venmo for our app Nommit. Nommit is an iOS application that crowdsources food delivery. Anyone can be a deliverer, anyone can get food delivered to them. To switch the modes, all you have to do is tap the icon on the top left corner. For deliverers, there are real time updates on food orders and you can choose which ones to accept. For buyers, you get a list of restaurants nearby and their menus with prices, and with a tap of a button you can order food to be… Show more

Awarded Sponsorship Prize by Venmo for our app Nommit. Nommit is an iOS application that crowdsources food delivery. Anyone can be a deliverer, anyone can get food delivered to them. To switch the modes, all you have to do is tap the icon on the top left corner. For deliverers, there are real time updates on food orders and you can choose which ones to accept. For buyers, you get a list of restaurants nearby and their menus with prices, and with a tap of a button you can order food to be delivered to you by a fellow student/person. Deliverers make money off tips in the app. Technologies used were Twilio API (for notifications that food was arriving), Locu API (to populate restaurants and menus), Venmo API (to pay for food + tip), FireBase (for real time updates), Google Maps (to show location of deliverers/people), and Facebook API (to login). Competed with 1000+ hackers. Show less

Awarded honorable mention (approx 4th place) for our chrome extension plugin, which allowed users to "Find, Click, Send" something from their browser to their phone within seconds through SMS. The plugin allowed users to highlight any portion of text on a webpage and send it to their phone. They also had the option to edit the webpage completely, deleting unneeded portions of text, add annotations, copy and paste, etc.

Awarded honorable mention (approximately 2nd/3rd place) for our application that utilized crime data sets and allowed users to see different paths from one destination to another so they could go through the "safest" route versus the "fastest" route. Also created was an API and a proof-of-concept app where users could text a phone number the location of the crime and the crime they want to report, and the data point shows up on the map.

3rd place. Project examined effects of steady and oscillating magnetic fields on plant growth rate.

Top 10 Category Finalist in Entrepreneurship for $20,000