Real Connect
Developing a cutting-edge software application that harnesses the power of artiicial intelligence to solve a significant challenge or enhance the quality of life in your local community. Your solution should:
- Clearly identify and validate a critical issue or opportunity, using data-driven insights or community engagement.
- Employ advanced AI technologies—such as generative AI, machine learning, natural language processing, or computer vision—to create practical, real-world solutions.
- Demonstrate measurable, positive outcomes for community members, supported by clear metrics and evidence.
- Design for scalability and adaptability, ensuring your solution can be deployed in similar communities facing comparable challenges.
- Present a compelling business case, highlighting return on investment (ROI), operational efficiency, or tangible performance improvements.
- Align with the sponsor's brand values, commitment to social responsibility, and strategic objectives.
Key Considerations
- Integrate responsible AI practices, prioritizing ethical considerations, data privacy, transparency, and fairness in your solution.
- Focus on user-centric design to ensure accessibility, inclusivity, and a seamless user experience.
- Draw inspiration from successful real-world AI applications, such as predictive analytics for public health, AI-powered education tools, or smart city infrastructure solutions.
The Real Connect puts wellness, essentials, legal help, and growth in one place, built by students for Gen Z and the younger crews coming up. Not everyone has a mentor, a car, or hours to dig through the internet. This hub cuts the noise with verified links, plain-language guidance, and tools that respect your time and privacy. Using Artificial Intelligence, it connects people to factual, verified resouces, to solve their problems.
College Students, Workers, Parents, anyone who has an issue that needs to be solved. Using this, users can save critical hours of their day to instead go about their day, without stress or worries about their issue. The Real Connect can help people save at least 2 hours in the day, a number that seems small but slowly accumulates. Just 2 hours every day can accumulate into over 700 hours a year.
HTML/CSS/JavaScript Static Site served using an Express web server. Also ustilizes OpenAI's chat completions AI to serve as the chatbot agent, directing people to services not directly on the RealConnect platofrom.
- ✅ Team photo
- ✅ Team Slack channel
- ✅ Communication established with mentor
- ✅ Repo creation from this template
- ✅ Flight Deck registration
- ✅ Presentation complete and linked
- ✅ Code merged to main branch
Simmons College of Kentucky
Falcon Flyers
Delegate/Chaperone: Prof. Dylan Scully
American Airlines Mentor: Hannah
Student Competitors:
- Oluwatamilore Adebiyi [Team Lead]
- Camaria Young
- Kayn'e Campbell