ArCADia
For the 24-25 Conrad Challenge and the 24-25 Blue Ocean Entrepreneurship Contest, I developed an AI assisted CAD development platform aimed towards accelerating hardware development.
I noticed that AI tools such as Copilot, have significantly sped up software development and that there was no parallel for hardware development.
This project consisted of prototyping the innovation, doing market analysis, and creating business strategy. I continued the full development of this project at Texas A&M.
For the creation of ArCAdia, I won the Conrad Innovator Award and Blue Ocean Top 350 out of ~12,000 students.
Peared v1
For the 24-25 Diamond Challenge social innovation category, I created Peared v1(different from my org Peared).
Peared v1 was a digital platform that organized volunteering efforts towards creating socialization for immobile seniors. We noticed that seniors unable to afford care in senior living facilities had significantly higher rates of depression, cognitive decline, and amnesia partially due to their social isolation.
Our platform split the various tasks needed such as event organization, transportation, and clean up into microtasks that volunteers could sign up for. This allowed for more people to volunteer as they could pick and choose tasks that fit their schedule. We assigned volunteers to assist in transportation based on their geographical region. This reduced travel time and increased the number of seniors we could serve.
For the creation of Peared v1, I was a Diamond Challenge Semifinalist.
I realized the organizational framework we created for Peared v1 could be applied to a wider range of volunteering opportunities, which led to the creation of my nonprofit Peared.
K9 Assist
For the 24-25 Technovation hackathon (an all girls youth hackathon), I created K9 Assist which is an app that aids in the training of service dogs. I saw how expensive the training of service dogs was due to the expertise needed. I wanted to create an alternative accessible option to this training based on industry standards and incremental progress checking.
I also had to analyze the innovation through different business concepts and compose my findings in a business brief.
The app contained a curriculum based on the industry standards and Machine Learning powered checkpoints that would track progress after each module. These checks would involve using a video of the dog and an Ultralytics model to check if the dog's final position of the exercise was correct.
For the creation of K9 Assist, I was a Technovation Octofinalist.
Clarity
For the 25-26 Conrad Challenge, I'm creating Clarity which is an accessible low-cost water filter and detector for microplastics. The average person can consume up to 74,000 microplastics through their tap-water. We wanted to find a way to combat this issue both on the macro and micro scale.
Clarity will help facilitate large scale on-site data collection that will be part of a citizens science project to target problematic water processing sites leaking microplastics. It will be low cost compared to traditional detection methods by using lasers and cameras to perform optical scattering. We will also have a compatible mobile app that will display a map of data points, an individual's water micro-plastic levels, and individualized recommendations.
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