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Women Against Abusive Relationships

Community Partner

Roxanne Epperson

Project Description

WAAR’s mission is to break the cycle of violence against women and girls and aid in their healing process. The CMU IS team expanded WAAR's website to include a survey for members to share their journeys with others, and a filterable shelter locator, providing important resources to domestic abuse victims in one place for quicker access.

Student Development Team

Atah Okaisabor

Deekshita Vedula

Sihan Wu

When She Thrives

Community Partner

Tiffany Huff-Strothers

Project Description

When She Thrives is an organization supporting single mothers through assistive resources and programs to empower them. CMU IS students developed a client-management dashboard where admins can efficiently view and modify client information to better track and address each individual’s needs efficiently and a user-friendly data dashboard providing reminders to follow up with clients, and create meaningful demographic reports.

Student Development Team

Amy Luo

Sophy Peng

Divya Viswanathan

Wesley Family Services

Community Partner

Aaron Richards

Project Description

Wesley Family Services (WFS) is composed of a group of talented individuals who are dedicated to one common mission: “...to empower children, adults, and families through transformational care”. For this project, the students of CMU IS students created an internal alert system that will streamline the emergency communication protocol, which was highly time costly, and prevent wasted employee time and man power. With this internal alert system, all impacted individuals can get notified in a timely manner and prevent any avoidable losses.

Student Development Team

Nithin Ravi

April Wu

Kyle Yang

Primate Portal

Community Partner

Jessica Cantlon

Project Description

The Primate Portal at the Seneca Park Zoo in Upstate NY is a research and STEM outreach project that provides interdisciplinary science experiences for children and adults. The public zoo exhibit allows visitors to watch olive baboons solve cognitive problems presented as computerized tasks on a touchscreen. The CMU IS student team integrated and automated the submission of elementary student scratch code, the translation of the code to the touchscreen for the baboons to interact with and the presentation of livestream video of the baboons to youtube. This greatly expands the outreach and allows students to observe baboons interacting with their code, increasing student interest in biology, psychology and computer science.

Student Development Team

Maya Pandurangan

Scott King

Shayan Panjwani

The Children's Home

Community Partner

Lisa Houlihan, Kimberly Hennigan

Project Description

The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh is an independent, non-profit, licensed organization whose mission is to promote the health and wellbeing of infants and children through services that establish and strengthen the family. The CMU IS student team digitized the breast-milk verification and inventory tracking system. This system helps streamline the bottle check in and checkout processes, saves paperwork from the old manual process, and reduces human error by delegating calculations to the technology.

Student Development Team

Anagha Srikumar

Tim Wang

Varshaa SJ

Success Through Technology Education

Community Partner

Sally Fields

Project Description

STTE's mission is to develop and deploy entrepreneurship and/or STEM-based educational programs and resources for both students and adults to advance economic development. We built a program that scans a user generated crossword puzzle, detects valid climate change related terminology, and dynamically generates a public webpage of content related to the terminology detected. The project will improve climate change related education by providing a gamified and interactive exhibit for K-12 students to learn about climate change, as well as enable STTE to demo this exhibit to other museums that may be interested in a creating a climate change related exhibit.

Student Development Team

Luye Zhou

Cheng Ma

Isaac Ahn

South Hills Interfaith Movement

Community Partner

Seth Dubin

Project Description

SHIM wants to create an inclusive community where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. The CMU IS students created an app that allows volunteers and donors to receive notifications and view events they can participate in. This will increase the efficiency of how SHIM serves the South Hills community.

Student Development Team

Sooyoung Kim

Sung Tae Kim

Tina Lin

Saint Sebastian Center for Performance Excellence

Community Partner

Rachael Isaac

Project Description

Saint Sebastian Center is an organization that specializes in providing mental coaching to athletes and performing artists. The CMU IS team provided a Wordpress-hosted website to our client in order to solve the problem of not having a cohesive platform for hosting online content and information on the website. This added immense value in establishing an online presence for the company.

Student Development Team

Hita Kambhamettu

Leanne Sun

Alexander Chiu

Red Cloud Indian School

Community Partner

Matthew Rama

Project Description

Our vision for this engagement was to modernize Lakota by increasing its representation in technology. In order to do this, we explored many different avenues from open-source educational games, interactive storytelling platforms, and through Minecraft.

Student Development Team

Mikail Cheema

Vishesh Pagarani

Neha Joshi

The Queens Gamit Chess Institute

Community Partner

Ashley Priore

Project Description

The Queens Gamit Chess Institute's mission is to provide enrichment chess classes to under served communities in the greater Pittsburgh area. The CMU IS developed a CRM wesbite using Ruby on Rails for TQGCI to better manage community partnerships and programs.

Student Development Team

Allison Cao

Waverly Chin

Sara Song

Pennsylvania Resources Council

Community Partner

Sarah Alessio Shea

Project Description

Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC) is Pennsylvania’s oldest grassroots environmental organization. The CMU IS students developed standardized Excel data templates for each program in addition to summary statistics. The templates were used by program directors to create grant reports and annual reports.

Student Development Team

Neha Chintamaneni

Cecilia Mendoza

Govind Menon

Peoples Oakland

Community Partner

Lezetta Cox, Allison Haley, Jennie Pabst, Emily Wilton

Project Description

Peoples Oakland, is an organization focusing on the rehabilitation and recovery of its members, many of whom have some sort of a chronic mental illness. The CMU IS students implemented a complete redesign of Peoples Oakland site to address the painpoints of Peoples Oakland’s members and web admin. The redesigned website significantly improves the user experience and addresses the needs of more stakeholders (members, providers, and supporters) while making the backend processes for the web admin more efficient.

Student Development Team

Jaclyn Yang

Ruilin Feng

Stephanie Tseng

Patchy Fog

Community Partner

Hargraves, Damon

Project Description

Patchy Fog spreads outdoor, self guided education to get those who may normally be glued to their computers, out of the house. The CMU IS team is helping to spread the project further from the initial school district where it was implemented by building a virtual community for social interaction and collaboration, as well as a webapp to submit and view the products of community members.

Student Development Team

Kalen Gressler

Siddharth Paratkar

Max Sobkov

One To World

Community Partner

Jaime Fahy

Project Description

One to World is a non-profit organization from New York working to build face-to-face experiences among local communities, international students and Fulbright scholars. The CMU IS students created a step by step process that defined the timeline of how students are involved with One To World and how that timeline of engagement can be extended as students transition to alumni. This helped One To World leverage past student data and improve their current data collection process so that they can reach out to alumni and engage with a previously untapped community by inviting them to volunteer, attend events, promote their experiences with One To World and essentially help drive the continuation and growth of their organization.

Student Development Team

Ivana Lin

Oliver Lance

Sean Tavares

NewERA412

Community Partner

Taili Thompson

Project Description

NewEra412's mission is to provide reintegration assistance and opportunties to all members of Allegheny county. Our team expanded the regions covered in the application, implemented the ability to add organizations, created an organization supervisor view to manage organization data, and implemented a feature to download data with analytics from a specific time period. The project improved the applications scalability, increasing the ability to process an increase in partnered organizations, outreach workers, and data.

Student Development Team

Ruitao Li

Vishnu Pathmanaban

Karen Wu

NCJW Pittsburgh Thriftique

Community Partner

Patricia Tsgaris

Project Description

The organization's mission is to raise money to help to step forward, speak out, and stand up for the needs of women, children, and families. They have faith in the future and a belief in action. The CMU IS team integrated tools and documentation in order to increase the businesses' efficiency and long term sales.

Student Development Team

Stella Yan

Sara Missak

Chanaradee Leelamanthep

Mon Metro Chamber of Commerce

Community Partner

Amee, Chaudry

Project Description

The Mon Metro Chamber of Commerce (MMCC), located in the Braddock/East Pittsburgh region, is a neighborhood hub of connection, resources, skill building, and partnership with a mission of economic development for all. Our team developed a backend database infrastructure on the chamber’s website to allow them to better store their members’ information and understand what services their members want to see. With this, the chamber will be able to offer more targeted services to the communities they aim to serve and bring them closer to achieving their goal of bringing economic success to the Mon Metro region.

Student Development Team

Gautam Kapoor

Phi Nguyen

Xinda Zhou

Learning Disabilities Association of Pennsylvania

Community Partner

Collin Diedrich

Project Description

The mission of the Learning Disabilities Association is to create opportunities for success for all individuals affected by learning disabilities through support, education, and advocacy . The CMU IS students created a data repository to aggregate learning disability resources including therapists, psychiatrists and tutors. The result was a centralized location with over 1000 resources for people with learning disabilities and improved efficiency for finding resources that fit multiple constraints such as price, location and budget,

Student Development Team

Anjali Akula

Takho Lee

Kate Zhao

KidsVoice

Community Partner

Tom Welschonce & Tara Gainfort

Project Description

KidsVoice is a nonprofit legal agency that represents abused, neglected, and at-risk children, up to the age of 24. The CMU IS team created a database and data migration solution that is able automate the process of tracking clients and their relevant cases. This project helps save KidsVoice 5-7 hours per week.

Student Development Team

Thomas Choi

Roshan Ram

Brian Chou

International Free Expression Project

Community Partner

Greg Victor

Project Description

The International Free Expression Project (IFEP) aims to promote the creation of the arts and lift voices that are suppressed by governments and political extremists around the world by providing performance spaces, funding, and educational materials to artists and the public. The CMU IS students researched, selected, and implemented a third-party CRM system which can now serve as a centralized place to manage constituent information and interactions, and to automate tasks pertaining to donation processing and email communication. The CRM reduces the time and effort required from staff for managing these activites, while increasing constituent engagement with IFEP and the outputs of any fundraising efforts.

Student Development Team

Sabrina Chua

Jonathan Nottingham

Megan Qiang

Greater Washington County Food Bank

Community Partner

Jon Schubert, Cherise Sandrock, Justin McAtee

Project Description

Food Helpers is Washington County's leader for helping those who are fighting against hunger. To help streamline the food assistance experience, we developed a mobile application that provides user-relevant information presented in a digestible format and simplified food program registrations. This approach of providing a mobile application uniquely serves numerous users with limited access to computers or WiFi and builds a foundation for the Food Helpers to migrate their other services onto mobile devices.

Student Development Team

Nina Li

Dee Harris

John Namgung

Greater Valley Community Services

Community Partner

Jackie Smith, Tempestt Henderson, Brady Lefkowitz

Project Description

GVCS serves to strengthen, educate, and empower children and families through collaboration and resources. The CMU IS students developed organizational boards that automated and digitized many tasks. This helped streamline and organize GVCS into a more tech-savvy organization.

Student Development Team

Kenny Hu

Harriet Khang

Rebecca Li

First Tee Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Paul Coultas

Project Description

First Tee Pittsburgh is a youth development program focused on impacting the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf. The CMU IS team developed a server-side automation process that streamlined the scheduling process for coaches as well as improved the communication between coaches and guardians of participants.

Student Development Team

Navid Mamoon

Riccardo Santoni

Helena Spencer

FaithDrivenEntrepreneurspgh

Community Partner

David Palmer, Tim Daigle, Kim Reed

Project Description

Redemption-Driven Exchange (RDX) is a nonprofit startup founded by faith-driven entrepreneurs that wish to provide an empowering package for other entrepreneurs from all communities to succeed through mentorship. The CMU IS students helped bring RDX’s vision to life by spending this semester building a proof-of-concept platform where Christian entrepreneurs can match with mentors based on their needs and the mentor’s experience.

Student Development Team

Kieran Walsh

Emily Feng

Grace Joseph

Dietrich College Dean's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Community Partner

Ayana Ledford

Project Description

The Dietrich College Dean's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion aims to cultivate diverse perspectives and promote equity and inclusion. The CMU IS student team interviewed stakeholders, defined the problem space, and streamlined the data collection process through a Google Form and Tableau Dashboard. This helps the client by solving the lack of communication issues, saving time, and measuring the impact and success of DEI efforts.

Student Development Team

Neha Choudhari

Gloria Moon

Augustus Saalfeld

Computer Reach

Community Partner

Kyle Spangler, David Mitchell

Project Description

Computer Reach is a nonprofit organization that focuses on providing technological access to those left behind in the digital revolution. Together with Kyle Spangler and David Mitchell, we worked to develop an automated volunteer sign-in system using Salesforce Flows. Our project reduced check-in time by 90%, had zero running cost, and achieved sustainability by building technological capacity internally.

Student Development Team

Jimmy Zeng

Susan Song

Tyler Lowe

Center for Organ Recovery and Education

Community Partner

Bruno Mastroianni, Colleen Sullivan, Bill DiPlacido, Edward Horne, David Hoss, Katelynn Metz

Project Description

The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) is an organ procurement organization based out of Pittsburgh. They work to find donors for organs and service nearly 6 million people across 155 hospitals. The student team automated the legal next of kin and donor information submission and event registration process for the “A Special Place” honorary donor ceremony. With this Wordpress web application, CORE staff was able to eliminate errors in data entry, create a single source of donor and next of kin data and streamline the event registration process.

Student Development Team

Anthony Lees

Ethan Nankervis

Emily Zhang

Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Khara Timsina

Project Description

The Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh’s mission is “To ensure a high quality of life for all members of the Bhutanese community in Pittsburgh and to support their integration into American Society through culturally-informed services and activities.” The CMU IS student team created an online web app that helps BCAP better track, view, and record their volunteers' information and events hosted. This web app significantly saves time for all BCAP staff in dealing with volunteer information, helps reduce the chances of errors with the data, and enables BCAP to better use the data in their various needs.

Student Development Team

Rohit Kumar

Ayoub Mansar

Matthew Guo

Assemble Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Nina Marie Barbuto

Project Description

Assemble Pittsburgh is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals grow in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) fields by hosting many programs for all ages. Located in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh they aim to serve the local community. The student team designed a solution called ClassDojo to solve the problem of tracking a student’s work. Teachers upload student work which allows parents to view their child’s growth and showcases the student’s work. Teachers keep track of student progress which aids them in developing future lesson plans and activities.

Student Development Team

Luke Arney

Andrew Butler

Simran Virdi

Amachi Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Anna Hollis, Nicole Cannon, Samantha Monks

Project Description

Amachi Pittsburgh’s mission is to empower and support youth with incarcerated parents in the local community. The CMU IS student team improved their online presence through a two-pronged approach that includes improving their search engines optimization and user experience. This enables Amachi to reach a larger audience and better support their current clients.

Student Development Team

Doug Heymann

Philip Wellener

Zeke Rong

Women Against Abusive Relationships

Community Partner

Roxanne, Epperson

Project Description

Women Against Abusive Relationships (WAAR) is a nonprofit organization devoted to the awareness, education, and prevention of violence against women and girls, founded and directed by Roxanne Epperson. The goal of the CMU IS team was to build a new WordPress website and have it serve as a central hub for information on WAAR, their resources, and the services they provide in order to help raise exposure beyond Pittsburgh and make opportunities to heal more accessible for victims and survivors of abusive relationships. The new website has a more streamlined navigation, and allows for users to create accounts, listen to WAAR's podcast episodes, and watch their previous panel discussions, thus increasing the opportunities for community members to engage with WAAR.

Student Development Team

Ananya Bhat

Daniel Ng

Daphne Yang

Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

Community Partner

Matt Campion,Jessica Marks

Project Description

The Western Pennsylvania's School for the Deaf's affiliate program Choices for Children is an early intervention program supporting parents of deaf or hard-of-hearing newborns by teaching them how to raise their child. The CMU IS students developed a website for this program, serving as a resource bank for parents to garner accurate information on CFC and deaf or hard-of-hearing children. The website was set up on the new CFC domain, increasing the online presence of CFC and information availability on deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

Student Development Team

Alex Chen

Ankita Kundu

Lily Huang

Western Pennsylvania Bible Quizzing

Community Partner

Tim Daigle

Project Description

Western Pennsylvania Bible Quizzing is a ministry dedicated to encouraging young children and teens to learn scripture from the Bible in a competitive and fun way in Western Pennsylvania districts. The CMU IS student team updated the organization's Quiz Generator application, developed an API for the application, and created a central website for the organization. These solutions will benefit the sustainability of the organization by providing ease for future development and maintenance of the Quiz Generator, in addition to engaging stakeholders of the organization through the central site.

Student Development Team

Christine Kim

Ricky Ma

Gabriela Tellez

Wesley Family Services

Community Partner

Aaron Richards

Project Description

The mission of Wesley Family Services is "To empower children, adults, and families by providing transformational care". The project team used c# on dotnet core to implement a web-based database application that improves on the current application being used to keep track of Wesley clients and their inquiries. The result is a more user-friendly, data-normalized, and easier-maintained application that plans to be deployed by the end of the summer of 2021.

Student Development Team

Abhi Devarapalli

Jeff Xu

Raymond Li

Virginia Dere, LLC

Community Partner

Gabrielle Haywood

Project Description

Virginia Dere is a Black-owned, Women-owned startup whose mission is to enable women to feel empowered to swim through fashionable, modest swimwear to ultimately look how they feel. The CMU IS team worked with the client to improve her technology infrastructure and management, particularly the design and structure of her websites: the KneeKini product website and the Virginia Dere corporate website. The team improved the user experience through a redesign and restructuring of the websites. Moreover, the client is able to edit the websites to add information about new products, styles, and vendors, and/or incorporate additional functionality to the site.

Student Development Team

Andey Ng

Jonthan Fischer

Phil Huang

This Is Laisa, LLC

Community Partner

Laisa Barros

Project Description

This Is Laisa, LLC’s mission is to strive to give students the resources they need to succeed academically, and level the playing field by ensuring access for all. Our team built a front-end that connects students who have school projects with financial needs to sponsors who would be willing to donate money to that student's project, and designed the front-end to be accessible to many user groups, so that any student, regardless of disabilities, will be able to use the platform to find a sponsor for their project. The result of our efforts is a fully accessible web application that the client can easily deploy or extend.

Student Development Team

Alex Bellomo

Joyce Wu

Rjay Lane

Success Through Technology Education

Community Partner

Joseph Sapien

Project Description

We planned to clarify and streamline the current STTE app’s primary function of helping students and aspiring entrepreneurs evaluate and explore their ideas—making the ideation phase of the entrepreneurial process fun and engaging.

Student Development Team

Matt Buchman

Shwetha Shinju

Bennett Huffman

Red Cloud Indian School

Community Partner

Matthew Rama

Project Description

Red Cloud Indian School is a catholic institution that has been taken care of by the Jesuits and Lakota people for over 125 years. The school has been able to successfully immerse students in the Lakota language within classroom lessons, but since it is a minority language, it is barely represented in any of their technology. The student team explored different avenues from open-source educational games, interactive storytelling platforms, and created a way to represent Lakota language through the game Minecraft. They also reached out to the game developer suggesting Lakota language be added to the game.

Student Development Team

Caitlin Huang

David Yuan

Kevin Wang

Presente Pittsburgh

Community Partner

María Manautou, Matos

Project Description

Plaza Pittsburgh, as a branch of Presente Pittsburgh, has a mission to share resources with Latinos, empower their community, and elevate the quality of life of Hispanics in the region. The CMU IS student team created a business directory website where Latinos can search for resources and local businesses. Latinos in Pittsburgh will have the ability to find Spanish speaking businesses that fit their needs.

Student Development Team

Preethi Surapaneni

Evan Zeng

Lexie Rodriguez

Piedmont Communiy Services / CRP

Community Partner

Lisa Smith

Project Description

The Piedmont Community Services Community Recovery Program, located in Martinsville, VA, helps support those with sustance abuse and/or mental health disorders recover and seek employment. The CMU IS students developed an online presence for the CRP, including a website, social media strategy, and referral process. The online presence allows CRP to further their outreach and accessibility within the community, especially among a younger demographic.

Student Development Team

Silvia Chen

Catherine Du

Isabella Fons

Persad Center

Community Partner

Christine Bryan

Project Description

The Persad Center offers care and counseling to the LGBTQ+ community aiming to improve their health and happiness. The CMU IS students created a centralized storage and automation flow that automatically inserts new survey responses to aggregated sheets. This helped Persad to gather all survey responses in one place automatically so they can access and analyze data efficiently.

Student Development Team

Ying Hu

Aiyana Huang

Jonathan Namovic

PA Parent and Family Alliance

Community Partner

Christina Paternoster

Project Description

PAPAFA aims to connect and provide resources to parents with children with mental or behavioral challenges. The CMU IS students helped reorganize their website and develop new pages to improve user experience, ability to find information, and membership value. We created five new pages that are now live on our client's website, and through our user testing, we significantly decreased the time it took for users to find critical information.

Student Development Team

David_Cheung

Jonathan_Monroe

Sebastian_Yang

NewERA412

Community Partner

Taili Thompson

Project Description

NewERA412's mission is to increase the political equity and social capital of individuals who have experienced the Criminal Justice System, through an inclusive and diversified process of reintegration assistance and opportunities in Allegheny County. The CMU IS students improved upon a mobile responsive web application that allows street outreach workers keep track of returning citizens, refer multimedia and physical resources to them, and provides reports of the organization's activity in each neighborhood. The improvements to the application facilitated stronger engagement with returning citizens and easier reporting and accountability to the City of Pittsburgh.

Student Development Team

Darren Kopa

Noah Yeo

Ron Chew

The National Council of Jewish Women

Community Partner

Megan Rose

Project Description

The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action. The CMU IS students built a website using Wix Events to help share information on events put on by NCJW. The result was a better system for viewing upcoming and past events and a system for displaying recorded Zoom sessions so anyone can view them.

Student Development Team

Kat Phelps

Megan Naji

Sara Wong

Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers (NACRO)

Community Partner

Kim Jacobs,Debbie Meyer,Jenna Brown

Project Description

NACRO’s mission is to promote best practices for corporate relations officers (CROs) with regards to building relationships and partnerships between universities and the industry. The CMU IS students merged their two main sites into a single integrated site with all of NACRO's content and functionality. The result was a more uniform user experience for both current and potential members, and the elimination of broken redirects as welll as login and privilege issues.

Student Development Team

Shane Aung

Matt Cruz

Anmol Kapoor

Mon Metro Chamber of Commerce

Community Partner

Lisa Franklin-Robinson

Project Description

The mission statement of the Mon Metro Chamber of Commerce (MMCC) is to foster wealth in the community through education and capacity building by developing an equitable economic system of creativity, connectivity, and resource sharing. Our team created a website with a membership signup flow and membership directory, thereby providing a network for businesses to obtain resources to assist their businesses. Through this project, our team was able to help the MMCC turn their dreams into a tangible reality and bring them one step closer to achieving their vision of bringing economic prosperity to the Mon Metro region.

Student Development Team

Andy Chen

Matthew Fang

JJ Igims

Greater Washington County Foodbank

Community Partner

Jon Schubert

Project Description

The goal of this project was to improve data entry and inventory management, saving time and effort for the GWCFB staff and streamlining the reporting process for funding agencies. To accomplish this, the project aimed to reduce the number of human errors and improve efficiency in the data entry process for food donation and distribution. The solution was to find and document a new inventory management system to be implemented in place of their current accounting software. This includes a mobile application with scanning capability, as well as a website platform. Our stakeholders were the Greater Washington County Food Bank, its employees, the patrons that rely on the food bank, donors to the food bank, and volunteers. Our solution saves the organization time, limits human errors, and helps reduce food waste from untracked, expired donations.

Student Development Team

Blythe Weng

Shalini Rao

Max Dunaevschi

Greater Valley Community Services

Community Partner

Elsa Carey

Project Description

Greater Valley Community Services strengthens, educates, and empowers children and families through collaboration and resources within the Braddock Pittsburgh community. The CMU IS student team developed a database to simplify data reconciliation with the county for in-home crisis worker and family expenses. This helps GVCS staff by significantly reducing inaccuracies and overall time spent on identifying discrepancies with county invoices.

Student Development Team

Austin Leung

Mahima Shanware

Vivian Sun

Fab Lab El Paso

Community Partner

Cathy Chen

Project Description

Fab Lab El Paso is a digital fabrication laboratory that provides services and programs in digital fabrication with the overall mission of promoting STEM education and digital fabrication in the region of El Paso, Texas. In line with those goals, the student team developed a Learning Management System that would allow the Fab Lab to provide online courses on digital fabrication and STEM for their community. Being able to provide online courses will increase the accessibility of STEM education and allow the Fab Lab to reach a greater audience.

Student Development Team

Esteban Vázquez Cardona

JP Park

Leo Yao

Dietrich College Advancement

Community Partner

Causgrove, Adam

Project Description

The mission of DCA is to increase Dietrich College’s resources by establishing mutually-beneficial life-long relationships with alumni and organizational partners. The CMU IS students developed a website using the university CMS and implemented a process improvement with the integration of Salesforce’s Web To Lead feature, making it nearly automatic to create new accurate entries in Salesforce. The main summative outcome is the growth of DCA’s public presence used to increase the number of interested organizational partners.

Student Development Team

David Domalik

Sohan Kalva

Andy Park

Computer Reach

Community Partner

Kyle Spangler, David Mitchell

Project Description

Computer Reach promotes technological literacy by providing refurbished equitment, computer literacy training, and support services to those who need it most. The CMU IS students integrated their POS software with their inventory management system. The result helped save staff many hours lost due to manually inputting transaction data into their inventory management system.

Student Development Team

Dennis Lo

Alec Oshita

Thomas Yager

The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Brian Furfari, Chris Mader

Project Description

The Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh is a non-profit organization dedicated to the special-needs children and their families in the Pittsburgh area. It is our team’s goal to provide a modern and streamlined workflow for gathering signatures for the Children’s Institute as it begins to digitize its many processes during this pandemic. Our team envisions a one-stop shop solution where the administrators at the Children’s Institute can easily request signatures from patients and families, and check the progress of requests without having to go through a complicated onboarding process for any third-party providers.

Student Development Team

Roy Xu

Jason Zhou

Daniel Li

Casa San Jose

Community Partner

Andrea, PadillaCasa San Jose is a non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen and support the Latino community within the greater Pittsburgh area. The CMU IS students automated processes that the Casa San Jose staff did manually, and redesigned certain pages on the website. Staff now save significant amounts of time through this process automation.

Project Description

The example mission is to celebrate and share the joy . The CMU IS students modernized the software architecture and platforms used by example. The result was improved search engine optimization performance for example.com and driving user traffic to the example website.

Student Development Team

Claudia Osorio

Eric Liu

Joanna Miao

Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation

Community Partner

Amber, Epps

Project Description

The Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation (BGC) exists to improve the quality of life for all in Garfield and surrounding neighborhoods through active community engagement with programs like the College and Career Readiness Program for high school students. We improved the processes involved with their database management system by consolidating and cleaning up the Google Sheets data and creating documentation for use cases on Salesforce that will allow our client to create useful reports. As a result of our work our client now has a new process of handling their new clean database and for creating reports easily so BGC can produce accurate reports to maintain or improve funding.

Student Development Team

Eshita Banerjee

Ayaan Hussain

Grace Kim

Amachi Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Johanna Sharrard

Project Description

Amachi Pittsburgh’s mission is to provide assistance for children of incarcerated parents. The CMU IS students implemented a complete redesign of the website, based on the pain points of various key stakeholder groups. The new design simplifies the user experience of the current website and makes it easier for different stakeholders to fulfill their needs, while exuding a brand that more closely matches how people see Amachi.

Student Development Team

Mira Mookerjee

Justin Wang

Michael Cabral

Advance African Development

Community Partner

Annamore Matambanadzo

Project Description

Our vision for this project involved a redesign of the website to promote professionalism and provide visitors with a more engaging experience along with the following additional pages: Conferences, Latest News, Events, and About Us pages. We also integrated the Events and Latest News pages with AAD's exisitng Facebook and Twitter accounts to help expand AAD's community engagemnet.

Student Development Team

Christopher Haas

Obi Nnaeto

Krishna Donepudi

Adagio Health

Community Partner

Natalie Crouse

Project Description

Medical Assistants are extremely important staff members who directly communicate with customers to provide healthcare services in both the lab and the office. The CMU IS students created an Onboarding Application, which consists of training modules that will aid Medical Assistants access the resources and training in an organized and logical manner as well as formalize the entire process of onboarding. This application was created to increase MA competency and content with their work.

Student Development Team

June Sung Park

Sathya Hari

Nicasio Ng

Yummy Plants

Community Partner

Rebecca Gilbert

Project Description

The mission is to celebrate and share the joy of vegan food, connect vegans all around the world, and show how easy it is to start eating vegan. The students optimized the website by improving run time, working on search engine optimization, and reorganizing the information hierarchy. They also made improvements to user experience, through redesigning the site, standardizing the design, and connecting with social media.

Student Development Team

Miheer Lele

Jeffrey Chiu

Anant Agrawal

Wesley Family Services

Community Partner

Aaron Richards

Project Description

Wesley Family Services' mission is to provide all children, adults, and families in need with transformational care. The CMU IS students redesigned the database schema and built a new web application to replace an existing client tracking software that was riddled with data loss and duplication issues. With this new application, call center staff will be able to more seamlessly and reliably enter client and inquiry details so that their clients can get access to the care they need without issues.

Student Development Team

Abhi Maddineni

Christopher May

Eugene Choi

Social Venture Partners Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Lou Camerlengo,Leigh Solomon Pugliano,Ben Hutter

Project Description

SVPP's mission is to build powerful relationships between innovative nonprofits and engaged philanthropists to tackle the Pittsburgh community’s biggest challenges. The CMU IS student team built a web application to serve as the hub of SVPP's data on partner philanthropists and local nonprofits, as well as assist with matching partners with nonprofits. This webapp consolidates and allows for the updating of data that was previously only in Google Drive or physical forms, streamlines and automates the previously manual process of matching partners and nonprofits for mentorship and ad-hoc consulting, and makes the administration of SVPP more efficient.

Student Development Team

Neil Desai

Caitlyn Low

David Zhang

NewEra412

Community Partner

Taili Thompson

Project Description

NewEra412's mission is to increase the political equity and social capital of individuals who have experienced the Criminal Justice System, through an inclusive and diversified process of reintegration assistance and opportunities in Allegheny County. The CMU IS students developed a mobile responsive web application to show resources available in Allegheny County and allow street outreach workers to send referrals for these resources to previously incarcerated citizens. The application documents each referral and resource view, allowing for the tracking of best resources and referrals made by street outreach workers.

Student Development Team

Brent Hong

Joseph Perrino

Maksym Korynev

National Council of Jewish Women

Community Partner

Megan Rose

Project Description

The Center for Women’s goal is to reduce the employment gap for women who had to step away from work, allowing them to ultimately be financially stable and self-supportive. The Center offers a number of programs, including a mentoring program. The CMU IS team redesigned the intake and mentor-mentee matching processes for the mentoring program. The process is now faster, less biased and much more automated.

Student Development Team

Abigail McManus

Kimberly Zhang

Melina Driscoll

Matt's Maker Space

Community Partner

Noelle Conover, Judy Hallinen

Project Description

Matt's Maker Space is a nonprofit that supports and funds makerspaces across Pittsburgh. Their mission is to inspire a new generation of creative, collaborative, and experiential learners through STEAM focused programming. The CMU IS students worked on creating an easy-to-use lesson plan sharing platform and database so that teachers could create, save, browse, and search lesson plans all in one place. This will help teachers in creating and finding lesson plans tailored uniquely to their students, which will maximize learning and use of makerspaces.

Student Development Team

Eileen Mao

Jeevika Ghosh

Matt Kern

Kodiak Island Borough School District

Community Partner

Damon Hargraves

Project Description

The mission of KIBSD is to "provide an education program of the highest standard that empowers all students to achieve personal and academic success while developing their full potential as responsible, productive citizens." The CMU IS project team helped further KIBSD's mission by delivering a competitive analysis of selected vendors based on extensive research of KIBSD's users. These recommendations will improve their data analytics in order for them to gain more insights from all the student data they collect.

Student Development Team

Justin Britton

Bradley Chen

Daniel Kim

Jeyoung Park

Footbridge for Families

Community Partner

Kim Eckel

Project Description

Footbridge for Families is a non-profit based in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh that connects community donations to families in short-term, financial crises. The CMU IS students made refinements to the current website as well as planned and developed the organization's COVID-19 emergency platform. The website will be used for Footbridge's upcoming pilot and the success of emergency platform will aid Footbridge's growth, as well as streamline the process in which Footbridge can help families during the COVID-19 crisis.

Student Development Team

Nathan Blinn

Nora Mattson

Fanny Situ

The Empowerment Equation

Community Partner

Tracey Vogel

Project Description

Over 30% of women report traumatic birth experiences, with the later development of postpartum depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD).The Empowerment Equation is an organization led by Dr. Tracey Vogel to ensure that mothers and to-be mothers have a nontraumatic birth experience through intervention and trauma-informed care. For our project, we developed a database that tracks patients and risk factors such as past drug abuse and missed hospital visits, from the first consultation for childbirth to up to a year postpartum. We also supplemented the database with web-based screening tools, that allow Dr. Vogel to screen patients for developing conditions like postpartum depression and PTSD up to a year postpartum. Together, these tools allow Dr. Vogel to reach out to patients as necessary and work towards a nontraumatic birth experience.

Student Development Team

Archit Arora

Pavi Bhatter

Sprina Wu

East End Cooperative Ministry

Community Partner

Lauren Boyle, Michael Bartley

Project Description

East End Cooperative Ministry is a Pittsburgh organization whose mission is to reduce the effects of poverty in the community. It offers a food pantry, community lunches, rehabilitation, and youth programs. Our application automatically enters donations from its online donation system to its database system. This project provides value by saving the EECM employees time and ensuring that their database records are accurate.

Student Development Team

Emmet Mack

Jordan Reichgut

Bobby Zhang

Children's Institute

Community Partner

Brian Furfari, Chris Mader

Project Description

We envisioned a simple, easy-to-use system for employee nomination. We want to streamline the approval process for employees instead of having week- or month-long delays. We want to be able to easily appreciate the employees who have been recognized widely by many of their peers. Most importantly, we want to highlight exceptional employees and provide them with a meaningful and sizable suite of perks to incentivize their hard work.

Student Development Team

Jarrek Holmes

Vivian Huang

Michelle Lim

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute

Community Partner

Rachel Burcin

Project Description

Our project goal is to make the review process easier for all involved, by tailoring the features to the needs of the different end users. Our team mainly focused on resurrectinng the past project and tailor it to the client’s needs in order to improve their application review process as well as building and refining advanced admin features.

Student Development Team

Amanda Bao

Yiying Ding

Anish Krishnan

Black Tech Nation

Community Partner

Kelauni Cook

Project Description

We wanted to create an advanced member tracking system to monitor, automate, and centralize information on their user base. This system would allow the administrator to query and filter the data in meaningful ways, giving administrators the capability to understand the user base. The information gathered from filtering could then potentially be presented to sponsors/partners. Our solution would be fully integrated into the WordPress site that a hired contractor develops.

Student Development Team

Eliza Li

Michael Becker

Peace Pius

Association for the Protection of Women's and Children's Rights

Community Partner

George Abang Tawoh

Project Description

The Association for the Protection of Women’s and Children’s Rights strives to protect and promote human rights through research, education, advocacy, charitable activities, and developmental programs in rural communities in Africa with a focus on women, children, and youth. The CMU IS student team worked with George Abang Tawoh, APWCR’s CEO, to build a new website to allow visitors and potential donors to view updated APWCR information, make donations, submit a volunteer form, and view integrated social media content. Since the client’s previous website was not updated in four years and did not have a working donation system, the new website will help APWCR elicit more donations to support their cause, attract more volunteers, and rebrand the organization.

Student Development Team

Annie Spahn

Charley Zhao

Eileen Chen

Allegheny Conference on Community Development

Community Partner

Ellen Gaus

Project Description

The Allegheny Conference on Community Development is a nonprofit organization that analyzes competitive issues, advocates community improvements, and markets the region globally to encourage business investments and job creations. The CMU IS student team has developed a web application for the Market Research Team to assist them in querying and data acquisition to help curate their business reports. The data querying tool will accelerate the creation of the market research team’s business reports, thus expediting the flow of information that is needed by the other members of the organization and their clients.

Student Development Team

Jessica Li

Shane Dasbach

Aditya Chanana

Adagio Health

Community Partner

Casey Monroe,Tracy Frank

Project Description

Adagio Health provides health and wellness services to all women and their families with a focus on those in need, emphasizing reproductive health services as well as cancer screenings. The CMU IS students redesigned the underlying database for their mammogram voucher program and developed an initial application foundation to replace Adagio's current but outdated system. The new database and app foundation allows for much needed compatibility with the new state medical database, and offers streamlined user management and information access.

Student Development Team

Brandyn Amado

Dillan Gajarawala

Kailas Shekar

Advance African Development, INC.

Community Partner

Annamore Matambanadzo

Project Description

Advance African Development is a local education non-profit that has partnered with the Pittsburgh public school system and local community organizations to provide educational events and service-learning opportunities here in Pittsburgh. The CMU IS students developed an initial website designed for multiple user categories, allowing students, news media, and potential grant providers to get what they need from the website. The website will allow AAD to reach much further and win what the founder predicts are grants up to 10 and 20 times their current amounts: in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the coming years.

Student Development Team

Edward Cho

Evan Feder

Surya Singla

Association of American Cancer Institutes

Community Partner

Mr. Jaren Love, Ms. Emily Stimmel

Project Description

The Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) comprises 100 premier academic and freestanding cancer research centers in the U.S. and Canada, and is dedicated to reducing the burden of cancer by enhancing the impact of North America’s leading academic cancer centers. The CMU IS student team worked with AACI to create a public policy legislation tracker that showcases and details the progress of federal legislation supported by the organization. The legislation tracker will be used to increase awareness and engagement by providing relevant information and education to AACI's readership and stakeholders.

Student Development Team

Vaishnav Balaji

Mark He

Lena Li

Cindy Su

YummyPlants

Community Partner

Rebecca Gilbert

Project Description

The Yummy Plants mission is to celebrate and share the joy of vegan food, connect vegans all around the world, and show you how easy it is to start eating vegan. The CMU IS students modernized the software architecture and platforms used by Yummy Plants. The result was improved search engine optimization performance for yummyplants.com and driving user traffic to the Yummy Plants website.

Student Development Team

Aditya Bhandari

Rachel Kim

Bharath Prabhu

Vicky Ye

YMCA Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Kimberly Black, Todd Brinkman

Project Description

Camping, like many Y programs, is about learning skills, developing character and making friends. Camping teaches self-reliance, a love for nature and the outdoors and the development of attitudes and practices that build character and leadership. Children return to camp each week and each year when their parents are more involved in their learning. The CMU IS students worked with YCamps to create a platform for parents to check their child’s progress at YCamp and become more engaged and involved.

Student Development Team

Stephanie Ananth

Tiffany Chen

Nawon Choi

Wesley Family Services

Community Partner

Aaron Richards, Larry Trenga

Project Description

Wesley Family Services (WFSPA) is a non-profit organization that provides high quality behavioral healthcare services and support programs to children, adults, and families. They have programs in Autism, Intellectual Disabilities, Behavioral Health and Education, serving more than 30,000 individuals and families with a staff of over 1,100 people. The CMU IS students created a database for Wesley Family Services with a front-end website to display details about available services, locations, and contacts. The solution gives WFSPA employees easy access to information so they can tell clients about different locations and services.

Student Development Team

Lera Neviadomska

Ryan Hoffman

Sandy Pan

The Empowerment Equation

Community Partner

Tracey Vogel

Project Description

As many as 1/3 of American women say the birth of their child was traumatic. Many of these women are later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). The majority of birth trauma is completely preventable. The Empowerment Equation is an organization aimed at improving obstetric care and the birthing experience for women who have experienced such trauma. Childbirth trauma increases the likelihood of postpartum depression and can negatively impact the important mother-baby bond. Working with the empowerment equation, the CMU IS students created a web-based application to be used during early prenatal visits to assess a woman’s risk in a non-threatening way and communicate that to her care-provider.

Student Development Team

Griffin Tang

John Kim

Mahima Arya

The Education Partnership

Community Partner

Jane McCarty

Project Description

The Education Partnership (TEP) provides school supplies for students and their teachers in low-income schools in Southwestern PA. TEP runs a teacher resource center distributing school and classroom supplies at no cost to students and teachers in need. Since 2011 they have served over 130,000 local students with over $17.4 million in school supplies. The CMU IS students modernized TEP’s school supply checkout process by cutting down the amount of steps needed to update the inventory, thus significantly reducing checkout time and increasing the number of local students served.

Student Development Team

Nathan Jen

Joe Segel

Kyle Chin

Sustainable Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Autumn Secrest, Hayden Sloan

Project Description

Sustainable Pittsburgh is a non-profit aimed at improving and encouraging sustainable practices in Pittsburgh. The CMU IS student team made user experience improvements to the web portal used in their annual Sustainable Pittsburgh Challenge competition, with the aim of increasing the number of participants, decreasing the time it takes for the participants to submit evidence, and decreasing the time it takes for the organizers to process these submissions, which will allow our client to further scale the competition in the future.

Student Development Team

Antonio Song

Alexander Nelson

Anusha Venkatesan

Smart Futures

Community Partner

David Mosey

Project Description

Smart Futures provides online career education resources and training to schools and community-based organizations in Pennsylvania. The CMU IS students integrated G Suite tools into the Smart Futures platform to improve the organization’s developer onboarding process and implement Google Single Sign On functionality for all users.

Student Development Team

Philip Baker

Joshua Huang

Albert Yuan

Smart Futures

Community Partner

David Mosey

Project Description

Smart Futures provides online career education resources and training to schools and community-based organizations in Pennsylvania. The CMU IS students integrated G Suite tools into the Smart Futures platform to improve the organization’s developer onboarding process and implement Google Single Sign On functionality for all users.

Student Development Team

Jacob Buckheit

Zehaotian Lin

Casey Al-Haddad

RedChairPGH

Community Partner

Lou Camerlengo

Project Description

RedChairPGH is a network of women and men who are committed to creating gender balance in the Pittsburgh technology professions. The CMU IS students created a mentor/mentee matching application to bring together professional women in technology for career and professional support.

Student Development Team

Jenny Zhu

Nupur Maheshwari

Sruthi Surapaneni

Quaker Valley Council of Governments

Community Partner

Susan Hockenberry

Project Description

The Quaker Valley Council of Governments (QV COG) is a non-profit organization that facilitates multi-municipal efforts and implements efficient, cost-effective programs on behalf of its members. The CMU IS students built a web-based application for citizens of the Quaker Valley region to submit feedback about their community. The QVCOG uses the feedback to make program recommendations for their constituents.

Student Development Team

Roly Garcia

Elliot Allard

Brandon Hong

Pitsburgh Fellows Alumni Association

Community Partner

Laura Moyer, Anna Scofield

Project Description

A Fellows Program is a nine month spiritual and vocational leadership program for recent college graduates. The program includes a part-time professional job, theological coursework, Biblical study, mentoring and service. The CMU IS students helped the Pittsburgh Fellows streamline the process of communicating with alumni using modern messaging and web-enabled technology.

Student Development Team

Christie Chang

Andy Gao

Amy Lin

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Community Partner

Christine Nalitz, Joe Reed

Project Description

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens exists to inspire and educate all with the beauty and importance of plants; to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and research; and to celebrate its historic glasshouse. The CMU IS students created a web-based app used in the Discovery Garden Pavers Program, whereby donors to the program inscribed bricks with a dedication which were then used to pave the Children's Discovery Garden walkway. The students fixed inaccuracies in the existing brick data and created an easy search for individuals to locate their bricks.

Student Development Team

Dean Dijour

Evan Byrd

Tricia Chen

Vrinda Gupta

Pennsylvania Rural Robotics Initiative

Community Partner

Timothy Heffernan

Project Description

Pa Rural Robotics Initiative (PA RRI) goal is to develop sustainable world-class educational robotics programming for the children in Pennsylvania’s rural communities. The CMU IS student team created a website for PA RRI with information for community members, partners, and potential donors. Included on the website is a system the students created for PA RRI to use in collecting data from participants. The data is used to generate reports on program outcomes to use in applying for grant funding and to improve the program.

Student Development Team

Nicole Ang

India Unger-Harquail

Jiayi Zhao

Operation Strong Mind

Community Partner

Tom Stokes

Project Description

Operation Strong Mind seeks to connect, engage, advocate and empower - their mission is to maximize military community members’ potential and social resilience by connecting military and civilian communities through education, advocacy, and meaningful interpersonal intervention. The CMU IS student team improved the website and familiarized the members of OSM with G Suite, allowing them to communicate more frequently and more effectively. The students created video tutorials and documentation for the website to ensure the sustainability.

Student Development Team

Killian Huang

David Inyangson

Siheon Andrew Lee

Sarah Wang

NewERA412

Community Partner

Taili Thompson, Maggie McGannon

Project Description

ReEntry412 is a nonprofit sponsored by Allegheny County aimed at helping formerly incarcerated citizens reintegrate into society. Their goal is to reduce recidivism rate of formerly incarcerated citizens. Working with this nonprofit, the CMU IS students created a mobile-enabled web application for community street outreach workers. With this web application the street outreach workers can share important information with recently released citizens to help them find housing, jobs and other services available to help them reintegrate. In the words the 412 ReEntry community partner, “this application is literally saving lives”.

Student Development Team

Ryan Eckert

Victoria Liang

Warren Glasner

National Council of Jewish Women

Community Partner

Cristina Ruggiero

Project Description

The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action. The CMU IS student team performed an analysis of the current customer relationship management (CRM) processes and recommended a single replacement solution. As part of this they delivered several documents to help them prepare for the migration to a new solution; a Duplicate Data Removal Plan for cleaning up existing data, a Technical Plan with suggestions for data maintenance, and a Data Governance document with best practices for data entry moving forward.

Student Development Team

Leah Kim

Sasha Volodin

Judy Zhang

Kodiak Island Borough School District

Community Partner

Damon Hargraves

Project Description

Kodiak Island Borough School District is a rural, public school district located on the second largest island in the United States, in the Gulf of Alaska. There are seven schools in the largest city of Kodiak and seven schools (k-12) in the rural villages. The CMU IS student team created an updated online application for parents to register their children for after-school activities. The new form automated many manual steps associated with assigning students to programs and confirming as much with parents.

Student Development Team

Roman Kaufman

Matt Liu

Jeremy Xue

Inclusant

Community Partner

Anupama Jain

Project Description

Inclusant is an organization that specializes in diversity and inclusion consulting. The CMU IS students created a form for potential clients to clarify their needs so that the diversity and inclusion services could be most closely matched to the clients needs. In addition, they improved the overall architecture and user experience of the website.

Student Development Team

Nathan Belaye

Maitreyee Deshpande

Shannon Lu

Hoot Book Revival

Community Partner

Natalie Zeltman, Connie Webb

Project Description

Hootbook Revival is a small online site to help homeschoolers buy and sell books. The CMU IS student team project was to build a mobile application integrated with the Hoot Book Revival website to scan barcodes of books to speed up the book selling process at book fairs. This was done to also drive traffic to the website.

Student Development Team

Sungho Cho

Alberto Oshiro

Vivian He

Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Lauren Bairnsfather, Jackie Reese

Project Description

The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh inspires engagement with Holocaust history and connects it to the injustices of today through educational public programming for audiences of all ages. The CMU IS student team created pre- and post-visit assessments allowing visitors to share feedback on their experience and what they learned.

Student Development Team

Ryan Fitzpatrick

Abbey Mui

Conlon Novak

Harrison Middle School

Community Partner

Debbie Reynolds

Project Description

IKS Highlander is a mission-based learning environment for middle school students that uses science fiction and fantasy storytelling and blends STEM topics from social studies, science, humanities, and art. The missions use a sixteen member crew who are assigned roles like pilot, engineer, or doctor. Each crew member is responsible for different functions of the ship to teach teamwork and collaboration. The CMU IS students worked with Baldwin Middle School staff to develop pre- and post-mission surveys and with charts, infographics, and data tables representing the learning outcomes achieved.

Student Development Team

Xinwen Liu

Elizabeth Wang

Roxanne Zhang

East End Cooperative Ministry - SewForward Program

Community Partner

Hannah Moon, Tony Cortese, Kellie Wild

Project Description

East End Cooperative Ministry serves vulnerable adults and at-risk children and youth throughout Pittsburgh through programs that provide nutrition assistance, housing services, behavioral health support, education and employment assistance. The CMU IS student team worked with the managing director of the EECM Sew Forward program. Sew Forward provides technical education, access to professional sewing machines, jobs, entrepreneurship training, and more, for exploring careers in the fields of sewing, tailoring and fashion design. The students used Salesforce.com to configure and implement the supply chain process for the Sew Forward business allowing them to track sewing projects from prospect to design to order to manufacture and billing.

Student Development Team

Cathy Dong

Zoe Teoh

Maggie Williams

Dream Center Educational Holdings

Community Partner

Chad Shipley, Matt Siconolfi

Project Description

Dream Center Education Holdings managed several for profit education programs, including The Art Institutes in Pittsburgh. The students worked with the organization’s information security team to create a system that assigns risk scores to internally used applications, highlights the top cyber risks and includes guidelines to mitigate the risks.

Student Development Team

Jenine Clay

Kasdan Bakos

Simrin Guglani

CMU Spring Carnival Committee

Community Partner

Stephen Clark, Hannah Koschmeder

Project Description

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Spring Carnival is an annual three-day event of rides, robots, races, music and comedy, engineering feats and reunions; it an opportunity for students, alumni, faculty and staff to come together with the Pittsburgh community for fun and entertainment. The CMU IS student team worked with the Carnival Committee to improve the system used for planning and managing the campus-wide, student centric event.

Student Development Team

Ameeshi Goel

Bo Tembunkiart

Lorraine Zhang

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute

Community Partner

Rachel Burcin

Project Description

The Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute Summer Scholars (RISS) program cultivates talented robotics students from around the world. In order to offer this world-class experience equitably, the RISS wanted a clear and unbiased application process. The CMU students created a new system for submission, review and acceptance of applicants to the summer program. They streamlined the process and included features to reduce bias in the process.

Student Development Team

Monica Chang

Justin Kufro

Penelope McKeefry

Darien Weems

American Association of Cancer Institutes

Community Partner

Jaren Love, Emily Stimmel

Project Description

The American Association of Cancer Institutes is a member-based organization with a platform that provides for voluntary knowledge-sharing related to ongoing cancer research. The CMU IS students delivered a solution for the AACI to store and share state-based cancer legislation and advocacy information, providing members a resource to craft similar legislation in their own state.

Student Development Team

Taruna Emani

Erika Giuse

Maya Sripadam

Airport Corridor Transport Association

Community Partner

Lynn Manion, Amy J. Mathieson

Project Description

Businesses in the airport corridor have jobs; individuals in the city and surrounding suburbs need jobs, but may not have access to reliable transportation. The Airport Corridor Transportation Association (ACTA) closes this gap by running an on-demand flex-route shuttle service from a central hub bus stop to nearly 200 local businesses around the airport corridor. The CMU IS student team helped ACTA gather feedback from riders and increase exposure to new riders by incorporating a review feature on Google maps, a Twitter campaign and a survey into the existing website.

Student Development Team

Chelsea Cui

Wanling Ding

Joie Feng

A Footbridge

Community Partner

Kimberly, Eckel

Project Description

A Footbridge facilitates community donations to caregivers of children experiencing financial stress and provides skill-building in areas such as financial literacy and healthy parent-child relationships. The CMU IS students developed an initial website for this new nonprofit with functionality to allow for donation requests, validation and site use.

Student Development Team

Jonathan Fung

Ru Jia

Wilson Yu

412 Food Rescue

Community Partner

Min Kyung, Lee

Project Description

412 Food Rescue partners with food retailers, nonprofit organizations, and Food Rescue Volunteers to bring healthy food directly to those experiencing food insecurity. 412 Food Rescue’s technology platform, also known as “Food Rescue Hero,” is an end-to-end system that matches food donations to the appropriate nonprofits, coordinates a last-mile transportation network of volunteers, trains volunteers on food safety and tracks data and analytics–measuring impact on hunger and the environment. The CMU IS students worked with a graduate project in Machine Learning to most fairly dispatch food rescues to nonprofits - they created an easy-to-use front-end and a more streamlined experience for the food dispatchers to take advantage of advanced analytics provided by machine learning tools.

Student Development Team

Aiden Lee

Anna Yuan

Calvin Lui

Christina Chou

Beaver County Humane Society

Community Partner

Donna Bueck, Susan Salyards

Project Description

Our team aimed to build a web-based application that streamlines the donation process at the shelter. The online donation form was made so that the donors are able to input their personal information as well as their in-kind donations on a donation kiosk when they come to donate. The information gathered from this donation kiosk also feeds into a basic inventory management system which allows the organization to keep track of the quantity and value of their inventory.

Student Development Team

Dexter Epouhe

Siting Jin

Arnav Luthra

CMU Athletics: PlaidFit

Community Partner

Adam May

Project Description

Our vision is to set up a user-friendly series of applications that replace the current health application used by the CMU Athletic department and its athletes. These applications aim to solve a few key issues present in the existing app: incentive for athletes to use it, data analytics provided to coaches and trainers, as well as improved user interface for all users. Essentially, this app would track numerous different variables (sleep, fatigue, hydration, etc.) and will monitor the health/performance of athletes. The data analytics done by the application will be based off of research in the Sports-Medicine industry in order to provide optimal metrics for the department.

Student Development Team

Winston Chu

Alec Lam

Aathreya Thuppul

CMU University Contracts Office

Community Partner

Matthew D'Emilio, Brian Spoales

Project Description

We propose creating a web application that performs "versioning," or a comparison of differences between software agreements by highlighting additions in green and removals in red. The application would be able to save agreements into the application database as well as allow for other features like software search, side-by-side document comparison, and commenting.

Student Development Team

Dylan Hyun

Julia Luo

Linda Xia

Professional Development Services

Community Partner

Kim Abel, Adam Marks, Jason Schneider

Project Description

The primary goal of our project was to provide CMU faculty and staff with a secure and large-scale CompetentU application. A secondary goal was to enhance the user experience of the admin by eliminating the bugs from the previous iteration. Our overarching aim was to provide the CompetentU stakeholders and users with a fully functioning interface that requires CMU affiliation to use and that supports heavy usage on a long-term basis.

Student Development Team

Andy Lee

Julien Naegeli

Shubhangi Bhotika

CMU Spring Carnival

Community Partner

Stephen Clark, Hannah Koschmeder

Project Description

The Project Vision for our team was to solve the issues with the Binder application and increase the efficiency of the Spring Carnival Committee's operations while addressing the concerns of students and user from previous years. We aim to serve the SCC and the booth building organizations who would be directly affected by the heightened efficiency and new features from our work. Our improvements to Binder will enable the organization to reduce complexity of regular tasks and create a better, more intuitive application experience for the users. Additionally it will streamline processes that would be much more tedious to do manually such as the building of reports.

Student Development Team

Karan Bokil

Andrew Kim

Ritika Srivastava

The Education Partnership

Community Partner

Jane McCarty, Catherine Price

Project Description

Our project goal was to build a Ruby on Rails application that will allow TEP to replace VendHQ in order to reduce the amount of data manipulation and reentry from 3 months to an automatic process that will only take a few hours of volunteers entering data. Our system needed to allow administrators to enter in the data from teacher transaction sheets (mainly, each teacher's name and quantities of the items they have taken) and update their Salesforce inventory database. Ideally, our system will automatically manipulate the data to fit Salesforce requirements, load the data and update inventory.

Student Development Team

Stephanie Pang

Alina Yu

Shirley Zhou

The Education Partnership

Community Partner

Catherine Price

Project Description

The project vision was to replace The Education Partnership's use of a google doc for teachers to reserved educational STEAM kits with a fully-functional web application. The application would allow teachers to select what kits they wanted to reserve and would allow employees of The Education Partnership to manage kits and export inventory reports.

Student Development Team

Alex Bainbridge

Walter Donnellan

Juliann Fields

Harrison Middle School

Community Partner

Debbie Reynolds, Renhao Hu

Project Description

We will be developing a two-part information system to collect data about student experience and learning for Harrison Middle School students and the IKS Highlander mission director. This information system will consist of collecting student metrics about both soft and hard skills and generating reports for funding petitions and simulation/Mission Ops improvements. This is the first solution to be developed for the school, and there are currently no alternative technological solutions. Instead, feedback is sparingly collected in the form of written essays completed at the end of each simulation.

Student Development Team

Isha Laad

Fletcher Marsh

Sydney Bauer

Renhao Hu

The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Lauren Apter Bairnsfather, Jackie Shimshoni

Project Description

Readers of the Holocaust Center's comic book series, ChutzPow, explore more than just a story. The stories told in ChutzPow also have a historical context. Our project aims to provide readers around the world a way to explore ChutzPow in a digitized manner while also presenting historical context, facts and other annotations. Our team aimed to not only educate readers through the stories of ChutzPow but to additionally create a fun and interesting experience that was more than just a scanned copy of the comic book.

Student Development Team

Kenny Cohen

Sean Park

Emily Porat

International Living Future Institute

Community Partner

Alex Co, Benson Gabler, Shreyas Krishnaswamy

Project Description

Our goal is to build a portal that translates the contents in the document into an interactive web platform. A clearer, more interactive way to present the information in the PDF document can give manufacturers who seek ILFI certification a better understanding of the process and requirements they must follow. We hope that this solution can also give users an understanding of the Challenge and what it entails (without inundating them with information) and connect them to the appropriate resources to achieve their imperatives.

Student Development Team

Arnav Jain

Karan Gugle

Manuel Lopez

Shreyas Krishnaswamy

KidLift

Community Partner

Lori Pollock, Ali Lucas

Project Description

Our overarching objective with this project was to deliver a system to help streamline and improve our client's business systems; this solution could, in turn, be shown to potential investors, which could help our client secure funding and expand their business by enabling them to hire new drivers and serve more customers. Our proposed solution was to build on top of Kidlift's current Squarespace application, along with integrating a 3rd party scheduling application, AcuityScheduling. The top priorities for application functionality were customer onboarding, customer sign-in, scheduling, and payment. The functionality of AcuityScheduling covered these use cases, and Squarespace also has a plugin for Acuity which made integration straightforward. Both services have mobile-responsive solutions, which is suitable for the client and their customers, given their preference for a mobile-friendly solution. Using Acuity removes, or at least lessens, the burden of application maintenance on the client.

Student Development Team

Chih-Sen (Jason) Chang

Youce (Andy) Ji

Svayam Mishra

Kodiak Island Borough School District & NOAA Kodiak Lab

Community Partner

Robert Foy, Damon Hargraves, Jennifer Newby

Project Description

Taking advantage of this project opportunity, our team worked closely with the client to devise a solution in the form of a crowdsourcing game that would leverage the partnership between the school district and the Kodiak Lab. This game will allow students themselves to engage in the crab analysis process and therefore reduce the time researchers spend on this task.

Student Development Team

Connor Fitzgibbon

Hera Miao

Rich Zhu

Phipps Conservatory

Community Partner

Adam Haas, Sarah States

Project Description

The project vision is an interface which presents the CSL's data in an understandable and educational way. Our idea is to build a web solution, which allows for the greatest view-ability and compatibility with different devices. This vision seeks to meet the ultimate goal of educating and promoting sustainable living by providing staff and eventually visitors with a simple way of understanding the importance of the CSL. In order to allow for a smooth transition from the old interface to the new one that we develop, we modeled our own interface around some of the more desirable features of the interfaces of their current dashboard.

Student Development Team

Justin Chang

Graciela Garcia

Frank Liao

Phipps Conservatory

Community Partner

Christine Nalitz, Mike Cassidy

Project Description

We propose a web application that has the capability to generate reports on usable and unclean data, and visualize useful metrics in the form of a dashboard. This would enable the client to make use of their data with the knowledge that it is accurate, and use the reports on unclean data to repopulate their database with sanitized data.

Student Development Team

Ashvin Niruttan

George Yao

Minnie Wu

Pennsylvania Resources Council

Community Partner

Teresa Bradley, Stacy Albin

Project Description

Our vision was to implement a web application to facilitate data entry, management, analysis and storage in regards to the waste auditing process. We aimed to expedite the initial questionnaire stage by enabling a web option that allows ZWPA staff members to quickly complete necessary fields. Additionally, we aimed to allow ZWPA auditors to quickly and digitally complete waste audit forms. Audit information could then be downloaded and instant analysis will be provided by the application.

Student Development Team

Vinitha Ranganeni

Arnav Gupta

Jonathan Wihl

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Community Partner

Jeff Hinkelman

Project Description

The vision for this project is a system in which users can download and stream films in the public domain and upload student films and accompanying essays. The goal of our project is to create a resource that can encourage the pedagogical use of video materials and documentation through the context of Oscar Micheaux. The project should enhance the learning experience of users interested in Micheaux but also users wanting to practice film techniques. Our initial project build will include an overview of Oscar Micheaux but also the ability download, edit, and reupload films on a social media like user interface. Users of this project would include students, teachers professors, and scholars interested in learning about Micheaux. The value of our solution is not only in providing a resource for learning about Micheaux but in its longterm ratifications if expanded. This project can encourage the practice of video learning in classrooms with films across universities.

Student Development Team

Obed Appiah-Agyeman

Devin Fan

Pavan Gollapalli

Stephen Yamalis

Wesley Family Services

Community Partner

Wesley Family Services

Project Description

The project proposed by our clients will be a SharePoint based system that keeps track of WFSPA's vehicles, generates reports, and allows users to log vehicles in/out with use. Currently, the data is spread out across three systems and is resulting in a loss of time and efficiency. Our project will significantly speed up the transfer of information in the organization regarding their vehicle fleet. This will allow requests and lookups for informatyion to be significantly easier and faster than before. While we could propose solutions using other database systems or software, such as a Ruby on Rails app, this idea offered by the client seems to be most appropriate due to the client's prior experience with the software and maintainability.

Student Development Team

Devansh Kukreja

Dylan Schwartz

Sally Zhao

Wesley Family Services

Community Partner

Larry Trenga, Aaron Richards

Project Description

The goal of our project was to create an automated auditing system through SharePoint. This system would allow managers in the organization to easily confirm or deny the various access privileges of employees under them, and would provide a consistent online method of auditing for the entire company. We aimed to create an application that could provide users an easy way to view, update, and add information regarding workers, as well as compile reports of the audits that took place.

Student Development Team

Yingjing Lu

John Foley

Bernard Decelian

Auberle

Community Partner

Suzi Rosati

Project Description

Our goal was to create a scheduling system that can be integrated through a responsive web application. The system would consolidate all children’s schedules into one system that can be updated by case specialists and admins, and accessed by case aides. Based on the children’s schedules and the planned trips for the case aides, the system would be able to notify employees of canceled trips, when help is needed, and when schedules are submitted for approval to the administrators. We created our solution using a Ruby on Rails application hosted on an IS department server, cmuisprojects.org, with a server provided by Auberle’s third party IT vendor (Ideal Integrations). The stakeholders for our application are the Foster Care Director, Ideal Integrations, the Director of Facilities and Operations, case specialists and aides, along with foster 31 families and childern. Our users are the Foster Care Directer - Suzi, case specialists, cae aides, and case managers.

Student Development Team

Erin Dieringer

Matt Gruber

RhoEun Song

Beaver County Humane Society

Community Partner

Donna Bucek, Karen Dioguardi, Shannan O'Neill & Susan Salyards

Project Description

Our vision for our project will be to enhance the overall product left by last years team, in order to identify lingering problems with their foster system setup.

Student Development Team

Daniel Graf

Pooja Penninti

Best of the Batch Foundation

Community Partner

Latasha Wilson-Batch

Project Description

The primary goal of this project was to rebuild and refactor the entire web application that previous IS teams had developed. After learning about the issues the client faced in previous years with usability and functionality, our goal became to create a web application that achieved a smooth registration process for Project C.H.U.C.K. and Next Level Athletics and to ensure the user interface / user experience of the application was well designed for both the admin and general user. We also envisioned that our system would support the easy addition of more programs as Best of the Batch grows and adds new programs to their repertoire.

Student Development Team

Annette Chen

Akash Kejriwal

Jeremy Lee

Blue Sky Fund

Community Partner

Paula Labieniec

Project Description

Through the Oppia platform, the team envisions an opportunity for Blue Sky Fund’s educators to create interactive online content to remedy time lost by unforeseen blockages on field trips. The Oppia interactions, both the existing ones and the new one the team customized based on the client’s course design, would provide quick and simple methods of creating innovative learning exercises for students. Students will have diversified learning experiences since not only they will have more opportunities to learn, but also will they learn at their own pace.

Student Development Team

Jason Chen

Jordan Stapinski

Fang You

CMU Athletics

Community Partner

Christine Scalise

Project Description

Our vision is to implement a web application that will increase the reliability and efficiency of the equipment rental process. With the planned web application, CMU Athletics will be able to reliably track who rents out what equipment and when the equipment is rented out. This will allow the organization to ensure that the equipment is returned and customer rental information is tracked. The student employees working at the equipment desk will also be able to improve the efficiency in which equipment is checked out and checked in. This will be done by reducing the human input and automating much of the information tracked in the system.

Student Development Team

James Jameson

Hyun Hee Clara Kim

Andrew Wang

CMU Professional Development Services

Community Partner

Kim Abel, Sarah Emory & Adam Marks

Project Description

Our goal for this project was to build a robust, deployable, and scalable web application for Professional Development Services. Their new competency-centric initiative hinged on our application being deployed and usable. We began the project knowing a successful deployment was expected and adjusted our scope and feature set accordingly throughout the semester. Our biggest goals were a highly interactive assessment report and an intuitive admin-side for the application. Pr

Student Development Team

Travis Chambers

Richard Huang

Piyush Puri

CMU Spring Carnival Committee

Community Partner

Amalia Martinez & Stephen Clark

Project Description

We propose to first robustly test the application models and fix the 6 high-priority GitHub issues that are bug and security related. We aim to use this as a fundamental version of the application that is stable and free of functional errors. The next step is to build a notification feature in conjunction with the existing features to alert the users under different situations. For SCC members, the notification feature alerts them when a note is posted to a member. For student users, the feature alerts them when a requested tool becomes available, when a watch shift is imminent, and when organization starts downtime.

Student Development Team

Akshay Goradia

Bruce Lin

Rumby Wilson

Handprinter.org

Community Partner

Gregory Norris

Project Description

Our team’s project vision is to build a seamless crowd-sourcing platform that allows submission of action ideas and includes a model generation interface that allows expert users to create a report detailing the description, variables, equation and documentation for an action idea. The primary users of our proposed project are both environmentally-conscious users as well highly-skilled individuals with necessary backgrounds in life cycle assessment and sustainability.

Student Development Team

Alex Frazier

Serene Gao

Meghana Valluri

Holocuast Center of Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Lauren Bairnsfather

Project Description

We proposed to create a CRM system that allows attendees to check-in with the center’s events and galleries, and a way for visitors to provide more information about their interests in the Holocaust Center through a follow-up email. From a visitor’s standpoint, they would be able to quickly enter their email, first name, and last name. After a visit, visitors would be sent a link to complete additional information such as age and what their specific interests are. This allows the center to view analytics of their visitors and events, such as popular times and days of the week, and demographic information about their visitors. From a staff member’s perspective, they will be able to upload a pre-registration sheet and their existing Mailchimp subscribers to quickly look-up previous visitors of the Holocaust Center and checking them in a few seconds. With this information stored digitally, the center will be able to pull tangible data in order to make decisions about events and appeal for funding.

Student Development Team

Sid Malladi

Sarah Reyes-Franco

Emily Su

Kodiak Island Borough School District

Community Partner

Damon Hargraves & Jethro Jones

Project Description

After comprehending our client’s core problem with scalability and conducting extensive requirements gathering, we focused on modifying the current Pickr scheduling tool to be packageable and installable. We compared five possible solutions using a decision matrix - eventually proceeding by maintaining their original AngularJS front-end, re-building the CakePHP back-end with Node.js, storing data in SQLite, and packaging using Electron. The interface and functionality of the application would not be drastically altered despite the change in development stack, making the application easier to adopt by the current users. Along the way, usability issues could be solved as noted by our community partners. Packaging and installation ability will allow distribution of this RTI scheduling tool to benefit other schools’ educational programs as well.

Student Development Team

Sebastián Guerrero Cárdenas

Chris Lewis

Sophie Zhao

Pennsylania Resources Council

Community Partner

Omoye Aikhuele, Michael Stepaniak, Justin Stockdale

Project Description

Our proposed solution to these problems was to store PRC’s recycling hotline resources in a database from which they could easily retrieve, update, and verify information. This system would also contain the ability to record calls, thus streamlining their calling procedure. This would serve as an internal resource that could be used by all employees of PRC using the hotline and would allow information to be consistent, securely stored, and easily accessible across the organization.

Student Development Team

Sai Dhulipalla

Rebecca Kern

Ziren Zhou

Phipps Conservatory

Community Partner

Adam Haas & Sarah States

Project Description

Our team’s goal is to create an interactive, well-designed, and sustainable experience to educate visitors about climate change. Specifically, this experience is a environmental trivia game. The game includes an interactive map of Pittsburgh; this design choice relates to the primary demographic of the visitors of Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh natives. This game is visually impressive, with custom designed graphics. Additionally, the game follows the Phipps style guide to coexist cohesively within the conservatory. This game is accessible to various ages, targeting specifically the seventh grade level. Furthermore, this game will be stationed at the halfway point of the typical visit, ensuring the adequate amount of attention from the player.

Student Development Team

Natalya Buchwald

Korrawat Jianthanakanon

Ally Sorge

Johnny Wu

San Francisco Department on the Status of Women

Community Partner

Herschell & Carol Sacco

Project Description

After extensive research into pre-existing solutions and custom build options, our client and our team determined that the best solution would be to build a custom built web application to optimize the report submission, management, and storage procedure. The app would allow the grantee programs to submit the required report for the current quarter and allow our clients to store these submissions on the cloud for easy extraction at the end of the fiscal year. When grantee programs submit their reports, the app would rename the file appropriately and sort them into the relevant folders, reducing the manual labor on both our client and the grantee programs. The app should also allow our client to filter through the submissions and create custom downloads based on the files they need to reference. In addition to the web application, we also wanted to refactor their existing Master Excel to become more dynamic and sustainable based on the modified file directory system.

Student Development Team

Connor Hanley

Amber Hu

Helen Kim

Sina Siddiqi

Software Engineering Institute

Community Partner

Chase Midler & Satya Venneti

Project Description

Our project is the first step towards deploying the prototype by providing heart rate analysis through a live demonstration of our client’s technology. The objective of our application is to allow anyone with a computer webcam to obtain their own heart rate by recording a video to be processed by our client’s technology. This technology challenges the existing market for wearable health monitors by eliminating the need for costly devices and focusing on the sole use of video input through a noninvasive technique. With increased accessibility and development, the potential applications of this technology are numerous, ranging from aiding security screening measures to medical use in developing countries.

Student Development Team

Asawari Kanitkar

Divya Mohan

Katie Williams

YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh

Community Partner

Jennifer Bouchard, Toddy Brinkman, Jim Needles & Dobarah Pricener

Project Description

Our vision is to provide YMCA staff members and volunteers a comprehensive attendance tracking system that provides an intuitive interface for entering children’s attendance. This system will allow members of YMCA to quickly and easily take care of data entry for kids registered for their programs including sign-in and sign-out, along with important food information. With the information in one system ready to generate reports on the current status, volunteers don’t have to keep track of sign-in sheets and employees don’t have to tediously submit data to management systems. In the end, volunteers can focus more on their interactions with children and YMCA directors and other employees can cut out massive inefficiencies to their paper-based solutions.

Student Development Team

Jake Bittner

Eric Chow

Abdusamed Sherif

Glen Wise

Beaver County Humane Society

Community Partner

Donna Bucek, Susan Salyards & Jasmin Wu

Project Description

Our team proposes an application that shows all animals needing fostering, and matches each to the best foster parent, so the staff can quickly and easily foster out animals as quickly as possible.

Student Development Team

Gus Henry

Shijie Rao

Alex Wang

Best of the Batch Foundation

Community Partner

Latasha Wilson-Batch

Project Description

Our vision for this project was threefold: enabling data persistency, enhancing security, and building admin features. To enable data persistence, we created accounts for guardians and volunteers so that they could access and edit their information from year to year. For enhancing security, we established that satisfying brakeman tests and removing data once it has been signed off on, are appropriate security measures for this project. In terms of building admin features we provided additional analytics and a revised team management system.

Student Development Team

Bejamin Junker

Shreeyagaya Khemka

Sung Jin Kim

Beverly's Birthdays

Community Partner

Megs Yunn & Martina Caruso

Project Description

Our goal is to provide a system that will enhance the business processes of the organization so that they can realize their full potential and continue to do what they do at improved pace and accuracy. We propose a custom web application using barcode scanners that scans items moving in and out of the inventory, records additional details such as agencies and provides metrics based on this information.

Student Development Team

Jeanine Huang

Guary Nagaraju

Ibrahim Soltan

Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics

Community Partner

Azizan Aziz & Betrand Lasternas

Project Description

Per the client’s request, our main goals for the project were to deploy the existing web application developed by the previous student team, recruit members from the CMU community to use the Page 11 application, and improve the application based on user feedback. We also agreed to implement several essential features for ConnectFMS and planned on implementing “nice-to-have” features if time permitted. Through ConnectFMS, we hoped that the CMU community would be able to voice their concerns about sustainability and maintenance issues on campus more easily as well as learn more about CMU’s building performance.

Student Development Team

Brad Chin

Karen Segal

Maggie Yu

CMU Professional Development Services

Community Partner

Kim Abel, Adam Marks & Katherine Sheridan

Project Description

The vision of this project is the creation of a web based portal that allows employees to take a competency assessment and be presented with resources and a plan on how to maintain and/or develop certain areas of competency. The web page will have two main users - CMU faculty and staff, and Professional Development Services staff. The first use is for employees to assess their competency level, and be presented with resources and a plan on how to maintain and/or develop their selected competency. Paired with a plan of action, CMU faculty and staff will be more motivated to follow through with their development. The second use of the system is for Professional Development Services staff, or equivalent administrators, to access the system and customize the content. This includes modifying the assessment itself, altering the interpretation algorithm, and adding/removing/editing competencies and resources.

Student Development Team

Madeline Duque

Jennifer Han

James Ormond

CMU Spring Carnival Committee

Community Partner

Patrick Koenig

Project Description

Our first vision was to improve and extend the existing Binder application so that it supported our client’s developing needs and workflows. Our second vision was to use our expertise as Information Systems professionals to learn about our client’s business process and inform them of ways technology could facilitate processes in their organization. Our first goal was our main focus as that was our client’s immediate need, and our second goal was something we intended to complete as the semester progressed.

Student Development Team

Ronnie Ghose

Israel Madume

Kunal Sinha

Environmental Foodprint

Community Partner

Michelle Tom, Paul Fischbeck & Christ Hendrickson

Project Description

We proposed to create an educational and interactive calculator that acts as a vehicle for publicizing their research in the form of a web application. The application will allow users to input foods into their meals so they can easily visualize the nutritional and environmental impact certain foods have on both their health and the environment. Users will also be able to compare their specific diet to the USDA recommended diet and other diets.

Student Development Team

Karen Irvine

Anne Lueh

Jackie Pan

Handprinter.org

Community Partner

Gregory Norris

Project Description

Our team set out to build an interface for leaf users (non-expert, average users). The interface would be a responsive web application that allows anyone to submit ideas at any time, with ease. Key areas of functionality included: the ability to submit a new idea and options to browse, comment, and vote on ideas. Ensuring all of these actions would be usable, while providing feedback that allowed users to understand the positive impact he or she makes through contributing guided our design process.We aimed to develop an application that educates users on handprinting, encourages them to contribute, and allows them to contribute with ease in a mobile and desktop environment.

Student Development Team

Jennifer Jin

Chiamaka Nnebe

Javed Ramjohn

Mark Vella

Pennsylania Resources Council

Community Partner

Ross Hirschfeld, Sarah Shea & Justin Stockdale

Project Description

Our vision consists of three parts. First, we want to ensure efficient, effective data collection by developing business processes around an offline survey tool so that it is accessible in the parking lots. Second, we want to provide appropriate data visualizations so that PRC can better understand their customers, strengthen their value to the community, and procure more funds from the Page 31 municipalities. Third, we want to develop an events filtering map that will be featured on the PRC website. The map will display upcoming PRC events and allow users to filter by different event types near them. We hope that the events platform will increase PRC’s membership value proposition and encourage users to visit their site.

Student Development Team

Nikita Bokil

Ann Chen

Connor Moore

Phipps Conservatory

Community Partner

Adam Haas & Emily Kalnicky

Project Description

The focus of this project is the ongoing challenge to find new ways of engaging visitors on the CSL’s performance and sustainability in order to allow them to connect more deeply with the environment. We sought to fulfill this need through a web application that took visitors through an interactive tour of the building. We started by gathering feedback to understand why visitors went to the CSL, what they expected to see and experience, as well as what would make them come again. The visitors include those who come as student groups as well as other people of a variety of age groups and demographics.

Student Development Team

Jibby Ayo-Ani

Suvrath Penmetcha

Alex Tsai

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Community Partner

Christopher Warren & Jessica Otis

Project Description

In order to increase the number of contributions to the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon website, the team planned to implement several new features so users can discover new responsive ways to interact with the website. These features included a points system so users can track their progress towards updating their account to Curator Status, an updated user profile, a leaderboard to compare their progress with other users, and a new form to contribute to the website. These new interactive features bring a fun element to how users utilize the website and gives them recognition for their contributions.

Student Development Team

David Gao

Max Harlynking

Amy Li

Software Engineering Institute

Community Partner

Josh Hammerstein

Project Description

Based on the need of the client, we envision a solution that allows the intuitive creation of evaluation rubrics to be used as machine learning training data. Simply, this solution should allow people to tag appropriate skills demonstrated in videos, and chain those skills into larger sets of skills. The narrative, as informed by our conversations with the client, demonstrates that the creation of these KSA rubrics is imperative to enable the eventual functionality of their computer vision-enabled evaluation tool.

Student Development Team

Westin Lohne

Arun Marsten

Donovan Powers

Aamer Rakla

SwiftCeipt

Community Partner

Kevin Chau, Jason Xu & Jon Yen

Project Description

Knowing this situation, our team believed we could add the most value to them by creating a desktop application. This would surely allow them to expand their user base beyond only iOS users to anyone with a web browser. On top of the existing feature set, we aimed to explore and create more interesting and innovative features based on the needs and visions of our client. For example, the folder feature to organize the receipts, data visualization feature.

Student Development Team

Sivan Mehta

Eric Terui

Amy Zheng

United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation

Community Partner

Chuck A. Mohan, Jeff Gamza & Cliff F. Gorski

Project Description

Our goal is to revamp the site such that the Path to a Cure site is more animated, intuitive, and interactive by educating first time users what Mitochondrial Disease is and entails, add milestones of achievements that the UMDF has made, and offering more customization to the bricks. This way, we can attract, educate, and retain new donors to the site. Combining the Path to a Cure site with their home site will save them money.

Student Development Team

Luke Hottinger

Lois Yang

Eric Yu

YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh

Community Partner

YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh

Project Description

Our project aims to overhaul the current process of taking attendance at the YMCA. Rather than using three different attendance sheets, the system would be capable of keeping track of attendance on a single sheet for each program. The system is integrated into the existing databases that the YMCA uses for attendance and other metrics -- Daxko, PELICAN, Apricot -- and generates reports for administrative use.

Student Development Team

Renzo Bautista

Derek Hirata

Yeon Soo Kim

Accountability

Community Partner

Raul Figueroa

Project Description

The team built a mobile friendly web application that construction industry workers can use as a means for quality control. This application forces engineers and quality assurance specialists to complete structural tests on individual building components. The application makes this information available to all users associated to a project and helps the project owner from being blindsided about potential building collapse risks. The application the team built is comprised of a strong visual front end so that engineers would have no difficulties using the system. The system is designed in such a way to prevent cheating when importing project information and completing tests. With this application, construction professionals are able to see which engineers and architects have a history of safely constructed buildings.

Student Development Team

Alice Borie

Cindy Lai

Sangha Lee

Duncn McIsaac

Best of the Batch Foundation

Community Partner

Latasha Wilson-Batch

Project Description

The primary goal of this project was to ensure that the registration process for all parties shifted from a paper-based system to an electronic one. To do so, we redesigned the existing application infrastructure and developed a new comprehensive application. After learning about issues faced during the 2014 registration and speaking with both the client and former team, our project vision was also aimed towards bolstering the features of the existing system and developing new features to improve the experience for all stakeholders.

Student Development Team

Roei Curi-Hoory

Pranita Ramakrishnan

Siddarth Sivakumar

Allison Wilson

Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics

Community Partner

Azizan Aziz & Betrand Lasternas

Project Description

In an effort to fulfill CBPD’s goals, our initial project vision was to conduct surveys and interviews on our key stakeholders: students, faculty and staff, Facilities Management Services (FMS) to get their opinions on issues related to campus energy consumption and future efforts to conserve energy on-campus. After the research phase, we would analyze our results and brainstorm the best technological solution to resolve CBPD’s problem. We would hope to come up with a sufficient number of use cases for our technological solution and explore ways in which the student body can interact with it to see campus energy consumption and file complaints to FMS.

Student Development Team

Swathi Anand

Clara SeoHyun Shim

Ankur Toshniwal

Leo Ying

Family Tyes

Community Partner

Paul Hindes & Bill Stein

Project Description

Family Tyes needed the ability to demonstrate student improvement and learning to funders, as well as tell a story about their impact on the lives of participants. To accomplish this, Tech Tyes decided to extend the functionality of the existing Family Tyes Tracking System to collect and analyze data about students. In particular, we implemented a checkpoint system that collected data such as student demographics, student learning outcomes (pre-test and post-test results), individual reflections/comments on the program, and other quantitative and qualitative data points. This includes displaying summary data such as total number of program participants, demographic breakdown of participants, and how participants scored on the pre-test versus the post-test, etc. For 25 Family Tyes, this data analytics/visualization implementation will allow them to provide solid evidence of their impact on the community and aid in their appeals for more funding.

Student Development Team

Angela M. Liu

Laura A. Lodewyk

Ming Y. Wu

Homeless Children's Education Fund

Community Partner

Kaitlyn Nykwest, Carrie Pavlik, Laura Saulle & Bill Wolfe

Project Description

Our project vision was to create a web application that manages data from the various programs offered by HCEF. We wanted to allow all HCEF staff and volunteers to enter data from numerous remote locations on desktop, tablet or mobile and then access this data through the same application. This new process should eliminate most of the existing paper forms and paper shuffling between locations. It should also allow data from across programs to be congregated and analyzed to improve programs and help children achieve their learning and educational objectives.

Student Development Team

Setefan Dasbach

Alex Kim

Graham Schilling

Marketing for Entrepreneurship

Community Partner

Dave Mawhinney & Bob Blattberg

Project Description

This solution will benefit the course instructors, as it enables them to create a larger and more engaged alumni community, by giving alumni access to valuable course content. This expanded community is a key goal for the CIE. This will also benefit the course administrators, as it saves them from the laborious process of manually creating accounts for each student. Finally, it will benefit the alumni community, as it gives them access and keeps them engaged. Our vision for the project evolved over time from a custom solution into a workflow that allowed our clients to continue using Canvas, led by our client’s desire for maintainability.

Student Development Team

Nicholas Gasbarro

Justin Hilliard

Zehni Khairullah

Daniel Shlyuger

Phipps Conservatory

Community Partner

Mary DeMars & Bob Mermelstein

Project Description

In today’s fast-paced world most Americans carry a smartphone everywhere they go. Smartphones provide a platform for mobile apps that are easy to use and contain rich information. Additionally, smartphones are rarely left at home and they do not wear out like paper. The goal of the Phipps Conservatory Member Card App was to design, develop, and deploy a smart replacement for Phipps’ paper member cards. The app would not only provide an electronic member card, but give members the ability to change their information, see recent news, and download smartphone wallpapers.

Student Development Team

Kevin Chiu

Ian Go

Matthew Nielsen

Peter Podneisinski

Pittsburgh Kindness Initiative

Community Partner

Larry Gioia, Kevin Bright & Bert Dorazio

Project Description

Our vision statement is to spread kindness throughout Pittsburgh by developing a website for the Pittsburgh Kindness Initiative with kindness card tracking capabilities. Our clients would eventually like to extend their impact beyond the city by inspiring everyone to spread kindness.

Student Development Team

Lamis AL-Agamy

Gale Bonker

Annie Chen

Raksha Rao

Pittsburgh Youth Chorus

Community Partner

Carley Noel Black, Ewina French & Brian Yordnoff

Project Description

The student team’s vision was simplifying the existing information structure and creating a user friendly website. By reorganizing the complicated information structure of the original website, the team would enhance clarity and information coordination. By doing so, the team aimed to strengthen the organization’s brand so that visitors can have clear understanding of Pittsburgh Youth Chorus’s image and purpose. In order to satisfy such vision and create sustainability, the team decided to implement WordPress, a content management system that is widely-used. WordPress allows anybody to easily work with websites, even with no programming experience. In addition, it offers numerous features, which 29 meet different needs such as e-commerce and search engine optimization. In summary, the project’s vision was to create a website which is user-friendly not only to visitors, but also to future administrators.

Student Development Team

Chris Compendio

Kang Jun Park

Sam Walczak

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

Community Partner

Christopher Warren & Jessica Otis

Project Description

Improve the user’s experience to conform to performance expectations and incentivize the user to return to the site in the future frequently. The goal for this project is to elevate the current developing application to a system that encourages users to return to the site, become curious about the time period, seek to contribute and leverage the system to independently 11 conducted research. We believe the most value can be added through improving the user experience by fixing deployment issues and running user experience testing because these are the most critical factors in user retention.

Student Development Team

Audrey Alpizar

Sherry Chen

Tommy Hung

Sky Kaye

The Bridge API

Community Partner

Elizabeth Rapoport

Project Description

We planned the design and development of a new API using Ruby on Rails custom built for the CMU Student Activities Office that serves as an authentication middleware between developers on campus and the existing API. Instead of handing out the master key, applicants will receive their own key with specific permissions determined by our client, the Assistant Director of Student Activities. At a high level, our system will have a front-end website where users sign on and use a text based form to request user keys for themselves. Key requests need to be approved by a list of staff approvers, who can leave comments and assign permissions to each application. Successful 7 implementation will remove barriers in allowing student developers on campus to create meaningful applications relevant to Carnegie Mellon’s student activities and events and provide value to the campus community, while maintaining the security of the information on the Bridge.

Student Development Team

Jake Correa

Melanie Freeman

Benjamin Lam

Aditi Sarkar

The Christian and Missionary Alliance

Community Partner

Tom Reay

Project Description

Our project seeks to provide the ability for an area admin like Tom to perform all the actions necessary to administer the record-keeping web application for WPA Bible Quizzing, biblequizstats.org. We aim to fill the gaps in the web interface and enable users with proper login credentials to perform their needed tasks which once required use of the command line. For Bible Quizzing participants, our solution allows monitoring of their quizzing results. For the students’ friends and relatives, our solution enable them to see students’ Bible Quizzing results. For 5 area administrators, our solution provides them the ability to input scoring and quiz information into the database without specialized technical knowledge.

Student Development Team

Ian Betancourt

Melinda Lin

Nathan Oh

Theophilus Onime

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Community Partner

Annerose Berndt

Project Description

We are proposing to develop and test the current Ruby on Rails system in order to allow Berndt Lab researchers the opportunity to share, collaborate, and analyze their data. The result of this project will create a usable, well-tested and sustainable system so that researchers can easily upload their research data onto the system, perform analyses for research purposes and finally share this data. By providing various components to the system like file upload functionality to easily upload CSV data files, statistical analysis to formulate reports and graphs of the data, and social media features to facilitate collaboration, the project will ensure that researchers can increase efficiency of their 13 research processes. We are aiming to repair the current system and get the system to a deployable state by May.

Student Development Team

Sanika Natu

Skylar Weaver

Akash Khanolkar

Serena Chen

VitaeFly

Community Partner

Brian Mangone

Project Description

Our vision for this project was to create an iOS mobile application that allowed students and recruiters to manage and create connections during career fairs. More specifically, we wanted to create a queuing system to be used at career fairs. Similar to waiting in line at a restaurant, the student would be able put themselves on a queue for a particular recruiter at a company. When it is their time to have a conversation with the recruiter, the recruiter can easily view their resume on the application and leave real-time feedback about their conversation and prospects for potential opportunities with the company. Student and companies can easily sort through the interactions they had throughout the day. Through the use of VitaeFly, the users are able to save time and paper so that they can spend their time making meaningful connections at the career fair instead of waiting in line.

Student Development Team

Adam Xiaotian Cao

Julia Harmison

Aayush Tekriwal

Jenny Yang

Zero Waste Pennsylvania

Community Partner

Teresa Bradley, Ross Hirschfeld & Justin Stockdale

Project Description

Working with PRC and ZWPA, we hope to implement a web application to facilitate data entry, management, and storage in regards to the waste auditing process. In particular, we aim to expedite the Initial Site Visit Questionnaire by allowing direct input, as well as enabling a web option that allows ZWPA staff members to quickly complete necessary fields. ZWPA auditors will also be able to quickly and digitally complete waste audit forms representative of current paper spreadsheets. Audit information will then be downloadable and available for instant analysis. Complementing all of these features is an organized system of note-taking and tracking that can be associated with specific projects and clients.

Student Development Team

Achal Channarasappa

Ryan Donegan

Katherine Du

Maggie Li

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