Category: 2021 Projects
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Food Access Athens
Applying for SNAP benefits is a difficult and often inconvenient process for most low-income Americans. Applicants not only must provide a wealth of documentation upfront, but must face a number of obstacles to enrollment and recertification. This inefficiency is one of many reasons behind a systemic underutilization of SNAP and WIC programs in Athens-Clarke County.…
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UGA for Apple Watch
UGA buses stop at hundreds of places around Athens, and getting on the right one at the right time can cause some unnecessary stress. Luckily for UGA students, the UGA mobile app provides easy access to information regarding where bus stops are located on campus as well as live data on where each bus is.…
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Georgia Grasslands Initiative
Once Georgia was filled with beautiful and flourishing grasslands. They provided homes and habitats for so many different species that depended on them for survival. Now, due to invasive species and other harmful subjects, the once vast grasslands that had stretched across the entire top half of the state have been diminished to 13 small…
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ACC KIOSK
The ACC Transit kiosk team is working alongside UGA alumni and Athens-Clarke County marketing coordinator, Rachel Hopkins, to help improve upon the current kiosk application. Rachel and the group are working together to ensure that the kiosks are both informational and easy to use. The goal is to create kiosks that both provide helpful and…
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Georgia Gullah Geechee Marketplace
The Gullah Geechee is an African-American community descended from enslaved peoples who continue to reside along the Southeast coastline of the continental United States. This coastline community has a rich and intricate culture that has been passed down through many generations and has endured many hardships. Their communities house an abundance of knowledge relevant to…
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UGA Desegregation
History can be made to seem farther away than it really is, particularly the history of racial discrimination against African Americans in the United States. Disheartening events such as the University of Georgia ruling against two African American students attending the school because of the color of their skin could seem like an archaic notion.…
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Georgia River App
The goals of the Georgia River application is to keep safety in mind for users, while the application includes features that show users the ins and outs of river routes and trails. Users also have the option to report various hazards they see when partaking in river activities. These reports show up on a dynamic…
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Two One Way
In an era of effortless convenience and connectivity, it’s easy to forget about those who are left out of that first world bubble of reality. Getting what we want, not even what we need, at our fingertips is arguably problematically easy, and with this kind of excess in one direction, there must be an equal…
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GymDogs Experience
The Georgia gymnastics team is one of the most storied NCAA Gymnastics programs in history, winning 10 national championships. But since winning five consecutive titles from 2005-2009, the GymDogs have struggled to return to the heights reached in the previous decades. Alongside that, Georgia is struggling to find intuitive ways to connect with recruits amid…
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Travlr
Travlr provides a new and innovative way to travel by combining traditional word-of-mouth recommendations with today’s dominant world of social media sharing. Inspired by a desire to simplify traveling, Travlr combines the best aspects of travel websites (custom recommendations, user feedback, and location images) with social media sharing (image posting and explore features). The result…