Finalists

Student councils form a bridge between the local community and students by organizing community-wide activities. My high school student council lacked a good way to schedule events and keep track of who was actively participating. I wanted to create an app that made it easier to manage different service activities to encourage more student body engagement in the community. The primary goal of my app was to increase the amount and type of information available so students could be more informed about community events.

Theme: Civic Engagement & Justice

Step into a greener future with this all-in-one app that empowers users to embrace sustainable living. Discover eco-friendly recipes, locate nearby farmers markets, and make informed choices by checking the eco-score of your food, all in one seamless platform.

Sustainable eating is rooted in the pressing need to address environmental, social, and health challenges stemming from traditional food systems. Unsustainable agricultural practices contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water pollution. Moreover, demand for resource-intensive animal-based diets strains global food supplies, exacerbates deforestation, and raises ethical concerns over animal welfare. Embracing sustainable eating habits protects our environment and is a pathway to fostering healthier individuals and communities for a thriving future. At the core of my mission lies the desire to be part of the solution, contributing to a more sustainable world for generations to come.

Theme: Climate & Sustainability

The aim of our project is to allow individuals to decrease carbon emissions. To accomplish this, I developed an app that lets users to track and log their daily carbon footprint.

The problem I chose to address is the lack of awareness and understanding about individual carbon emissions and its impact on the environment. To address this, I created the GreenLife+ app. It allows users to track their daily carbon emissions in different areas like electricity and food. The app features a visual representation of a tree that grows when emissions are reduced and dies when they increase, making it user-friendly. However, unlike the original GreenLife app, in GreenLife+, I added ChatGPT and image classification function. In the future, I plan to connect the app with government and personal data sources. My goal is to inspire users to care about the environment and gradually achieve energy-saving and carbon reduction objectives.

Theme: Climate & Sustainability

“Unplug It” is an app developed to tackle the significant issue of electricity wastage caused by inactive devices left plugged in. This app achieves this by utilizing object image recognition and intelligent automation to simplify the process of tracking and unplugging appliances, while promoting energy sustainability through community awareness and motivating users to share their saved energy with other families in need.

The Natural Resources Defense Council states that the United States spends $19 billion annually (approximately $165 every household) on electricity for plugged-in yet inactive devices, accounting for 44 million tons of CO2 emissions. A phenomenon, referred to as vampire power or standby mode, is a leading cause of energy consumption in switched-off appliances, contributing up to 20% of monthly electricity bills. To address this issue, I developed Unplug It, an app with a mission to raise community awareness, monitor idle appliances, automate unplugging processes, and encourage users to share their saved energy with other families, thereby promoting energy sustainability.

Theme: Climate & Sustainability

During severe weather events, tragedies often occur because people are unaware and unprepared for weather hazards, resulting in wrong decisions that lead to avoidable losses. As the world’s climate changes, damages from natural disasters will increase unless something is done to improve the people’s ability to take precautionary measures, call for help, and avoid dangerous areas. To address this issue, I developed the WeatherGuard GPT, a user-friendly app that utilizes AI technology to keep people well-informed and safe from weather hazards.

WeatherGuard GPT is a user-friendly app that utilizes AI technology to keep people well-informed and safe from weather hazards in their area. It has GPT-generated weather summaries and alerts, crowdsourced weather reports, and first responder aid management all easily accessible on one app.

Theme: Climate & Sustainability

An estimated of 50 million Americans struggled with mental illnesses in 2020; and that number has only grown because of the pandemic with 36% of Americans suffering from continued loneliness. Despite the alarming rates, many factors including stigmatization and financial issues hinder individuals from seeking help. We wanted to give these individuals an easy home solution, and through Calmify, a unique stream of consciousness journaling app, we endeavor to help struggling individuals through exciting new ideas, like a.i. detection of negative emotions and happy memory recall, which has been shown to improve mood and emotions. The app detects loneliness and other negative emotions in journaling, which it addresses with its unique modules: memory lane, AI chatting, and more.

Theme: Mental Health & Wellbeing

In 2021, 57.29% of the Indonesian population lived in urban areas while 42.71% of the population lived in rural areas. 3.7% of the population, suffer from depression. Every hour, someone in Indonesia takes his/her own life. Sixteen million people of the population aged 15 and older have displayed symptoms of anxiety or depression. This goes to show that in Indonesia, especially in the rural villages, not a lot of people are educated about the common mental illnesses that are present in today’s world. They might not even know that they suffer from one. Through this app we do not only hope to help the citizens of Indonesia living in the rural areas but also bring awareness to this pressing issue.

Theme: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Procrastination, or putting off work, is a problem that affects 80% of college students, and most people find themselves procrastinating from time to time. This is a serious problem, as pushing back work to do at a later time will only cause more stress as the amount of work piles up. Procrastination can also affect the quality of work, thus leading to lower grades. Additionally, procrastination isn’t the sole issue that might be preventing students from reaching their maximum academic potential. There are several research-proven study habits that can further assist students in improving their grades. To approach this issue, we decided to make an app that allows users to set their status on their work, contact each other to work together, includes a quiz that tells the user what study method best suits them, and allows the user to try out the study methods.

Theme: Education & Research

Concussions , a serious concern in hockey, especially for our young players. An issue that’s been troubling parents, coaches, and players alike. Each year, between 1.7 and 3 million concussions occur due to sports. Concussions can be difficult to identify and diagnose, especially in the heat of a game or practice. Young players may not recognize the symptoms or fail to communicate with coaches and parents leading to serious long-term effects on a player’s mental health and well-being.

Theme: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Globally, 40% of the food produced each year—approximately 1.3 billion tons—gets lost or wasted. That’s more than enough food to take care of the 821 million people who suffer from hunger worldwide. Food waste squanders the water, energy, land, and labor that went into producing and transporting those ingredients—and it’s a huge contributor to climate change, too.

The app has three main functions: tracking the expiration dates of items in your fridge or pantry, operating as a shopping list, and using the items on the expiration list to generate recipe ideas.

Theme: Climate & Sustainability

2023 being the International Year of Millet, this App FarMilLetsFeed is to create an awareness on Millets , their suitability in terms of climate resilient property, drought resistant and high nutritional values inline with FAO along with many utility features . Components used: Artificial Intelligence tools like Image Classification for Millet scanner, Weather API integration, IP tracker and Location Sensor to check the soil type and mapping the climate suitability for millet cultivation, Charts and Sheets used for visually appealing nutritional values of Millets and their comparison. Utility Features : Millet Scanner, Nutrition Charts, Millet Recipes, Millet suitability Tester, Why Millets, Competition section along with Why Millets, Millet Vs Climate Change and Pledge.

Theme: Climate & Sustainability

As medical advancements increase the human lifespan, our fast-paced lifestyles paradoxically risk reducing it. Everyone values health but often struggles to grasp the impact of daily actions on it. We’ve created an app to demystify this. Monitoring people’s behavior directly can provide insights into how their lifestyle affects their life expectancy and motivating healthier choices. This innovation empowers users to manage their health proactively, fostering more conscious wellness habits.

Theme: Mental Health & Wellbeing

I have seen children and people living in difficult countries like Africa dying one by one, unable to use relief supplies because they don’t even have a spoonful of sugar. And one day, I thought we must certainly solve this disaster. Then one day, we participated in an appathon, and one of the themes was health. We thought, “This is an opportunity.” We began to think about how to create an app for people in developing countries. And so, we came up with an app necessary for both institutional administrators and those in need. We created a system where items that are crucial in times of crisis can be requested quickly and easily to prevent death from lack of necessary items. In addition, we set up a system where the AI system Chat GPT provides psychological counseling for those who are mentally and emotionally struggling, and we also included a manual guidance system for the complex use of relief items. That’s how ReliefReach, R.R, was finally born. We hope that ReliefReach (R.R) can provide a warm helping hand to children who really need help and people who are in the blind spot of welfare.

Theme: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Wealth Wizard is app designed to help users manage their finances and give then motivation by rewarding them for saving money.

Managing finances can be difficult without tracking expenses. Small expenses that might not seem harmful for now, but they could build up to quite a hefty sum. Sometimes subscriptions would steadily eat away money without even being noticed.

Listing data can also be time-consuming and daunting, especially to new users, and may result in losing motivation. This is also especially difficult for mobile devices. According to Statista (2022) 91% of internet users owned a smartphone. Compared to 61% of users owning a laptop/desktop. This made it hard for people to use spreadsheet applications such as Excel.

This is why we created Wealth Wizard. This mobile application made tracking your expenses and subscriptions with a few simple clicks. This app also motivates people to accomplish their preset goal to save money.

Theme: Personal Finance

Learning English grammar can be challenging for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students, especially those whose mother tongue is Chinese, due to differences between Chinese and English grammar. Concepts such as verb tenses, noun and adjective transformations can be particularly difficult to understand. Our app provides a solution to these grammar issues by offering a comparison of sentence structures across tenses and contextualized images, instead of relying on rote memorization. This app is beneficial for all English learners, as it enables them to quickly and easily master English grammar and improve their language skills.

Theme: Education & Research

The App I propose is aimed at those with severe motor disabilities (paraplegia, muscular dystrophies, myopathies) which prevent the use of almost all of their muscles and are left with only the possibility of moving their mouth but without being able to modulate their voice. This App allows you to write short SMS messages on your mobile phone and send them autonomously just by opening and closing your mouth. The App falls within Appathon’s first theme: “Civic engagement & justice” because it is a civic duty to allow all people to communicate and it is also an act of social justice because, even if in a limited way, it frees people to express your own thought. The App is based on the facial recognition extension of “App inventor” which analyzes the movements of the face through a pre-processing. In the explanation that follows, we will refer to the disabled person who uses the App and the assistant who initially organizes it on the mobile phone.

Theme: Civic Engagement & Justice

I work as an educational specialist and technically supervise about 150 mathematics teachers in 45 schools, and I always encourage them to employ technology and games in teaching mathematics. But through my classroom visits, I see their poor use of technology due to the lack of ready-made materials and their inability to produce materials Previously, I implemented several training workshops for mathematics teachers on websites that help them produce interactive materials with ready-made templates, but they were not sufficient, and some teachers felt that they needed effort in preparation. Therefore, I thought of preparing an application based on the same topics and arrangement of the units of the mathematics curriculum. The application included videos, games, and buildings in an easy way that helps the teacher to employ it in the class and helps the student in self-learning.

Theme: Education & Research

In Malang City there are 52 urban villages and 37 temporary waste collection points, an average of 500 tons of waste per day. It still happens that garbage has not been collected, delays can cause an unhealthy environment and disturb the environment. The GSR app is intended to make it easier for the public to submit quick reports so that the waste is known by officers and taken immediately. The app is also used to measure the performance of officers whether they have carried out their duties properly. A clean environment is healthy and the environment becomes comfortable.

Theme: Climate & Sustainability

Since the big main grand Islamic centres in London agreed few years ago on having which is so called “unified London prayers timetable for Muslim community” I noticed that there’s a shortage of apps on the store that display this new unified London prayer timetable which is now adopted by 90% of mosques in London Also the available apps are not designed perfectly or not giving clear straightforward information.

Theme: Creativity, Art, & Entertainment

Mental health is a global challenge that affects millions of people regardless of their background, education, or income. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people in the world will be affected by a mental or neurological disorder at some point in their lives. I felt compelled to act when some of my friends faced similar issues such as stress and anxiety due to multitude of factors. To address this and promote global mental health, an app allows people, regardless of education, to assess their mental well-being privately. It offers stress relief, happiness activities, and resources to destigmatize mental health. Emphasizing compassionate and inclusive societies, the app strives to foster mental health awareness for a healthier, happier world.

Theme: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Air pollution, a silent but formidable foe, imperils our well-being and economies. As fine particles infiltrate our bodies and coarse pollutants damage our lungs, its impact often goes unnoticed until it becomes undeniable. At Air-Watch, we’re impassioned to make a difference by addressing this pressing issue. Our mission is to empower everyone with real-time, easily understandable air pollutant data. We believe awareness is the key to a cleaner future.

From captivating visuals for the public to in-depth analyses for researchers, Air-Watch offers a window to cleaner air. With the power of knowledge, individuals can safeguard their health, while researchers gain insights to drive environmental research. Together, we can breathe life into a greener, healthier planet!

Theme: Climate & Sustainability

I am a mother for a beautiful 3 years young Misk, and since I was blessed with her, my life changed drastically. In every situation, I go through a range of emotions and thoughts to choose what is best for her and myself, specially after going back to work. This is why I invented this App to give mothers a safe non-judgmental space in which they can express their thoughts and feelings and talk about things that matters to them the most.

Theme: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Though there are huge resources available for studying for students, there are only a few options to assess their preparations in a real exam-like scenario. Students have to spend a lot of time or money to search these resources. QuPaGe will provide a new question paper in few clicks any time one desires so. The individual or institutes can create question papers from variety of selection options. The teachers can free themselves for more productive work. This app is made to help students, teachers and institutes alike.

Theme: Education & Research