Blackstone Bicycle Works is a community bike shop and youth education program of the Experimental Station. Blackstone is structured as a retail, full-service bike shop that offers an "earn and learn," hands-on bicycle mechanics curriculum to its participants. TechTeam worked to create a web app that would allow students to check-in/check-out when they volunteer their time, an easier hour-tracking method than paper logs. This web app also included the tracking of the youths' skills and achievement levels.
Read MoreExperimental Station Web Optimization
The Experimental Station is working to build independent cultural infrastructure on the South Side of Chicago by fostering a dynamic ecology of innovative educational and cultural programs, small business enterprises and community initiatives. TechTeam implemented a series of optimizations on Experimental Station's website to increase visibility and web traffic from paid (using Google AdWords) and unpaid (search engine) results.
Read MoreLincoln Park Conservatory
Lincoln Park Conservatory is a nonprofit organization that identifies, preserves and enhances the natural, historical and cultural assets of Lincoln Park. TechTeam used ArcGIS to digitize the floor plan and location of plants in the conservatory building. The product is used for internal staff usage, and helps improve the process of updating records during plant exhibit relocation within the conservatory.
Read MoreCareer Advancement Web Scraping
TechTeam worked on creating a directory of job listings from different companies and organizations through the web scraping of websites given by UChicago Career Advancement. Using Beautiful Soup, a Python library, our team was able to extract specific information from each page and compile it in a spreadsheet to be passed on at the end of the quarter.
Read MoreChicago Department of Public Health
As a continuation from last year, TechTeam built an app using React Native for the Chicago Department of Public Health. This app would provide Chicago-based medical providers a means of quickly looking up conditions for diseases, find the time frame for reporting, the numbers for who to call, and guidance on whether they need to submit an isolate to the lab.
Read MoreGreater Bronzeville Neighborhood Network
To aid in Greater Bronzeville Neighborhood Network’s mission to reduce poverty and violence by sharing necessary resources for members of the Greater Bronzeville Community, TechTeam created a website that hosts information on a variety of opportunities for employment and services for interested community members.
Read MoreMaroon Tutor Match
Maroon Tutor Match is a program that provides affordable one-on-one tutoring for local K-12 students. Using Python, TechTeam automated the matching process between students and tutors.
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