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.
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Student Counseling Service (SCS) is committed to promoting the mental health and well-being of UChicago undergraduate and graduate students by providing accessible, high-quality, culturally sensitive mental health services. TechTeam redesigned their website and built an interactive chatbot to improve navigation of the resources SCS has to offer, providing extra outreach and consultation to the University community.
Read MoreShe Votes Illinois
She Votes Illinois is a statewide political action committee aimed at highlighting the importance of women’s voices in elections, government, and policymaking. TechTeam helped redesign the She Votes Illinois website, adding different functions (e.g. drop down menus, options to donate, an events calendar, etc). Additional tasks for this project included identifying a server, resolving other backend issues, and redesigning the interface to make the website more clear and dynamic.
Read MoreIn2It Chicago
In2It is an organization whose mission is to make it easier for people to be civically involved in their communities. TechTeam helped In2It with their goal of matching people and opportunities. The goal of this project was to give users the ability to sort events by “type” or “category” to help them make decisions about which event to attend; this was done by building a machine learning categorization model which parsed an event and returned a category that the event belonged to.
Read MoreStudent Government Health and Wellness Website
TechTeam worked with UChicago’s Student Government to help redesign their Health and Wellness website. The project involved creating an interactive tool for students to navigate a database of mental/physical health resources on and off campus, and making recommendations to the user about which resource is most applicable to them.
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