The Cook County Assessor’s Office determines the value of properties in Cook County for the purpose of setting the appropriate tax value. TechTeam is in the process of making a website that takes in a property as input and explains the property’s assessment breakdown and the dollar amount of each contribution. The Assessor’s Office uses a machine learning model to generate its property breakdowns. While the bulk of work is in web development, students who are interested in working with ML models are also encouraged to apply. Please note that this project is continuing on from Winter Quarter and has fewer open spots for new project members.

Bright Endeavors offers a comprehensive and paid job training program to new moms where they can gain career skills, a professional network. As part of the job training program, they create candles which are sold to support the continuation of the program. TechTeam will help set up their ambassador program, where ambassadors can gain rewards for participating in various activities including referring BE to friends and family, purchasing products, and sharing on social media. They would like a page to keep track of customer referrals and incorporate a way to reward participants.

Advance Illinois is a non-profit organization advocating for equitable access to high-quality education for all students. As part of their work tackling inequities across Illinois 850+ school districts, they create one-pagers for every legislator in the state that provide custom data on funding for each school district within their legislative district. Currently they are created manually, with researchers copy-pasting the tables generated for each legislator in their back page. TechTeam will deliver a tool to automate the creation of these one-pagers that support new datasets and updated written contents. In order to suit the skills of their team members, the project may transition to using tools such as R or Tableau

First Repair is a non-profit organization working to educate and equip those who are advancing local reparation policies that seek to remedy historic and ongoing anti-Black practices. It was founded by Robin Rue Simmons, a current IOP Pritzker fellow who was the chief architect behind the nation’s first government-funded reparations program in Evanston, IL. TechTeam will create an interactive map showing legislative actions taken by municipalities around the country regarding reparations, with map markers leading to news, meeting minutes, or legislation in that city. This project will also include some preliminary research of legislative actions taken throughout the country, complementing data provided to us through First Repair.

The American Library Association aims to extend and expand library services in America and around the world. They are currently in the process of redesigning their website and have asked TechTeam to provide an assessment of the current Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication methodology, as well as potential next-steps recommendations. The deliverable is a detailed report of their current implementation and recommendations for a more flexible, scalable solution.

Climate Ark is building an open-source app that will provide information about climate change and steps individuals can take to limit their carbon footprint as well as a community discussion forum. As part of this project, members used Flutter to build a frontend architecture that compiles to both Android and iOS (and also Web) and Firebase to create an easy-to-use backend framework.