This is an Android app I helped build at PearlHacks 2017, an all-female hackathon at UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina. I worked with a team of 2 other students. This project was awarded the prize for "Best Mobile Application" and "Best Use of the Bandwidth Texting or Calling API". This was one of my first hackathons that I attended, and it was great to work on a meaningful project that won awards! We created P.U.S.H. - Preventing Unwanted Social Harassment - as a way to avoid dangerous social situations for women. Users of the app can simply click on a push notification at the top of their phone screen if they feel they are in danger, and their friend group (pre-selected at the beginning of the night out), will be notified of a pre-selected message to send help. We used Java to create the Android app and the Bandwidth API for texting purposes. Check out our Github repo for this project, and our Devpost submission for more insights on our inspirations, challenges, and achievements.

Built with:  Android Studio, Java, Bandwidth API, Github

Holibot is a Twilio texting bot I helped build at Superposition II 2018, an all-female hackathon for middle, high school, and college females in the Bay Area. I worked with one other high school student, and our project was awarded the prize for "Best Pitch". We found out about the Twilio API through a presentation at this hackathon and were excited to try it out. The purpose behind the bot was a little silly, but it was fun to work on! We created a texting bot that would text back random national holidays that fell on the date the user texted to it. We used this list of random national holidays and the Twilio API and created a Flask app implementing logic to read in data from two text files (one that has all of the dates of weird holidays and one that has all of the weird holidays listed) and create a python dictionary. We then created a method that, given a date, will return the holiday of that date. Finally, utilizing the Twilio API, we were able to check if the date texted is a date in our dictionary, respond back with an SMS message of the corresponding holiday! Check out our Github repo for this project, and our Devpost submission for more insights on our inspirations, challenges, and achievements.

Built with:  Python, Flask, Twilio API, Github

EatThisBot is a Twitter bot account that my friend Jamie and I developed at BostonHacks 2019. We wanted to learn how to create a Twitter bot, as avid and active Twitter users ourselves, and used this hackathon as a way to learn! We built this using JavaScript and a platform called Glitch (see here for an example). We used Uptime Robot to schedule HTTP requests every 4 hours which triggers Glitch to send a tweet to a new Twitter account (@EatThisBot) that we created. Our JavaScript file uses a randomizer to first choose a sentence structure from the different options that we wrote, and then completes the sentence with word variables. We have lists of different types of words (e.g. a list of foods, a list of adjectives, a list of amounts, etc.) to help fill in the blanks with words that will make a syntactically correct sentence, but that might not be semantically correct. This bot randomly generates a tweet once every specific interval of time (we set it to once every 4 hours for now but it can be as frequent as every 5 minutes). The tweets consist of a random sentence structure and random words that we wrote to fill in the blanks of the sentences. Check out our DevPost submission for more information on this project, and follow us on Twitter for suggestions on what to eat @EatThisBot.

Built with:  JavaScript, Glitch, Uptime Robot, Postman