Spark! X-Lab Gallery

With a new year comes a new round of eXperience Lab students, and Spark! fellows. Check out the X-Lab gallery from Demo Day last month. Around 70 supporters attended, 17 Spark! teams competed, and 31 mentors and partners made it happen. Various groups from Spark!’s eXperience Lab (X-Lab) Practicum course and students from the Spark! Innovation Fellowship showcased their projects during Demo Day and all teams participated for prizes during the pitch session of the evening. Take a look at the teams that participated in the X-Lab below, and view the Innovation Fellows here. For more information about how to become a Spark! Project Partner, a Spark! Mentor, or Spark! Student follow the links or check us out at www.bu.edu/spark.

The eXperience Lab Practicum Gallery

Best Execution Award: WriteFree

Team: Chirag Aswani (CAS’19), Sid Premkumar (CAS ‘20), Siqi Zhang (CAS ‘19), and Ziqi Cai (MFA ‘19)

WriteFree is a web application that has features to make it easier for dyslexic students to read and take notes. These features will be implemented from researching proven methods to make note taking easier for those students. The open-source and free-to-use features were one of the motivations for the students who worked on this project.

Nationwide investigation of Federal Prosecutors- BU School of Journalism

Team: Bissenbay Dauletbayev (MS ’19), Ibrahim Shaikh (CAS ’19), Reed Callahan (CAS ’19)

This team trained an algorithm to find judicial appellate decisions in which a defendant alleged prosecutorial misconduct and determined whether the judge considered the allegation, and if so, whether the determination was no misconduct, harmless error, or misconduct.  The students also trained the algorithm to determine the outcome. For instance, if the judge reversed the conviction.

MathTalk

Team: Rachel Chmielinski (CAS ’19), Dennis Henneman (CAS ’20), Jason Golbotz (MFA ’19)

This project aims to build an adult-facing app that provides adaptive location based prompts (text, visual) that encourage and support positive early math interactions and conversations at home and in public spaces. At a high level, it entails taking an InVision prototype and developing it into an app prototype to be tested with parents and children.

tripbuddy

Team: Ziran Li (MS ’18), Richard Kent, Yize Liu (MS ’18)

tripbuddy is reducing the number of cars on the road by making carpooling an easy experience. There is an existing iOS app and the team is working on an Android app. The app will contain an account setup screen, a login screen, and settings screen, among other things.

Gobiz

Team: Pranav Raikundalia (MS ’19), Helen Zhang (CAS ’19), Vaibhav Sharma (MS ’19), Bliss Parsons (MFA ’19), Kai Munechika (CAS ’19)

This project is a training app for entrepreneurs in Asia.

Ameelio (formerly InTouch)

Team: Zoe Huang (CAS ’19), Ilko Mihov (CAS ’19),  (MS ’19)

This team started by understanding trends in mass incarceration trends by analyzing open data on prison populations, facilities, and the passage of criminal justice legislation over time.

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