MorganBat / FlattenTheCurve

Repo for the Flatten the Curve Hackathon held over Easter weekend 2020

Flatten The Curve Hackathon

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Team Members

• Ross Baker
• Martin Valdivia
• Andrew Tran
• Vincent Lieu
• Morgan Batterham
• Duke Nguyen

Mentors

• Annabel Liu
• Steph Leahy

Challenge 1: Protecting Vulnerable Populations

Helping to protect vulnerable populations from the effects of COVID-19. Expanding and improving access to COVID-19 education and resources Identifying who, why and when to test patients, and increase testing accessibility Remote patient triaging and possibility for local area infections

Challenge 2: Helping Health Systems

Assist hospitals with shortage of staff, supplies, and resources. New ways to deliver care in a COVID-19 world, leveraging or disrupting existing telehealth services. Better space conversion and utility of existing or new building structures. Health care workforce well-being, management, training.

Challenge 3: Education

Alternative or learning environments for students, teachers, and entire school systems. (Primary, secondary or tertiary) Tools to allow for different forms of learning in a mobile or remote location. Tool to effectively increase community education of health, hygiene, social distancing standards

Challenge 4: Future of the work

The set of problems that businesses are facing to stay afloat, collaborate effectively, and move parts of their business online. Provide remote reskilling or accountability options for displaced or unskilled workers. Assessment tool to assess mobility and online resilience of business structures/ supply chains to shocks.

Challenge 5: Mental Health and wellbeing

Promoting connection to family and friends to mitigate mental effects of social isolation. Mass scale mental health identification and tools to address through more convenient and accessible means.

IDEAS

3d printer website outsourcing

Allow people to access 3d printers to print medical supplies

VR interactive for physical fields and jobs

Chatting app for family/friends to combat social isolation

• remind users to contact someone after set amount of time
• notify others if you need help or want to talk

DECIDED: Goalsetting app

Features:

• 3 Priority levels: High, Medium, Low

• Various time frames

• Regular reminders

• Connected to social media

• Donation to charity

• Experience points

• Streaks

• Rewards

• Reoccuring auto tasks such as mow the lawn or take out the trash that need to be upkept

Charities we can use

• UNICEF Coronavirus appeal (https://www.unicef.org.au/appeals/coronavirus)

• Foodbank Australia (https://www.foodbank.org.au/)