Final+Projects

=Final Group Projects: Fall 2011= Please list your final projects here. (Use this format)

Team Name: Team Members Description of Project

[|**Team Net Neutrality**]: Kt Zawodny, Lynn Olson, Walter Rodgers, Graham Andrews After identifying how net neutrality is not a widely-understood issue, we designed an interactive web-page to help inform people about the basic issues. The web-page contains a brief primer on net neutrality, a glossary of important terms, an interactive map that shows the different net neutrality laws and policies that exist around the world, and a short game that attempts to simulate the horrifying, dystopian future a closed internet would create. Additionally, we created a Twitter account and posted relevant links in order to show how a contemporary educational web-site should be fully integrated into web 2.0 platforms.

We are building a web site with resources and advice for people who have restricted diets due to food allergies (nut, gluten, etc). We hope to gather relevant information on all aspects of life which affect those individuals with food allergies in order to simplify their search for information on any topic. We will include recipes and a recipe search, information about restaurants in the DC area, a quiz to combat misconceptions about food allergies, an "in the news" section, links to external resources, and other food allergy resources and educational tools.
 * Cloud 8:** Lynn Nashorn, Charlotte Sturm (Team Yummy)

We are going to make a website giving proper information for elementary through high school students. The website will be broken up by the different age groups so the information can be understood at each level. Obesity is increasing throughout the United States and children are being more and more inflicted by this problem. Many websites are not designed for children, but rather for adults to pass onto their kids and our purpose is to make information understandable at an age-based level.
 * The Truffle Shuffle**: Sara, Tess, Eun Ji

We are aiming to create a website that allows users to create their own digital drawings using the tag. The site will use this interactive material to highlight issues facing arts education and arts funding. Focusing on the Maryland/DC area, the site will provide links to community arts information and resources in an effort to support community-building through art. Through the idea of creating a "digital quilt," the project will encourage collaborative artwork as a model for community growth and involvement through art.
 * [|Team Digital Quilt]:** Sarah Green, Shoshana Gordon Ginsburg, Kelly Buchanan, Erika Walston

We are making a mobile app to allow you to find bars based on various criteria, including location, the "mood" of the bar, and any specials, specifically happy hour and trivia specials in both Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Each page is linked to reviews from yelp, allowing people to read popular reviews and decide if a particular place is right for them. As graduate students either coming directly from undergrad or who are new to the area, we are not used to having to proactively search for the "social scene" of the local area. We hope that this iPhone app will help UMCP graduate students living in the Baltimore/Washington corridor help find local hot spots frequented by people in their 20s and 30s.
 * [|Team Happy Hour]**: Lindsay Wilson; John Caldwell, Molly Schwartz; Tiffany Draut

[|**Making Miles Matter:**]Deirdre Lunn, Sereena Hamm, Alex Moses, Laura Miller We developed a site for people in Washington, DC who take part in charity fitness events. The problem: These events typically require several weeks of training and many miles logged – for instance, the 60-mile Susan G. Komen Walk – and while many of the charities do provide training information, it’s often not comprehensive, lacking details on where to train. Plus, many people in DC take part in multiple events for multiple charities. Our site is designed to be a one-stop shop and includes an interactive map with training routes, pit stops and trail information; links to area trails; a page with training tips, relevant news and links to training guides and other fitness sites; and a detailed list of the events in the area and the charities they benefit. We also included links to Twitter and Facebook to give site visitors the opportunities to make connections with other charity fitness enthusiasts through our site.

We constantly see requests for aid, but often feel that we can't afford to help. I was thinking that a good site would be one that gathers together charities that are low cost (such as Kiva, where you can donate $25 to a start-up business in a third-world country) or even free (such as Free Rice, where you play a game and donate 10 grains of rice to the World Hunger Program for each right answer). One thing I was thinking about for Javascript would be a quiz where a visitor answers questions about what sort of charity they're interested in helping, and their answer directs them to one particular charity.
 * Team Low-Budget and/or Free Charity Organizations** Annclaire Livoti, Molly Marcusse, Sara Hudson, Rachel Howell


 * [|Rape Prevention and Education]**- Marie Slaby, Jean Lee, Jeanine Joiner, Kendra Kea, Krista Anderson

Every 2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assualted. 80 percent are under age 30 when it happens. (NCVC.org) We designed this website as an interactive resource to help educate young people about sexual assault and find emergency help when and where they need it. It includes a quiz to debunk some of the myths surrounding sexual assaults, tips on how to stay safe, and a map that links you to help wherever you need it in the USA. Though the resources for Maryland are more in-depth, the site has information applicable to anyone in the US. While we can't "solve" the problem, if our site prevents even one rape or helps one victim deal better with the aftermath, then it's worthwhile.