lcly/daybreak

Social Entrepreneurship Competition, goal is to develop app for homeless people

DayBreak - Ionic App

Crossing State Street - Social Entrepreneurship Competition

Mission

Crossing State Street is an event at the cross section of a Hackathon, Case and Design competition whose focus it is to bring students from diverse backgrounds to design a solution and develop a sustainable business model that a nonprofit can follow to address a technical problem to better serve their communities.

Event Description

Crossing State Street will bring students from all of Purdue’s colleges to form diverse teams that can develop solutions and strategy to solve a non-profits challenges. Teams are expected to be split evenly between design, development, and business backgrounds. These teams are expected to develop a designed prototype that addresses the problems the nonprofit is facing.
This design must be accompanied with plan for how the prototype could be developed given the nonprofit’s constraints into a functioning product.

Problem Description

Students Project Purdue University Description Narrative
The concept behind this project you will be creating for the homeless use in Chicago is as follows

What we know

• There are many services available to the homeless in Chicago including housing assistance, food, case management, food pantries etc.
• Most homeless have easy access to GPS enabled mobile phones.
• Coordination or getting the vast array of what services are available to the homeless based on their location would be a great resource and aide to the homeless.
• We want this system to be easily updatable.
• Once a person finds their resource thy need based on their location, would be great to have a way for the homeless person to communicate back to the service provider.
• The information would be shown on a map of the city either through a google map etc. When a person is in an area, can the service providers information be displayed automatically or by hovering over the area.