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× Presentation Criterion
Take the presentation seriously. Not only is the presentation worth 10% of the judging criteria, but it is your opportunity to help the judges see your project as interesting, useful, and unique. Presentation order is randomly assigned. For presentation submission deadlines, see the presentation schedule.
Unless approved by the event administrators (typically for medical reasons), all presentations must be delivered in person. Teams will have no longer than 5 minutes to present their project. Judges may or may not ask questions following each presentation.
There is no required format for the presentation. However, we recommend that your team consider using 1-2 slides to organize the main information about your project to introduce it and then move right into the demo. The most important thing is to help our panel of judges evaluate (and remember!) your contribution. Make sure you've shared these:
Although you are not required to use any slides, or to structure your presentation in a specific way, using at least a single attention-getting slide can help the judges focus on the details of your presentation AND help you get to your demo much faster. We offer the following template as an example of how you might approach designing your slides.
Teams will present their projects in the following order:
Santiago Rodriguez, Catherine Healy, Allen Uy, Swindar Zhou
Build a roulette chat room for individuals from different backgrounds to anonymously engage in constructive dialogue, share experiences, and promote understanding and respect among diverse communities
Jeremy Arellano, Gabriel Sheikh, Deep Brahmbhatt
Food has historically been and continues to be the most impactful medium to bridge cultural gaps and bring people together. Imagine a platform where the vibrancy of global cuisines comes alive daily in kitchens worldwide. MixStir is not just an app; it’s a movement towards culinary discovery and diversity. Inspired by the spontaneity of BeReal and the dynamic appeal of TikTok, MixStir invites users to embark on a daily culinary adventure, mixing and stirring from a mixture of a globally curated selection of recipes. Each day, our users are challenged to prepare a meal—be it breakfast, lunch, or dinner—using a recipe assigned from a different culture, learning the history of each dish along the way. This daily culinary challenge promotes diversity and inclusion, encouraging users to explore and embrace global cultures through food. MixStir transforms cooking into a social experience. Users can share their cooking journey via photos and videos, creating engaging content that invites feedback from friends and food enthusiasts around the world. These interactions are not just about sharing recipes but about connecting cultures and creating a community of global citizens, impacting and educating users daily about embracing culture through food.
Mathew Mjaess, Andrew Vittiglio
VoxMe is an innovative voice analysis tool that utilizes advanced statistical methods to measure phonetic features in your voice and provide impactful insights. It provides users with intuitive feedback and visual data representations, making it easy to track and understand changes in their voice metrics.
Evan Bartek, Jack Mangione, David Meininger, Sajith Devareddy
An app that provides culturally oriented activities for players to participate in over the weekends. Players are placed randomly placed into groups of up to 6 players, encouraging new diverse interactions among ND students.
Eva Gorzkiewicz, Astrid Do, Julia Kim
Buds is a program to enrich the understanding of cultural differences
Tristan Shin, Michael Zang, Soo Kim
Social Media App around campus
Rylan Paul, Collin Wyant, Ron Lin
A mobile web application in which students can be randomly paired for a quick 2 minute call to try and get to know one another. During the call, there will be conversation tips and ways to extend the conversation. The overall idea is to get a variety of students from all over campus to get to know one another to promote cross-campus relationships, thereby promoting diversity.
Colson Wells, Max Graves, Aaron Lewis, Samuel Monterola
A platform for connecting youth with the elderly to promote intergenerational connection. Pairs can work together to create digital projects to highlight their cross-generational connection.
Meng Chen, Danny Tong, Renee Shi, Leyang Li
A11yVate is a crowdsourcing information space that facilitate mutual understanding and support on campus. This app serves for different purposes in a way that helps everyone be more engaged and comfortable on campus. On it, people can report issues, promote events, and ask questiosn. Using it, people can mitigate harm, break boundaries between groups and get help.
Bridget Schippers, Jeremy Stevens, Luke Braby, DJ Adams
Our web application will be individualized to each user to help them appreciate, celebrate, and experience diverse cuisine.
Mahmoud Hafez, Kaza-Zack Kazirukanyo, Akhente Borotho
At ubuntu, we're developing innovative solutions to enhance the college experience for students from diverse backgrounds. Our platform focuses on leveraging technology to address pressing challenges faced by college communities, with a particular emphasis on accessibility, interfaith dialogue, and empowering underserved minority groups. ubuntu aims to create a more inclusive, supportive, and equitable environment for all students, removing barriers and fostering connections.
Miguel Jose Maninang, Macdonald Zharima, Genesis Argueta, Emmanuel De La Paz
LanguageLink is a platform for people learning another language, allowing them to link with local native speakers or other learners.
Khang Le, John Kim, Matthew Chou, Sadie Co
PalettePals revolutionizes the way people interact with food—learn about its culture, recipe, and nearby restaurants to buy it from all with a single photo! It's simple, really. Take a picture, upload it, and learn all the information about it. By collecting more foods specific to a culture, grow and evolve your PalettePal! See how your friends compare through a leaderboard. PalettePals, breaking down barriers one bite at a time.
Aidan Oblepias, Anthony Battaglia, Tom O'Connor, John Flanagan
We plan to make a browser landing page that puts an emphasis on spreading awareness. The landing page will include daily articles from a variety of different news sources along with AI powered critique about potential problematic sections or narratives present in the articles. In addition, the landing page will include daily goals that suggest users to take steps towards experiencing and better understanding different cultures.
Aynaz Namik, Amaya Tucker, Amanda Thomas
A site that has a calendar, listings, and comments section to bring every resource that Notre Dame offers into one place. Individuals can post questions they have to fellow Notre Dame students about concerns they have on campus (i.e. can any POCs share their study abroad experiences in Ireland?), the calendar helps students keep track and optimize all events happening on campus, and the listings lets students voice needs and talents they can offer all in one place.
We are creating an application to facilitate participation for all in group discussions. Its main functionalities are centered around helping people with hearing and speech impairments, ensuring everyone’s voice is seen and understood by translating real-time voice input into text, generating a live structured summary of the meeting content, and helping to express user’s ideas based on minimal textual input. The project aims towards a collective future where ideas are accessible to all, and everyone can contribute to discussions with ease.
CrossPathsND is a friendship matching app designed for the University of Notre Dame community. It connects students with peers they might not otherwise meet, encouraging casual coffee meetups or walks to spark new, cross-cultural friendships and broaden social networks.
The world as it looks right now. Powered by people.
An AR-powered social app that reconnects you to the real world. Leave virtual “moments” in real places—a warm note on a dorm door, a poem by your favorite lake. Our app isn’t about staying glued to your screen; it’s about rediscovering the magic of the present. With MomARks, your footprints become someone else’s guiding lights.
Video Game about managing a global pandemic crisis and bringing different cultures together to find a cure.
We are planning on implementing a mentoring connection system for Notre Dame students.
Fund-a-Box revolve around providing tools, resources, and knowledge for garden creation while enhancing community unity, and facilitating social interactions centered around gardening, all while promoting sustainable food distribution.
Growing kids have unique nutritional needs, and it’s easy for busy families to lose track of what’s missing in a child’s diet. Nutrients like calcium, iron, and omega-3s are essential for healthy development—but often overlooked. OneTable helps parents ensure their children are growing strong by tracking daily intake and identifying key nutrient gaps. By logging meals, parents get instant feedback on whether their child’s nutrition is on track. Using pediatric dietary guidelines and personalized recommendations, OneTable makes healthy eating simple, smart, and reliable.