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Tech Gala

Here are the wonderful projects showcased at our Winter 2021 Tech Gala from students of UCLA!

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Covalent

Best Large Team

We're helping teams build better bonds with virtual icebreakers.

Created By: Arek Der-Sarkissian, Daniel Dai, Muthu Palaniappan, Will O'Brien, Hritik Arya, Catherine Hu, Daniel Lee, Michael Shi

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Games & Graphics

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Hotseat

Best Small Team

Hotseat is an all-in-one course discovery website for UCLA students. With Hotseat, you can track courses and receive real-time notifications when seats open up, see grade distributions of previous sections, and see historical enrollment data in order to know which sections to use your first pass units on, among many other features.

Created By: Timothy Gu, Nathan Smith

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Education

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Probabilistic Graphic Generator 2020

Best in Show

We created a graphic generator using a probabilistic factor graph model and a modification of Metropolis-Hasting sampling to automate the process of creating simple yet aesthetically pleasing graphics that can produce graphics for desktop backgrounds, T-shirts, mugs, posters etc. where details are not as integral, and randomness is welcome.

Created By: Ellie Cheng, Eric Wang, Bill Liu, Lucas Xia

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Design

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Am I Busy?

Created By: Grace Ma, Jonathan Lam

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Home Improvement

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Bruin Score Check

Ever thought you were fine in a class until you actually calculated your grade and realized you're not? MyUCLA's gradebook doesn't give you a total score, so it's often hard to tell where you stand in the class. Bruin Score Check adds up all the scores in the "Grades" column to give you an unweighted, unofficial final grade.

Created By: Haechan Song

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Education

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Compined

Compined is an online chatting tool that is both safe and easy to use. To promote a better chatting experience, Compined enables users to create and join chat rooms without signing-up, and all rooms created using this method are deleted after 24 hours for user protection.

Created By: Tony Xiong, Tristan Que, Jenny Zhan

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Social Media

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food4YOU

food4YOU fills the gaps of current food shopping platforms by allowing a personalized shopping experience on a platform that is well-versed with every unique diet and allows its users to shop with ease. It also offers the ability to learn and truly understand the diets and variety of ingredients available.

Created By: Shreya Neogi

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Health & Wellbeing

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The Pal Hour

We help organizations host more engaging, more authentic, and more meaningful group socials by pairing attendees based on personalities and common interests.

Created By: Megan Wu, Young-ghee Hong, Hannah Chu

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Social

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Palgorithms

A personality-based friendship matching web application.

Created By: YG Hong, Megan Wu, Hannah Chu

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Social

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The Space in Between

A visual novel video game about Asian American identity, love, mental health, and stargazing. In our game, the core gameplay loop is the player can connect stars in the sky to form custom constellations, which influence the story.

Created By: Emily Pitcher, Julia Lee, Elizabeth Han, Alan Guan, Richard Cheng, Wei Duong, Ray Hsiao, Hayden Nuyens

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Gaming & Graphics

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Spur

Spur is a student marketplace mobile app for students to get paid for what they know and get affordable help from the students around them for what they don't. Using the platform, students could save money by ordering services from other college students and make money by providing those services.

Created By: Natalia Luzuriaga, Vishnupriya Bohra, Adithya Nair, Roshni Rao, Amit Bhatnagar

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Freelancing/Retail

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Wechews

A Tinder-like app to help friends and family decide on a place to eat, overcoming our indecisiveness in a fun and easy way.

Created By: Hubert Chen, Kevin Tang, Francis Feng, Justin He, Hanna Co, Isha Gonuguntu

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Gaming & Graphics

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