Hackathon Pitch

Hello. We're team Apollo.

And our app idea is I connect uh app which

you can use to connect with the community and build

resiliency or natural disasters.

We came up with this idea here to a problem.

You're late 2019 And early 2020, there was an estimated

15,000 bushfires in Australia, destroying 3300 houses, causing 25 billion

in damages.

These damage is left to individual dealing with bush fires

not only with physical harm but also with trauma and

PTSD Sadly, this issue is not only something Australians struggle

with. In fact, according to a statistic report in 2020,

The global average economic laws due to natural disaster events

worldwide amounted to $268 billion U.

S. Dollars and roughly caused 8100 report fatalities leaving the

global community of disaster survivors in trauma, not disasters also

cause trauma.

And from Aaron Smith Medvedkova University's associate professor at the

School of Medicine and Health Science, we found out the

collective trauma often occurs when an unexpected event like bushfire

crisis comes through and damages the ties that people have

with their community.

However, there is a way to deal with that and

it's those social bonds that connectedness so important for resiliency

and by connecting each other through activities, you can build

resilience is back and deal with disasters in a more

effective, which can also minimize mental health risks.

And thus is how we came up with our idea.

So as you see, this is the user interface for

our app.

We first have the home screen which says welcome to

I connect.

Then it goes to or 2nd screen where you can

find the pronouns and then you choose your age and

then you choose whether you're an outer in your person

and then what type of volunteer experience you have.

Lastly, we go and choose our country type of contribution.

Would like to make our location and then machine learning

program behind the Ab.

Goes to work and takes all those inputs and uses

class classification to find suited activities for the users.

In this case we see the users would like adopting

a tree meditation, cleaning up stuff in the community, doing

a garden and supporting a friend once uh user clicks

on one of the activities they make account, then they

click back on the activity and that's when they have

signed up.

They can choose further activities and also put a heart

next to them.

If they would like certain recommendations to be repeated or

find some recommendations to the ones that already done.

We also see amount of users that have already taken

this activity and that also builds into the aspect of

community and how many people in the area would like

to do.

The same thing are focused with this up was to

be unlike any other app with joints, people through volunteer

organizations. We primarily focus on interaction and build giving back

to the community without being part of, uh, without committing

to any organization.

We also have in our app activities like making emergency

kits and etcetera, which aligns with Honduras Foundation of Goals

to create resilient communities and minimize mental impact for future

bushfire disastrous.

This is our team.

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