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# FA23 Winners

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<figure><img src="/files/aHQEG6ybsDqWIihpozpz" alt=""><figcaption><p>FA23 Winners</p></figcaption></figure>

## [Ithaca Traveller](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13\&v=KVRTgewXVB8\&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F\&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com\&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY\&feature=emb_logo) - Best Backend

*Frank Dai, Qiandao Liu, James Tu, Huajie Zhong*

* Account login and registration (with profile image)
* MapKit integration with WeatherAPI
* Create a post and upload images
* Like and delete a post

<div><figure><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/d7f8TRJjQf6RhZKb7dUvaEfREql7vjmNvL8r95F2Dn9MuWOgLSZybUSlH10Cdw-uYzkZtVfq0Ipus6G0RLU4o9grb4kkycJhtcO6xRuzOLpa-Jk1ZUZBfRMoLLxklRLW_iI_uRCOW9nUF01NfXz5zp1QJA=s2048" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>Ithaca Traveller</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/bWABJ7lzBHGXiYdNhdfe" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>Ithaca Traveller Team</p></figcaption></figure></div>

## [Latte Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__QB02WURo) - Best UI

*Lucy Yang, Kyle Chu, Nicole Qiu, Nathan Chu, Mihili Herath*

A scheduling app that allows Cornell students to connect with coffee chatters and arrange coffee chats from a range of campus organizations.

* Simple yet effective user interface
* Easy on the eyes, not too much information at once
* Consistent design system - typography, colors, etc.
* Lots of explorations on Figma -> seems like everything was thought through pretty well

<div><figure><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/nTx4gL0p-Xc2P31VODMA4OgT2ltJlqtdI0hCrFAJ1ks2ZhKwbCXcbdfV0cUtNRQBki6iZ5qWZ1JHKUR_BGbaPEB5Tv6o5_UB8W81-gOyONFxGlNhpJaaMSpFxUKODD01MczYYcErhKWqwW6ryVz0ClRXgQ=s2048" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>Latte Link</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/n1tiDzAKwsbXyFK9EWlN" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>Latte Link Team</p></figcaption></figure></div>

## [ShelterSwipe](https://youtu.be/VuFvTb_Hp1Y?si=4C_xYoFBp6EmPFJh) - Most Creative

*Ilyssa Yan, Claire Wang, Cassidy Xu, Ronald Leung, Andrew Qian, Emily Silkina*

ShelterSwipe is an application where you can swipe through pets available for adoption at local shelters. We hope to match every potential pet-owner with their perfect animal to foster loving relationships and decrease the number of shelter animals.

* Very creative, cute, and wholesome idea
* Have never seen a swipe gesture used in a Hack Challenge before
* Animations when swiping was pretty sick

<div><figure><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/ESLVNjJ7aWT7j0kM1D5mZSd74gdKj848ivVxbNhl5ymH3xYbjGN0kVt-kUM-3hW6gu4XrFai683dylr-a0gBWoivAOtIjqtaaIzGL733NAfsrJ3t1NuW3djvcYDn1TT2fhGBd5562wnhG_zQ2L1CgevYUg=s2048" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>ShelterSwipe</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/ljB1MUAvWpzQExAzJ5DU" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>ShelterSwipe Team</p></figcaption></figure></div>

## [truscoop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPHTixbiMac) - Best Overall

*Aidan Talreja, Peter Bidoshi, Daniel Chuang, Daniel Lee, Satya Datla*

AI news platform that determines the political meaning of the news article based on AI and user ratings.

* Summary generated with AI using NLP (natural language processing)
* Clean and slick/simple UI
* Can read articles within the app using WKWebView
* User ratings + ML generated ratings
* Share articles

<div><figure><img src="https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/o6i6PLlGOnyTJhS6Z7q4OiIEuM0b3vq5rNrQ-oLYzRIYbzYD3uomuNMUYQyPEPioC-qSsFK9ip-yapFxi5KXUG_VHRvFnZ80ifOcKQnhkq-igTYl4R63sND-f7OUx05u8jM0OxoXpPd6X5DcyJ4qNzeVjg=s2048" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>truscoop</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="/files/bLbOE7S3i4uJU3bdZh0G" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>truscoop Team</p></figcaption></figure></div>