Elevation Oregon
An independent, student-led nonprofit registered with the state of Oregon. Nearly 100 members in season two and about $10,000 raised in membership fees.
How can philosophy, religion, and technology help us tell unspoken stories?
That’s a question I’ve spent a long time trying to ask. As a child, I struggled to communicate the imaginary worlds and emotions I had to others. Now I’m using advances in on-device machine learning to develop a collaborative digital scrapbook that captures feeling beyond the frame of a simple photo. I’m exploring how Plato’s and Aristotle’s philosophies can improve ML models to better capture the essence of people’s feelings for others.
Tapestry
You collect stickers from the world around you and trade them with friends in stacks.
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- $5,000
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Everything you capture, share, and save goes to your sticker bank, and builds XP and a streak as it grows. Together you weave those stickers into tiles that make up a tapestry — a shared stickerboard that lives on your home screen as a widget and keeps growing as people add to it.
Awake, Maybe Dreaming
A 15-minute short film about schizophrenia, written, cast, filmed and produced over a summer in high school.
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Flat Heads Make Good Students
A booster seat, a research study, and the one thing a pattern machine can’t take off you.
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Why am I a Business Major?
A Minecraft server in lockdown, a rejected ski team application, and the group chat that became a nonprofit.