The UCSC-based team of four, called SlugLoop, is one of 10 Solutions Challenge finalists out of the top 100 teams from around the globe, and the only team from the U.S. that made the final round.
, is one of 10 Solutions Challenge finalists out of the top 100 teams from around the globe, and the only team from the U.S. that made the final round.
Zhang began to reach out to professors about the discontinued bus tracking app and last February took his knowledge of the defunct system into the university’s student-run hackathon known as, which, like the Solutions Challenge, focuses on developing technology that contributes to the social good. SlugLoop consists of three main parts: the user-facing mobile application, a server and a database where the gathered information is stored.
“Two of the receivers on the roofs were broken,” said Zhang. “And we had to gain access to the roofs but the school doesn’t really give students access to the roofs because of safety issues, so we had to reach out to building coordinators to get permission to get on the roofs, and that took a while.”
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