During the recent week in Colorado, many communities suffered great loss due to flooding. Homes and belongings have been lost and destroyed. Many people suffered loss.
For many hours, even days, people were seperated from their families and loved ones. Some were stranded and cut off from others. As of Monday morning, eight lives were lost and roughly 600 people are still unaccounted for.
The national guard was brought in to airlift people to safety. People from all over the United States came in to help in the rescue efforts.
Your Task:
Design an application that can be used to assist and save people during and after a flood situation.
Consider the following:
What does an app need to do?
What need is the app addressing?
What research needs to be done in order to make the app function?
What are the current warning systems? Could they be better?
What does your app need to include?
What things are going to be useful to the community?
Is your app free or will you charge?
How are you going to tell people about this app? It is only good if people can use it.
Presentation:
You will be presenting to a panel asking them to create your application. You want to convince them that this will be useful to people in the community during a crisis situation.
For many hours, even days, people were seperated from their families and loved ones. Some were stranded and cut off from others. As of Monday morning, eight lives were lost and roughly 600 people are still unaccounted for.
The national guard was brought in to airlift people to safety. People from all over the United States came in to help in the rescue efforts.
Your Task:
Design an application that can be used to assist and save people during and after a flood situation.
Consider the following:
What does an app need to do?
What need is the app addressing?
What research needs to be done in order to make the app function?
What are the current warning systems? Could they be better?
What does your app need to include?
What things are going to be useful to the community?
Is your app free or will you charge?
How are you going to tell people about this app? It is only good if people can use it.
Presentation:
You will be presenting to a panel asking them to create your application. You want to convince them that this will be useful to people in the community during a crisis situation.