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Chart based on 151 Houston 2021 AiC Applicant problem areas they said they were interested in using computing to help solve compared to 156 applicants from 2020.
Data I used for the 2021 analysis:
Topic | Problem Area |
Cyber Security | Dark web |
Cyber Security | Data integrity, safety, accuracy, and security |
Cyber Security | Data protection |
Cyber Security | Data security |
Cyber Security | Protection of websites and databases |
Cyber Security | Storage and removal of data. |
Economic | Disaster tracker, track personal items for insurance if destroyed |
Economic | Funding for non-profits for education and social good. |
Economic | Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council – Smart City |
Economic | Poverty, donations |
Economic | Small business management of email, work productivity |
Education | Access to CS in Africa, and other skills |
Education | Animal Adoption |
Education | College Application Process |
Education | College Application Process |
Education | Dance to reignite fire of learning. |
Education | Disabilities – assistive technology |
Education | Drug Addiction |
Education | Educational resource equity |
Education | Efficient personalized learning |
Education | Equality |
Education | Equititable access – teach children coding. |
Education | Gap in STEM enrollment for minorities. |
Education | Help women enter STEM field |
Education | Integrate AI for personalized schedules for school work, sharing tasks, check progress |
Education | internet – use tech to create, hackathons |
Education | Internet access |
Education | Online learning |
Education | Online Learning – create realistic virtual lab. |
Education | Online learning collaboration |
Education | Personalize learning, mental health: testing, encouragement |
Education | Pet Adoption |
education | public safety, online ed resources, health care |
Education | Reach girls to provide basics with robotic assistance. |
Education | Robotics, accessibility for STEM programs and resources, Angela House |
Education | Spread awareness about STEM to work together. |
Education | STEM field interest |
Education | Use tech responsibly |
Education | Vietnamese culture |
Education | Visually impaired community – image-describing algorithms |
Energy | Global warming, solar powered machines, build a fake sun. |
Energy | Polution – energy sources |
Energy | Solar Energy – environmental |
Energy | Water powered vehicle – Dr. Sarwar |
Engineering | Agriculture, crop planting |
Engineering | AI research – ethichal questions |
Engineering | Atheletic safety equipment |
Engineering | battery-powered sensor to direct traffic when lights go out |
Engineering | Create durable technology, better communication in times of need. |
Engineering | Devices for education in developing countries. |
Engineering | Digital Divide – computer wifi kits |
Engineering | Homelessness – solar powered hot meals, heated blankets |
Engineering | ML computer vision and breathing device for firefighters and wildfire prediction. |
Engineering | Online control of elevator to pretty touching. |
Engineering | Projects to solve problems |
Engineering | Robots to help humans in danger. |
Engineering | Shelters for homeless. |
Environmental | Carbon Footprint |
Environmental | Clean Water |
Environmental | Climate Change |
Environmental | Climate Change |
Environmental | Climate Change |
Environmental | Climate Change |
Environmental | Climate Change – Environmental Clubs, antomomous vehicles |
Environmental | Climate Change- increase awareness and find ways to help |
Environmental | Climate Change, clean energy |
Environmental | Create a website around water polution, plastics, and saving animals |
Environmental | Data collection for WWF and to bring awareness in ES. |
Environmental | Global warming |
Environmental | Global warming |
Environmental | Make world better:mental illness – app allows people to find solutions, daily task, animal shelters |
Environmental | Ornithology |
Environmental | Polution – recycling – lazy people |
Environmental | Recyling notification to reduce waste going into dumps |
Environmental | Rising temperatures – space travel and earth shield |
Environmental | Study trends in temperatures |
Environmental | Water – meteorology tech, rain machine |
Health | Accessibility and cost, educational videos |
Health | active lifestyle for senior citizens |
Health | Alzheimers |
Health | Alzheimers |
Health | Book on epidemiology |
Health | Cancer detection using nanotechnology. |
Health | Cost of pharmaceutical drugs |
Health | COVID – data on sounds, testing antibodies |
Health | COVID classification tracking model. |
Health | COVID contact tracing |
Health | Diabetes |
Health | Diabetes – blood monitor |
Health | Diabetes – monitor sugar levels |
Health | Diagnotic predictions through machine learning algorithms |
Health | DNA – functions to repair |
Health | Eating properly and monitor health, test vitamin and minerals at home. |
Health | Equitable access |
Health | Food allergies |
Health | Genetic diseases |
Health | Haplotype assembly, disease susceptiability and preventative measures, COVID |
Health | Manage resources |
Health | Mental health – AI art therapy – wearable with face recognition analsis – cognitive science |
Health | Mental Health – letters to healthcare workers around world |
Health | Mental health – MindScape app won Technovation Challenge |
Health | Mental Health – Stress |
Health | Mental health, teletherapy |
Health | Mental Heath – PTSD – diary |
Health | Nut allergy tester implant |
Health | Nutritious affordable food, technovation app for cooking |
Health | Nutritious food, obesity, food waste |
Health | Organ donation |
Health | Organ donation |
Health | Skate Therapy – diabilities |
Health | Smart watch to improve mental health |
Health | Menatal Health Stress – break room app |
Health | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
Health | Teen pregnancy |
Health | Telemedicine |
Health | Telemedicine |
Health | tracker for entire populations – art |
Health | Type 2 diabetes – study beta cells in pancreas – makes models and simulations through medical software |
Health | Use AI to reduce cost of healthcare. |
Health | Visually impaired guide |
Political | Election misinformation – keep people politically aware |
Political | Foster care system, events page |
Political | Help with local community issues. Funds raising for organizations. |
Political | Legislation for ML and AI to analyze brain waves to prevent epilepsy death. Congressional YAC with Olsen. |
Political | Social Justice – eliminate biases in algorithms, equal pay, equal treatment |
Political | Voting and Election process |
Political | Voting Process |
Political | Voting Process |
Political | Voting Process |
Political | Voting Process |
Social | Bullying |
Social | Bullying |
Social | Communication |
Social | Communication |
Social | Discrimination – face recognition and communication |
social | equity, gender discrimination |
Social | Gun violence, school shootings |
Social | Helping others help |
Social | Human-robot interaction to help with socialization skills. |
Social | Internet to reach out to people and end brutality. |
social | Inventions to help non-verbal people communicate – tool to unite people |
Social | Knowledge of cultures |
Social | Link people with services they ay need when alone |
Social | Media site that only allows positivity. Use AI to build self esteem. |
Social | Media to promote social change, provide world with food |
Social | Natural language processing AI |
Social | Prison system communication |
Social | Safe App to bring divergent people together |
Social | tracking and 911 like danger communication app to family |
Social | Truthful news, facts and discussion app – diversity, discussion |