IDEA LEADER: Larryann Aaron

I want to create an App that creates audience generated playlists for venues and entertainment events.

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IDEA LEADER: Paul Callejas

I want to work on an app called GPS campus. Students will be able to navigate themselves around campus and to their friends with our GPS. It shows you the different events and promotions in and around campus. By attending events or going out to eat, you earn points that you can exchange for rewards. Businesses and organizations are able to promote their events or specials going on through the application.

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IDEA LEADER: Ashley McCain

I want to create an app The concept behind my app that tracks all registered and unregistered guns in the Chicago while also flagging all guns fired & the locations in which they were fired at.

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IDEA LEADER: Jessica Fallen

I want to work on an app that provides community skill-share to an open marketplace platform for wholelistic living in the areas of health, traditional &/ alternative Fitness & wellness.

IDEA LEADER: Sheenita Robinson

I want to work on an app that allows concerned citizens to provide feedback on properties and management in the communities.

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IDEA LEADER: Edwin Pinto

I want to work on an app that assists residents with confidence in English literacy as a second language while introducing them to social (meetups) and economic (employment) opportunities in their communities.

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IDEA LEADER: Vanay Henry

I would like to work on an app that helps residents locate food trucks and visa versa.

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IDEA LEADER: Corvetta Smith

I want to work on an app that matches recreational interest to other people across communities.

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IDEA LEADER: Murielle Marseille

I would like to work on an app that provides SimCity functionality enabling residents to design features/businesses they would add to their communities.

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IDEA LEADER: Lynda Patterson

I would like to work on an app that uses fashionable wearable technology to improve quality of life and reduce healthcare costs in elderly and those with various conditions.

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IDEA LEADER: Colby Chapman

I want to work on an app that allows you to research various events and eateries that are low or now cost in your neighborhood.

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IDEA LEADER: Natalie Bonner

I would like to develop an app that provides a one stop shop for all resources available in distressed areas.

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IDEA LEADER: Bruce Paul

I would like to develop an app that allows blind vendors to do their bookkeeping in a browser.

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IDEA LEADER: Harold Chapman

I want to work on an app that connects producers with other local producers and creates a marketplace that identifies producers of local food.

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IDEA LEADER: Sheenita Robinson

I want to work on a mobile app that allows for local residents, tenants and concerned citizens to provide feedback on properties in their neighborhood.

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IDEA LEADER:Bruce Montgomery

I plan to model, prototype and demo my Economic Development Impact App.

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IDEA LEADER: Erik Hernandez

I would like to work on an app that compiles rfp's that are available in the community; to be completed and sent by local entities that live or operate in the community; so that LOCAL entities can be granted work.

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IDEA LEADER:Pat Maher

I would like to work on an app for people who use wheelchairs or other mobility devices to get around the city. We are looking at the condition of walks, transitions, and curb cuts and tying into the 311 system. The mobile app will enable safe trip planning from point A to point B as well as reporting of unsafe conditions at any point in the city.

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IDEA LEADER: Andrew Van Gorp

I would like to work on an app would engage local residents in local history via a points system that leads to coupons redeemable at local businesses. We have a prototype design we need help in making a reality.

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IDEA LEADER:Teresa Henning

I am working on something so exciting in economic development! I'm calling it Simple Life!

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IDEA LEADER:Harini Aiyer

I would like to work on an app that connects urban composters, community gardeners, and composter-wannabes with resources focused on reducing organic waste in landfills using sustainable source separation and diversion techniques.

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IDEA LEADER: Vignesh Ramasamy

I want to work on a crowd-sourced, geolocation based mobile application for smartphone users to get real time safety alerts from their location and their loved ones (kids,partners,parents,friends) locations, by creating their own personalized alert circles, thus helping the user and people in their circles of concern be aware of vulnerable/unfriendly situations.

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IDEA LEADER: Carmen Myers

I would like to work on something that connects people with services and events in their communities. There are tons of non-profit services as well as resource fairs/job fairs and events that people don't realize they have access to, and I think creating an app to help with this would be really helpful. Just trying to find a way to make it more interesting =)

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IDEA LEADER:Nathan Williams

I would like to work on an app that compares city services provided by a city with the taxes paid a resident.

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Concepts and Ideas

Teams of Community Leaders, entrepreneurs, and developers will present their app projects to fellow competitors and a panel of judges that included technology and business experts

There are a variety of apps being created to advance urban sustainability in communities throughout Chicago. We have catagorized our entries into five catagories to help you locate and identify a team you may be interested in joining.

2016 Entries

Click each graphic for details on current entries. Consider joining the team as a UX designer, analyst, marketer, coder, architect, or maybe you offer another skill you believe will add value! Register here.

Urban Sustainability Apps Competition

Answer real, community-level questions and create apps that help solve local issues.

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