Week 1 Ideas:

• Ergonomic Desk
• HVAC System - Temperature AI
• Bike Helmet that alerts to blind spots and uses CV for taillights
• Sport mode wheelchair
  • Add sensors to it to help improve their playing

Week 2 Ideas:

• Bike Helmet that alerts to blind spots and uses CV for taillights

• Sport mode wheelchair

  • Add sensors to it to help improve their playing

• An autonomous dispensing machine (taco builder)

• For accessible education, we can create an AI teacher for places in the world that cannot afford a teacher. Basically, we can tell the AI teacher a topic, and it will write all the course content on the whiteboard

  • Add interactive quizzes
  • Multilingual Support: Lessons are auto-translated into local languages.

• Need: Countries need teachers with the qualifications to provide education of high quality to children and youth. However, due to growth in enrolment in recent decades, a high proportion of teachers are unqualified. In 2000, an average of 84% of primary teachers had the minimum required qualifications, but by 2019, only 65% did. (UNESCO) https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/persistent-teacher-gap-sub-saharan-africa-jeopardizing-education-recovery#:~:text=In secondary education%2C even higher,particularly acute in rural areas.

• Need: The global report on teachers reveals an urgent need for 44 million primary and secondary teachers worldwide by 2030. This includes a demand for seven out of ten teachers at the secondary level and a need to replace over half of the existing teachers leaving the profession. Sub-Saharan Africa is especially affected, with an estimated need for 15 million new teachers by 2030. (UNESCO) https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/global-report-teachers-what-you-need-know

• QUESTIONS:

  • look into northern territories of Canada as well
  • power standards in other countries
  • why use this instead of smart board eg?
  • consider a couple more solutions to this problem
  • multi language support
  • how kids learn differently, with someone writing on the board vs just having AI generated slides
  • find contact that would be able to tell us the needs @ NGO
  • could also use for home schooling/tutoring/personal use
  • how to make it fast enough and accurate, keeping students engaged
  • how to make the AI write something that would be interesting for the white board - diagrams
  • reliable and consistent between gadget and AI
  • how to make sure it can respond to students well

• NEXT WEEK - NEED STATEMENT, OBJECTIVE, CONSTRAINTS AND CRITERIA

  • make a power point

  https://uwaterloo.ca/capstone-design/sustainable-development-capstone-design-award

These are some topics that we are interested in:

• clean water + sanitation
  • water roomba
• accessible education
• affordable and clean energy