2024 Design and Research Conference

Training Arc

Team Members: Ethan Ennis, Braden Nickel, Jayden Raynes, Dipesh Shah

Sponsor: Tom Bowman (outside of Tech)

A gym app that can dynamically create and manage workouts for a user based on preferences set by the user. They can select their current gym, if applicable, and will create workouts based on the equipment that the gym offers. The user can keep track of their progress over time, and they can also see recommendations for supplements.

ArKea

Team Members: Aiden Plauche, Cullen Duval, Alexander Jose, Samuel Johnston

Sponsor: John Moore (Oracle)

ArKea is a distributed messaging system that improves upon tools like Kafka and RedPanda by aiming for low latency, running WebAssembly functions on data ingress / egress, exposing rich metrics through OpenTelemetry, and supporting the Kafka Protocol for easy integration with existing infrastructure. Arkea is written in Rust which provides memory safety guarantees, is heavily concurrent to ensure high throughput and full hardware utilization, and features a Node Graph to help visualize and manage your ArKea cluster.

SimPlay Fit

Team Members: Quentin Quarles, David Mains, Keldrick Whitfield, Kiefer Armand

Sponsor: Cody Armand (from outside latech)

Vr based fitness application designed to encourage proper exercise techniques, and general physical activity.

Varsity Metrics

Team Members: Dillan Mickel, Zachary Browning, Sam Vandiver, Conner Angelle

Sponsor: Jonathan Hyde

Our app is a combination of playbooks statistics for players and games, among many other things, for high school football coaches. The use of our app boils down to high school football teams winning more games by utilizing it. Though College teams and the NFL already have a lot of access to statistics, insights, and data about their players and plays, many high school teams do not have the money for this. Imagine if every high school football coach had access to the kind of statistical technology, we could see much better teams across the nation which would make the sport more exciting, which in turn generates more revenue for high schools and better experiences for players. Football coaches on the high school level mainly use film review for getting information on their previous games.

Skriptor

Team Members: Chad Auchard, Stephan Johnson, Caleb Matherne, Daniel Roy

Sponsor: Maj Jake Ehrlich and Capt Alexander Lambert, Air Force Global Strike Command A-9

This application is designed to aid writers in creating and organizing their projects in the same place it is being written. While focused on people who wish to create worlds and stories, it can also be used for those who wish to keep their ideas in a customizable, connected place. Juggling multiple ideas while crafting a story can be overwhelming, making it crucial to have tools that aid visualization and organization. Skriptor provides a workspace that helps prevent plot holes, loose ends, and creative roadblocks. Writers need a flexible writing tool that aids in every step of creating a story because it is difficult to create a cohesive narrative that fits the intended vision.

J.A.N.A. (Just Another Networking Assistant)

Team Members: Kenneth Bores, Cory Strickland, Tyler Tran, Dalton Michiels

Sponsor: Charles Jouglard

J.A.N.A. is an AI networking assistant, that is meant to help decrease the work load of network admins when assisting with new employees. J.A.N.A. will be able to perform basic network tasks within an Aruba switch and provide troubleshooting ideas when asked by a user. J.A.N.A. will also be able to use a voice model and chat interface to answer questions from the user.

IRL Inventory

Team Members: Kaleigh Powell, Zachary Dulaney, Colby Willman, Jacob Yee

Sponsor: Jonathan Hyde

IRL Inventory is a multi-platform application aimed at easing consumers ability to itemize, categorize, and assess their assets. Providing consumers with an easy to use, and understandable UI IRL Inventory can provide the ability for consumers to itemize their homes for insurance purposes, calculate an estimated depreciation of every item logged, and schedule tasks to be completed around the home.

Basalt

Team Members: Hayden Pott, Jack Branch, Austin Adams, Erik Claros

Sponsor: Dr. Zakaria El-Awadi

Basalt is a system for hosting local offline programming competitions. Competition hosts can quickly create competitions that use any programming language and run a suite of test cases. Competitions can be easily shared and repeated hassle-free. Competitors can connect and login to basalt from any device on the network using our cross-platform desktop application. Competitors can write their solutions in the built-in text editor or upload their solutions from their own text editor.

BRAVE

Team Members: Chase Stephens, Lucas Alvarado, Austin Erhart

Sponsor: Jessica Huff (outside of LA Tech)

A donation website for securing payments notably for fundraisers for the children within the BRAVE program.

TasKing

Team Members: Ani Baker, Bryce Bailey, Jesse Mitchell, Will Coker

Sponsor: Abigail Folds (external from Tech)

TasKing isn’t just a todo list app: it’s a chore-conquering companion that makes you king of your day. TasKing uses gamification to give incentive for completing tasks, awarding coins and experience. Coins are used to unlock new items for your avatar and experience is used to level up, enabling you to reach higher resolutions. Built-in AI breaks down tasks to make them more manageable. These subtasks can be manually edited, and tasks can be set as easier or more difficult to award more or less coins and experience. The friends feature allows you to add other users as friends and work on tasks together, which will give more rewards to encourage cooperation. Join us and rule your todo list!

Copper 2 Gold

Team Members: Lily Derosa, Connor Ettinger, Coby Taylor, Coleman Zuehlke

Sponsor: Janet Zuehlke (outside LaTech)

Copper 2 Gold is a resale assistant for identification and evaluation of items utilizing eBay’s database, as well as tracking sale opportunities and managing your own sales. Our development was done inside of expo go’s environment utilizing react native. Firebase is our backend, also connected to our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) managing our account, database, and storing the secure eBay keys to access the Api. It has been developed through the react native framework so that is both accessible on android and apple devices. Why resale? Growing up going to garage sales was always an enjoyable pastime, almost like a treasure hunt for finding lost or forgotten items. Many people now make their careers on this concept, finding items in estate sales, garage sales, and many other locations for resale, but the process for identifying items of worth is often cumbersome and tiring. Our app aims to streamline that process and be a useful tool to effectively identify and determine ideal investments.

Internal Representation

Team Members: Calvin Idom, Trisha Carter, Sam Chen, Holden Wells

Sponsor: Steve Drager (outside Latech)

A custom C compiler and Intermediate Representation that allows algorithmic optimization using classical AI. The AI learns by accepting solutions to coding problems on our website. The Intermediate Representation can be decompiled back to C or Cuda to create an optimized executable.

PandaProfessor

Team Members: Nicholas Cervantes, Senmi Rai, Tori Geipert, Logan Knies

Sponsor: Joshua Coriell

An AI-powered course assistant for Discord, designed to keep teachers and students organized and up to date with class materials. It offers seamless support both in and out of the classroom, along with personalized AI tutors for each student, featuring adjustable intelligence to enhance learning.

LaTech Chem Labs

Team Members: Mason Maddox, Evan Matherne, Brilanne Bays, Elizabeth Alberty

Sponsor: Professor Jerry Berg (Game Design Professor at LaTech)

Our project is a general chemistry lab simulator based on the Louisiana Tech Chemistry curriculum for the students to utilize for the sake of learning and practicing their laboratory skills before the actual lab day.

ServeWell

Team Members: Hayley Owen, James McMahan, Sean Bell, RJ Banks

Sponsor: Zakaria El-Awadi

ServeWell is a church management software specifically designed for small churches. Small churches need to be efficient with their money, their time, and their overall resources because those resources are scarce and dwindling. Most churches use management softwares in order to help boost their productivity and gain insights into their spending and income. While these kinds of softwares are considered to be virtually necessary in modern churches, they are not affordable or even possible for smaller, rural churches due to high monthly premiums that these softwares charge. Our purpose is to make a comparative software aimed toward smaller churches for free use. Our software provides smaller churches with tracking resources for their finances, members, and scheduling with an emphasis in a simple UI that an older generation church administration should be able to easily use.

CoMMS

Team Members: Michael Lee, Cameron White, Jason LeBlanc, and Lee Wycoff

Sponsor: Parker Jordan (Outside of LaTech)

CoMMS is a Construction Material Management System designed to aid workers on a job site in finding any materials they need for their work on site. It displays the location of materials on a map, keeps logs to form a chain of custody on materials, and allows workers on the same site or in the same company to contact each other easily.

DBMeister

Team Members: Jadyn Falls, Jacob Stein, Luka Ratiani, Patrick McCoy

Sponsor: Nicole Nwoha, Eisneramper LLP

WDBMeister is an online web application that allows individual users and organizations to design and share large in-depth dataflows.

Whether just an overview or incredibly granular, users can portray not only tables and databases, but also APIs and outside applications, to see how your data fits together, down to the SQL field. From SQL tables with detailed field options, to the ability to create nodes with custom icons, DBMeister allows for anything a user might need.

Users can join groups, so entire teams can collaborate on and share their dataflow maps. An internal forum page is also available for users who have questions.

NoRush

Team Members: Isaac Guidry, Cooper Rachow, Nikolas Nash, Joseph Newman

Sponsor: Vista Techwerx (outside of tech)

NoRush is an innovative app designed specifically for friends and organizations, merging the convenience of ride-sharing services like Uber with the real-time location insights of apps like Life360. With NoRush, groups can effortlessly coordinate rides by designating a member or friend as their dedicated driver for specific events, days, weekends, or even entire weeks. Users can easily request rides at no charge, fostering a cooperative, community-driven transportation solution.

NoRush includes advanced features such as a dynamic map view, allowing users to instantly locate all group members, enhancing safety and coordination. For drivers, the integrated navigation system suggests the fastest and most efficient routes, ensuring timely arrivals and stress-free journeys. An advanced AI assistant simplifies ride requests, manages tasks, and answers queries, creating a seamless transportation experience.

Additionally, NoRush empowers users to host events within the app, extending its features to attendees who may not be part of the initial group. This flexibility ensures efficient event coordination and transportation for everyone involved. With robust group messaging, NoRush simplifies group travel, keeping everyone connected, informed, and ensuring every ride is reliable, safe, and enjoyable.