Survey Savvy Scientists

🔬Inspiration

Conducting research is important for advancing the arts and sciences but it can be expensive to recruit diverse applicants and receive high-quality data. This is unfortunate as in most cases the demographic of people being studied serves to gain the most but with limited funding that research is less impactful than it could have been otherwise. Researchers and Participants deserve a centralized community to maintain participant safety and data cost acquisition low.

🪙What it does

We created a platform for participants to help Researchers collect data at discounted prices, donate to charities, and receive tax write-offs all at the convenience of their own homes.

Researchers:

Research Groups use our survey creator to put the participant requirements, survey questions, timeframe, and the number of responses needed and post it to our sight.
After the period closes we off the data to the researchers for a set price.
The collected revenue is then saved until a user claims the donation prize.

Participant:

In your spare time you can search our site for surveys you qualify for and then you can receive points for filling them out.
These points can then be used to claim charitable donations in your name.
We then forward you the information needed to fill out Form 8283 for your taxes.

🏗How we built it

Front end react and back end firebase.

🚧Challenges we ran into

Unfortunately, we felt wix limited in our ability to customize it for our needs therefore we switch to react.

🏅Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a unique idea that to our knowledge hasn’t been explored in other hackathons.

🧠What we learned

We now have a better understanding of US tax laws and how to leverage them for tax incentives.

⏭What's next for Research Savvy Scientist

We would like to leverage ad space to keep the platform running indefinitely. In addition, we would like to increase the number of safety features to prevent unethical or false research campaigns from soliciting information on our site.