WTFRIT

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  this was our mockup for what a potential submission screen might look like for an on-platform post submission

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  loading screen for a future on-platform post submission

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  mockup of a popup we were planning but didnt have time to make

Inspiration:

Students are frustrated about things, like RIT building new buildings and leaving some classrooms to fall apart.

Some RIT flltime staff we talked to when planning the idea mentioned that there are difficulties learning what is important to students

What it does:

WTFRIT takes those "WTF, RIT" moments from the places students already post them (such as reddit and pawprints), and analyzes/deduplicates them into a concise list of issues affecting students as well as some stats on how important/widespread these issues are.

How we built it:

Mostly with python

Challenges we ran into:

how to set up the infrastructure and various components to integrate and work together, keeping the scope limited so we can complete something during the hackathon. Finding time to sleep.

Accomplishments that we're proud of:

Building something that we strongly think will actually have a real impact at RIT beyond just this hackathon because we talked to some RIT staff during the planning process prior to the hackathon.

What we learned:

Next time we should limit the scope a lot more so we can get something done, and intentionally plan/stagger when we sleep so that we can remain productive the whole time.

What's next for WTFRIT:

Make the sites actually work (i.e. build a demo that works), clean up the code, expand to start scraping more platforms, start showing RIT staff and students. etc

Built With

• flask
• jekyll
• python