In addition to the JetBridge team, SEAS students ChiYun Chen, Will Heinzel, Aaliah Amosu and School of Business student Claudio Sebastian Escudero won the $500 machine learning prize. It becomes sort of a communal experience.” “By putting data in the app, we figure that you are helping not just yourself, but others. “People don’t want to be frustrated, so this is a way to come together to make things easier for all of us,” Ms. JetBridge’s creators incorporated a social contract within their app, as they built in convenient ways for customers to let others know of barriers ranging from traffic on the way to TSA wait times. So, it was just kind of crazy how it morphed.”
“It was really just putting yourself in the customer’s shoes and saying ‘hey, what would work for me?’” Mr. Ramela thought of while talking with a friend on the phone just the night before, showing wait times for lines at the airport-red for long, green for short. They also came up with a color-coordinated system, which Mr. The app would have customers fill out a pre-flight questionnaire based on preferred arrival time to the airport, which would help place the traveler to the TSA line closest to their gate. That didn’t stop their team from walking away with the winning prize-$1,000 and an invitation to interview for an open position at CirrusLabs-for their app idea, called JetBridge. 12, senior organizational science and English major Winnie Lokule, senior international business and marketing major Brooke Werp, computer science graduate student Darika Shaibekova and graduate interdisciplinary business student Garrett Ramela had never met, and only met in-person for the first time the night before their pitch. "These events expose them to real world problems under real world circumstances-collaborating with new people, problem solving on the fly, being creative within a given set of parameters, and presenting ideas with confidence. Students also get to interact with and learn from our sponsors, which is hugely rewarding for all involved. This is OIE programming at its best-providing high value, experiential learning opportunities that benefit students as well as our community of alumni and sponsors." "Hackathons present such unique learning opportunities for our students," said Director of Student Entrepreneurship Kate Heath, M.B.A.'10, who thanked CirrusLabs for their partnership. Teams were also instructed to make a one-minute advertisement video only four hours before it was pitch time. The judges then had five minutes to ask questions. 19, four teams had five minutes to pitch their idea in-person to a panel of judges at the Science and Engineering Hall. 12 and form teams, after which they spent a week preparing their pitches. Undergraduate and graduate GW students, regardless of school or major, were invited to come together for a virtual session on Nov. Hosted by the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in partnership with CirrusLabs, George Hacks and the SEAS Innovation Center, the hackathon presented students with a real-life challenge in the travel industry and asked them to come up with a way to improve the pre-flight travel experience with a new smart phone or tablet application. With factors such as unpredictable traffic, ride share availability and perhaps unfamiliarity with the airport’s layout, it’s easy to see why and plausible to assume customers would be open to an application or tool to cut down their pre-flight anxiety.Īt the Innovate the Future of Travel Tech: From House to Gate Hackathon in November, George Washington University students had one week to come up with such a concept. Getting from home to takeoff is a stressful operation.Īccording to a 2019 Forbes study, 63 percent of air passengers expressed that their biggest anxiety on travel day was just getting to the airport.
Those who travel by plane frequently-or even infrequently-may relate to the “Home Alone” film scene when the McCallisters are desperately sprinting through a crowded airport in hopes of making the gate before it closes.
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