Inspiration
In April 20th, 1999, two high school students attending Columbine high school, in Littleton Colorado, arrived at school at approximately 11:10 AM. After firing 188 shots between both students they killed 13 people and injured over 20 more. Authorities were contacted at around 11:26, and arrived within a few minutes. However, no law enforcement entered the building until around 1:10 PM. Since then 221,000 children in the United States have experienced similar gun violence in school[as of February 8th]. In the time between authority contact and arrival, more and more deaths could amass.
What it does
HuskieTrack is a way to minimize the time frame between when authorities arrive to an active school shooting to when they enter the building. It provides authorities with live updates of activity throughout a school after a hard lockdown has been implemented.
How I built it
We used Java and Arduino to connect our beam break sensor to our User Interface.
Challenges I ran into
Connecting the Arduino to our Java program without a Raspberry Pi, multithreading on the app extension
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Persisting through our challenges to breakthrough and find solutions
What I learned
How to connect the Arduino to a Java program
What's next for HuskieTrack
Completing the app extension, expanding concept to other schools, uses, etc alongside training
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