Trace

Inspiration

As students who are moving on to the next phase of our lives and looking for jobs, we were thinking about applications and the process for how applicants are verified. We thought about how many applications that are sent in where the person lies about their credentials in hopes of getting a job they were not fit for. On top of this, running background checks takes a good amount of time and it hcosts a lot of money. We wanted to make something that blocks out the liars and ensures data is protected, the process is cheaper, and more consistent for a very long time.

What it does

(This will be speaking on a university case for this example)

Trace is the medium for which background checks on applications will be streamlined and made cheaper using block chain. The process will be that universities can create and add records for students, which they will then submit. Upon submitting, it will encode a json that holds that information and create a block chain key for each student. This will keep information private as well as ensure that the students do not have direct access to their transcript to edit it or lie on their applications. Once a university submits a student, the student will be able to see all their important details on themselves submitted from universities. From here they will be able to access their block chain key and submit an application using that key. This will decode the information in the json and run a parse that will check the job applicationn requirements against the students information. From here companies, will be able to see whose applications were fit with their job requirements.

How we built it

We built it using github as a hub to share our code as well as researching block chains and found arweaves were the best way to go. We made sure we built something we were all passionate in while also ensuring we were enjoying our time here and having a fun.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenges we ran into was learning how to work with block chain. For us, no one in our group had ever used block chain before and so it took a while for us to get our footing around the entire concept.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are pretty proud of how much we were able to figure out with the block chain aspects of our project, like encoding and decoding data and using a blockchain key to access that. We also figured out how to parse information from a pdf

What we learned

we learned a lot about working together under time constraints, and how to make cuts on unnecessary details while focusing on the more important parts.