Wristband

Inspiration

The sexual assault culture present at many frat parties and dorm parties is not new knowledge, yet there have been no new solutions. Current solutions primarily only consist of reactive action—reporting sexual assault at parties only after it has happened. Many cases go unreported due to the extreme emotional cost of pursuing and prosecuting sexual offenders. That is we why sought to find something different—preventative action. The name "Wristband" originated from the wristbands (otherwise known as bids) frats give out to selectively let people into their parties.

What it does

Wristband is an app that serves two purposes: increasing the awareness of the "sexual safety" of parties and creating a feed to streamline finding parties to go to/request to get into.

The first purpose is fulfilled by our report and sexual safety score. If anyone is at a party they will be able to have real-time sexual safety reports that go straight to "sober monitors" and the host of the party. Additionally, users have the ability to fill in a report after the party to detail everything that occurred. Cases of rape and drugging will automatically be sent to the police and other cases will result in a lower sexual safety score for the perpetrator, indicating to frats to not let them in in the future.

The second purpose is fulfilled through our "Request" feature where users can request access to specific parties. Additionally, rather than randomly seeing a party on your Instagram, Wristband creates a single go-to feed for people just trying to find parties.

Challenges we ran into

Outside of the homogenous internet connection problems, our greatest challenge was... coding itself. Coming from a group of a Biology major, Econ major, Physics major, and finally an undecided major, we had a disturbing lack of experience in programming, and it definitely felt intimidating to be in competition against what is comprised of the largest nerds you will see in the Bay Area. However, despite this, we spent hours watching discussing design philosophy, and teaching what little dandruffs of knowledge we know to each other.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The idea of our project is what we are most proud of because we feel that it can truly make a difference in increasing the safety of parties.

What we learned

We learned HTML and CSS to start the mockup of our website. We practiced collaborative coding and communication skills.

What's next for Wristband

We hope to make this a full-functioning app that is widely used by the frats around Berkeley. We hope to see an increasing rarity of sexual assault at parties. After that, Wristband is set to expand to other colleges across California and the nation with the help of passionate volunteers at respective colleges that give us more insight to develop and fine-tune the app to be better for every college we incorporate.