ideas

Newspaper Assignments Manager — iPad

Allows members of a newspaper staff to make, track and sort assignments. It will be optimized for the staggered deadlines that come with web-first publishing, and the newspaper staff be able to ask eachother questions and receive push notifications concerning their story assignments.

Intramural game manager — iPhone

Allows students to see upcoming games, stats, and tournament brackets from their phone. Sends notifications before games and when another teams win/loss affects your standing or schedule.

Running app — iPhone

Helps runners manage and created routes. Routes are generated based on the distance and difficulty the user selects. The difficulty of the course is determined by the app using geographical data. The app also pulls safety data from the number of police reports in a certain area. The user can save, rate, share and repeat routes. The app uses the user’s ratings to predict how they will react to other routes.