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Fall 2019 Projects

Screen shots of various screen of the mobile app. From the login screen, picture of food item, location of items, and a screen for posting food that is available.

Screen shots of various screen of the mobile app. From the login screen, picture of food item, location of items, and a screen for posting food that is available.

Extra Eats (ENGR 110, Fall 2019)

Students: Sarah, Alex, Nick, Greta

To address the national issue of food insecurity on campus, yet students being incredibly wasteful as well. The students want to promote sustainability, reduce food waste, and mitigate food insecurity. The solution was to create an iPhone/Android app that provides the SCU community with leftover food from catered events on campus; send out notifications.

The mission of the app, ExtraEats, is to connect Santa Clara faculty, staff, and students with leftover food from events on campus. In doing so the app aims to address food insecurity and food waste in the community. The App works by having vendors post when there is additional food, and users are notified and given information such as location, description, a picture of the food, and a reminder to bring a container.