[Mentor #35] Bay Chuan Wei, Candiie (unavailable)

For more information about Candiie, please see: https://bit.ly/orbital22-mentorship (slide 50)

If you would like to be mentored by her, please add a reply below, with the following details:

Your particulars: Team name + Student name + Contact method (Email and other messaging tools)
Your materials: Proposal + Poster + Video
A personalized message: Why should the mentor pick your team?

**Team Particulars** - Team name: NUSMaps (5433) - Student names: Wang Jiayi & Lee Jia Zhen - Contact methods: - Email – wjiayi@comp.nus.edu & jia_zhen@u.nus.edu - Telegram – @wangjiayis & @kyrialjz - Mobile – 96225421 & 80221206 - We are more than happy to connect with you and answer your queries :) **Project Materials** - Summary: - NUSMaps is a semi-automated map modeling project. - Interim goal: process publicly available floor plans and street views to model the campus through the adoption of new tech stacks. - Short term goal: provide a practically impactful solution – inclusive navigation for NUS’ 40,000 students. - Long term goal: commercialize the program by applying the scalable and stable system to model other campuses and buildings. - Poster, video and detailed proposal: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1hjW0nb4F5-osVZKFZiJFwFSMvAOOa-kF **Personalized Message** Good day Ms Bay! We are team NUSMaps – a proactive and action-driven team with a profound passion towards delivering innovative and practical solutions which impact the NUS student population positively. We are taking a user-centric approach based on the pain problems commonly faced by students like ourselves. - Your philanthropic interests resonate well with our dedication to give back to the school – by providing a platform for inclusive navigation (which is disabled-friendly, flexible and accommodating to various priorities). - Beyond implementing the program, we believe in the importance of testing and debugging. In particular, your background in mobile software engineering and game development will help us uncover potential blind spots. Since the students’ benefits are the most significant yardstick of our success, we will especially value your inputs to make the system stable and thus reliable. - Given your rich experience in teaching computer science, we believe that you will be able to effectively relay your knowledge accurately and comprehensively. This, we regard, is imperative to our learning experience as part of Orbital. Thank you for reviewing our message with much thought and detail, and we certainly look forward to your favorable reply!

Dear Candiie, First and foremost, thank you for offering to mentor us on our journey through Orbital! I am Praveen, and alongside my teammate Summer, we are Team JustShareLah. Together, we are humbly requesting an opportunity to be under your wing throughout Orbital :) In this day and age, resource extraction is causing more and more problems for our environment. Thus, Summer and I hope to catalyse the movement towards reducing resource wastage, by enabling communities to tap on each others' resources. We hope to develop a mobile application that allows for seamless sharing of resources within communities! Below are the links to our proposal, video and poster. Proposal - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iyAC_dP6zo5N8y9SBFm2L7x4XWQDLRDy/view?usp=sharing Video - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ON6u0wTBIKMeA11svlxJA-YJkGRfGv1m/view?usp=sharing Poster - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OzTmIaU1pa-mHAdOAjFG_RE_6OjdS0S2/view?usp=sharing If our project piques your interest, you can contact us on Telegram (@praveeeenk or @wintarrr) or through email (praveenk@u.nus.edu or summerthia@u.nus.edu). Looking forward to your favourable reply. Thank you!

**Particulars** Team Name: TheSocialPitstop Student Names: Justin Peng & Kang Yue Hern Emails: justin.peng@u.nus.edu & e0726795@u.nus.edu Telegrams: @justinpeng13 & @yueyue12 **Materials** Proposal: https://bit.ly/TSP-proposal Poster: https://bit.ly/TSP-poster Video: https://bit.ly/TSP-video Dear Ms Candiie, We are Justin and Yue Hern from TheSocialPitstop, an online community **connecting businesses and socially-oriented organisations** for corporate social responsibility projects! There are many benefits for businesses to get involved in CSR activities, yet many companies, especially SMEs, struggle to plan an initiative that is both meaningful and enjoyable for their employees. Through our **web and mobile applications**, we aim to promote and streamline collaboration between these businesses and like-minded SOOs, and **increase the adoption of CSR** among businesses in Singapore. We hope that not only will we be able to tap on your expertise to create a meaningful product, but that we can also exchange ideas and discuss insights about the relevant industries. Looking forward to working with you!

Team Name: BestieVibes Names: Chung Yen Yee, Celine & Goh Pei Shan, Tricia Email: e0774710@u.nus.edu & e0772945@u.nus.edu Telegram:@celinechung & @triciagxh Materials: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1loR_zV77RzaxF0NwssDsqD_L9YaU0_SC?usp=sharing Poster: https://tinyurl.com/BestieVibesPoster Video:

Hello Candiie! I'm sure with social media has made it easier for us to contact our friends, but are we really connecting or simply drifting apart 🙁 We believe that busy schedules or the inconvenience of planning what to eat and do often gets in the way of getting to hang out with our friends. Our app aims to restore restore human touch to friendships which social media lacks! We hope to foster genuine friendships, encouraging people to spend quality time with their loved ones by making outing planning easier and suggesting fun new activities and food options for everyone to explore around Singapore! We really enjoyed the process of designing the cute UX/UI of our application alongside its fun functionalities and hope that your eye for UX/UI design likes it too! We are really excited about making this project a reality and have our friends use it frequently! We are happy to address any of your concerns! join this unique Telegram group with the both of us https://t.me/+PRUV3HDXi35kNmNl We hope to hear from you soon!

Team Name: GetMeOut! Student Names: Chew Yew Keng (Dylen), Lin Jiayong Email: e0725664@u.nus.edu (Dylen), e0725093@u.nus.edu (Jiayong) Telegram(Preferred): @dylchew, @jay_whyy Materials: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1A7d366MVXk6k-KKcZZa_b1dfu1Gp4ysC Figma Mockup: https://www.figma.com/file/dwMcmyuBlZgHEwZsnZiFPy/GetMeOut!?node-id=10%3A2536 Hi Candiie! We are Dylen and Jiayong from GetMeOut!. Dylen is a Year 1 Computer Science Student while Jiayong is a Year 1 Business Analytics Student. Have you ever felt restless in Singapore and can’t wait to travel anywhere else? Yet, planning for travel is always the most difficult and tedious process when travelling. To make matters worse, there are even more processes and steps to take while travelling now due to Covid-19. As the world begins to move past Covid-19, restarting travel, we aim to make travelling easier and accessible to everyone. We will be creating ‘GetMeOut!’, a cross platform mobile app envisioned to be the one in all travel solution for travellers on the go by providing important trip/travel information through the app as well as storing individual traveller’s documents and details. What makes ‘GetMeOut!’ unique is its Covid-19 features, users will be able to check for restrictions between countries such as quarantine and vaccination requirements. Users will also be able to save vaccination and Covid-19 test records for easier access during travel. Our application will be heavily dependent on a strong backend as most of the information such as current travel restrictions will be queried from a server. This is similar to Shopee where the content is stored server side and the app queries for content every time the user opens the app. We have taken a look at your LinkedIn and we noticed that although you are now primarily a UX designer, you have immense experience with mentoring Orbital Projects and no doubt we will have much to learn from you and the lessons you might have to share with regards to teams in the past years. We will be using Flutter for the frontend and postgres/Supabase for the backend. Jiayong has some experience as a Software Engineer Intern while I have mostly been tinkering around with my own Front-End projects. That aside, we are fast learners and we are always looking to learn from others, especially with regards to new tech stacks and industry-related experiences. Last but no least, thank you for contributing your time to mentor the next batch of computing graduates. We are excited to work with you and we hope to hear from you soon! -Dylen and Jiayong

Team Name: CHAD
Team Members: Darren Sim, (Clement) Foo Shi Yu
Email: e0725166@.u.nus.edu, e0726745@u.nus.edu
Telegram @deeeesim, @fookinclown
For your perusal: Poster, Video, Proposal

As a game-loving duo, we have decided to use this opportunity to write a love letter to games by realizing our visions for what an ideal game would be. We believe that your experience in game development will give us the necessary guidance to design a product that we will be proud of.

While the gameplay is important and a large focus of ours, we are also adamant on designing menu and selection interfaces that are not only user-friendly but has low-friction and are satisfying to use. Undoubtedly, your expertise and guidance in UI/UX would greatly benefit us in both the design and user testing of our game.

Thank you for reading thus far and considering us. We truly hope to be working with you in the future!!! (-:

Hello Candiie,

Like many others in NUS Computer Science, Darren and I have spent most of our uni life grinding and studying. However, it has made us wonder if we are genuinely making the most out of our study time as we can often find ourselves distracted by our smart devices or getting thrown weekly assignments (that never seem to end).

We experimented with different study and project management techniques during the semester to solve our itch, such as keeping up with a Kanban-style to-do list and time-tracking how long each homework assignment takes. In addition, we wanted to track better how we performed daily to analyze whether or not we were studying effectively.

Despite seeing improvement in our study habits, we also realized that our workflow for recording our daily tasks was quite repetitive, and we used multiple applications in this process. This realization led wanting to create a web application that solves our problem and hope that it may potentially help other Gen Z students.

We would love to tap on your experience from web development to product design to create a meaningful solution. In addition, we believe that your experience building impactful solutions would make you a great mentor for our team.

-Wesley

Team Name: Project Flow
Team Members: Wesley & Darren
Email: wesley@u.nus.edu
Telegram: @WesleyBLDC
HP: 93282585

Your materials:

Proposal + Poster + Video

Team Particulars

• Team Name: JavaBean
• Student Name: Kang Wenhan & Ng Shi Jun
• Contact Methods:
  • Telegram: @onepersonhere & @ngshijun
  • Email: e0725524@u.nus.edu & e0902021@u.nus.edu

Project Materials

• Poster
• Video
• Proposal

Personalised Message

Hello Candie,
We are Team JavaBean. What we are doing for this Summer is to create a pixel perfect, Open-World RPG Style Game that utilises NoSQL Cloud database - Firebase for a virtual trading platform. Throughout last semester, we have been incessantly brainstorming our lore and what the game would be like, I hope our proposal would pique your interest in mentoring our team.

We are highly driven by our ambition to bring what we could've only dreamed of a few months ago into reality. We wanted to share with the world our story in a beautiful package in the form of a game:

Even though we only have 2.5 months, we would like to work on an area that is trending the most in the tech community - blockchain, so that we can better understand how these things work. This is why we are challenging ourselves by ambitiously infusing NFT with all the in-game assets! Despite our previous experiences in creating other projects, we are still 2 Y1 CS students, thus we lacked the direction in adhering to and implementing good software engineering skills and principles, especially in the testing department. We are also not well-versed in UI/UX design. This is why we look forward to your guidance in helping our team to reach our potential and to make this game a success!

Thank you!
Team JavaBean.

Team Name: Focat (5001)

Team Members:

• Chia Yun Rong (Email: e0726950@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @yunrong)

• Lim Jia Yi Venus (Email: e0775653@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @veenuuus)

Links to the project materials:

• Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GDfFBNrUYy3IuH3pB8bSEEHW1q3riLqC/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116269155430985968699&rtpof=true&sd=true

• Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vdZ7aGngZ0KxI86qr9NWiPJacvyxbDe/view?usp=sharing

• Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TGBXktSJMU_t8y5HA2QlCAqS_8dgSNUG/view?usp=sharing

Hello Candiie!

We are Venus and Yun Rong from Team Focat, Year 1 Computer Science students who are passionate about software engineering and building reliable and scalable mobile apps. Our project is a productivity mobile app, inspired by a similar one called Forest. As users of Forest ourselves, we have discovered many flaws which we aim to fix with Focat and to further develop features that we wished Forest had. We also aim to publish our app on the app store after Orbital to hopefully provide students with a better productivity mobile app to use.

As it would be our first time working on a mobile app development project at such scale, we hope to be able to leverage upon your experience as a software engineer turned product designer to guide us both in our code and especially in our UX/UI which we think is arguably as important as the code itself! :p

Looking forward to learning from you and thank you for your time!

Best Regards,
Venus and Yun Rong

Team Name: Telekinesis Gloves
Members: Chun Yu, Ian Teng
Contact:
Telegram - @chunyulam @Iantensoku
Email - e0725716@u.nus.edu e0773862@u.nus.edu
Project Materials - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17BSJtu0srbWxCK6xOV0LtptBCLvwcapV?usp=sharing

Hi Ms Chuan Wei,

Hope this finds you well! Our project, Telekinesis Gloves is a unique idea of ours to build a glove that is able to help users control electronic devices around them using gestures. While we both have some experiences in the possible technologies we are building, we are also trying our new hardware sensors and software ideas that we are unfamiliar as we want to challenge ourselves to go out of our comfort zone. It is an interesting idea that we came up with that we found not out of a problem in our everyday lives, but purely out of interest, and it was something both of thought would be genuinely fun, challenging and really cool to build.

As our project is quite unorthodox and unique compared to other projects, we felt that your call to look for teams who wanted to build something fun out of passion, and to be creative, challenging and ambitious really resonated with us, and we would love if you would be willing to mentor us in our project.

Feel free to reach out to us if you have any queries, we would love to answer them, at @chunyulam or @Iantensoku on telegram!

Team name: Bandersnatch
Team members: Sun Ruoxin (e0735358@u.nus.edu) & Wang Xinyi (e0817822@u.nus.edu)
Materials: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yIpk3OD_jUfyK2usrvP1GFNPykxmMOaf?usp=sharing

Hello Candiie,

We are a team working on a pixel art interactive visual novel that tells the story of a college student doing a game development project. Our game consists of non-linear gameplay, and the game’s plotline is influenced by the decisions that the player makes.

The main idea of our game is that even though we may regret the decisions we made in the past it is also these choices that made us who we are today. We want the players to be able to understand the message that we want to convey through playing our game as well as developing one of their own inside our game. This idea originates from the interactive movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. We have also played several games with a similar concept, such as Life is Strange, Detroit: Become Human, Emily is Away and Needy Streamer Overdose. These games inspire us for some of the features that we are going to make.

Your interest in game design and interactive storytelling aligns with our project's idea so we believe that your guidance will be strongly relevant to the development of our game. We genuinely hope that we can have this opportunity to learn from you so please do consider our team.

Feel free to contact any of us and we look forward to hearing from you. Thank you!

Our Team

Team: Precognition (5224)

Members:

Chen Ruihan (Y1 CS)

• Email: chen_ruihan@u.nus.edu
• GitHub: @rui-han-crh
• Telegram: @rui_han_crh

Colin Toh (Y1 CS)

• Email: colin.toh@u.nus.edu
• Telegram: @cowlin

Project Materials:

• Poster: https://tinyurl.com/5224-poster
• Video: https://tinyurl.com/5224-video
• Proposal: https://tinyurl.com/proposal-5224

Summary:

We are making a game about an insurgency set in a dystopian sci-fi future where artificial intelligence has completely taken over governance and human resource allocation.

Personalised Message:

Hi Candiie! We’re looking to create an isometric tile-based game, inspired by similar titles such as Final Fantasy Tactics, as well as turn based strategy games like X-COM.

We understand that one of the areas you're looking to provide guidance in is game development. Specifically, we are particularly motivated in ensuring good UX/UI design of both our combat system and our dialogue system. We were inspired particularly by the incredible UI of other character-driven games, such as Persona 5, and we understand it's importance in making or breaking the whole experience of the player. As with all game development projects, there are a lot of moving parts (e.g: Sprite generation, music design, script writing), and we could use some guidance in the planning and testing phases!

A draft of our story can be obtained here, https://tinyurl.com/story-orbital. We are open to adapting the storylines in the future. We'd describe ourselves as a passionate and fun-loving team, and we hope you'll consider us to be your mentees xD

Team Name: StuBid

Student names:
Bransome Tan Yi Hao (e0726931@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @brannn99)
Anshumaan Tyagi (e0866249@u.nus.edu, Telegram: @a_tgi)

Materials:
Proposal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fVE8FFNoI2J-sIPS9SXGie7d7_dQdOA5/view?usp=sharing
Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gj_dEHWjO2VDzqggzhYuGLluOrxK9GNX/view?usp=sharing
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KqJ_6iyjLgU58QEkspPhcmlIXo-MkWWs/view?usp=sharing

Hello Candiie,

We are StuBid (Year 1 CS and IS Students), also known as ‘Student Bidders’ who aims to innovate a one-stop mobile application (Similar to trading marketplace like Carousell) to allow students from all Singapore Universities to conveniently buy or sell unwanted items online through an anonymous bidding system.

The main theme of StuBid is ‘Anonymity’ which allows students to maintain their privacy and confidentiality, before/during the bidding process. Sellers can auction off their items to potential buyers, while buyers can submit their bid according to their preferred budget. When the final bid is accepted between the Seller and Buyer (Winning Bidder), the ‘Anonymity’ profile by both students will be released to each other (Contact details/information etc) where further transaction can take place.

Moreover, we realise that there is currently no online platform catered specifically for students in NUS or other universities to be able to buy/sell unwanted items. Therefore, StuBid not only serves as a marketplace for students, but also provide much needed convenience, assurance and freedom for students who wish to sell/buy items on an online platform.

We are highly motivated and hardworking individuals who have good interest in mobile development and other related applications. While we lack experience in software development, we are willing to put in our utmost effort to learn along the way. We wish to create a holistic and scalable application that can make a positive impact, as well as meeting the needs of our users. Our main goal is to learn something new, develop something cool, as well as having a fun, meaningful and memorable time together throughout the programme.

Feel free to contact us if our project resonates with you and we would be happy to schedule a call with you to discuss further.

Thank you and have a great day ahead!

Bransome and Anshumaan

Team Name: Bored James
Student Name: Woo Wen Jun + Marcus Ong Qin Yuan
Email: woowenjun99@gmail.com / marcus.ong.qy@gmail.com
Telegram: Peaches92 / marcus_ong_qy

A glimpse into our project

A message for you

Hello Candiie, before we make our introduction, we would like to extend our warmest welcome to you for joining onboard the Mentoring Team for Orbital 2022. We hope that you have a great time here.

In today's age and society, while video games has replaced much of physical board and card games, we hope to develop a platform to enable tabletop game players and enthusiasts to freely rent and buy/sell their physical tabletop games. Our platform would also feature a community section that allows users to explore and connect with tabletop players and interest groups around them physically, and feature regular events for users to participate.

The following tech stack will be used for this project:

1) Mobile Development (By Wen Jun)
Flutter

2) Web Development (By Marcus)
React/Redux
TypeScript
React Testing Library/Jest

3) Backend Development (By Wen Jun)
ExpressJS (Server) / Cloud Function or AWS (Serverless)
Auth: Firebase
Database: Firebase / MongoDB
File Storage: Firebase Cloud Storage / AWS S3

We believe we can leverage on your expertise in both UI/UX and experience design and Software Engineering to create a comprehensive product.

We have prior experience in both front- and back-end web development through our Hall's Developers CCA, where we create a web app for our hall to facilitate residents' lives. While we believe we have the foundational technical skills for our project, we would desire having mentorship on the other aspects of software development, especially UI/UX, design and the Product Scope, as we recognise that good designs, UI/UX and product scopes are equally important than the technical/code aspects of web and app development, since applications and websites are ultimately designed for use by people.

Therefore, by leveraging on your expertise and mentorship, we believe that we can maximise our technical capabilities and create the most value out of our project.

The 100 Club - A Validated Concept with 20+ Interested Student Founders

Hi Chuan Wei, thank you for volunteering to be part of Orbital. We believe your skillsets + prior experiences as a Product Designer + Software Engineer + ex-Mentor, would make a great fit for our team, and we would love the opportunity to work together + learn from you. We’ve got a proven, validated concept, and a motivated team that will ensure strong initiative + planning frameworks to reduce any operational concerns on your end.

Entrepreneurship is difficult - it’s lonely, it’s tough to hold yourself accountable, and it’s not easy to explore uncharted territories. That is why our team is currently building The 100 Club, which is a mastermind membership platform + community, that matches entrepreneurial individuals into groups of 4, in order for them to support each other in staying accountable, sharing advice, and networking to grow their business.

Membership platform features include:
• Membership system
• Directory of Customisable User Profiles with Search Functionality
• Swag Store with Credits
• Mentorship access for chats
• Content Library

It is an idea that we are going to expand/commercialise in the future and we have already found traction with over 20+ student founders keen on joining us. Feel free to check out our material below! We hope you consider our proposal favourably and look forward to hearing from you. Cheers.

Pitch: https://bit.ly/The100ClubVideo
Landing Page (WIP): https://the100club.netlify.app/
Poster: https://bit.ly/The100ClubPoster
Proposal: https://bit.ly/The100ClubBrief
MVP / Telegram Group: https://t.me/JoinThe100Club
Old Blog Post: https://www.simplysean.co/lightspeed/

Team Name: Glazier
Names: Sean Tan & Shawn Kok
Email Contact: st.seantan@u.nus.edu
Telegram Contact: @MrRaincloud