ITAC Cohort 3

We are so excited to share the results of our internship team’s final week.  All four internship teams for Atrium, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, and Lowes rose to the occasion to deliver some incredible results in just three short weeks.  The internship teams created some incredible and functional software applications to meet the challenges posed by their sponsors.  The videos below show the live demo that each team created and presented at the ITAC final event on Wednesday April 20 at the esports arena, followed by an esports tournament pitting the internship companies against each other in Rocket League.

Internship results

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Lowes Interns

Lowes interns code AR app in 3 weeks during ITAC Cohort 3

“When I was a kid, me and my father wanted to build cornhole boards. He assured me he knew what he was doing and told me everything was 100% fine. But what he didn’t tell me was that he didn’t plan it out enough and we had to go back to Lowes quite a few times for screws, tools, and other things he forgot. The Lowe’s ARX app is here to change that!”  The Lowes internship team created an astonishing Augmented Reality App that lets the user prototype a project virtually using the Lowes inventory and then order the parts online.

Atrium Health Interns

The growing mental health crisis is exacerbated in rural and underserved communities.  In order to make mental health therapy more accessible, the Atrium Health internship team created a Virtual Reality application which lets mental health providers meet in a fun and engaging space online.  Especially in pediatric mental health, virtual reality visits have shown to be more engaging and productive than visits via zoom. 

Atrium interns build VR environment in 3 weeks during ITAC Cohort 3

Coca Cola Interns

In order to increase and incentivize the recycling of plastic bottles, the coca cola internship team created an android and iPhone app that integrates with our partners at Envision Charlotte to scan a QR code and track each user’s recycling individually.  This helps give user feedback and create a more pure and profitable recycling experience. The additional savings are passed on to the user through a reward system integrated with third-party stores and videogames, where the more clean and profitable material the user recycles, the more points they can cash in.

Coca Cola interns build & gamify a new app for recycling in 3 weeks during ITAC Cohort 3

Wells Fargo Interns

Wells Fargo interns build & gamify a Gen Z app in 3 weeks during ITAC Cohort 3

The problem statement posed by Wells Fargo was how to better engage Gen-Z with banking and teach financial literacy.  The Wells Fargo internship team created a web application that incentivises new signups with Wells Fargo through exclusive partnerships with Call of Duty -Activision, Minecraft – Microsoft, and SNKRS – Nike.  The app also uses a stock trading simulator, known as paper trading, and a gamification model to make trading more competitive.  This could eventually lead to a custodial trading account with a parent or guardian. 

Esports results

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Rocket League tournament recap video

Match 1 Lowes vs Wells Fargo

Match 2 Coca-Cola vs Atrium Health

Match 3 Lowes vs Coca-Cola, with team Lowes coming out as the champions.