For USC's AthenaHacks hackathon, I worked in a team of four to develop USC SOS, a service that provides users with a hub of various emergency contacts at USC at their fingertips. USC is located near South Los Angeles, Inglewood, and Watts— cities known for their high crime and gang rates. While USC offers various services to students who may encounter emergencies off campus, in a life or death situation, it can be hard to quickly find the right person to call for help. USC SOS makes it easy to get connected quickly by providing a place for all important emergency contacts at just a click or call away.

I worked on developing the flow control and voice functions of our application using Twilio Console Studio, using interactions such as split based on dial or speech and connect call to. We linked our Twilio flow chart to our mobile user interface using React-Native and published the application through the Expo-CLI framework.

As a first-time hacker, I found the experience to be both challenging and incredibly rewarding. It was fun to work with friends and leverage each of our unique abilities to produce a tangible, working result in just 24 hours!