USC SOS
/ AthenaHacks

Overview

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 contact for help. USC SOS makes it easy to get connected to the right services fast at a single tap or call away.

Contributions

I worked on developing the flow control and voice functions of our application via 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.

Reflections

As a first-time hacker, I found the experience to be both challenging and incredibly rewarding. The hardest part wasn't the code; it was scoping an idea we actually cared about down to something we could ship by morning. It was fun to work with friends and leverage each of our unique abilities to produce a tangible, working result in just 24 hours!