WorldBrain is a Chrome extension which allows you to full-page search your bookmarked sites. This helps researchers organise their sources and allow them to access the information they use more quickly.
The project mission is to help researchers save time and energy and to preserve scientific integrity. In our current world of post-truth, alternative facts, echo-chambers and misinformation.
In 2017 Team ImpactDevs built a notification center for admins to push updates to WorldBrain users using React, PouchDB, Mongo and Node.
ScienceMotions is a free, not-for-profit open source application to learn the concepts of high-school level science through animation. Scientific theories are about how shapes move in space, so we believe animation is the best way to explain them.
ScienceMotions goals:
Vanessa Ho is Node developer, water technology expert and start-up enthusiast that originally hails from Waterloo, Canada. She is passionate about developing ideas and businesses that have a social impact mission. Since starting her career as a consultant on water and sanitation projects in the South Pacific, Canada and the Netherlands. She has also worked as business analyst and technology project manager for WatrHub, a startup that uses open source data to encourage more transparency and efficiency in the water industry.
In her free time, Vanessa's passion is working with and mentoring startups with a social impact. This includes Pinkfolio, a company that encourages increased financial literacy for young women, and Susteq, a Dutch water technology company that is testing models for water delivery in rural African communities.
At the same time, she has become fascinated with coding and increasingly involved in Amsterdam's community for women in technology. After coding on her own for the past 6 months, she has decided to take the plunge and attend a full stack developer workshop to truly build her skills as a developer. That's why she's so excited about Rails Girls Summer of Code - an opportunity to build on her junior developer skills and contribute to an open source project that can truly have in impact in the sustainability and IoT industries.
Jessica is a React developer and has a background in elearning and edtech, as a project manager and designer. She started working at an edtech startup in 2013, fell in love with coding and started teaching herself online. She also founded Women and Technology - a Cambridge-based group aiming to encourage women to get involved in web development, started a Cambridge Codebar chapter and a South London workshop with Founders and Coders.
Interested in design which explains complicated information in a simple way, she has also completed freelance projects for social impact - a graphic novel about Schizophrenia with funding from the Arts Council UK, animations for award-winning film about kids living with HIV, Words That Echo and Guardian illustrations for a piece about FGM.
