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ERICA HANSON: Hi, everyone.
It's so good to see you and be here with all of you.
We are going to get started right now.
And I'm going to talk through just
what to expect for the day.
But first of all, I wanted to introduce myself.
My name is Erica Hanson, and I lead the Developer Student
Clubs program globally.
I'm so happy that you joined us today, each of you
from different countries all over the world.
I was just checking out the chat,
saw a lot of people from Pakistan and other countries.
So thank you so much for joining us from wherever you are.
For me, I'm in my home in New York.
As you can see, I have lots of plants.
I've actually hidden some of them from view.
But so happy that you're taking this time
to be here with us right now, and really
to take the time to get to know the 10 winning teams
of the 2020 Solution Challenge.
And so this is a global competition
in which students solve local problems using
Google technology.
And in this year's Solution Challenge,
we saw hundreds of project submissions
from many of you who are watching right now from all
over the world.
And even though so many were great and impactful,
we think that the top 10 really represent the immense talents
of the Developer Student Clubs that all of you
hold around the world.
So through the next 90 minutes, you'll
get to know these 10 winning teams.
We'll be reviewing their solutions.
You'll see demos.
Also, we have some Google experts joining
to ask questions as well.
And this is a live event.
So we would love for you to feel a part of it.
And one way to be a part of it is to join the live chat.
So definitely chime in.
Maybe you can say where you're based out of,
what city or country.
We'd love to see where you're from.
And so I'll be guiding you through the next 90 minutes.
And just a reminder that when the teams
are presenting their projects, please do ask questions.
And we'll-- my teammate Drew, you'll see him in there.
He'll pull in some of those questions.
So let's take a look at the agenda.
And so as I mentioned, for each session,
we're going to have a co-host.
So the first team is going to be from South Korea and Hong Kong,
joined by Kate from the Flutter team.
Then we're going to have teams from Indonesia and Zimbabwe,
joined by Anu from the Cloud AI team.
And then after that, it will be teams
from Vietnam and Pakistan.
Also, that will be with Kat from the Android team.
And then after that, we're going to be taking a--
let me share.
So as I mentioned, we have Kat, who
will be joining the team from Vietnam
and also talking to the team based in Pakistan.
We are going to have a trivia break as well.
So definitely stay tuned for that.
That's with my teammate Kyle.
So get ready to answer some questions.
After the trivia break, we're going
to be joined by teams from India and Ghana.
And so we have Todd from the Firebase team going
to ask those teams questions.
And lastly, we're going to have teams from Germany and the US.
And Laurence from the TensorFlow team
will be there to ask those teams some questions.
So really excited to see all the 10 demos.
I hope you stick around with us to watch all the teams.
And I do really encourage you to join the live chat.
So let's get started.
I want to introduce you to the first team.
And so the first team is Simhae.
They are based out of South Korea.
And their project focuses on mental health,
which is a very important topic right now.
So we're going to be joined by Kate from the Flutter
team, who's going to ask a couple questions.
So let's check out their demo.
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- Korea has the highest suicide rate among OECD members.
But why are there no suicide survivors around me?
Chungnam is the region with the highest suicide
rate in Korea for many years.
Korean services are biased toward suicide prevention.
In addition, social stigma makes suicide survivor hurt.
Communication based on empathy is the first way
to lead them to healing.
So we developed Simhae--
[SPEAKING KOREAN]
First, you must fully agree to the TOS.
After login, you can see the main page.
The story written by user flows randomly.
The phrase will give you courage in writing.
If you want to write your story, press pencil button.
You can change letters' color according to your feeling,
weather, emotion, et cetera.
Also, you can always delete and modify it in My Page.
You can check the location of survivors [INAUDIBLE]
and information about offline survivor meetings,
about dates and time, location, et cetera.
Click this button to go to the page that have collected
the online cafe links.
Additional information can be obtained via the help page.
You can get off something you want to say.
The memorial sentence disappears after a month.
Your heart will be delivered.
Please try to express your empathy by pressing Emoji.
If you have any questions, refer to the help page.
You can contact us about an inconvenience and services.
We want to start online communication of survivors.
After the time, we will hope they join offline meetings,
talk, and remember together.
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ERICA HANSON: Great.
Hi, team Simhae, from South Korea.
Thanks for joining so late.
Good to see you.
How are you doing?
JEONG YOON JOO: Good.
ERICA HANSON: Great.
And hi, Kate.
Kate's going--
KATE LOVETT: Hi, everyone.
ERICA HANSON: So happy to have you here.
Do you want to introduce yourself, Kate,
and kick it off?
KATE LOVETT: Thank you.
Yes, of course.
Thank you so much for having me.
My name is Kate Lovett.
And I am a software engineer on the Flutter team.
And I am so happy to see an app like Simhae making
an impact on my mental health.
Well done.
This is really great.
The first thing I wanted to ask you all
is how did your team come up with this idea?
YUNA KIM: At first, we looked for some problems occurring
in our local area.
There were problems such as elderly problem,
multicultural family problem, suicide problem.
In those problems, we decided to solve the high rate of suicide
matter.
Because we watched a documentary interview video about suicide
survivors by chance.
After watching this video, we got inspiration and focused
on them for our solution.
And we think most people were not interested
in psychological pain that suicide survivors felt. Also,
they have a broken heart about the fact
that ordinary people can't sympathize
with their pain and emotion.
Therefore we make our solution to make
them receive psychological treatment
and be active in society.
KATE LOVETT: I think that's so wonderful.
I mean, it just warms my heart.
I also wanted to ask you all, what
were some of the benefits of using Flutter
to build your application?
JEONG YOON JOO: To maximize the user experience,
we needed more time to improve our idea.
So we chose Flutter to reduce development time.
Besides, the Flutter is more convenient
than any other framework to organize a UI.
So we believe that the speed of Flutter
helped us to establish our ideas more firmly.
And we were able to create a dynamic and beautiful
presentation.
KATE LOVETT: That is so great.
I'm so glad to hear.
I love hearing people's experiences with Flutter,
because it just inspires me to keep
working on making it better.
ERICA HANSON: Great, Thanks so much.
Let's pull in a live question from the chat.
And I just want to encourage folks who are watching live
to continue to add any questions that you have for the team.
So we'll always take at least one question.
So let's take a look at this question.
How do you want to develop your project further in the future?
YOUNG HOON JO: So users of our solution are very sensitive.
Because of this, verbal violence must not occur in ours.
So I definitely want to add a function that automatically
classifies whether malicious comment or not
and deletes the comment.
So for example, we will make a machine learning
model for classification like a support vector machine, a Naive
Bayes, and a recurrent neural network
to extract the bad comment and delete it, yes.
ERICA HANSON: Great.
That sounds good.
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next
and checking in on your project again next year.
YOUNG HOON JO: Nice.
Yes, thank you.
YUNA KIM: Thank you so much.
KATE LOVETT: That's really great.
ERICA HANSON: Thank you so much.
It was really great talking to all of you.
We're going to head over to the next project team.
But thank you so much.
And I know it's late there, so we appreciate
that you joined us and shared your process and inspiration
for building this.
So thank you so much, and congratulations.
YOUNG HOON JO: Yes, thank you, and you're welcome.
ERICA HANSON: Good to see you.
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