What:

A grocery shopping and delivery project, served 1300+ individuals around the greater Boston area and delivered products with a total worth of over $100k in 5 months.

When:

During the 2020 Covid quarantine period.

Where:

Greater Boston area.

Why:

We were a diverse team of 5 passionate Lexington residents who wanted to serve the community during the difficult time. The idea first came when we realized that a lot of Chinese Americans (especially elders) in our community don't feel comfortable going to the grocery stores during the pademic and online delivery services (e.g. Amazon Fresh, Instacart...) are all fully booked for weeks. So we decided to take the initiative to build out a grocery delivery service for the community.

We partnered with RestaurantDepot warehouses and several local shops for products, negotiated prices, built website for product ordering and invoicing, picked up and delivered products to customers, and conducted analysis on the orders to optimize delivery routes.

After our initial project roll out in Lexington, we received a lot of positive feedback and our customers passed our names along to their friends and families around the Greater Boston area. That's when we decided to expand the service to more communities.

- Team structure: 1 web developer, 2 delivery staff, 1 logistic coordinator, 1 marketing and business coordinator.

As a Applied Psych and Computer Science double major, I have always been interested in combining the two majors to create something useful and meaningful. I created this mental health app (using Android Studio) with the goal of better track my mental state across time and explore ways to relax and be mindful. This project received the full score for its design and funtionalities in my Mobile Application Development Course. Right now I'm working on the pilot version of the app, and continuing the iteration of receiving feedback and making improvements.

Core functionalities:

1. Mental state assessment questionnaire & explanations
2. Mental state tracking overtime: mental records and graph
3. Guided meditation and relaxing music player (recorded piano songs myself)
4. Emergency room search and map
5. Additional psychology topics and resourece links