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We are Team 7 from Algonquin College’s Software Development course. Our project was for Bloom Therapeutic Recreation and Fitness. We created web application features and mobile application features. The features were extensions of the business’ pre-existing website. Bloom Therapeutic Recreation and Fitness is consultant-based recreation therapy business that provides therapy plans for those with limits on their physical abilities (the business advertises catering to senior citizens, wounded veterans, and those with physical or developmental disabilities). The business operates primarily through a client booking a consultant for an event or appointment, with further scheduled appointments being booked for clients requiring extended care or a follow up. The project will add members-only features to the company’s existing business website. This change will improve communication and relationships with current members, as well as encourage existing and new clients to create memberships on the website. A secondary deliverable consists of building a prototype Android mobile application to be used by clients of Bloom Therapeutic Recreation and Fitness to track and improve their mental and physical health. This project will only be a proof-of-concept and will not be designed for immediate deployment. We had to thoroughly test our applications and we learned a lot about software testing. We also learned a lot about communicating with the client and agile development in order to implement software requirements.

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This project has documented our group’s findings from a research study we conducted with Wheelchair Basketball Canada (WBC) in a case study report. The report provides a background explaining wheelchair basketball’s past, the evolution of the sport, marketing/advertising, and the target audience for Wheelchair Basketball Canada.

Our team conducted four focus group interviews. The focus groups were needed to understand the initial issues, define the problem, gather insights, and provide recommendations. The four focus groups were: WBC executives, wheelchair basketball athletes, subject matter experts (SME), and youth (18 to 30 years old).

Our case study report describes how data was collected, curated, and analyzed while providing an overview of who the research participants were and how they were recruited. Our research findings section of the report includes nine distinct themes that have been observed from all the panel discussions:

Theme 1: Positive experience with wheelchair basketball and sports
Theme 2: Sense of community
Theme 3: Engaging youth
Theme 4: Hard to find funding for Wheelchair Basketball Canada
Theme 5: Sponsors
Theme 6: Exposure and Education
Theme 7: Participant perspectives on the cost of the wheelchair
Theme 8: Inclusivity in Wheelchair Basketball
Theme 9: Wheelchair is hard to use

After discussing the findings and coming up with some insights, the report outlines a strategy for improving WBC’s awareness, outreach, and general participation. Our intervention plan involves hosting a WBC game at elementary schools with complimentary activities for kids, like meeting athletes and trying out wheelchairs. It would include two stages: planning and execution. Planning involves approaching schools and planning out the logistics of transporting the athletes and wheelchairs to the school. The execution phase involves running the event with a local grassroots-level team and a speaker who is responsible for moderating the event and teaching the kids about the sport. The team can speak about their experiences as both able-bodied and disabled athletes. Finally, this event can end with the kids trying wheelchair basketball and getting a souvenir ticket for a professional wheelchair basketball game in their area. This event can help spread the message about how wheelchair basketball is an inclusive sport that can be played by anyone.

We believe that providing a direct engagement for students to try wheelchair basketball in school at a young age can help spread awareness about the sport, decrease the stigma around playing parasports, and in turn, incentivize more people to get directly involved with the sport.

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The developed application combines the most useful and user-friendly features to create and customize a website with different features, included the selection of the website theme, content and media in the pages.

The web application is able to store the data into a database where the user information is encrypted.

Features of the website include manage the musician’s professional portfolio which includes images, music and video files in reliable and easy-to-access fashion. In addition, the app’s customers are provided with the scheduling system to book or track and make changes to scheduled performances. For instance, clients can book the performer for their personal event and get the confirmation in case the musician is available.

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The project fully functions with the abilities of purchasing, payments, navigating different items, etc.
User can buy their desire products and give feedbacks too.

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The project has been authorized by Sweatcrew. Sweatcrew is a software startup company based in Ottawa that benefits registered employees on organizing wellness plans and manage fitness account balance in form of sweatcrew’s credits. The goal of the project is to integrate a platform to extract all the up to date information from HRIS platform to be used by sweatcrew to update their database. In order to fulfill the client’s requirements, the team had been in touch with the client and had proper communication with them. Everyone in the team contributed for this project and we were able to complete our tasks within designated time.
The team had worked together keeping in mind the same aim to improve Sweatcrew’s work efficiency, reduce administration time and cost, eliminate risks and errors related to manual data entry. In addition, this team project helped us gain workplace experience and taught us about teamwork.

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Disclaimer: The logo used in poster was not made by me (Alec Kennedy), it was provided to us by the client to be used in/for the app for branding purposes.

This project is similar to something like uber, except for tutoring. You can use it to find tutors/students and agree about a place to meet to which you can then engage in your tutoring session. You are able to messages tutors/students, as well as rate them and give/receive payment within the application.

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The client Satinder Sahota approached us to create a Bi-lingual mobile first website which should be displayed in both English and Punjabi Language. The client also requested certain functionalities like newsletters, memberships, donations, events etc. which have been implemented in the product. The team consisted of 6 members and each member had their respective roles in the development of the project. The main users of this product are the members/volunteers and the BOD. As a solution to this project we started developing the website and the software used for the development of the website is WordPress and to further implement the functionalities asked by the client we have used certain plugins like Event Manager, newsletter, Elementor etc. This is a standalone system so there are no adjacent systems or dependencies. By taking this project we all have gained new knowledge of WordPress and web development and are confident in working on projects from now on. The website was developed locally and then later migrated to a hosting server. The hosting service we used was Rebel which operates within Canada. All rules and regulations have been followed during the making of this project. Since the client has asked for a responsive website the website is tested to run flawlessly in Mobile view and Tablet view. Overall this was a great experience to know hands on what a work environment feels like.

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In January 2020, the City of Ottawa declared a housing and homelessness emergency. Immediately following the announcement COVID-19 reached the pandemic level, leaving the already vulnerable homeless and precariously housed populations to experiencing greater challenges.

Through our partnership with the Alliance to End Homelessness, the Victimology Research Centre’s new project is studying the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on homeless populations in Ottawa through a service provider lens. The COVID-19 and Systematic Responses to Homelessness project is examining how the global pandemic has affected system responses to homelessness, the potential gaps and barriers that are being experienced by homeless people, and what innovations in service provision are being developed to adapt to the pandemic.

The project is comprised of two phases. In phase 1, qualitative interviews are completed for data collection purposes. The focus of phase 1 is system mapping and preliminary data collection which will be done through online and telephone interviews with service providers.
In phase 2, the project will move forward with ethics approval for additional data collection through surveys, focus groups, and interviews with service providers and people with lived experience.

From this project, two products will be made. The first is a COVID-19 Housing & Homelessness Sector Map which will outline the challenges and opportunities experienced by homeless people in Ottawa during the pandemic. The second is a report to the City of Ottawa, measuring the response of COVID-19 in the homeless sector.

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Drivemada allows users on the Caremada application to request a ride from a service provider to assist them with their needs. Clients on the Caremada application can choose which type of vehicle size best suits their needs.The service provider will get a ride request on the Drivemada stand-alone application to accept the request. Once the request is picked up from the driver, the Caremada application will show the driver heading towards there designated pick-up location with the estimated time displayed on the screen, similar to Uber. Drivers’ can view their past ride and see their payments.

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The goal of this project is to deliver a program that facilitates classroom booking in alignment with teachers’ schedules, where program administrators can manage class and professors’ information and obtain reports based on varying specifications.

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