HackRU is a completely student-run event. As a part of the research and development team, I am contributing to the website and tools hackers will use to register and find resources. I am on the team building helpQ, a real-time queueing application design to faciliate mentorship.

helpQ will make mentors more accessible to hackers during the event. Previously, such as at HackRU Spring 2018, where I was a mentor, there was no centralized system for questions and concerns. Hackers had to come up to the mentor table and hope there was someone there to help. Mentors could not keep track of whose concerns were being addressed. helpQ solves many of these disconnects. It takes input from hackers, creates a ticket, and sends it to mentors, who can see all current concerns and delegate them appropriately.

Within helpQ, I am working on a Stack Exchange parser. It will return a few Stack Exchange threads relevant to the given input to the landing page after a ticket is submitted. This feature will provide the user with additional help while they wait to connect with a mentor. The aim of this feature is to further automate help so hackers can get help even more quickly and continue building instead of waiting for help.

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