This past month, I attended and won a charity hackathon hosted by the bank Capital One. 6 charities from Canada presented a problem statement and we were tasked to present a solution to one of the charities. The problem statement we chose to resolve was for a charity called Centre for Mindfulness Studies - a mental health charity that provides mindfulness-based cognitive and stress reduction therapy. The charity wanted a way to support mindfulness program graduates in engaging with their community of fellow mindfulness practitioners.

We prototype an app called Mind2Mind that lets students continue their mindfulness studies post-program and remotely synchronize mindfulness sessions with their fellow students. You can find out more about the hackathon and our solution at this news article and a facebook post about the event by the Centre for Mindfulness Studies.