The Beginning

On the first week of school, we were introduced to Portfolio 2, where we had to choose between a few categories with different problem statements, such as 'Smart Campus Solutions" and 'Smart Mobility' and create solutions for them.

To me, the most compelling problem was 'Saving Lives in a Flu Pandemic', for a number of reasons.

Firstly, both my parents are in the medical field, with my father being a pharmacist and my mother being a nurse. I thought that if I were to have any questions about the problem statement, I would be able to consult them.

Secondly, the project was sponsored by SAP and we would have access to the SAP Cloud Technologies. This intrigued me as there were many interesting modules to fiddle around and experiment with in the Cloud Platform, such as Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence technologies. As I am interested in Artificial Intelligence, the opportunity that SAP provided to dabble in these technologies was a golden one.

Finally, I felt that in terms of how interesting of a challenge that all of the problem statements provided, this category stood out the most for me. I felt that if I were to help devise and create a potential life-saving solution, it would have the biggest impact on our lives compared to the rest of the problem statements.

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After choosing the problem statement, we were separated into our respective classrooms, where I saw that there were some of my friends that chose the same problem statement as well. We were promptly sorted into our groups soon after, and surprisingly enough I was grouped with my friends. This would work out good for us as we have worked together before and communication of ideas would be much easier.

We immediately dived into analyzing and breaking down the problem to brainstorm ideas for our project and thought of numerous ways to tackle the problem statement provided. Our main consensus was that we would focus on the distribution of vaccines, and sought to create a consolidated solution for vaccine distribution, which would be called 'Relevium', latin for 'relief'.

We then discussed our strengths and split the roles of the project. Even though I preferred to do front-end development, as I did not mind doing back-end coding as well, we split the roles like this:

- Gi Kei and Janine would focus on the front-end development

- Adwin and I would be working closely together since we have worked together on numerous projects together in the past and we would firstly be working on the database design

- Tristan would be like a middleman, helping out in both the front-end development and the back-end coding as well