Rice Utilities description

Provides several utilities including a map of the Rice University campus, list of daily events, bus notifications, a new social app, and helpful Rice related Links

Map: Shows map of campus, building locations, class locations, points of interest, and bus locations in real time.

Happening Today: Displays a list of events happening on campus.

Bus Notifications: Notifies user when a selected bus is a quarter mile away along the bus route from a particular bus stop.

Shoutout: Allows users to post short messages that are shown on the map at their locations and to see messages that other people have posted.

Links: Various links to Rice websites that open in the app.

Rice Utilities was originally developed during the 2016 HackRice Hackathon competition by Tiffany Stuart (COMP '17), Andrew Benson (COMP '17), Karin Diamond (COMP '17), Ethan Frederic (COMP '17), and Nathan Bucki (MECH '17). Rice Utilities is still being improved upon by the creators, and is becoming a widely used application in the Rice community.