Problem

Students face major obstacles in getting involved with student life and in collaborating with their peers at academic institutions.

Key Pain Points

• Communication silos from use of existing platforms make it hard for students to make friends outside of their social circle.
• Centralized events system prevents publishing access to over 90%+ students making it extremely difficult for students to find/host interest-based activities.
• Manual tracking of events is time consuming. Currently, students find out about events through email, instagram, university calendars etc.
• Students care about each other but without the right tools they are unable to offer support.

Solution

We are solving these problems through a single app ecosystem by building a social engagement platform on mobile and web application with safety features, specifically tailored for students.

PeerCord...

• 💪 Empowers students with tools to host and find interest based events on or off campus.
• 🏋️‍♀️Supports capabilities which allow student clubs to build a following so their followers are automatically notified of upcoming events.
• 👍 Simplifies marketing of events by allowing users to share the event on Instagram and other platforms directly from the application.
• 🔥With the deep links we provide, hosts can direct students to register for the event from any platform.
• ⛑ Student’s have a safety network of close friends who can virtually check up on the student to ensure safety during events.
• 📝At the end of the event, attendees provide a quick feedback to the host based on how the event went well and with an incident report option to the host.

Why we are focusing on Events, safety and Well-being?

• 1️⃣ Immersing into student life shouldn’t be hard.
• 2️⃣Having fun in student life should be fun and safe.
• 3️⃣Mental well-being is important and suicides can be prevented.

How do we make the difference with Community Driven Safety?

• Students add their trusted friends to their safety network.
• When a student attends an event, our system sends automated safety checks to the students and provides updates to the safety network.
• If a student needs help, our system helps the student connect with a safety contact that is closest to them.
• In case of an emergency, our system triggers notification to students closest to them even if they are not in their safety network.
• In our second phase, we will also plan to develop an AI chatbot, and using AI and Natural Language Processing, the chatbot will periodically ask questions from the student to check for well-being and for any signs of depression, anxiety and hopelessness and will connect the student to support services along with notifying their safety network to help and support.