SCOOBY

The US is facing an epidemic in the form of school shootings. School shootings have become common and frequently recurring events in our country. Our team plans to develop a robotic system for recognizing the sound of a gunshot called SCOOBY.

Our country has been challenged with an ongoing and escalating issue of mass shootings in schools across the United States, including Virginia Tech (33 killed in 2007), Sandy Hook Elementary (28 killed in 2012), Robb Elementary (22 killed in 2022), University of Texas-Austin (18 killed in 1966), Parkland High (17 killed in 2018), Columbine High (15 killed in 1999), Texas Santa Fe High (10 killed in 2018), Umpqua Community College (10 killed in 2015), Red Lake Senior High (10 killed in 2005), and hundreds of other schools.

Because of the above, it is important to strengthen the preventive security measures that would allow for faster and more effective response. We hope to develop a robotic system that can accurately recognize the sound, direction and location of a gunshot to prevent future deaths of students across the US.

During the regular meetings with a mentor, our team will be working on the following:

1. Designing the electrical circuit for SCOOBY
2. Designing and building SCOOBY
3. Developing C++ code to control each peripheral attached to SCOOBY
4. Collecting and plotting data
5. Conducting research about the subject matter and the physics of sounds
6. Learn about and apply machine learning model for sound recognition 
7. Writing a report
8. Prepare presentation