SBU~GO-MO

SBU~GO-MO 🚀💙 Your wellness & event concierge! 🧘‍♂️ Scrapes SBEngaged, autofits events into your schedule!📅 Yoga, therapy dogs, free food? Accept, reject, refresh—No more FO-MO, just GO-MO! 😎

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SBU~GO-MO 🚀

Your personal wellness & event concierge at Stony Brook.

Inspiration

Getting involved at Stony Brook shouldn’t feel like a full-time job. With hundreds of events happening every week, students often feel overwhelmed, not knowing what’s out there, when events are happening, or how to fit them into their busy schedules.

As E-Board members, we’ve seen firsthand the gap between students interested in clubs at the Involvement Fair and the low turnout at actual events. Many organizations also struggle with unpredictable attendance, making it hard to plan effectively.

SBU~GO-MO was built to eliminate the hassle of searching for events and promote student well-being by:
💡 Automatically recommending events that match your interests.
📅 Syncing events directly to your calendar based on availability. [BETA]

💙 Encouraging mental & physical wellness through campus engagement.

At its core, this app is about wellness. It’s about reducing decision fatigue, making social life easier, and ensuring students find time to relax, connect, and thrive.

What It Does

SBU~GO-MO scrapes SBEngaged to find and recommend events tailored to you through an AI-powered prompt system. Students can:
✅ Ask for event suggestions based on their mood, interests, or needs (e.g., "I need a stress-relief event" → Yoga & therapy dogs).
✅ Auto-sync events to Google Calendar based on their availability, ensuring easy scheduling.
✅ Refine recommendations by adjusting preferences and generating new event suggestions.

To make recommendations even more personalized, we integrated a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) model using Pinecone-hosted vector embeddings, allowing students to input preferences and receive tailored event matches.

By prioritizing wellness-focused activities like meditation sessions, fitness classes, mental health workshops, and creative art events, we aim to improve student mental health and work-life balance.

How We Built It

  • Selenium for web scraping SBEngaged (since no official API exists).
  • Google Calendar API for seamless one-click event integration.
  • RAG Model + Pinecone for personalized event matching based on user preferences.
  • Frontend + UI/UX to ensure a smooth, aesthetic, and intuitive experience.

Challenges We Ran Into

  • Web scraping limitations: SBEngaged doesn’t offer an API, so scraping event data reliably was tough and slow.
  • Google Calendar API hurdles: Initial integration required deep documentation dives.
  • Bringing the idea to life: The hardest part wasn’t coding—it was realizing this feeling we all had as club leaders and turning it into something real.

Accomplishments We're Proud Of

🏆 Automating event collection despite no official API.
🏆 Successfully integrating AI recommendations with calendar sync.
🏆 Mastering RAG, Selenium, and Google API in a short time.
🏆 Developing a platform that improves student mental health and well-being.

What We Learned

Beyond the tech stack, we learned:
✨ The power of balancing work, fun, and wellness.
✨ That great ideas start from solving everyday frustrations.
✨ Hackathons test your limits, but teamwork makes all the difference.
✨ Time management is everything—especially when deadlines are tight.

What's Next for SBU~GO-MO

📌 Official SBEngaged Integration – Partnering with the university to introduce an SBEngaged API for seamless event management.
📌 Event Chat & Networking – Enabling a chat feature where students can connect with others attending the same event, making it easier to link up, make friends, and build a stronger campus community. 📌 Expanding beyond campus – Supporting off-campus and Stony Brook-sponsored events like NYC trips, Six Flags outings, and adventure sports.
📌 Enhanced wellness tracking – Encouraging a healthier student lifestyle through personalized event curation and mental health-friendly activities.
📌 Personalized RAG model integration – Making event suggestions even smarter, aesthetic, and wellness-driven by syncing only the most relevant events to students’ calendars.

At Stony Brook, academics can be intense—but student life shouldn’t be.

SBU~GO-MO is more than an event app. It’s a wellness tool, a stress reliever, and a way to help students thrive, not just survive.

🚀 Find your people. Find your balance. Find your GO-MO.

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