Cut to the Case

Cut to the Case (CTTC) is a nonprofit organization started by two UIUC Engineering students who met through a nonprofit startup aimed at increasing interest in STEM among young girls called MakerGirl. After getting accepted into iVenture Accelerator and doing summer research, Premika and Kendall decided to tackle the issue of sexual assault. CTTC’s goal is to increase reporting and eventually increase prosecution through a rape kit tracking system. Currently Premika and Kendall are working on customer research

Students that don't feel safe

93.9%

Never used Safewalks/Saferides

77.6%

Ranks UIUC's safety below 3

45%

Problem

Cut to the Case is a UIUC based non-profit started by two UIUC Engineering students whose initial mission was to help victims of sexual assault. Now, Cut to the Case has expanded their focus into tackling public safety with the hopes of improving the safety of all students on campus

Solution

Cut to the Case is a UIUC based non-profit started by two UIUC Engineering students whose initial mission was to help victims of sexual assault. Now, Cut to the Case has expanded their focus into tackling public safety with the hopes of improving the safety of all students on campus

We want to educate students about what’s around them. If we give them the information they need about what’s around campus, they will be better prepared to make decisions on how they should get home. From our research, we discovered that many students value knowing about where emergency phones, open businesses, lighting, past crimes, and other people are. For the app, we focused on giving students information about open businesses, emergency phones, police stations, street lights, bus stops, and past crimes are.

Main Features

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We talked to a couple of people about developing about Cut to the Case, but a lot of them didn’t have the same passion that Hack4Impact had for the project. Hack4Impact had enthusiasm for what we were doing.
Premika Pandian, Cut to the Case Co-Founder and CTO