The En#Megical team uses Azure SQL Server for storing and managing the users' depression scores and uses Azure Cognitive Services to run text sentiment analysis over the users' answers to daily questions. The result of their efforts is Megical, an app that starts out by administering standardized depression questionnaires to its users. The team set out to find a digital medical solution to these challenges. Not only can that be daunting, but in some cases distance and cost further inhibit people from getting the care that they need. In fact, there are so many new cases that South Koreans have nicknamed the phenomenon "Corona Blue." Despite an increased awareness of mental health and how Covid-19 can exacerbate conditions like depression, it is still difficult to seek treatment for mental health-as En#Megical noted, treatment for depression there often requires a hospital visit or extended stay. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused an increase in the number of South Koreans suffering from depression. Their positive experiences with the club, and their shared desire to use technology to achieve a positive global impact, are what brought them together for this year's competition. They participated in the university's programming club, en#, which has a long history of competing in Imagine Cup. Twenty-year-old Nayoung Koo, and Hyeonuk Kim and Hyunjin Jo (both 24), met at Sejong University in Seoul, South Korea in 2021. We hope that people all over the world will have a day full of laughter because of our games."
Team Makara Tech created a mobile game that guides stroke victims through rehabilitation exercises to aid with recovery. Team En#Megical created a mental health app that leverages six types of games, in addition to guided meditation and other mental exercises, to help people struggling with depression. This year, two Imagine Cup World Finalist teams decided to lean into the benefits of gaming and focused their projects on improving mental and physical health through games. As students have attended school in new and unprecedented ways the past two years, many have found playing games a comforting way to relax, have fun, and stay connect with friends and family safely.
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