Maryland+Matters+Proposal

= __**Maryland Matters**__ =

Tammy Tran (ttran125@umd.edu) Ian King (iking@terpmail.umd.edu) Taylor Lovett (admin@taylorlovett.com) Rahul Monga (rahulm5000@gmail.com)

Communication between Maryland students is inefficient when it comes to gathering opinions on people's experiences on various topics. For example, if you want to know other students' opinions about a class they took or a restaurant, etc. there is no direct way to access that information. Unlike online survey providers (i.e. SurveyMonkey.com, Yelp.com) our project will be able to provide users with opinions directly from your fellow Maryland students by enabling a student to post questions about classes, interests, campus life, etc. that other students can vote on. The main idea behind our project is to give Maryland students a way to access personal opinions from people who matter without having to know other UMD students personally.
 * Proposal **

Our target users are young adults, in the 18 to 22 year old range, that are students at the university of Maryland. Currently, there is no efficient way to ask questions and get responses from a large student population. Our project is set out to change that; we feel that students will embrace this and use this as a medium to communicate with other students about topics they care about in their day to day activities.