Computer science students Jeff Huang, Sankalp Patil, Derek Williams, and Tom Nyuma took first place at Cal Hacks 10.0, a technology-focused competition hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, in late October.

Here's an excerpt from the OSU article, "Oregon State team wins top prize at Cal Hacks competition":

“We built the app for people who want to talk with other people who share similar experiences, and this would be a way to do that,” Patil said. “Traditionally, people really have to put themselves out there, which some people aren’t comfortable with.”

One advantage of the Nexus app, the team says, is that it requires very little effort for users to get connected and start talking.

“If you think about social media platforms, you have to reach out to other people,” Nyuma said. “With Nexus, you can simply create an account and we do that hard part of intelligently matching you up with others.”

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