Team Weapon Watch

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2025
University of Maryland, College Park
School Safety Xperience

See the threat. Stop the threat.

Weapon Watch turned a school's existing cameras into an always-on safety layer that detects firearms, verifies the threat through a secondary check, and instantly notifies police, staff, and students. Once a threat is confirmed, the system tracks the attacker across cameras and live-updates first responders with their location on a floor plan. It's a comprehensive, unintrusive alternative to metal detectors and guards, at a fraction of the cost.

Impact

<$780/camera/year

Whole-campus coverage for a fraction of one guard's cost. Versus ~$50,000/year per security guard or $5,000–$10,000 per metal detector. A school can protect every entry point for a fraction of legacy spending.

4 of 4 capabilities covered

The solution that closes the full loop. Automatic alerts, instant weapon detection, multi-step notification system, and geospatial tracking, where every industry competitor misses at least one.

$6.21 per incident

Live attacker tracking that arms first responders. Floor-plan mapping continuously updates police on the attacker's position at minimal per-event cost.

What's next?

Weapon Watch team members have gone on to strong destinations including NVIDIA, Goldman Sachs, Northrop Grumman, NASA, Bloomberg, and Roblox, with several crediting the experience for sharpening their leadership, technical, and startup-building skills. Standouts include Grace Cai (NVIDIA), Josefine Liau (Goldman Sachs), Joey Lee (Norden Labs), and Kevin Eguida (NASA), who described the team as "reaching something big here at xFoundry."

Members

Hear directly from the students who built, tested, and launched real-world solutions through the program.

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