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Inspiration
Growing up, Caleb saw lots of gardens in his community where people could get together and grow their own fresh foods. He always wanted to join one so that he could grow fresh food for my family and learn more about agriculture. The problem, however, was that you usually needed to know somebody who organized a community garden in order to get your own farm plot. We decided, using Caleb's story, to make Bloom in order to help people connect to their local gardens and grow roots in their community!
What it does
Bloom helps people find local community gardens and connect with them by sharing pictures and posts. Users are able to find local gardens using their zip code to search their area for gardens. After users find a local garden they can read a description of the garden and use the address of said garden to see where it is located.
How we built it
We used HTML and CSS to build the front end of our web page. The backend of our web page was built using the Python-based web framework Flask and a little bit of javascript too.
Challenges we ran into
Coming into Rose Hack 2022, some members of our team had a lot of experience in making the front end of websites with CSS and HTML but we did not know a lot about designing the backend of websites, nor did most of us know how hackathons even work! With the advice of our mentor Ryan Yang, we used the Python-based web framework Flask to develop the backend of our website. Quickly learning how to use Flask and then integrating it into our website was difficult but we learned a lot from it and it was really exciting to learn a new framework.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Coming into Rose Hack 2022, most of our group had not ever fully made a website before and did not know a lot about working on a fast-paced project. However, after 24 hours we were all able to contribute to making a website.
What we learned
Working on the Bloom website we were all able to learn new skills to help contribute to our goal of making a website. We had more knowledge working with the front end than the back end of websites, but most of us still needed to learn how to work in a fast-paced development environment. Working on the backend was almost entirely new to us so we needed to learn flask quickly in order to develop the backend of our website.
What's next for Bloom
Connecting users to their community gardens is just the start for Bloom! In the future, we hope to add more features to Bloom that will allow users to make posts in their community garden page and make pages for users to share their produce and equipment.
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