Let's Globe

We hope to create an interactive app where people around the globe can learn about the culture and facts of other countries.

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Inspiration

We love to travel, but we hope to learn more about the authentic ways of life in each country. It allows those who are hoping to move understand better the local perspective of that country and explore their options.

What it does

Let's Globe is an educational application that provides its users with general information, photos, places to visit, residents' comments of a country they select. Users first select a country they want to learn more about on the World Map and the relevant information will be displayed. In order to comment on the residents' comments section, users will have to log in and get verified that they are in that location.

How we built it

The prototype was built largely through React, combining JavaScript, HTML and CSS files and is primarily the front end of the web application Let's Globe.

Challenges we ran into

We had a lot of trouble implementing an interactive map as none of us has any experience with that. In the end, we decided to make our minimum viable product with an input bar for users to input the countries' names instead of selecting them on the map. Although this is not ideal, we have decided that it is the best solution given the time constraints of this hackathon.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have a working viable product to present to the judges. In addition, we have also created a prototype on Figma to showcase our idea fully and what we hope our finished product would look like.

What we learned

We learned how to build a web application using React (JavaScript, HTML and CSS) completely from scratch.

What's next for Let's Globe

We hope to implement next a mobile implementation of our application in order to allow more people to access our app on the go. In addition, we hope to implement the interactive map design into our app, making it more visually appealing.

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