Seniors Steps

Inspiration

Our project was inspired by the current state of the world and how the internet reflects it. The media tends to focus on teenagers who get stuck "doom scrolling" on their phones. However, it fails to recognize that "doom scrolling" is also a serious issue for people of all ages, including seniors. Very commonly do seniors fall into the trap that is the internet, and many fail to recognize this. Our app provides a way to acknowledge the dangers of being sedentary and introverted, pushing these dangers and providing solutions to overcome them.

What it does

Our app provides a way for seniors to input their health data, receive their statistics and what they could be in danger of, and then provide a way for them to solve it - not only by themselves but with those who suffer from the same issue.

How we built it

We initially considered making an android app, but we settled on making a website using HTML, JS, and CSS with Python for the back end using Flask.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into many challenges during this hackathon. We had little to no experience on front end, so we had to figure out how to efficiently and creatively produce a front-end product. We also had difficulties with saving user information and creating cookies on the back end, so that the user data saves between pages.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud of is our front-end. Although it isn't the greatest, we still managed to produce a decent front-end product despite not having any prior experience.

What we learned

We learned that during a hackathon, it is imperative that everyone is assigned their own roles. This time, we assigned roles to each other and were able to finish in a very good amount of time.