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Inspiration
Our inspiration was the resilience and kind-heartedness of frontline workers throughout this pandemic. As all of us have been affected by it, they have by far been hit the worst. This is our way of giving back to them and showing them how much we appreciate them.
What it does
Educates and informs
Outlets of reliable sources about COVID, as well as daily news articles pertaining to COVID updates
Positivity!
Our website encourages a supportive community, but encouraging users to leave positive messages directed to support frontline workers
Containing the virus
live COVID case tracker, as well as daily COVID news sources.
Accessibility
Easy and inviting user interface, as well as clear and concise instructions where instructions needed.
AWARENESS
Informs of the importance and significant impact that frontline workers have made, and continue to make towards our society
How we built it
We built our website with django framework, and by working together as a team to learn more about HTML and CSS, we were able to implement new functions and abilities. For example, learning how to implement COVID api's, extract data from json files, embed websites, etc.
Challenges we ran into
As we were relatively inexperienced with Django, we faced multiple roadblocks including accessing data from models, as well as linking the views.py with an html template. As we were trying to format the text or containers, we also had challenges in knowing what attribute to modify. For example, we realized that in order to manually move right, left, up, or down an object, we had to first set its position attribute to relative. As well, we also found it difficult to work on the django at the same time, as it could only run off of the console, however we solved this issue by delegating tasks and working on separate parts of the html, formatting, or coding, and accumulating/merging the files together for the final project!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are extremely proud of working together on a new framework (django and html), working through problems together and calling for long hours, to create a website that we had envisioned. It's certainly exciting to look back at all the progress we've made, all that we have learned, and the hope of giving back to our frontline workers and all they have done for us.
What we learned
Through this project, we not only learned functions and how individual languages/frameworks work especially django and html, but we also learned how to better integrate multiple languages into each other. For example, connecting an html template to django, implementing a COVID API , or connecting a json file data to django/html, and so many more.
What's next for SupportSpace
As for what's next for SupportSpace, we will definitely keep working on this project as a team to improve more functions such as implementing and learning how to implement a live counter (for Covid data), a standard news source, all in all, to improve and make the website a more accessible platform for not only to support frontline workers, but to provide accurate and live statistics.
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