Trail to Tranquility

Inspiration

Trail to Tranquility is a website that helps people to cope with mental illness and improve mental and physical well being. Although there are a lot of resources in today's world to help people cope with mental wellness, a lot of people struggle with finding those resources, and this website can be very useful in that sense. Additionally, although the ever-growing stressors in our lives only create more and more mental and physics issues, these are still stigmatized topics that must be given importance.

What it does

We wanted to make this website for people like us, that need a way to mentally support themselves in their daily lives. We highlight on the need to feel connected to others, self reflecting and self improvement. We hope that our website will lead people to discover more about their mental health, and how they can improve it. As high school students in the bay area, we are surrounded by a community of academic stress and pressure, some of which we believe we can alleviate with this website.

This website provides a journal, check-ins, a quiz, and many resources for users to find out more about how they are treating themselves and how they can improve.

How we built it

We built this website with mostly html, which was the first time we ever used it. We also used javascript, css, and php for support. We used a lot of tables from html, and css for formatting. Javascript was used for randomization of the affirmation message.

Challenges we ran into

Because this was our first time with these languages, we struggled quite a bit, especially with the login in formation (we worked all night on it) but in the end we got it to work.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we learned three new languages in a day, since we had never before used javascript, css, or html ! It was difficult, but worth it! We are also very proud of how the project looks! We think it is very aesthetic (green is easy on the eyes)!

What we learned

We learned so much from this experience, including time management, hard work, and that coding is very fun with friends :)))

What's next for Trail to Tranquility

We look forward to improving the login system of trail to tranquility, and also adding more resources for users!!! We may in the future also add games to make this app more fun (like a brain break from work or studying)!