Inspiration
With fans and AC blaring in my house, the thoughts racing in my mind whether I should go outside or not and just sat there and though, I know the weather, but I don't know anything about myself or the weather to do something about it! I realized a problem at hand. Everywhere in the world we have this, what I like to call it, a heat barrier. The heat affects not only affects our body, but more importantly the environment around us and it can become dangerous if we don't do anything about it.
What it does
TechSustain is a website where users can, on the home page, look at how the environment around them is being affect. It also displays a list of actionable items the user can do help prevent that. I use your general locations around the world and users can click on their location from a map and view things they can do to help promote sustainability and their environment.
How we built it
I built this website using APIs, JavaScript, HTML, css, and python
Challenges we ran into
Getting the APIs to work was the biggest challenge I faced. To display the map and for it to be clickable in this format was a nightmare to work on in such a short amount of time. I spent night and day on this project so I hope it shows in the project!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I am extremely proud to have created a function website where all elements work. The get it to all come together with so many different parts that can go wrong especially with the map, I was nice when it all finally blended and created one cohesive website.
What we learned
I learned so much about APIs as it was my first time using them and was awesome to see how I can use that to solve a problem so many of us face everyday. APIs were the newest for me, but also using JavaScript to level that I did was also a major learning in this project. I worked absolutely extremely hard on this project to make it an app that can break barriers and is something that would help us with our daily lives when it's really hot or in the summer.
What's next for TechSustain
TechSustain is going to keep make modifications and improvements as it was given such short time to really show what it can do. Add other helpful features such as what your community can doe is the direction it is headed in!
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