Aggie Tracker

There are different dining halls on campus that each serve a variety of food. In order to help students track the macros as they dine, we have created Aggie tracker to promote health and wellbeing.

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Inspiration

The dining halls have such a variety of food that it is hard to remember the health facts for all the foods. For many students, the dining hall food makes up most of their yearly meals. Students should have a stronger view of their health as they eat at the dining hall and thus Aggie Tracker was born.

What it does

The app allows students to select their meals as they are eating and it will give them information about the nutrition of those meals. This allows students to have a clearer idea of what they are putting in their bodies and allows them to take control of their own health.

How we built it

The app uses the information web-scraped from the dining hall into a database websites in order to display the macros for each food item. This saves students the hassle of having to go to the website itself and have all the food knowledge in their pocket. The mongodb database is the backbone of the app as it holds all the information on each food item.

Challenges we ran into

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to create a fitness and health food tracker app in less than a day and we believe that many students on campus can actually see something like this as useful. There is a severe clarity of information for the food we consume on campus and we were able to create an app that gives students the power to take their health into their own hands.

What we learned

We learned how to utilize databases to store massive amounts of data and to take that data and make it useful in a way that benefits students. We also learned how to create apps on IOS and got experience working with UI design as we coded in Swift.

What's next for Aggie Tracker

The UI is not perfect for the app and it can be a lot prettier. There are also extra features we wanted to implement such as adding other schools into the system so that college students around the nation could have a one-stop location for being able to track calories without having to look all over the internet and pay for apps that do the exact same thing as Aggie Tracker.

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