Inspiration
Our inspiration was the real-world scenario of refugees fleeing Ukraine into the EU after Russia’s invasion in 2022. Our aim was to design an app that would practically address their needs in such a situation.
What it does
The app connects refugees with support services on the ground once they enter a safe territory. They receive specific information about where to go to receive supplies, and what items the support service team still has in their inventory, to ensure they don’t leave empty handed.
How we built it
The app is designed to not require the refugee users to register for an account. The information they require is publicly available. We designed a registration and login system for support service providers to enable them to list the details of their support facilities and to easily update stock levels in their inventories.
Challenges we ran into
Initially, we designed the app to use a Google API key to connect address input data to real-world location coordinates on Google Maps. Fully incorporating this into our app exceeded the time and capacity available, so to ensure a timely submission, we used Open Street Map and entered dummy locations for demonstration.
Accomplishments we’re proud of
All members of the team are first-year CS students. We all had much to learn about coding backend, frontend, database, etc. The 2024 Codebrew helped us consolidate our skills in app development.
We are proud that we were able to achieve a demo product that provided enough functionality to show our intended product.
What’s next for aidLINK
To complete the product’s development, we will need to continue connecting the frontend and backend for seamless integration, re-introduce the Google Maps functionality using the API key, and more testing to ensure that the app works under a variety of different conditions.
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