Are You Smarter Than A Hacker?

Inspiration:

We were inspired by the openness of the category and our freedom to implement the tool however we liked. It was also somewhat easier since there were only 2 of us to manage.

What it does

Our GUI is designed to be a post-lesson review tool to check understanding of fraud and detecting phishing/scam emails.

How we built it

We split the work into training and coding. Allie wrote out the Python for the GUI and navigation, and Izzy wrote the fake emails and the reference guide as well as made the presentation.

Challenges we ran into

We chose not to use AI assistance in our project, so that is automatically a challenge since neither of us knew anything about creating GUIs in VSCode. Creating custom explanations was difficult due to the way we chose to structure our separate windows, and trial-and-error of getting that to work ate up a lot of our time. Thankfully, it worked out, but it did take up time we could have used to make further refinements.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This is both of our first times actually building a GUI interface instead of a command line so there was a bit of a learning curve, but we were able to get through it.

What we learned

We learned a lot about the tkinter Python package, which was what we used in order to open the GUI in a separate window and not just a command line. We also refreshed ourselves on general fraud prevention strategies while building the lesson.