Best Main Prize - BioTech/Health - ConqueringCOVID-19

With this website, our goal is to aid people in the process of improving their mental health by helping people regain structure in their lives and improve confidence in themselves moving forward.

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Inspiration

We personally felt that very little attention has been paid towards mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is further demonstrated through the lack of funding that goes towards improving mental health compared to the funding that goes into health care. As a result, we took the initiative to develop a website that people who are struggling with mental health can use to improve their mental health, meet new people, and reduce stress.

What it does

Our website has several features that help users stay informed, involved, and prepared: Plan: Users can develop a plan for themselves to help them accomplish their goals and understand what needs to be done to accomplish these goals. Discussion: Users can talk to one another, enabling them to interact with people they don't know. Understanding COVID-19: Users can learn more about the symptoms that one experiences if they were to be infected. They can also learn about precautions they can take as well as the effectiveness of these precautions. Destress: Users can apply the de-stressing techniques from this page to relax whenever they feel too much stress or pressure. Seek Immediate Help: Finally, if someone were to need immediate help from a professional, there is a page with all the important information and hotlines that they can use.

How we built it

We first developed the webpages using html. Then, we used Python and Flask to make certain pages interactive for the user such as the discussion page and planning page. In order to develop the login and register system, we used postgreSQL and the database we used is on Heroku.

Challenges we ran into

We often ran into challenges related to the homepage, Python, and SQL. For the homepage, we wanted it to look aesthetically pleasing for the user and interesting, so we wanted to add icons that the user could interact with on this page. It was difficult to position the icons and make sure that they were in the right spot. Additionally, we facd challenges with the Python code as we often found it hard to work and display to the user the way we wanted it to.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to make a website that looks clean and professional. We are all beginners to hackathons, and we all have less than 1.5 years of coding experience, one of our members has 0 years of experience. We were glad to be able to work together and learn from one another to develop a project that we are proud of, despite the outcome.

What we learned

We learned a lot about COVID-19 and its affect on mental health. When we originally started this project, we were brainstorming ways to help people learn more about how to prevent the disease and create a system to mark certain areas as high risk, but then we found articles on how mental health across USA has been terrible, yet the US government has done very little to help mental healthcare. Additionally, we learned a lot more about HTML, CSS, Python, and SQL. We learned about different ways we could implement it effectively and efficiently.

What's next for ConqueringCOVID-19

We hope to continue developing the website and make certain pages look cleaner. We hope that we can make the website go public, so that people could use this website to improve their mental health. We plan on working on this project further in the next 2 months and make this website accessible for anyone to use.

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