Bibligo

Inspiration

According to UNICEF, a quarter of children in developing nations have never heard a bedtime story. In areas rife with conflict, violence, and disease, parents often don’t have the time to spend with their children. Studies have shown that reading, writing, drawing, and playing with a child is crucial to his/her social, emotional, and cognitive development. While promoting the importance of reading, Bibliogo also hopes to facilitate cultural awareness, by exposing children to stories from across the globe and enabling them to expand their horizons and deepen their understandings of other ways of life.

What it does

Aimed at children ages 8-12. Click on a continent on an interactive map, and view folktales and stories from around the world.

How we built it

HTML, CSS, JSON parsing, JavaScript

Challenges we ran into

Connecting the domain name (bibligo.net), left-align nav bar without messing up the rest of the main view

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First hackathon for all of us! + interactive map, hand-drawn illustrations, parsing from a site to collect stories and origins

What we learned

How to build a website from scratch, teamwork!, play to peoples' strengths as individuals, how to extract data from a website, how to create an interactive image, user experience & design

What's next for Bibligo

Expand story database, The ability to make profiles, Have a point system for each story read, Avatars, Video stories, Add stories of real-life kids, Donations