-
The save-power screen of our app. User is asked to report their daily use on AC, which affects the "virtual" tree planting on 2nd screen.
-
An example of forest they contributed.
-
An example of forest they contributed in dark mode.
Inspiration
How can we engage everyone in sustainability efforts when the efforts we make on our own seem to make only a small impact? We want to help people see that they're not alone in their efforts and their concern for green earth, and it's out of this reason that we decided to develop a tree app, or if you will, a forest app, where people in a community can see their trees planted together, a colorful and powerful picture of their kind hopes for green earth.
What it does
We allow users to create their account and then start recording their every day contributions to sustainability efforts. Users can input their steps per day, their air conditioner usage per day etc. For each certain amount of steps we reward users with a beautiful tree that visually represents their contributions. We currently target our app to students at Cornell University, where they are grouped by their college and their contributions will show up as a forest on their college page in the app. We allow every college and user to see each other's progress.
How we built it
With code!
Challenges we ran into
We've had several unsuccessful attempt to use external packages, where they do not perform as expected. But we modified part of the source code to support the functionalities we need.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
All images of trees and lawns in our app are thoroughly designed and drawn by a talented team member.
What we learned
The spirit of team work! Yay!
What's next for Big Red Tree
- We plan on implementing incorporation with Apple Home, where our app can receive data from Apple Home and plant trees without users having to manually control it.
- We want to extend the user body to all university students and allow forests at the university level. In fact, we can allow user-defined communities to engage with each other and provide more freedom for interested users.
Log in or sign up for Devpost to join the conversation.