Carbon Emissions Reduction Program

Today, reducing carbon emissions is a big deal. However, people try to convince individuals to change their ways; instead, we wanted to create a site where people can see how their community is doing.

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Inspiration

Facebook and our love for the environment.

What it does

It calculates the carbon footprint and compares it to the community. It also allows those to post volunteering opportunities for others to see.

How we built it

Held by a Flask Backend, we implemented javascript objects and html and css for the front-end, the UI implements concepts such as the Golden Ratio and white space.

Challenges we ran into

Javascript was a new subject for a lot of us. However, we took it upon ourselves to learn complex graphs and object oriented programming. One particular challenge was databases in Javascript. It was a new subject for all of us and we spent too much time trying to learn it and we couldn't implement it into our project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The beautiful graphs we created and the UI skills implemented.

What we learned

JavaScript: syntax, databasing, object oriented programming, functions; Python: Flask API; HTML: divs, parents, css design, etc.

What's next for Carbon Emissions Reduction Program

Interactive graphs and working databases allowing the user's submissions to change the graph in real time.

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