Carbon Garden

Carbon Garden combines interactive gaming and eco-friendly habits to engage the user with this adorable garden app.

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Inspiration

Recent natural disasters are evidence to the destructive consequences of human consumption and disregard. Our team, KK/JK, has created a website to bring awareness to your everyday effects on the environment. By using the format of a fun game with competitive elements, we hope to encourage users to be more mindful of the ways their daily habits may harm the environment.

What it does

Each user will create a profile and log in. Once a day, the user will take a quiz asking them about which environmentally-friendly practices he or she followed that day. The more “eco-friendly” the user is that particular day, the more points he or she receives. For the number of points collected, the user’s virtual garden will grow that number of flowers. Once the user submits his or her score for the day, the user can explore our other pages such as the 'Leaderboard', to compare his or her performance for the day to the top five scores or 'My Profile' to view their stats or change their name or hometown.

How we built it

We used Google App Engine with Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Challenges we ran into

We had difficulty using Javascript to animate the flowers and with maintaining the score tally across multiple javascript/html files. It was also difficult to get the log in system working properly.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud that we managed to create an interactive website that depends heavily on and successfully handles user input. We also tried to make the website simple to use while having a multi-faceted interface.

What we learned

We each learned at least one new programming language and how to program in the context of web development.

What's next for Carbon Garden

In the future, we hope to add to the community by enabling users to add each other as friends and create a second friend leaderboard to foster healthy competition on a smaller scale, as the actions that the website/game asks people to perform are also small-scale.

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