Cater-Wise

Inspiration

We researched common issues with school waste, including food preferences, lunchtime, and food overstock. We decided to focus on food preferences as they are tailored to student needs. Additionally, as high school students, we have firsthand experience with these issues.

What it does

Our program uses two pathways: student and administrator. The student pathway leads to a questionnaire asking about food restrictions and preferences. Once it is complete, this information is stored in the program. This leads to the admin pathway, where you can see what the students have inputted in the questionnaire. You can also make food orders according to the trends seen in the responses. However, we cannot eliminate food waste right now, so a button gives the admin access to numerous charities sorted by county.

How we built it

We built this program using VS Code. Language: Python

Challenges we ran into

When we first came up with the idea, we struggled with planning the implementation of our UI and GUI.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the functionality of our program. In a realistic setting, there is a high chance this would allow schools to purchase food efficiently, meet their students' needs, and reduce food waste.

What we learned

We learned how to utilize the framework TKINTER in python. In addition to this, we learned how to delegate our work in terms of coding.

What's next for Cater-Wise

Given more time, we want to implement better data visualization for admins. This feature would allow better representation of the raw data. In addition to this, we want to add a predicted analysis feature so we can estimate food waste reductions after the changes are made.

Built With

• python
• vs