Inspiration
As students, we see the challenges first hand that poverty causes. We also know there is a high amount of homeless youth in Toronto. Our goal was to help reduce this, with even the smallest of actions
What it does
The application accesses your bank account and subtracts the cents in your account (i.e. if you have a balance of $34.17, 0.17 would be deducted from your account). This would then be put into an account and 100% is donated to a different charity organization every month
How we built it
This project consisted of 2 parts, the web app and the API. The web app used bootstrap (HTML, CSS & JS) to build the design and the API used Python, Flask and sqlite. The web app would use AJAX to access the user's information and display it in the app. The API would also conduct the transactions also.
Challenges we ran into
Due to the nature of our app, financial information was not readily available. As such, we decided to mock the data in order to show proof of concept. We also ran into an issue with the AJAX, which hindered our ability to fully program the API because of time.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
For the majority of us this is our first Hackathon and it was an accomplishment to even be able to finish developing an app, despite it being unfinished.
What we learned
We learned the importance of teamwork involving large scale projects like this. We also learned a lot about time management and how to mange time on large scale projects
What's next for Cents for Change
Next is to polish it and hopefully be able to make this something as widespread as uber.
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