ConnectMe

Inspiration

Every year, there are undergrad students that would spend countless hours searching surfing the web in hopes of searching for an internship that caters their interests. We as a team proposed an idea of finding an effective solution to help students connect to their skillsets to internships that they would have not known otherwise.

What it does

ConnectMe is a search engine that allows students to search up internships by simply typing a "skill" they are good at (i.e Java) and an internship will appear based on that skill

How I built it

Our web application uses reactJS and mySQL. Our team used mySQL as the database to store a list of pre-made internships matched by a specific skill as our query.

Challenges I ran into

Figuring out how to connect the SQL database to NodeJS to then render the information on the page. We are still working on the back to front-end interactions :/

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Finally getting the mySQL database to work

What I learned

Sometimes it is best to not "recreate the wheel"

What's next for ConnectMe

Aside from modifying UI, we plan on using Webscraping to scrape information on traditional job search engines which filters job descriptions to skills

Built With

• css
• express.js
• html
• javascript
• mysql
• node.js
• react