Conscious Cycles

Empowering through sexual health awareness

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Inspiration

A USCF study showed that "one in three people learn they’re pregnant past six weeks’ gestation". That's halfway through the first trimester! This number is disproportionately larger in the population of younger women and women of color. An issue that women who regularly have sex face is understanding the resources available to them and identifying the best time to take a pregnancy test. We wanted to come up with an idea to promote sexual health awareness within these communities.

We were inspired to make this project because we are passionate about sexual health awareness on campus. As a volunteer for Help Center at UMD, we can understand how difficult it is to get access to the resources that you need to make sure you are safe and aware.

What it does

Our app is a sexual health guide for women to identify the best time to take a pregnancy test to get the most accurate results. It also provides resources for sexual health services around campus and details different contraceptive methods to use to be safe or prevent pregnancy.

How we built it

We used Kotlin in Android Studio to build our app.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into a lot of issues with integrating Google Maps within our app. Learning how to work with the coordinates and fix the camera zoom so that it was in the right place was difficult. We also faced some issues with laying out some of our graphics. Another issue we faced was research on the different topics we used in our application. We wanted to make sure that the facts we used and the algorithm we made were based on appropriate health sources.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud to get Google Maps up and running as it was very finicky to work with at times. We are also proud of how the app looks in general as we wanted to make sure that the elements of our app were cohesive.

What we learned

We learned about integrating Google Maps into Android and configuring API keys. We also polished skills with laying out our UI.

What's next for Conscious Cycles

Next, we would expand out app to include sexual health resources based on a person's current location so that we can reach an audience wider than UMD students.

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