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Inspiration

We were inspired by the struggle that many high school students face when trying to research. We found a multitude of sources, some that often contradict each other, so we wanted to come up with a website that caters to a specific topic while giving a wide range of information.

What it does

Our website is focused on single-party rulers, or dictators. We give information and use some of history’s more famous dictators as examples of this form of government. We include student papers and study materials so the user can have various resources to choose from. The website also has a chat box that gives the user a study break by giving interesting facts about the dictators featured on the website. In each dictator’s page, we created a quiz to test the user’s knowledge on the subject and to help the user determine if they need to study more.

How we built it

We built our website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python. We used HTML for the basic website layout and then added details using CSS. JavaScript was used for the functions in the website and Python was used to create the chat box. We acquired student papers from classmates to add to our website. We used the image maker by @poi.ka for the pictures in the About the Creators page.

Challenges we ran into

Compiling all the information and sorting through everything took a long time and was difficult. Also making everything intuitive and user-friendly took a while to do. It was also difficult to decide how we would organize and make quizzes about each of the dictators. This problem went from the functions to the look of the quiz.

Accomplishments that we’re proud of

We went through a lot of student papers and resources really quickly to create the dictator profiles and kept working at it even though the job was monotonous. Also, we worked for many hours straight and we’re proud of the fact that we kept going even though we were tired.

What we learned

We learned the lesson of time management because we needed to figure out how to efficiently get through a large amount of student papers to amass information. We also learned new elements of JavaScript when we created quizzes about each of the dictators. The most important thing

What's next for Crónica

In the future, we would like to broaden our topic range so that we include other forms of government, in addition to authoritarian regimes. We would also like to include more student papers so the user has a variety of them to choose from. We also hope to include more student papers for the dictators as well as to include more study material for different IB topics. Finally, we would like to create specific and downloadable study guides to help students set a schedule and prepare for the IB exams.