EWGweb

Inspiration

Both team members are on the Emory Women's Golf team. Starting in Fall 2025, our team has been playing a new point game where players earn points from practices, tournaments, and other team activities to unlock rewards. Until this project, everything was tracked on a whiteboard in the players’ lounge, which wasn’t very timely or transparent. So we, the two CS majors on the team, decided it would be fun to code a digital version and bring the whole system online during the hackathon.

What It Does

As a guest, you can view the current point standings and activity log.
If you log in as a player, you gain access to an anonymous comment section where you can remind coaches about points or just drop something funny for the team.
If you log in as a coach, you can do everything players can, plus edit activities.
Any updates appear instantly on the site!

How We Built It

We used:

React, JavaScript, and CSS for the frontend
Python for the backend
FastAPI to connect everything
MongoDB as the database
Vercel and Render to deploy the website

Challenges We Ran Into

GitHub merge conflicts (of course)
Deployment was tough
Styling took longer than expected
It was also our first time connecting frontend, backend, and database on our own, so the learning curve was steep

Accomplishments We’re Proud Of

We built our Minimum Viable Product just as we had planned out!
Creating something our own team will actually use feels amazing
We are also proud that we learned a lot in a short amount of time and grew as developers.