Happy Days

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  Code from motivational quotes

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  Code from app of the day

Inspiration

Our group was inspired by the mental health crisis that has arisen from the anxiety of Covid-19. In addition, our team has struggled with our mental health throughout high school, so we were inspired to choose a topic that is meaningful and related to our personal journeys!

Our goals

Happy Days gives people the resources they need to help themselves on a journey to self-love. By promoting awareness, we are educating the next generation to become advocates for mental health. As a result, people will become happier and learn to love themselves for who they are. Because we are educating teens through our app, we are educating the leaders of the next generation. In addition, we chose certain colors that would make our app usable by people who are colorblind so that our app would be inclusive. Moreover, we are competing in the health track, the activism track, and the education track.

What we used

In Thunkable, we used block code to create the app. In addition, our logo and all of the quotes were made using Procreate, and we attached links to other websites within our own.

Challenges

One of the challenges we ran into was displaying the quotes by randomizing it, but we managed to figure out how to code it through trial & error and perseverance. Another challenge we had was displaying links. Since more than one would not show up at the same time, we coded our pages so that the user could click on the title of app and the link to that app's website would show up on the screen.

What we are proud of

We are proud of the 7 day challenge, our motivational quotes, and the app of the day.

What we learned

Through this arduous journey, we realized how much we ourselves need to value our mental health. Because of the time crunch for creating this app, we became stressed and realized that our app could teach us when it is time for a break to focus on ourselves. Ultimately, we realized the path to positivity and good mental health is a long process, but apps like ours aim to guide people on that path.

What's next

On this app, we hope to add a platform where people can post about their motivation, their journey to self-care, and what makes them happy! (This would mean creating a login page using a database) As a result of that, people can add quotes to our randomized motivational quote page, which would improve user interactions with the app. In addition, we would like to add a chat feature in the future so people can talk to each other through this app.

Built With

• thunkable