HealthPowerUp

💡Inspiration

In the world, healthcare is important and essential. Workers in that field have high-stress jobs, they work hard and when they make a mistake, it impacts a lot of things/people. That stress level increased with Covid-19 and all the associated issues. For that level of stress, workers in that field are not offered emotional support or programs to help them destress. Many people in healthcare want to quit for something else, most of the time when we go to the hospital, the waiting time is long because there is not enough staff.
- So, we wanted to create something that might encourage workers in healthcare to stay on the path they are already. We did that by creating a website where healthcare workers can have free therapy and also participate in free social events.
- This website is also mainly made for people sick at the hospital who cannot be outside like most people so that they may gather online to participate in free social events and help them relax and not think so much about their medical conditions. Also, gathering with people that can understand them can be good emotional support, not to forget that they can also have free therapies.
- Additionally, this project targets the main disease which is Type 2 Diabetes. We knew that most people are unaware of that condition, so we wanted to educate people through informational slides about a quiz that tests their knowledge about it. Hopefully, the more informed people are, the better it can help them.

🔨 How we built it

To build this project we brainstorm our ideas with Google Docs and communicate with Discord. We also used HTML, CSS, and Javascript to build the website with the help of Visual Studio Code. We shared our codes using Github.

😤 Challenges we ran into

Finding an idea about what to make, especially with our lack of knowledge of Biology.
Finding the right people to commit to the project until the very end.
Finding methods of effective communication between the members.
Working with each other despite not knowing each other very well, and having different schedules (work, trips, family occupations) and different time zones.
Difficulties with ensuring that all team members were able to successfully view the product at any given point throughout development, and trying to ensure that we all had the correct software and dependencies involved to do so.

📖 What we learned

We learned about Type 2 Diabetes.
We learned more about web application development and design.
We learned more about how to search on the internet for relevant information, how to find and carefully analyze any documentation for the tools and technologies we used, and how to pay attention to details and errors in documentation.
We learned more about patience and perseverance. We were not familiar with all the systems and tools we used, but we kept on pushing forward to get the final result. We developed that mindset by focusing on ways to solve issues and create what we pictured in our minds instead of focusing on whether or not we knew how to solve it.
We also learned a little bit more about HTML, CSS, and Javascript.