HowdyHydrate

Inspiration

Through the ages, Texas A&M University has been known for many good things. However, water has never been one of them. This year, with record-breaking levels of heat and a surprising lack of shade, our fellow Aggies have become especially thirsty. Although a lack of water has never been an issue for us, the taste definitely has. Have you ever heard an Aggie praise the taste of the water in College Station? We haven't either. With HowdyHydrate, we discovered a groundbreaking technique to identify and locate all the goldmines on campus also known as "good tasting water fountains".

What it does

HowdyHydrate is a website that allows our fellow Aggies to track water fountains/dispensers across Texas A&M campus and rate them based on taste.

How we built it

We developed the website utilizing mainly frontend tools, such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Challenges we ran into

We originally wanted to utilize a SQLite database to house live data, but we ran into challenges connecting it to our frontend. Additionally, we had trouble implementing the functionality of each button, but we were ultimately able to solve it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of our idea, as it it something that solves a real problem that plagues Texas A&M students. It was also our first hackathon, so we were happy that we were able to actually create a functioning project in 24 hours.

What we learned

Our group learned the ins and outs of frontend development, as none of us had much previous experience in this field. We also learned how to use Git and Github in order to collaborate together on our code in a project-style environment.