Mindful Meal Project

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Inspiration

We took inspiration from the UN SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), UVA's 2020 Sustainability Plan to reduce waste to 30%, as well as the amount of food waste that we saw at the event itself. So we decided to tackle food waste during the HooHacks 2023 event.

What it does

The website is meant to compile and report data based on how much food waste is produced by a university in general and based on the kinds of food items it uses in its menus. Displaying the information helps to raise awareness about food waste at universities, but our idea was also that, if students could vote on what they wanted to eat, then they would be more likely to actually eat the food provided, reducing the amount of wasted food. We should note that most of the data on our current website are completely made up as an example.

How we built it

We built our website using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JQuery, and a little JavaScript.

Challenges we ran into

Our initial challenge was actually just coming up with an idea that we thought was meaningful enough to do but reasonable enough to accomplish, given we were all first-time hackers. We also initially had some issues with our voting form but we resolved them with Google forms implementation.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We managed to complete the project on time, given this was the first time we'd done something like this under this kind of time constraint.

What we learned

We've learned that web development is more difficult or at least time-consuming than we initially gave it credit for.

What's next for Mindful Meals Project

If we continue with the project, it would be helpful to actually implement a database to use and store the data for analytics diagrams in the website.

Built With

• bootstrap
• css
• domain.com
• html5
• javascript
• jquery