MooGLE

Revolutionizing the volunteer process for environmental organizations through a Tinder-esque interface.

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Inspiration✨

If time and tide wait for no man, then neither do movements driving environmental change. Current environmental issues -- global warming, pollution, habitat destruction, to name a few -- are recognized by virtually everyone. The actual act of participating (and finding others to participate with) in volunteering events for the community, however, can be tricky and tiresome. With a matching process similar to that of Tinder, MooGLE helps environmental organizations, both big an✨d small, match with willing individuals and raise awareness for events advocating for their cause.

What it does⚙️

MooGLE fosters high schoolers' inclusion in creating positive environmental impacts by matching willing youth with volunteering events for the environment.

Business Form - Form for the Organization Owners to fill out to scout volunteers. Questions include the Job description and requirements, as well as contact information. Once an organization submits the form, it goes to the Opportunity Cards for the students.

Login and Logout option for students to view their saved Volunteer Applications.

Tinderesque Opportunity Cards: These opportunity cards allow users to swipe right or left on environment based volunteer opportunities. If the student swipes left, they discard the opportunity from the list and if the student swipes right it gets added to the Home Page of our website.

We also have a student dashboard which has tasks, featured opportunities, and the student’s applied opportunities with their update.

Our Database includes tracking, application updates, organization job posts, and student profiles.

How we built it 🖥

We built the basic website using HTML, CSS, JS, and Bootstrap for the styling. For the database, we used PHPMyAdmin and MySQL. For the home page, we used Google Maps API as well as Polynomial Regression packages such as Numpy, Statistics, and more!

Challenges we ran into 🏁

We ran into several challenges with integrating all of our work since the final model was on one person’s device and no one else could access the code. We had to spend a lot of time making sure everyone’s code was updated so everyone could contribute with all of the features but solved this with great organizational skills. We also faced challenges with the MySQL and PHP since we are new to the language and didn’t have much experience with integration. We were able to pull off a final project!

Accomplishments that we're proud of 🏆

We faced many issues while developing our product and were able to resolve many of them. At the end of the hackathon, even with so many technical difficulties, we are able to present a finished product. We are most proud of the fact that we were able to execute what we’d first envisioned at the mention of the “environment” topic.

What we learned 📚

We’re very grateful for this hackathon: not only did we get to challenge ourselves, but also we were all able to learn something new, whether it regards tech or time management skills. Anchal and Manya learned database filtering and advanced their knowledge in MySQL PHP. Rachel, who is relatively new to coding, learned how to improve a website’s user interface.

What's next for MooGLE 📈

If given more time, we would add a register/login/out page for Business Owners. In addition, we want to test the model with multiple people and organizations to see real-world impact with our project. We believe MooGLE has the potential to do some much needed change within the environmental community.

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